Mexican Coffee
Hot coffee with coffee liqueur and often tequila under a cap of whipped cream; a bar drink, not a Mexican café tradition.
With spiritsServed hot
- Volume
- 225ml7.6 US fl oz
- Espresso
- 0shots
- Caffeine
- 68mgderived, USDA FDC
- Coffee to milk
- 1:0.2
The build
Watch it made, step by step- Hot coffee150 ml67%
- Spirit30 ml13%
- Spirit15 ml7%
- Cream30 ml13%
- Volume
- 225ml
- Caffeine
- 68mg
- Espresso
- 0shots
Scales every component together, so the ratio holds; caffeine scales with the coffee.
Hot coffee with coffee liqueur, often tequila, under whipped cream.
Caffeine
Derivedin a 225 ml mexican coffee
USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee volume in components, assuming 1 g per ml. FDC 171890 (Beverages, coffee, brewed, prepared with tap water) 40.0 mg/100 g x 150 ml; FDC 175097 (Alcoholic beverage, liqueur, coffee, 53 proof) 26.0 mg/100 g x 30 ml.
USDA FoodData Central record 171890 · 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.
A bar-menu name; origin undocumented.
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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