Coca-Cola is a carbonated beverage that is popular all over the world. A glass of iced or iced Coke always gives people a pleasant feeling. In addition, its high sugar content can easily make people fat, so it is affectionately called "fat house happy water". This also makes people who want to lose weight or keep fit dislike it.

Although Coca-Cola is a best-seller with a strictly confidential formula that has been kept for a century, this does not seem to affect its innovation in the secret formula. The exploration of various flavors of cola has never stopped. It is a bit like when it was created, when a dose of cold and pain syrup was developed, it was accidentally mixed after trying many times.

Coca-Cola has also come up with a lot of flavors. Recently, it has set its sights on another popular drink in the world - coffee. Coffee-flavored cola is exciting to think about, is it a dark mix?

Anyway, I love coffee and I wanted to try it. It was not available in the supermarket near my home (it is always available later in small cities), so I bought one plastic bottle and one can. The price here is 4.8 yuan/bottle, which is twice as expensive as the ordinary ones. When I bought it, I suddenly thought, can I make a cup by myself? I also bought a bottle of ordinary Coke.

Appearance

The new flavors have been redesigned and are a little different from the original. The bottles are straight up and down in a cylindrical shape, with 400 ml in bottles and 330 ml in slender cans. The overall color scheme has been enhanced with a combination of gold and crimson.

Speaking of the Coca-Cola bottle, the curved glass bottle has long become a classic, with patent protection. The classic and highly recognizable bottle has also made great contributions to the sales of Coca-Cola, so Coca-Cola has always attached great importance to the design of the bottle.

The official name of this coffee cola should be Coca-Cola Coffee + Soda. There is also a coffee bean pattern on the bottle, and the slogan is "30% fragrance, 70% refreshing, 10% exciting". The addition of Brazilian coffee is marked in a prominent golden position.

The ingredient list states that the amount of Brazilian coffee powder added is no less than 1 gram per liter. In addition, the ingredients also include two antibacterial preservative additives, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate, and two sweeteners, sucralose and acesulfame potassium.

Nutritional composition table, including 87 kilojoules of calories and 5.1 grams of sugar per 100 ml.

A bottle of regular Coke is 500 ml, which is 100 ml more than bottled Coffee+. In addition, every 100 ml of regular Coke contains 10.6 grams of sugar, so the calories reach 180 kilojoules, which is more than twice that of Coffee+.

The sugar content of this Coffee+ is lower than that of ordinary cola. Sweeteners are used to make up for the loss of sweetness after the sugar reduction to maintain the original flavor. It is similar to Coke Zero and is in line with the current low-sugar trend. At the same time, the caffeine content is higher than that of ordinary cola to meet the refreshing needs of some users.

Tasting

Of course, you need to use a special cup for tasting, so I took out my Riedel cola cup.

Let me tell you a little more about this cup. Riedel is famous for producing lead-free crystal glass wine utensils. As the world's top professional wine glass decanter manufacturer, it cooperated with Coca-Cola to design and manufacture this cola cup in 2014. The classic cola glass bottle shape, with a slightly narrowed mouth, is said to reduce air contact and prolong the taste of the drink to a certain extent. This is a bit of a metaphysical realm.

After memorizing, start drinking. Coke tastes best when it is chilled, so I put it in the refrigerator to chill it.

Personally, I feel that the foam is richer, denser and more lasting.

I drank it all in one gulp. Well, I personally feel that the first taste is too sweet, and the killing feeling is a little weak. I can only feel the coffee flavor at the end, but the bitterness of coffee is gone. The overall feeling is familiar. I have had similar tastes before. Yes, it is a bit like plum candy or coffee candy. In addition, the foam produced is indeed much longer-lasting than ordinary cola.

Random Mix

When it comes to coffee, the first thing that comes to mind is the rich aroma. Roasted coffee beans, simply crushed and ground, begin to emit the unique and pleasant aroma of coffee.

Coffee is not just bitter, it also has a variety of flavors, which are the feelings given by different aromas, acidity, and mellowness. Of course, the variety of flavors is related to the origin of the coffee beans. Through proper roasting and brewing techniques, its unique flavor is perfectly displayed.

The above is a bit off topic. Coca-Cola Coffee+ uses Brazilian coffee, which has a balanced and smooth taste. Brazil is also the world's largest coffee producer and exporter. But I don't have any on hand, so I used a type of coffee beans from Colombia, which is medium roasted and has a slightly more obvious acidity. The utensils used are smart cups.

In order to prevent the freshly brewed coffee from being too hot, some ice cubes were added to the cup to reduce the impact of the heat of the coffee liquid on the taste of the iced cola.

I didn't measure it specifically, but I felt that it should be more than the amount added in the coffee+. I just followed my feeling and mixed it casually to see what kind of changes my own blended coffee and cola would bring.

Pour in regular iced Coca-Cola. There was a mistake here. No stirring stick was used. It's like a martini, which should be stirred, not shaken (just the opposite of 007).

I found that the foam of Coke lasted a little longer, but it was not as fine and long-lasting as the foam of Coffee+.

As for the taste of the mixture, it's even weirder. It seems that my cup of coffee cola is a dark mixture. Also, because it was not stirred evenly, I could taste the obvious coffee flavor later. It tasted good for a moment, but it was gone in a flash.

A cup of casual dark blend ends here. But curiosity and imagination remain. I wonder what interesting changes will occur when Coca-Cola is added with the oily and strong Italian coffee.

at last

This time, Coca-Cola launched Coke Coffee+, which can meet the needs of certain users both in terms of maintaining the original classic flavor of Coke and in line with today's healthy trend of low sugar intake. The addition of more coffee gives it more changes, which can also attract people to rush to try it.

Of course, it is difficult to satisfy everyone. Every time Coca-Cola launches a new flavor, it always attracts some heated discussions, with mixed reviews. However, for a century-old classic beverage, it dares to innovate on the basis of classics, and in fact, every time it is a self-revolution. In recent years, it has also launched joint products with many brands. Sometimes Coca-Cola is more like a trendy brand, standing on the crest of the trend on the basis of classics, in order not to be eliminated and sunk by the times.

To use a popular term nowadays, it means being full of desire to survive, isn't it?

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