The Carpo Lavoro – bitter and bitter means sweet???
There is whole array of drinks based around mixtures of Campari and some kind of vermouth, out of which the Milano Torino is probably the simplest. It simply consists of qual parts of Campari and sweet vermouth. Lenghtening this mix with soda water renders an Americano cocktail. Now the idea behind today's cocktail, the Carpo Lavoro is replacing the vermouth in an Americano with coffee. Sounds weird? As it will turn out, this is an excellent idea! I tried to find out more about where this Americano riff came from, which turned out to be impossible. I stumbled upon it in this video by Steve the Bartender, but…