I like milk. It may not be a particularly popular drink amongst adults, but that doesn’t bother me. I still like to pour a pint of milk in to a glass and enjoy a cool, creamy drink. A milkshake to me is a popular choice in restaurants. I also like coffee-flavoured snacks. I was never much of a drinker of coffee itself until recently, but coffee-flavouring has always been a good choice for sweets, ice cream and, where available, milkshakes. Coffee-flavoured snacks may not actually taste of coffee, in the same way that banana- and other-flavoured snacks don’t, but that doesn’t matter in the case of coffee flavouring. Kerri was awesome enough to send the official state drink of Rhode Island, I kid you not, of Eclipse Coffee Syrup. It is a coffee-flavoured syrup to add to milk to make a coffee milk drink, surprisingly enough. I am excited by this snack.
Taking the seal off the lid to enable me to pour the syrup in to a glass of milk gives me my first chance to smell the syrup, and it is an appealing coffee-flavouring scent that greets me. I have a pint glass full of milk waiting for the syrup to be added, so I put the top back on the bottle and start pouring. Asking me to add ‘2 tablespoons to an 8 ounce glass of milk’ is confusing for me as we don’t measure drinks in ounces over here, which is why I have the pint of milk ready poured. The fall-back position of ‘or to desired taste’ is what I’ll be working towards. I put a few squirts of the syrup in to my milk and decide to go with that for now. A quick stir, and I lick the spoon clean so as not to waste any of the drink. Mmm, tastes of coffee milk. That’s a good start. I now have a glass full of what looks like a really weak latté. Time to give it a proper tasting.
Cor, that’s good. This tastes just like the best coffee milkshakes I have had, but without the thickness of the added ice cream. The coffee flavouring is delicious, and adds to the texture and coolness of the milk wonderfully. I often add Nesquick powdered flavouring to my drinks of milk, generally the strawberry flavour as I don’t like banana flavouring and despite liking chocolate itself chocolate flavouring is distasteful to me. When I have my strawberry flavoured milk I drink the whole glass pretty quickly, as I have the texture and chill of milk mixed with a sweet flavouring. There’s something different about this coffee syrup. I don’t want to drink this quickly. I want to savour it. I want to enjoy every sip, feel all the flavouring pass down my throat. Just lifting the glass to my mouth offers me a smell of the coffee syrup as it sits mixed with the milk, enhancing the whole sensation.
This is a fabulous drink. Rhode Island have the right idea about official state drinks. I’m not even going to look further at the bottle or labels, the drink is clearly the focus here. It’s good. I heartily recommend this product and/or service. I will have to pretend that I never got this in the package so that Kerri will be compelled to send me some more. What are the odds that she doesn’t read this blog?