Cocktails with Filter coffee
Filter coffee is coffee brewed by gravity, letting hot water pass once through ground roast in a paper, metal or cloth filter.
How it's used
It is the bulk liquid of long coffee drinks, hot or iced, and a small accent in shots. It brings color, roast flavor and some brightness but no sweetness, so sugar or syrup goes in separately.
Substitutes for Filter coffee
Diluted espresso
Dilute with hot water: 1 part espresso to about 6–8 parts water comes close to filter strength.
Instant coffee
Works made at label strength (Nescafé: 1.8 g per 200 ml).
Dilute concentrate with about twice its volume of water, and heat it for a hot drink. It then replaces filter coffee in the same amount, with a softer taste.
A standard 1:3 Americano
Roughly twice as strong. Suits a 15 ml shot but not a long hot drink.
One for one, it takes over the drink because it is six to ten times stronger.
