I have tried many new flavors of k-cups, especially since I ordered a variety box from the Green Mountain website and ordering several sample packs (boxes of only 5 k-cups) from the Keurig website. At this point, I have so many flavors to blog about that I'm hoping to cover as many of them as possible in one post. As discussed in some earlier posts, some flavored coffees have subtle flavors. Even though I want all my coffee to taste like coffee, I want to really taste the flavor in my flavored coffees. So I find flavored coffees with more subtle flavors less satisfying than flavored coffees with more potent flavors. Also, many flavored coffees taste great even though you would probably not be able to identify the exact flavor if someone handed you a cup without telling you what it was.
Green Mountain's Caramel Vanilla Cream: I loved this one. It had a good flavor, though I wouldn't have minded the flavor being a little stronger. The flavors in it were mostly identifiable, though with it being a combination flavor, you might only guess one of the two flavors. This one works great as a mocha by mixing it with hot cocoa.
Gloria Jean's Butter Toffee on the 8 oz setting and Gloria Jean's Hazelnut on the 8 oz setting: The combination was ok, but not great. The flavors did not seem to gel. At some point I might try a different ratio, but I think that these two flavors may not be compatible with each other.
Green Mountain's Golden French Toast: This flavor is amazing. The first few times I tried it, I was of the opinion that it was delicious but would not have guessed that the flavor was French Toast unless I knew. On a more recent tasting, I noticed more strongly the maple hints in it, which for me solidified the French toast-ness of it because my mom adds maple syrup to her French toast batter.
Green Mountain's Island Coconut: This is surprisingly good. It tastes amazing, but instead of tasting like I am drinking coffee while having a bite of coconut flavored confection still in my mouth, this tastes like someone put a shot (or so) of some coconut flavored liqueur (or even coconut rum) in my coffee. It has a slight after-burn in my throat and there is something about the flavor that reminds me more of an alcohol based flavor. I tried this in a mocha, doing my usual cocoa on the 8 oz setting (this time dark chocolate) mixed with this coffee on the 6 oz setting and it was absolutely fabulous. The coconut/chocolate combination reminded me a lot of Mounds (or Almond Joy) candy bars.
Van Houtte's Spicy Mayan Chocolate: This is one of my new favorites. The flavor on this coffee is simply fabulous. The chocolate taste is a good clear chocolate flavor and the hints of spice are not overpowering, they make the flavor taste more rich. It does not taste like having a sip of coffee and bite of plain milk chocolate bar at the same time. It is a more complex combination of flavors that work well together.
Green Mountain's Perfect Peach Coffee: This was, in many ways, like the Island Coconut coffee. Did they taste the same? No. They were similar, first in the sense that they both were surprising to me. I hadn't expected to like either one. They were also similar in the way that they tasted like they were flavored by a liqueur. This did not taste like biting into a fresh peach and then taking a sip of coffee. Instead it tasted like someone poured some Peach Schnapps into my coffee (not me of course, hence the surprise)!!
NOTE: The Golden French Toast, Perfect Peach, and Island Coconut were all Limited Edition flavors put out by Green Mountain. Apparently, they come out with one specialty blend of regular coffee and one specialty flavor every month. These are available, according to Green Mountain, for a limited time.
I have many other flavors I would like to blog about, but this is already one of my longest posts and it is quite late, so this will need to be continued in part 2!!
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