Scottish Hotel Creates Coffee To Go With Whisky

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Jun 5th 2009 at 4:01PM

A Scottish hotel has created a coffee blended to pair with a whisky. The Cuillin Hills blend was created by the Cuillin Hills hotel on Skye to match whisky from the island's Talisker distillery. The blend was created by Edinburgh Tea and Coffee Company to the specification of Peter Sim, the hotel's general manager and is a mixture of Indonesian and South American beans. The Talisker 18-year-old was used as the pairing companion but the coffee will work with any whisky. The blend has notes of dark chocolate, caramel and toffee with hints of liquorice and cinnamon. Sims says the coffee was developed to "complement and showcase malt whisky as the ideal after dinner drink."

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Tags: coffee, scotland, skye, talisker, whisky

Filed under: Dining, Spirits

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Sarah @ Salescoop Jun 5th 2009 5:38PM

The Scottish WOULD create to-go coffee with whiskey! I wonder if this would be as casual as just another flavor alongside hazelnut and french vanilla. I wasn't a big fan of the single malt when I was in Edinburgh and Glasgow, but the notes of "dark chocolate, caramel and toffee with hints of liquorice and cinnamon" seem very hard to resist!