Krampus® Coffee Liqueur

Slightly Sinister. No BS Ingredients.

Great artisan-roasted coffee. Real Madagascar Bourbon vanilla beans. Pacific Northwest wheat spirit. 30% ABV. 

We start with Tony’s Coffeehouse Blend from our neighbors at Tony’s Coffee, roasting in Bellingham since 1971 and named Roast Magazine’s 2021 Roaster of the Year. The blend brings together high-quality Arabica coffees from Central and South America, roasted through second crack to create the bold, rich character of a classic Italian-style dark roast. Then we make the cold brew ourselves at the distillery, using slow, cold extraction to draw out deep coffee character without piling on bitterness.

Then there’s the spirit underneath it.

Krampus Coffee Liqueur is built on wheat spirit distilled from Pacific Northwest grain—a deliberate choice over the corn-based neutral spirit commonly used in liqueurs. Wheat costs us more. We use it anyway. Its clean, soft character gives the coffee and vanilla room to do what they came here to do.

There are easier ways to make coffee liqueur. We weren’t interested in them.

For the vanilla, we use whole Madagascar Bourbon vanilla beans. Not vanilla syrup. Not artificial flavoring. Premium whole beans, slowly infused into the liqueur to build depth and warmth over time.

It takes time. We give it time.

Cane sugar rounds everything out, but only enough to balance the natural bitterness of the coffee—not enough to turn the bottle into dessert.

And at 30% ABV, Krampus has some teeth.

That extra backbone matters. It lets the coffee hold its own in a cocktail instead of disappearing behind the other ingredients, and gives Krampus Coffee Liqueur a drier, more spirited character than the syrupy stuff. Especially in an espresso martini, you taste the coffee liqueur—not just the sugar.

The result is a coffee liqueur that actually tastes like premium coffee: dark, roasty and rich, with real vanilla underneath it and enough sweetness to pull everything together.

No artificial flavors. No heavy syrups. No shortcuts.

Award-winning locally roasted coffee. Cold brewed in-house. Whole vanilla beans. Pacific Northwest wheat spirit. And enough patience to let real ingredients do the work.

How to Drink It
Krampus Coffee Liqueur is equally happy flying solo or causing trouble in a cocktail. Sip it neat or over ice, add a splash to coffee or hot chocolate, pour it over ice cream, or pair it with cream for something dangerously easy to drink. And naturally, it makes one hell of an espresso martini any time of year.

Award-Winning Recipe

Krampus Coffee Liqueur carries forward the exact same recipe previously bottled as Old Busker Coffee Liqueur: gold medals at the New York International Spirits Competition, the USA Spirits Competition, the Bartender Spirit Awards and the Seattle International Spirits Awards. 

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