https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfTnvslZuF4
check out my unboxing video too
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Friday, 27 October 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
agree strongly re: pepsi vs coke w/r/t combining w/coffee
― brimstead, Friday, 27 October 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link
fuck
where are these coffee colas
― j., Friday, 27 October 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
coca-cola blak, i saw that in canadian discount supermarkets within the last five years. it wasn't great. pepsi has always been willing to experiment, though. pepsi jazz had a coffee and cream version. parts of eastern europe and central america got pepsi cappuccino and pepsi tarik, a milder formulation is still available intermittently in southeast asia. a sugarfree version of coffee plus is coming to australia soon.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Friday, 27 October 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
FWIW I find the nu-premium American canned/cartonned coffees from companies like Stumptown and Blue Bottle to be pretty disappointing too, not as bad as some of the cheaper options but hardly worth their premium prices. Canned coffee is just not a good thing in general. Especially if you're used to having the milk and/or sugar amount exactly to your liking.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 27 October 2017 17:37 (six years ago) link
yeah stumptown is good coffee but the canned stuff is $5 worth of garbage
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 27 October 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
Thank you for your long-awaited review & unboxing dylann!
Here's my review:https://i.imgur.com/tJ3q9xT.jpg
Coca-Cola Coffee Plus3.2/5.0
The nose was what you'd expect from this Frankenstein monster: equal doses of roasted coffee and kola bean cherries.
AFAIK Japanese Coke still uses cane sugar rather than HFCS, but Coca-Cola Coffee Plus was definitely that numbing chemical fructose sweetness that you get back home.
The back end was a better balance of the two beverages playing hard against each other. I've been known to add cold brew concentrate to Topo Chico (ed note: as of recently also a Coca-Cola product) and I was getting a touch of those bright and smoky roasted notes here, with obviously much more sweetness.
Also worth noting: holy fuck does this jack you up. I was doing pushups around 3am trying to ward off the after-effects of the caffeine.
In summary, probably more of an energy drink than a refreshing beverage. Worth trying for the novelty, will not buy again.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 27 October 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
lol at that unboxing video. More like a molestation film! Anyway happy to see this thread revived. Need more jap coffee in my life for sure. The selection at the locals is restricted to 2 or 3 standbys: that 12 oz kona shit and some random 8 oz black.
― calstars, Saturday, 28 October 2017 01:18 (six years ago) link
Will ask wife to re-patriot a couple when she travels over there and back later this year
― calstars, Saturday, 28 October 2017 01:22 (six years ago) link
hey guys thanks for the support on the unboxing video i'm just getting the hang of things so i shot a new one today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjixmlid8hk
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Sunday, 29 October 2017 12:50 (six years ago) link
Definite articles: big in Japan
― calstars, Sunday, 29 October 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
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Ohio gozaimasu
― calstars, Saturday, 25 August 2018 21:59 (six years ago) link
http://www.imagebam.com/image/646acf956283284
― calstars, Saturday, 25 August 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link
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― calstars, Saturday, 25 August 2018 22:06 (six years ago) link
I knew that wouldn’t work
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― calstars, Saturday, 25 August 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link
https://image.ibb.co/mbO3Q9/1_ED3_DBA7_4_D52_4020_BAFF_EF022_CBC061_B.jpgBest can award
― calstars, Thursday, 30 August 2018 07:51 (six years ago) link
森彦の珈琲 cafe au lait. I’ve finally found a can coffee with milk and an acceptably tiny amount of sugar.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 21 September 2019 01:35 (four years ago) link
Decent and cheaphttps://i.imgur.com/1rHbDlE.jpg
― calstars, Friday, 5 June 2020 11:02 (four years ago) link
i've never seen that what is it italian?
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Monday, 6 July 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
Faux Italian, actually Pokka brand
― calstars, Monday, 6 July 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
i just notticed the netto terfofagot and thought it might be pokka for italy onlyill keep an eye out
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Monday, 6 July 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link
are you calstars in italy?
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Monday, 6 July 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link
NYC
― calstars, Monday, 6 July 2020 20:27 (four years ago) link
i drank this in the basement of a sort of mall below ueno station, down ameyoko.
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 6 July 2020 21:39 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/sW4yYeX.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/RGpdgWl.jpg10% Hawaiian Kona beans / product of JapanCold can. Pours dark but tastes creamy. On the sweeter side. Coffee essence can be enjoyed while drinking but fades quickly. Invites speedy consumption. Kind of like coffee flavored water.
― calstars, Sunday, 27 December 2020 12:58 (three years ago) link
whatever, I love this stuff fuck y’all
― brimstead, Sunday, 27 December 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
right, calstars, it’s not for sipping
― brimstead, Sunday, 27 December 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
Is it good heated?
― nickn, Monday, 28 December 2020 03:00 (three years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca8s0aXpegp/?utm_medium=copy_link
― calstars, Friday, 11 March 2022 12:09 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ihsEXpW.jpgGood balance of milk and sugar. Inoffensive
― calstars, Thursday, 5 May 2022 18:48 (two years ago) link
would love to hear from dylannn again
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 7 May 2022 00:35 (two years ago) link
sorry Calstars, not to slight your entertaining posts itt!
