Base: Sambuca
Sambuca con Mosca
Sambuca with three coffee beans — the classic Italian serve.
Quick answer: 50 ml sambuca • 3 coffee beans
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Ingredients
- —50 ml sambuca
- —3 coffee beans
Story
An Italian tradition: three coffee beans stand for health, wealth and happiness. An even number is considered bad luck.
Method
- 1Pour sambuca into a room-temperature shot glass.
- 2Drop in three coffee beans.
- 3Optionally flame it for 5–7 seconds, then cover to extinguish.
- 4Drink at once, chewing the beans.
- Sambuca399 ₴
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Questions and answers
Sambuca con Mosca: how much do the ingredients cost?
A full set of bottles at our prices is about 399 UAH (1 item). That is not the price of a single cocktail: one bottle lasts for many servings, and some of them go into other recipes too.
Sambuca con Mosca: what do you need?
50 ml sambuca; 3 coffee beans.
What can replace “Sambuca” in this recipe?
Any item from the same selection will do — for example Sambuka Zako (Zako) 0.7 L 40% (309 UAH), Sambuka Ibiza (Ibitsa) 0.5 L 42% (309 UAH), Sambuka Ibiza (Ibitsa) 0.7 L 42% (399 UAH). The taste will change, but the ingredient keeps its role in the drink.
Sambuca con Mosca: how long does it take?
About 5 minutes, 4 steps.