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Coffee Liqueur & Milk

Coffee liqueur with three parts milk, like a lightly sweet iced latte.

Classic collection version

For one serving

Ingredients

  • Coffee Liqueur
    30 ml / 1.01 US fl oz
  • Milk
    90 ml / 3.04 US fl oz

US fl oz amounts are rounded; use ml for exact measures.

Make it

  1. Fill an old fashioned glass with ice and add the coffee liqueur.
  2. Pour the milk slowly over the ice and stir before drinking.

Behind the drink

It caught on during Japan's café-bar boom of the 1980s.

Recipe reference

Uses the standard 1:3 ratio from Japanese Wikipedia.

ja.wikipedia.org ↗