1 1/2 cups sugar
  1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
  2 cups water
  1/2 cup instant coffee granules
  3 cups vodka
  1/4 cup whole coffee beans
  
  Combine first 3 ingredients in a medium saucepan; cook over 
medium-high heat until sugars dissolve.  Bring to a boil; reduce 
heat, and simmer 5 minutes.  Remove from heat, and stir in 
coffee grandules.  Let cool.  Combine coffee mixture, vodka, 
and coffee beans; pour into a 1-gallon jar.  Cover tightly, and 
store in a dark place at room temperature at least 2 weeks.  
Shake jar gently once daily.  
  
     Pour mixture through a wire-mesh strainer lined with 2 
layers of cheesecloth into jars, discarding coffee eans.  
Cover tightly.  Store at room temperature.
  
     Use in beverages, low-fat eggnog, or low-fat cake fillings 
and batters.  Yield : 6 cups
  
  Per Table spoon
  Calories 38
  Fat 0 g (saturated fat 0 g)
  Carbonhydrate 5.4 g
  Protein 0 g
  Cholesterol 0 mg
  Sodium 1 mg

If you  don't know beans about coffee flavors, use this
list to vary the taste of coffee desserts, beverages, and
syrups,     Remember that the darker the roast on the 
beans, the stronger the flavor.

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*French Roast; a dark roast that gives a strong 
and slightly bitter flavor
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*Continental Roast:  the darkest roast of all which 
gives beans a burnt bitter flavor
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*Jamaican Blue Mountain:  some of the world's 
most expensive beans which taste extremely smooth, 
mild, and a bit nutty
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*Santos:  smooth, sweet-tasting beans from Brazil
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*Knoi Kai:  a rich, full-flavored, slightly acidie 
Hawaiian coffee
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*Guatemalan:  beans characterized by a rich, spicy, 
and smoky flavor
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*Sumatra:  Indonesian beans with a flavor somewhat 
like chocolate
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*Java:  Indonesian beans with a smooth, full, 
somewhat smoky taste
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(11/18/00) Mike and Maureen