'Cocktail Potion' by Transworld Transfer Bartenders

For the name's sake, it looks black.

The white in the name is taken from "White Curaçao" and "Cacao White" without any twist.

That is this [double white].

Actually, there are parts of this cocktail that you can't technically call my original.

Originally, I added an arrangement based on a recipe a customer told me about.

And I can tell you I made this cocktail because I remember where it came from.

I taught the customer a lot.

It may be a good story to hear, but many customers are more familiar with 'bartenders' than with apprenticeship bartenders.

When you graduate from an apprenticeship, it's always something you teach your customers.

And one of the things the customer taught me was "Coffee Cocktails".

The feelings taught in the past came back to life, and I made this cup.

I wanted to show you the answer to what I taught you.

I wanted to tell the shop owner who told me so much about the coffee that this was the answer to using the coffee.

I do not use four large distilled liquors on the base.

But this is also one of my foundations.

"Well, let's have it"

The owner, who had been observing my cup carefully, told me modestly.

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Well, I reached out, and the shopkeeper worried.

He's spent more than half his life on coffee. I was born into a very wealthy family and was attracted to my soul at some point to coffee, which began to sow.

That's why I found the demands of the young man who showed up in front of me interesting.

I was interested in a new way of drinking coffee called "cocktails".

And I couldn't decide my own mind.

If you think about it as a business deal, naturally you don't care what this cup tastes like.

But I have expectations. I truly hope it tastes as good as it can meet it.

If I'm not satisfied, I even want to kick this young man's demands.

I didn't deserve to be old enough to think so, and the shopkeeper exhaled.

Now, anyway, let's start by enjoying this cup.

Enjoy the fragrance with your mouth first. If the temperature drops, the aroma as coffee becomes thinner.

Still, there was' something 'in the fragrance of flutter and fragrance. "Something" scented from "cocktails" in the store owner's brain is not guided.

I only kept it in my heart with a sweet, bitter, strange scent.

And includes a bite.

(... this is... citrus?

That bite finally connected the identity of the fragrance.

But it was coloured with doubt, not to the point of certainty.

The palate has a deep, intense taste of coffee that you are used to drinking.

But much sweeter. If you don't add sugar or something quite like that, you won't reach this sweetness.

That's what I think, but it's never hard.

It could have been more refreshing.

Something refreshing about it, that was close to citrus in the store owner's memory.

While I feel that way, I try to spread that across my tongue. Then, the flowering flavour was slightly different from that of the citrus.

It is' something 'with unspeakable richness.

'Something' that mingles without a shortage of coffee and enhances each other.

It seemed like a refrain from the sweetness of 'chocolate' that I sometimes serve when I drink coffee.

I see, while enjoying it a little, its sweetness flows loosely, but surely. It was also a slight bitterness of citrus, the shopkeeper understood.

If you swallow the liquid while you enjoy it, it's remarkable.

As I went past my throat, the coffee-like richness and the gorgeous sweetness passed like dancing.

What then lingers in the aftertaste is the quiet citrus flavor, combined with the acidity of the coffee.

It tasted strange.

If you think it's citrus, it never is.

Or, I can't even say for sure it's chocolate.

Always either way. And that's a wave of flavor that I'm just saying is right.

Most surprisingly, the ambiguity continues to affect coffee.

It gives an interesting and ridiculous change in taste, which can never be tasted with sugar or milk.

What spreads behind the brain is such a mild flavor, like an idyllic coffee field, where the light of a warm day falls.

(... right. You've been 'fitting' since the beginning, not one way or the other)

To that end, the shopkeeper thought of the first action the youth had taken.

The act of using special instruments to cool liquids while mixing them.

That's what brought the two flavors of citrus and chocolate together.

But that's not all. and the shopkeeper imagines.

I don't think I can reconcile those two with coffee just by mixing them together.

What floated was a brown liquid that was mixed like a hidden flavor.

Perhaps its identity is bitterness and flavor.

Not only do they connect citrus with chocolate, but they also play an important role in making contact with the coffee they make.

The shopkeeper stared and broke his lips.

(It's coffee, but how can it feel so fresh...)

The shopkeeper takes another sip of the various images that come to mind and rebels.

And he turned again to the still young man in front of him.

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"I'm not the star, but I'm not a sidekick either. I think that's what made you feel the coffee inside you."

I said, the shopkeeper nodded contentedly.

"We're very indulgent"

"Thank you"

I tried my best to say a calm thank you.

Inside, however, I couldn't help but exhale a sigh of relief.

To tell the truth, this cocktail was an adventure.

"Coantro" with orange skin sweetness isn't weird whenever you have a fight with coffee.

I can't say the combination that matches in me fits the mouth of 10,000 people.

The image of mixing fruit with coffee would not be very common in Japan.

But it is the heart of that adventure that, in a way, is also a cocktail.

Making it faithful to the basics means thinking about the balance of flavours.

But whether the flavor is well balanced or not is something that I think of the flavor of the ingredients in my head, mix them together, and actually try to make them and remember a little bit.

For example, do melons and coconuts fit?

For example, does raw cream and lemon go together?

For example, will brandy and lychee fit?

If you've never tried a combination in your head, you have to be sure with your tongue.

Of course, there's something like a stone in making a cocktail.

Is it compatible with seed-based liqueurs and cream-based liqueurs, or is it compatible with fruit-based liqueurs and carbonation? There are many combinations that are said not to be removed.

But that's why you shouldn't even be delusional about it.

In the end, it is only by checking yourself and remembering the flavor that you will be able to create the flavor you seek.

