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Every Chick-fil-A Iced Coffee, Tasted and Reviewed (with Photos)

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Chick-fil-A iced coffees

by Lars H

I love Chick-fil-A, although I’m not a fan of their hot coffee. Recently I learned they also serve iced coffee too though, so I went back to try them all. Here’s what I found out.

There are three different iced coffees at Chick-fil-A to choose from. There’s regular iced coffee, vanilla iced coffee, and Frosted Coffee, which is a blend of their ice cream and cold brewed coffee. The regular iced coffee and vanilla iced coffees are also made with cold brewed coffee, along with 2 percent milk and pure cane sugar. The vanilla is just vanilla flavoring added to that.

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I tried coffee made with a Bellwether roasting machine

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george coffee and provisions shop
The George Coffee + Provisions coffee shop in Coppell, Texas uses a Bellwether machine to roast its coffee.

by Lars H

Ever heard of the Bellwether coffee roasting machine? Bellwether is a company out of Oakland, California. They introduced a new roasting machine back in 2018 (and have since then come out with the Series 2 version in 2022.

What makes them different? The Bellwether doesn’t look like a traditional coffee roasting machine, because it roasts differently. It looks almost like a refrigerator, and is about the same size. Their machines are really designed for coffee shops and not particularly for high volume, large roasting operations. Coffee shops can save a ton of money by roasting their own beans, and the Bellwether is also a very easy to use, mostly automated machine that doesn’t require as much skill to operate. And in addition to all that, the machine was designed to reduce the carbon footprint of coffee roasting. So stores that use them also save money on energy costs.

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Greek Nescafe Frappe: Everything You Need to Know, and Where it Came From (Photos)

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Greek Nescafe Frappe on a table in a Greek cafe
Here’s a delicious Nescafe Frappe I ordered at a cafe on my vacation in Greece. Keep reading for the awesome story behind it!

How Greece Taught Me To Love Instant Coffee – The Story of Nescafe Frappe

by Darren Oliver

I remember when I tried frappe for the first time. A friend of mine (also a coffee lover) had just returned from a vacation in Greece. During a conversation, out of nowhere, he pulled out a can of instant coffee and said, “I bet you I’ll make you an instant coffee, and you’ll like it.” As a specialty coffee lover used to high-quality, lightly roasted coffee brewed with alternative methods, all I could do was smile with pity. “Okay, a bet on a bag of good coffee,” I replied.

That’s how I lost a bag of coffee, and that’s how I came to know frappe, a type of coffee created in Greece that today has become a staple of many coffee drinks in the best-known chains like Starbucks and Costa Coffee. So, being in Greece for the first time, I couldn’t deny myself the specialty of southern Europe. What is frappe, where did it come from and how do you prepare it yourself? Let’s go on this fascinating journey together.

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Limited Stanley Starbucks Cup: Everything You Need to Know with Photos

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Here’s the story behind the Stanley + Starbucks 40 oz Tumbler that was available as a limited edition collab only at the Starbucks stores inside of Target stores.

Stanley Starbucks 40 oz cup collab

by Lars H

Wondering about the Stanley + Starbucks 40 oz Cup collaboration, and where to buy one?

Well, it turns out that this limited edition collab between Stanley and Starbucks only took place at Starbucks locations that were inside of a Target store. You could not get them at a regular Starbucks.

And Starbucks / Stanley did not release a huge number of these, so they disappeared rapidly from all the Target Starbucks stores and they are pretty impossible to find now. This all happened in May of 2023.

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