Nah bro, I’d love to hear from him too, it’s half the reason I post here
― calstars, Saturday, 7 May 2022 01:39 (two years ago) link
So weird this got revived today, as I happened to be at a Korean mart the other day and bought a can of Boss Premium. LOVED it. Not too sweet, not too milky, delicious cold.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 7 May 2022 09:03 (two years ago) link
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0485/3497/8716/products/boss-premium-boss_360x360.png?v=1618030888
I notice Dyl mostly seemed to dislike the Boss ones, I've not had any others like Pokka to compare (despite what I said upthread haha)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 7 May 2022 09:06 (two years ago) link
Australian iced/milk coffees are ubiquitous but uniformly far too milky, and way too mild/sweet for my taste.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 7 May 2022 09:07 (two years ago) link
recently, i enjoyed the low sugar georgia shot & break, as well as the coffee & milk version (the label reads "condensed taste," which i somehow took to mean that it contained condensed milk, so i was expecting a longevity brand aftertaste)(the japanese love for american coffee and coffee culture will make this impossible but it would be cool to have some kind of bottled riff on vietnamese coffee, not much different from sugary canned coffee in general but maybe do something with the bean selection).
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Sunday, 8 May 2022 05:36 (two years ago) link
having tried nearly every innovation in japanese canned coffee as i've seen them, i realize sadly that the few manufacturers fool around with viscosity, bitterness, sweetness of core recipes but don't offer many truly novel beverages. they all taste the same. even the fanciest georgia cold brew or craft boss, i don't know if they do anything but water down their original recipe.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Sunday, 8 May 2022 05:39 (two years ago) link
i'll try my best to review some canned coffee.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Sunday, 8 May 2022 05:54 (two years ago) link
http://imgur.com/oQpZcNA.jpg
i believe the "bitter latte" iteration of the georgia nista line is already out of stores. a straight and a caramel latte are still available. although it's just another shot of vegetable oil and sugar, the bottle design is attractive, at least. i like the pastel forest green-type color. perhaps "nista" is meant to suggest "barista," but i'm only guessing. despite the promise of bitterness, milk is more prominent. i would not reach for this over georgia's own low sugar "japan craftsman" coffee or the—to me, indistinguishable—low sugar shot & break.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Sunday, 8 May 2022 06:21 (two years ago) link
http://imgur.com/L4nAktZ.jpg
i thought there might be something interesting in the archive. not really. this is a curiosity from late in 2018, at the tail end of the clear beverage fad. it was as poorly received as the rest of them. it was a novelty. carbonation would have cut the artificial sweetener.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Sunday, 8 May 2022 06:37 (two years ago) link
At this point the can design aesthetics are probably my favorite part of the J-coffee experience
― calstars, Monday, 9 May 2022 15:33 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/WeChIgV.jpeg
like i said, i don't drink the stuff anymore but. i've been forced by to start going to the only unchained grocery store in the neighborhood. there are five or six grocery stores within easy walking distance, three that you could call full supermarkets. out of the three, two are big chains. one i've taken off my list because it's on two floors (the way the escalators are positioned, this forces shoppers to buy dry ingredients, then go down to the basement to buy fresh ingredients, then go directly to the register, with backtracking difficult), and the other, formerly my favorite, i've had to swear off because of automation. i don't want to use a self-checkout. the average age of shoppers is over sixty-five, so cashiers previously assisted in a number of tasks, like lifting bags of rice, sorting through wallets for the correct loyalty card, and rushing back to find any items that the shopper forgot to grab, that still happens, on top of having to sort out touchscreens, but with only one cashier manning the checkout zone. so, i have started going to a typical east tokyo discount supermarket, cramped and dark, with about the same items. but they will never fire their staff. it's worth noting that this is the only grocery store in east tokyo that i'm sure has no foreign workers, which, before the foreign workers were gone, might have suggested discriminatory hiring practices, but now seems to suggest a savvy manager, who knew that a stable of middle-aged neighborhood women is as good as gold. long story short, they have a bunch of boxes of discount junk scattered around. i plucked this pokka tallboy out of one of them. you want to talk about savvy managers, how about tsuyoshi shinjo? BIGBOSS himself. huh? i thought it would be nice with my hiyashi chuka. two summertime classics, chewy ice cold ramen and the sugariest of the sugar canned coffee, probably twenty percent soybean oil.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Friday, 24 June 2022 06:15 (two years ago) link
kanpai mi amigo
― calstars, Friday, 24 June 2022 12:19 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/PKAUBzg.jpeg
i am sure that i have given in this thread the explanation for the craftsman line, but here it is again... it was intended as a bottled alternative to what consumers are getting from the increasingly accessible third wave chains. researchers saw that office workers liked nursing a cold brew over several hours, rather than slamming a hit of caffeine and sugar. the branding has been successful enough since its introduction in 2018 that expansion won't harm the loyalty it has built. this tastes remarkably similar to any other canned mocha option. the artificial sweetener cuts the soybean oil nicely. reading the press release, i learn that i missed out on the SEVENTEEN (this is a korean pop group) transparent a4-sized folder that came as a preliminary on-pack promotion.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Saturday, 9 July 2022 15:11 (two years ago) link
would this thread be the place to review a BTS macadamia mocha latte?haven't opened yet. bottle is 4 stars.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 9 July 2022 16:50 (two years ago) link
by "HY". Product of Korea. Drat!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 9 July 2022 16:51 (two years ago) link
this tastes remarkably similar to any other canned mocha option. This is kind of my main takeaway from this thread. But I’ll always try a new one anyway
― calstars, Saturday, 9 July 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link
― calstars, Saturday, 9 July 2022 19:50 (two years ago) link
dylannnnnnnnnn so gladddddd to see you back, sorry I missed the earlier posts. Your writing is so evocative using such small touches, I hope you use it elsewhere too.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 9 July 2022 21:31 (two years ago) link