Flavored Coffee Offers Expanded Hot Beverage Market
For some reason, there are people who prefer drinking coffee that tastes like something else. As a result, a market in flavored coffee has grown into a multi-million dollar industry with flavorings available in many different styles. From adding flavors to the beans when they go through the grinding and roasting process to having flavored creamers that create flavored coffee when added to regular coffee, there seems to be an endless number of flavors added to change the taste of the best selling beverage in the world.
For decades, to change the coffee's taste, people would simply add cream, sugar or both to their drink, many claiming it removed some of the bitterness associated with drinking black coffee. Someone had the bright idea that making flavored coffee would bring in another segment of the world, introducing them to the many different options of how their coffee could taste. While adding alcoholic beverages to coffee caught on in some parts of the world, many who drank coffee before going to work wanted to add the flavor without the inebriating effects of the alcohol.
Almond flavored coffee and vanilla quickly came to prominence as well as cinnamon and amaretto. As these flavors became better known, experimentation was rife with different flavors added to produce a seemingly endless choice of flavored coffee.
Flavored Hot Water Disguised As Coffee
For true coffee lovers, adding flavors to their beverage of choice is not acceptable. Many claim that flavored coffee is nothing more than soup disguised as coffee and if they cannot have it hot and black, they want no part of the newer concoctions. Many coffee lovers so not even add cream or a sweetener to their drink, as they want to savor the original flavor of the coffee of their choice.
With the newer blends of decaffeinated coffee, many will have a taste closely resembling the traditional full-bodied variety, and even then, many coffee lovers are hesitant to add flavored coffee to their list of favorite things. Baristas, what they call people who make flavored coffee from a recipe, are famous for the many variations they can put into a cup of coffee. Unfortunately, they may be lost unless they can alter the taste of the brew.
For the majority of coffee drinkers flavored coffee is nothing more than hot water flowing through ground coffee beans and poured into a cup. Adding anything to the brew will detract from the original flavor of the drink and is an unnecessary diversion to the most popular beverage in the world.
