Bend-based Riff Cold Brewed Coffee turns winter cocktails on their head

Our friends from Riff Cold Brewed Coffee are leading the way in cold-brewed cocktail goodness. This New Year’s Eve, get creative and blow your friends’ minds with one of these outstanding cold-brewed cocktails using Riff Cold Brewed Coffee.

Cold Fashioned

2 ounces rye whiskey

2 dashes Angostura bitters

2 dashes orange bitters

¼ ounce Riff Cold Brewed Coffee syrup*

Garnish: orange peel

Pour all ingredients into a mixing glass and stir to combine. Pour over a large ice cube in a tumbler and garnish with an orange peel.

*To make coffee syrup, combine 2 parts sugar with 2 parts water in a saucepan. Bring to a simmer and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Add 1 part Riff Cold Brewed decaf concentrate, stir and refrigerate to cool.

El Chapo

3 dashes Aztec chocolate bitters

¼ ounce cinnamon syrup

¾ ounce Riff Cold Brewed coffee

2 ounces tequila reposado

Pour all ingredients into a mixing glass and stir to combine. Pour over a large ice cube through a strainer and garnish with an orange peel.