Caribou Coffee Vanilla

For those of you wondering, this review has much of the info as the other Caribou I reviewed, except of course for the very significant taste difference...
Caribou Coffee, the second-largest specialty coffee company in the US after Starbucks, Have announced a partnership with another great evil, Coca Cola, to produce their sixth coffee/tea line of 2007.

Michael Coles, Caribou Coffee chairman and CEO said: "Our partnership with Coca-Cola will extend our great premium coffee taste experience into the RTD category and allow us to take advantage of Coca-Cola's world-class distribution system." - unfortunately, this  could only be found (so far) in small mom and pop gas stations. Of course, tagging along with a big celeb like Ashlee Simpson for her "Bittersweet world" tour should have helped sales a little.

Mr Douglas, president of Coca-Cola North America, said: "Volume in the RTD coffee category has grown 17% in the last four years, and revenues are up 24%. Caribou's expertise, involvement and focus in brewing the perfect coffee will allow us to create a wonderful ready-to-drink coffee."

Buzz/Nutrition:7
I like the ingredients list in this drink. Other than the Seaweed (carageenan) added to thicken things up, this drink is just their coffee, sugar, milk and Sodium Bicarobnate (baking soda). S The Natural Flavors listed add another 20 calories over the espresso flavor, which helps with the taste but still seems unnecessary.

Taste:6
This drink is much better than the other flavors, as the Vanilla used manages to kill the baking soda so prevalent in their other flavors. This is much much tastier, on the same par as the Iced Vanilla Starbucks can. The flavor is very light, and not as sweet and syrupy as I was expecting, but I'd sure NOT choose this over Shock Coffee or even a Starbucks Doubleshot.

Packaging:9
I LOVE the cool metal can. This drink looks like something futuristic and mod - not to mention seeming like this drink has cooler-like properties, being able to stay cold for longer ( even if it doesn't). They list everything except for caffeine content on the can, but that is understandable, seeing as this is made with coffee, and you cant really measure caffeine in coffee reliably. If there was one reason top pick this up, it would be for the awesomeness of this metal container - designed quite perfectly.

Website:0
while their main website is very nice and very professional, there was no info to be had at all about thses drinks. While I cold get all sorts of info as to their main coffeehouse drinks, these drinks are not listed anywhere. Only real problem is the URL on the can - if it is not supported, dont list it!
Bevnet review - also responsible for the lovely caribou pictures...
Topics: coffee