And what I wanted to make on this occasion right now.

It was "I used coffee, a flavour I can't produce with coffee".

That was the "cocktail" from me that I wanted to send to the owner who made the coffee known.

The shopkeeper laughed so he could see how I felt like that.

"I did receive your feelings."

"... you find out"

"Ho, of course. It tastes interesting. Best combination of coffee and 'something' I've ever had. But you do know, don't you? Cocktails that make use of coffee."

Not to repeat, but this cocktail is an adventure.

If you're not adventurous, it still goes great with 'whiskey'.

Otherwise, the name 'seed-based' was given earlier, but the coffee itself is, so to speak, a 'seed-based' beverage.

Liqueurs of the same seed system ─ many go well with coffee, such as the liqueur Amaretto, which uses apricot kernels, and the hazelnut liqueur Frangelico.

The same goes for cream-based liqueurs.

This time, I knew it and dared to use 'Coantro'.

If you're not adventurous, it's quite delicious to just put 'Cocao White' up with coffee.

And the owner points out that he didn't dare.

"Yeah, that's, yes"

"I know that and go to battle. Let's just say I don't have the sensibilities."

As he said, the shopkeeper's eyes shed a shitty light.

I could take my "cocktail" for fun, and I could take it as if I were thinking about doing something wrong with me.

Unexpectedly, the shopkeeper took me seriously.

"You are much younger than I am. And that's why I can give you this kind of advice here and now."

"... advice, is it?

"You don't have to fight where you don't have to."

The words sounded like they were craving my behavior.

"You, it would have been easy if only to satisfy me. For that purpose, there were many options that could be taken. But you went into battle. What you can do with risk is be young. Because if I'm not satisfied, there's no chance that this story will flow."

".................. Yep"

I was told that I had reconsidered my priorities.

Sure, if you just wanted to get some coffee, you could have ended up in a cocktail without difficulty. In fact, there was a choice.

But I kicked it. I abandoned the "safety measures" and went on an "adventure".

That, as head of the store, if you ask me, might not have been a very praiseworthy action.

"But that's what's good about you."

I just thought that, in one turn, the shopkeeper had a gentle grin.

"What did you want to make on the spot? 'Purpose' has turned into 'pleasing me', hasn't it? So instead of a cup for 10,000 people, I wanted to make a cup that surprised me for being familiar with coffee. That must be your personality."

"... personality?

"Yes. You are young. So an old man like me wants to give you the same advice he gave me earlier. But more than that, I like you. Yeah, well, the answer you gave was the most correct one for me. Next time I want to interrupt your store."

I almost forgot that I had been noticed earlier when I smiled like Nico, the shopkeeper.

That's about it, he's happy to share his thoughts. That would be very gratifying.

"You just showed me a 'cocktail' that leads up ahead with a 'full cocktail'. If you get the 'ingredients' you want in the future, let me know. Let me ask you something to drink."

"Yes!"

I deliberately replied larger to inspire feelings that had been slightly recessed until earlier.

The shopkeeper smiles calmly after a little face-to-face.

"I'm sorry. Older people have a long story."

"It's outrageous. Take your time next time, and let me talk to you about coffee or something else."

"With such an old man, there's nothing out there, is there?

"That's what they say about the funny part of the story, right?

Saying, the shopkeeper laughed calmly again.

"Well, please continue to do so."

I nodded at the owner's words and shook hands quietly.

Now you can assume that the road leading up to coffee has been connected.

And, seeing as the story had come together, Sally and Phil, who had been watching until then, looked at me like they were screwing me.

"... what's up?

"Oh, no, it's just that one of those cups..."

"Don't we have our share?

…………

Modest Phil's demands and those of Surrey like GUYGUYGUY and COMING.

It is very good to be enthusiastic about study. Though.

You don't have to look like the owner to that point.

"Speaking of which, what happened to Sui?

Ginulla said she was watching our exchange without getting into the wheel.

"Really?"

"No, wait! Exactly. That's not connected!

"Really?"

"Is that it? You're connected..."

No, I'm not connected. What are you talking about?

Apparently, Guinura felt somewhat connected when the connection between the front and back sentences was correct.

Then Sui has been planning something with Iberis lately.

I didn't come with you today because of some stuffing.

Well, only this time, I was going to take the twins out from the beginning that they were familiar with coffee, so it was a trouble even if it was too big a place.

"So it's time to move on with the business negotiations?

The owner cut me out before talking to the mess again here.

"Shall I?"

Whatever you do to the twins, it'll be good afterwards.

I made that decision and tried to come forward, but Phil and Sally stopped it.

"What?

When I ask you in wonder, you two talk to each other about something. And Phil, who apparently lost the line of sight, told me it was hard to say.

"Here's a message from Suey - 'If I leave it to the total, I don't know what ridiculous quantity to buy, so I'll leave negotiating the money to Phil and Sally. Owner's orders."

... How little credit do I have for money?

... Well, that's fine.

"So you should also study coffee until we have a conversation."

There was a shield behind Suey, Sally said slightly more vigorously, urging me to take a seat.

I had no choice but to get to my seat and reach out, remembering the brands of coffee in line, etc.

At such a small table, for some reason Guinura sat next to him as a matter of course.

"Huh, I don't have a choice. You can tell me what coffee I have for you."

"... Really?"

After that, I couldn't help but feel motivated by the service of listening to Guinura.

Today, a new ingredient was added to "Sui's Potion Shop".

'Coffee liqueur' will soon be lined up in stores as well.