Rescuing the Keoke Coffee

Take 50-odd laps around the sun, and the forces of time will catch up to you. Players become has-beens. Sharpness dulls. The culture just up and moves on. 

At a glance, the midcentury Keoke Coffee presents as that sort of tired, lost middle-ager, a bit mistreated by the years, out of step. If you’re saying to yourself, What’s Keoke Coffee?, that kind of proves the point. 

A mix of Kahlúa, coffee, crème de cacao, brandy and heavy cream, the Keoke (keh-oh-kee) Coffee was invented in Southern California in the late 1960s and caught on as a nightcap, dessert drink and après-ski beverage. But its popularity faded. In order

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