Ice-Cold Blonde at the Grocery Store

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STARBUCKS CORPORATION: ICED BLONDE ROAST, UNSWEETENED

If you've read my Coffee Log (which is probably the most boring page on the web), you already know that I've been avoiding Starbucks and other such outlets since the middle of 2021. That doesn't mean Starbucks hasn't been getting some of my money though...

Not too long ago, I was grocery shopping when a big, brown bottle caught my eye. It was in the cooler with the cold coffee-themed drinks in cans and little glass bottles and it declared itself to contain Unsweeteend Iced Blonde Roast coffee from Starbucks. It was $6 for 48 oz., so I figured I'd give it a try. If I didn't like it, I could bring it to work to share... and everyone would think I was being generous!

As it turns out, I don't so much like the magic bean juice in the brown bottle as love it. In fact, I think the results I get at home with the unsweetened Iced Blond Roast is superior to both what I recall the iced drinks tasting like, as well as a comparison to my recent return to an old favorite, the Pike Place Roast.

True to what is printed on the bottle, this coffee very much mellow and smooth. It's so smooth that I liked it with just a single packet of Stevia added. Like white coffee, blonde roasts have very little of the bitterness that is typically associated with coffee. It also has a high caffeine content, so it's perfect for someone like me who doesn't like their coffee black--because of the bitter taste--but who wants the caffeine. 

Unlike most other reviews you'll read here, since it's made to be consumed cold and over ice. In addition to trying it straight (which was okay) and with a packet of Stevia added (which was better), I've had it with the usual Unsweetened Almond Milke and sugar-free Italian Sweet Cream creamer. I also mixed this the Iced Blonde Roast with Unweetened Vanilla Almond Milk, sugar-free French Vanilla creamer, vodka & Unweetened Vanilla Almond Milk, Unsweetened Chololate Almond Milk, and probably some mixings I'm forgetting at the moment. I probably should also try it with dashes of various fruit juices to see if I can approximate some of the Bones Coffee flavors while I'm at it...

Basically, at the moment, when my tumbler doesn't contain something iced that I'm drinking for review purposes, it holds iced, blonde-roast Starbucks coffee from a bottle that comes off the grocery store shelf.