For everyone that’s ever found themselves with a coffee in one hand and a beer in the other – and boy, haven’t we all been THERE – and just quite haven’t been able to decide which to drink first, all your problems could soon be over.
Caffeine-peddling monolith Starbucks Coffee is running trials on a new batch of brews that’ll handily bridge that worrisome gap between waking up and the socially acceptable time to start drinking (midday). The company is quietly road-testing a new range of Beer-Flavoured Coffee, for those who adore the flavour of beer, but want to get charged up harder than a jack in the box with gaffer tape on the lid.
The new brew-brew, the alluringly named Dark Barrel Latte, is concocted with a newly developed syrup designed to make your frothy beverage taste like dark Irish stouts like, say, Guinness. To make the illusion complete, it’s topped with whipped cream and a dark caramel sauce, to get that famous Guinness head just right.
Whether or not the coffee needs to be half poured, sat for five minutes while it settles, then filled to the top slowly remains to be seen. But one thing’s for sure, it’s probably not advisable to try and down 10 pints of the stuff in one evening – and that’s not just because of the morning after hell you’ll be dealing with in the bathroom.
Though, unfortunately, whilst it might taste vaguely of the beverage, the company has assured customers that it doesn’t actually have any alcohol in it. Quite the inverse of coffee-flavoured beer, which was a small-scale hit in certain parts of suburban Cleveland during the late 90s.
If you’re keen to give it a try during it’s testing phase, you’re in for a bit of a hike. The company is only testing the new drinks in a select handful of Starbucks outlets in Florida and Ohio.
Though if all goes well, it should provide a handy little bridge to the point where coffee outlets stop being so danged precious and start serving straight-up Espresso Martinis on the regular.
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via Herald Sun.
