Non coffee beverages

Should Starbucks bring back the mocha coconut Frappuccino?

May 7, 2010

Frappuccino happy hour begins today (May 7, 2010), and it’s time to talk about a Starbucks favorite: The Mocha Coconut Frappuccino.  Is it time to bring the Starbucks Mocha Coconut Frappuccino back to the stores as a summer drink?  This is one of those ideas that comes up repeatedly on MyStarbucksIdea as a customer request.  [...]

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The new However-You-Want-It-Frappuccino is here [@Frappuccino]

April 19, 2010

The new However-You-Want-It-Frappuccino launches in downtown Seattle on April 19th! It’s the total reinvention of the Starbucks Frappuccino. Suddenly you can now order anything from a soy milk Frappuccino to a breve milk Frappuccino, if that’s what you want.  Starbucks tested these new Frappuccinos for about two years, and now finally is launching them.  The [...]

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Orange and Valencia: Flavors we miss at Starbucks

April 3, 2010

What is “orange”? It’s a fruit with a peel with a stipple feel to it.  It’s a county and a city in California.  It’s a county and a city in Florida. It was a syrup at Starbucks, once upon a time.  It was a cupcake flavor at Starbucks, once upon a time.  It is one [...]

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Protected: Karate Man: The Starbucks Vivanno character axed at the headquarters

February 19, 2010

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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No better time than winter in Vermont for a Starbucks soy Frappuccino

December 31, 2009

Lots of people have talked about the “test Frappuccinos” in Dallas, Texas.  It’s been a long test of the new and customizable Frappuccino, offering Starbucks customers the chance to try a soy Frappuccino, whole milk, or any other milk option, with much greater power in the hands of the customer to modify the drink as [...]

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A blog for the tea drinkers at Starbucks: Take a tour of Tazo in Portland, Oregon!

December 13, 2009

Are you a fan of the Starbucks Chai Latte? Passion Tea? A black tea drinker? Refresh by Tazo? Rumor has it that Starbucks will be changing the tea line up soon! This made me think that there is no better time than now to take a peek into the world of Tazo Tea at their [...]

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I’ll take a “double grande” Starbucks passion tea lemonade please. (Cold drink sizes, tall, grande, venti, double grande)

September 30, 2009

This post is the kissing cousin to the tea menu featured a few weeks ago in this blog.  At the same time that Starbucks experimented with whole leaf in their stores, they tested a larger sized iced beverage. It was called “double grande” and 32 ounces in size.  The test size was intended for Tazo [...]

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Tea Is A Prism That Colors Each Day: Tazo full leaf tea at Starbucks

September 12, 2009

Recently I had a conversation with a barista where she related to me that she wished that Starbucks sold whole leaf tea in their stores. I mentioned to her that Starbucks did do a test of whole leaf tea in a few stores in 2008.  After more conversation about Tazo, I mentioned that there had [...]

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Starbucks tests 2 new Vivanno flavors: Honey Vanilla Vivanno & Mixed Berry

September 9, 2009

Since this summer, Starbucks has been testing the waters on two new varieties of Vivanno™:  Mixed Berry and Vanilla Honey. This test currently is in Sacramento only, and it appears that the first place to break the news was a Sacramento food blog. This past weekend I had the chance to try the Vanilla Honey [...]

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