Bones Coffee's French Toast

It's Sunday, so it's time for another post about coffee I've consumed! And click here for music to read the review by: "Caffeine Swing" by Hopalong Ginsberg!

What is Joan Crawford dipping in her coffee? French Toast?

BONES COFFE COMPANY: FRENCH TOAST
Like most of Bones' flavored blends, this one is based on medium-roasted beans. As it brewed and after it was finished and I took a whiff of what I poured into my cup, there was no discernable aromas other than that of coffee. 

When I drank it straight and hot, it tasted like a fresh cup of high-quality medium-roast coffee with perhaps a little sweetener of some sort added. After the third or fourth sip, I began to detect a flavor that I imagine what toast dipped in coffee might taste like. As I continued drinking, the flavor of syrup and maybe a little vanilla, crept in, but all these additional flavors very subtle. I may have been imagining the syrup, because it's a flavor I associate with French Toast...

And, although I enjoyed the French Toast blend, I didn't find it very French Toast like flavor-wise. Unless I have a wrong idea of what French Toast is--bread dripped in beaten eggs and milk and then fried in a pan? And maybe there can be berries or fruit or syrup or powered sugar on top? (Although personally, I eat it without any "dressing", more often than not.) This coffee really just tasted primarily like toast dipped in coffee. It wasn't a bad taste, it just didn't quite capture what was claimed on the package.

As I've previously mentioned, I'm something of a wimp when it comes to coffee, which is why I go for the flavored blends or you see me drinking mochas and lattes and so on. The French Toast blend, while tasty, is on the line of what I can tolerate tastewise--I can enjoy it straight, but it was more enjoyable once I added unsweetened almond milk or sugar-free Italian Sweet Cream creamer to the cup. It really only needed a touch of either--just enough to take a little of the edge off but still allowing the very excellent coffee flavor to come through. The taste of syrup seemed to grow stronger with the addition of the almond milk or creamer, but not to the point of overwhelming the coffee. 

When I tried this blend iced, the flavor of toast was present but very faint. Mostly, this just tasted like it was a lightly sweetened medium roast iced coffee... and it was delicious. Again, just a dash of almond milk or creamer was all that was needed to take this from being a good drink to a great drink. 

Comparing the iced and hot versions of the drink, I think I prefer this one hot. I even tried drinking a cup of it with French Toast (at least with what I think of as French Toast) and it paired great. I think Bones Coffee's French Toast blend may be a better breakfast blend than some actual Breakfast Blends.