My boyfriend loves iced coffee. We used to make our own until I tragically broke our espresso maker by trying to use it without water... He was buying Starbucks a lot, but we realized that can get expensive quickly. So we switched to the pre-made iced coffees you get at the grocery store. Before I thought about vegan food, we always bought the pre-made Starbucks Caramel Macchiato. Now that we're trying to reduce animal products, I thought this would be a good place to start.
There are probably about 10 different vegan iced coffees in the dairy aisle. I challenged him to try a different one every week. We already like Almond Breeze for almond milk, so this was his first choice. Here's what he thought.
Review: Almond Breeze Iced Coffee - Mocha
First Impressions: "Hmmm, this is pretty good."
Taste: The almond and the coffee flavors blur together. It's good, but it's hard to taste the coffee. Because of the Mocha, there's a strong chocolate flavor. It tastes kind of like a coffee-flavored chocolate milk.
Texture: Thick and creamy. Thicker than the Starbucks version.
Worth buying again? Yes, but not all the time. Definitely to try the other flavors.
Better than non-vegan version? No, but it's difficult to compare them because the flavor profiles are so different.
Overall: 3.5 out of 5