Description
Dave's Original Rhode Island Coffee Milk Syrup is a 2022 Yankee Food Awards Winner! Here's what Yankee Senior Food Editor Amy Traverso has to say about this award-winning syrup:
Coffee milk is a down-home Rhode Island treat, the flavor of childhood for anyone who grew up between Woonsocket and Weekapaug. So leave it to Dave Lanning, an artisanal coffee roaster (and Little Rhody native), to perfect the form. The syrup begins with Lanning’s own cold-brewed coffee, made from beans his team roasts in Charlestown. Cold brewing extracts more flavor, giving the resulting brew plenty of rich chocolate notes and a nutty toastiness. Then, they add sugar and simmer the liquid down to a thick syrup that turns a glass of cold milk into a sip of heaven
What is Rhode Island Coffee Milk?
What do you get when you add coffee syrup to ice-cold milk? In one place, you get the official state drink — Rhode Island coffee milk.
While a few other beverages have also achieved a high level of fame in the Ocean State (namely Del’s Lemonade and Narragansett beer) coffee milk earned the official top spot in 1993 thanks to its “uniquely Rhode Island” reputation. A common argument goes that you can get lemonade or beer just about anywhere, but ask for coffee milk outside of Rhode Island and its neighboring towns, and you’re likely to get a look of extreme confusion.
Mysterious as it may be to outsiders, coffee milk is a pretty obvious leap for anyone who’s had a glass of strawberry or chocolate milk. Sugary syrup (commonly made from instant coffee mixed with sugar and corn syrup) is bottled and added, a few spoonfuls at a time, to a glass of milk, then stirred, and enjoyed.
Read more about the history of Rhode Island Coffee Milk from Aimee Tucker - Yankee Magazine’s Home Editor and the Senior Digital Editor of NewEngland.com
Details
- Made in: United States
- Ingredients: Cane sugar, cold brewed coffee, agave nectar
- Product Language: English
- Shelf life: 12–24 months
- Storage: Shelf-stable
- Weight: 2 lb (0.91 kg)
- Dimensions: 3 x 3 x 6.8 in (7.6 x 7.6 x 17.3 cm)
