Tim’s Ramblings

First off…no…this is not a cry for help or attention.

I just thought the post would be more meaningful with pictures…and since I have a digital camera…I thought “why not?”

Anyway, today I stopped by Heinens for dinner and I saw that they had the ever elusive new Coca Cola Blak in a cooler. Ooooh. I’ve been looking for it and thankfully I remembered H telling me where it was. It’s obviously new and cool because they spell it like a 5 year old…… Anyway….

For any of you that don’t know, Coca Cola Blak is the new drink (a “carbonated fusion beverage” according to the bottle) that Coke recently released to the world. It’s basically coke with coffee. Yes….a combination of coke…with coffee. Sounds kinds disgusting eh?

But what the hell…I like coffee…I like iced coffee…and though I like diet coke better than regular coke classic, I don’t HATE coke and I sure like it better than pepsi. So it can’t be that bad…right?

I let it chill down in the fridge for a while. Yes yes, I know a very cold beverage is hard to taste but…just in case it tasted like ass (not that I’m an expert at ass flavors…*ahem*) I kept it in the bottom of my fridge for a few hours.

I was actually impressed that it was in a glass bottle actually. You don’t see that much anymore. And once opening it I took a whiff…and it smelled…different. It had a coffee smell but it wasn’t overpowering. It was kinda like sweet coffee. Almost like those chocolate covered espresso beans. But no chocolate..just a slight coffee smell with some sweet overtones along with a familiar Coke Classic scent. (…yes…I feel silly describing the smell of C.C. Blak like I’m describing wine….)

I decided to drink it out of a Killians glass so…once again…if it tasted like ass I might fool myself into thinking it’s something better. In hindsight, I should have used a Guiness glass…dammit.

The taste was actually not too bad though. Slightly carbonated. It was sweet and you can definitely taste the Coke Classic. But there was this coffee flavor over it. Not bitter. Just like the oils. According to the label they used “coffee essense”. I have no idea what that is. But it didn’t taste fake like, say, Nescafe. But it wasn’t really coffee either. And it had a slightly bitter after taste but not unpleasant.

Because it’s a small bottle I was able to finish it off pretty quick.

Would I drink it again? Hmmmmmm…maybe. I did buy 2 bottles so I probably will. Did it taste bad? Nope. But did it taste good? Hmmm….not really. It was just like a “huh….I guess it is coke with coffee…” feeling. Utterly unremarkable really. Now I have no idea how much caffeine is in it though. But if there’s a lot, then sure, I’ll slug one down on the false hopes that it’ll help me around 3pm on a workday (caffeine doesn’t do much to me unless I drink SOOO much that I start to get jittery and my stomach goes “ooooh…no thankyou…”).

In all honesty though, I’d rather be drinking this…

Which is just what I’m going to do after I post this :)

So anyway, if you see a bottle of Coca Cola Blak, give it a shot (if you like coffee that is). I’ve heard from other people until now that they HATED it and it tasted horrible. But I’m realizing that some people are more influenced by what they THINK it’ll taste like than how it actually tastes. Then again, I enjoyed drinking Pocari Sweat in Japan and didn’t think the odd blue Final Fantasy Potion energy drink was that bad…so…maybe my taste buds are a bit off. I bet this will sell decently in Japan though with their already established love for bottled tea and cold can coffee. Mmmmmmm.

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