Welcome back to FTW’s Beverage of the Week series. Here, we mainly chronicle and evaluation beers, however gladly broaden that scope to any drink (or food) that sets well with sports. Yes, even cookie dough scotch.
I’ll be truthful. I comprehend the Yellowstone phenomenon. I am not part of it.
I’m sure I’d like the program. I’m delighted for Kevin Costner’s resurgence and pivot to America’s quasi-historian like a sturdy, rugged Ken Burns. But I tend to dive into eminence dramas long after they’re pertinent. The veryfirst time I viewed even a single episode of The Sopranos, for example, was mostlikely 2013.
This is all a long preamble to inform you, no, I wear’t truly comprehend why Costner is making specifically curated mixes for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. Or why he’s chose for the extremely un-cowboy developing method of K-cups.
All I do understand is this media package came with the most unreasonable, and stunning, advertising product I’ve ever gotten. Behold, the coffee holster:
While it looks like a Keurig-bedazzled thong, it’s infact an exceptionally elaborate piece of leatherwork (shoutout to Hellbound Leather Co., who obviously dealtwith it) suggested to hold a travel mug and little bandoliers of separately packaged coffee. It is likewise, even on its tightest setting, big adequate for me to hula hoop in:
This, regretfully, will messup my chance to be “the father no one desires to talk to at the bus stop” this coming school year. But it is really good.
Anyway, the coffee. We’re here to talk about the coffee. Costner has 2 mixes with Green Mountain; a Horizon Blend dark roast and a Mountainside Mocha Latte. Each includes a stoic Costner, holding a tin mug (ooooh, so close) and looking into the wilderness. Mesas and forests areplentiful, producing the impression, simply perhaps, Costner hasactually made adequate cash to live inside a Bob Ross painting.
Truly, the American dream.
Let’s see how they taste.
Mountainside Mocha Latte: C? B? D? Man, I DO NOT KNOW
The veryfirst thing I notification when developing a cup is the cleaning of coffee premises that shoot from the bottom of my Keurig right before the coffee itself puts out. Huh. The latte clocks in much darker than I anticipated at veryfirst, then lightens as the tail end of the cup guarantees creamier tastes.
I’m going into this without my requirement Splenda/milk/protein powder that I include to my earlymorning coffee. I’m likewise rolling with an 8 ounce put, elegantly dropped into Created’s Paris Olympic themed cooperation with Steve Wolf and La Marzocco. Timely!
There’s a guaranteed roasted, woody odor coming from the leading of the put, however it doesn’t specifically taste like coffee. It’s not extremely appealing, however there is a little sweettaste hiding in there, mainly through dark cacao nibs.
That sweettaste extends to the initially drink, though the wood-like taste does as well. The description on the box lays the foundation for “earthy” tastes and a “creamy” mouthfeel and I will state it strikes both those targets.
Is this mocha for cowboys? A hedged bet that you can delightin a sweet, fancy coffee beverage if it’s got a little dirt in it? It’s excellent and a little gross at the verysame time, unusual in a method that keeps me coming back, attempting