The new fall drink menu at Dutch Bros consists of three drinks with various ways customers can modify them. It is a diverse menu with one drink that would tempt a customer to buy another, one drink that is not bad, but would not have a customer craving another and one drink that no person in their right mind would order again.
The Cookie Butter Iced latte costs $6.25, but every cent was worth it. There is whipped cream on the top with caramel drizzled on in almost a brown marble counter top fashion. At the first sip, the latte tasted like plain coffee with maybe one or two vanilla creamers splashed in. That’s it. No cookie butter flavor to be found. Trying to detect this hidden cookie butter flavor was like trying to find a needle in not just a haystack, except it was a whole field filled with hay bales.
Halfway through the drink customers are met with a blast of cookie butter flavoring. Individuals should definitely stir their drinks first, otherwise they will be consuming two completely different drinks in one plastic cup. However, if the drink is stirred from the start it tastes like a rich coffee with the flavors of a sweet sugar cookie and butterscotch. It is an enjoyable coffee either way, but it is better if it is stirred first. Unfortunately, it only goes downhill from here.
The Hot Caramel Pumpkin Brulee Chai is a drink that is not specifically listed on the menu, however it can be ordered as a hot chai for the same price as the Iced Chai, $6.45. The concept of a pumpkin brulee chai is a novel idea, and most people have not heard of it before. When ordered hot, it comes in a multi-layered plastic cup with a royal blue lid. The cup looks like the sippy cup kid’s parents give them so they don’t spill apple juice everywhere. The drink will fill the room with a cozy fall pumpkin aroma. There is an extremely strong pumpkin flavor with a sweet caramel aftertaste. There is more pumpkin present than actual chai. If a customer gets this drink, they should make sure they love pumpkin.
The Candied Cherry Fizz looks basic and artificial. It has a color that screams red 40 paired with small carbon dioxide bubbles racing each other to escape. It tastes like the cherry medicine people would get as kids. It is sickeningly sweet. Younger individuals might enjoy this drink more than adults, unless that adult has a strong passion for cherry flavored drinks.
Overall the only drink worth buying on the Dutch Bro’s fall drink menu is the Cookie Butter Iced latte. The Hot Caramel Pumpkin Brulee Chai is not too bad, but the pumpkin flavor is overpowering and only take two to three sips before becoming to strong. If you are ever craving cherry flavored medicine, make sure to pay a visit to Dutch Bros to order the Candied Cherry Fizz.
