One of my summer favorites: Iced coffee + orange juice + ginger
The coffee sunrise post earlier reminded me of one of my summer favorites (I just suck at taking pretty pictures but I think you'll get the idea):
a strong coffee (this one is 125ml from an aeropress but a double shot of espresso/lungo also works very well)
about 3-4 medium sized ice cubes (enough to still have ice after pouring the hot coffee)
~120ml orange juice (adjust to taste and/or the size of your cup)
10-20ml of nice spicy ginger juice (if the bottle says "don't drink pure", you got the right stuff)
pour the coffee slowly onto the ice cubes
Wait a bit so it gets nicely chilled.
I like slowly sipping about half of the top layer (it's basically an iced coffee at that point) before stirring and enjoying the final mix
Dunno if there is a name for that recipe, I just combined two stolen ingredient ideas (I saw a youtube video about espresso+orange juice once and a local café had an extremely tasty cold-drip based drink that included ginger)
Now I would reject this straight away, except that I like cold brew, fresh orange juice, and Topo Chico. It just tastes like fizzy smoky orange and is lovely.
The ginger I can't quite imagine but coffee and orange are more compatible than I could have imagined without trying it.
I swear it's not a joke - I do actually drink this. And the two friends I got to try it at least haven't sued me for poisoning them, so it can't be that bad
Well the orange juice is certainly the dominant flavor and the coffee adds some nice bitter notes to it. The ginger then brings a nice spicy kick if you like that sort of thing in your food/drinks (I do, obviously)
I'd never have thought of mixing coffee and orange on my own. Same with espresso tonic. But it turns out I like both
Or maybe my brain just suffers (more) damage when the room temperature exceeds 27°C 🤷
lol, good luck, I can already see them grabbing their pitchforks. And if they do let you live, ask them if they have any crazy recipes of their own and share with us ;)