Kahlúa

5.21.22 Served: Chilled(indiluted), flute. Bottle open: <1 month Last intake: Kettle Corn Refractometer reading: 40 Brix (not actual due to ABV) Aroma: Café Vanilla Frappucino with heady cheap white rum notes, like the cotton-candy and burnt-sugar esque notes of Bacardi Blanca and Captain Morgan Blanco. But back to the frappucino notes, after 4 years of working at starbucks, I can't get the aroma of instant coffee (frap roast) emulsifier syrup, and vanilla syrup out of my head. Flavor: Vanilla Frappucino. Coffee and rum take the background, while vanilla and sugar take the forefrunt. Despite the relatively "cheap" aspects of the spirit, I still find Khalua to be quite enjoyable. I see why it works in an espresso martini, where it's dessert-like nature may help round out espresso's astringent bitterness. It is far from my go-to coffee liqueur, but as a decadent rum-based vanilla/coffee liqueur, it does its job properly, and the ingredients are all discernable on the nose.