A friend of mine suggested that I try a “coffee shandy.” Apparently, the idea comes from a thing called a “beer shandy,” which is half beer and half lemonade. My interest piqued, I went on a quest to order one.
Here are the steps:
Order a tall iced Willow Blend from the Clover. Ask the barista to put it in a Grande-sized cup, packed full with ice.
Ask the barista to fill the cup half-way with lemonade. Since the cup is so full of ice, it’ll be less than you think in lemonade:
The partner then brews the Willow Blend on the Clover. There is a setting on the Clover brewer for “iced,” which uses a double-strength water-liquid ratio. Essentially, it produces less coffee (but more concentrated) than the hot settings because it’s designed to be poured over ice and diluted by the ice.
The partner then pours the coffee over the ice, into the cup:
Voi là!! You have made a coffee shandy! It’s delicious! I’ve ordered this at more than one store to make sure this works! If you are at a store with a Fizzio machine, I recommend trying this fizzed. I haven’t tried it fizzed yet, but I bet it would be good.
So if you want to order this beverage, make sure of the following: You need to be a in a “Starbucks Reserve” store because they have the Clover brewers (with only isolated exceptions), and of course the store will need to have some Willow Blend and lemonade in stock. It’s really not that hard to make. However, this will be more of a challenge for stores without a Clover brewer.
Enjoy! Let me know how you like this drink! This is a brilliant idea! Thank you to the Modern Barista for the drink idea.
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Don’t forget to try the new (old) Starbucks drink, the Latte Macchiato, beginning January 5, 2016.
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I’ve tried the latte macchiato . I found a partner in Destin Florida who knew how to make it. It is out of this world delicious. She even knew the latte or to put on the microfoam. I heartily recommend it. I added two shots of espresso to keep my caffeine fix.
The shandy sounds great, and shouldn’t be a problem to make at non-Clover stores, as iced pour overs are a reciped/standardized drink option.
As a partner, I would not, however, recommend trying to Fizz it, as that would be incredibly complicated—borderline prohibitively. To use the Fizzio, all the drink componenents must be cold (<40° to best hold the carbonation), and so the baristas would have to make the coffee, dilute it with ice, pour it back out of the ice into the Fizzio canister, fizz it, and pour it back over ice, all of which would take quite a bit of time, probably to the point of nuisance.
Also the Fizzed Iced Coffee was a promotional option when Fizzio launched and it tastes terrible.
Fizzio stores should try a tall fizzed lemonade, in a grande cup with extra ice, then topped with the willow. I’ll try this while I’m in Hawaii 🙂
So glad to hear of some good experiences with this drink. I had seen somewhere… your Facebook page maybe… to try this with the Cold Brew. Ugh… for me, it was terrible. Maybe trying it this way would be better.