Café-Calva
Also café calva
Normandy's after-dinner coffee: a small black coffee with a measure of calvados, in the cup or beside it.
With spiritsServed hotFrom France
- Volume
- 50ml1.7 US fl oz
- Espresso
- 1shot
- Caffeine
- 64mgderived, USDA FDC
- Glass
- Demitasse90 ml
The build
Watch it made, step by step- Espresso30 ml60%
- Spirit20 ml40%
- Volume
- 50ml
- Caffeine
- 64mg
- Espresso
- 1shot
Scales every component together, so the ratio holds; caffeine scales with the coffee.
A small black coffee with calvados, poured into the cup or drunk alongside.
Caffeine
Derivedin a 50 ml café-calva
USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee volume in components, assuming 1 g per ml. FDC 171891 (Beverages, coffee, brewed, espresso, restaurant-prepared) 212.0 mg/100 g x 30 ml.
USDA FoodData Central record 171891 · read 2026-10-29
A derived figure: the reference food's caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee in this build. Real cups vary with the coffee, the dose and the shot.
Variants by country
No regional variants recorded.
History
Popular accountNo allowed-source record; recorded here as a popular account.
Normandy, France (popular account).
Parts of this story are repeated widely but were not confirmed against a source this atlas accepts. They are kept as the story people tell, not as fact.
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