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Review. Well hello ladies and gentlemen a
Happy afternoon evening or whenever you're watching this
You can see I'm I'm in the car. At least you can say I'm in a car
I might be in a very elaborate set that's designed to look like a car and nothing's real
Maybe I'm just in a car and half the time. I don't even know where I am so
I'm just wherever I am but the important thing is that this is a drink review
This is for a very special new release that I I found about actually because someone
Emailed me they said listen Starbucks has a new beverage out. They released it today. You got to try this reviewbrah
We're counting on you
So I was looking around and sure enough they had it otherwise I was going to try and review the elusive McRib from McDonald's
But no place had it so I said well instead of eating some potential mystery meat
I'd may as well get a new release from Starbucks, and try it out, so it's exactly what- what we're doing here
This is the Christmas tree Frappuccino. It's of course a holiday themed beverage
It does not have any
Any pine needles in it no bark no wood
Nor does it have like any little?
insects or
You know rats or rodents that come in with the Christmas trees sometimes doesn't have any of that in it, it's a
It's a drink that they try to make it like a Christmas tree for a seasonal release and I'm letting you know that
Right now first and foremost because I know otherwise people might have questions as to its contents. Um. This is a new release
I'm looking here as to what it has in it
It says 'this festive drink starts with a peppermint mocha cream Frappuccino it
Is then topped with matcha whipped cream which is supposed to look like a Christmas tree the tree is decorated with caramel drizzle
for Garland
Candied strawberries as ornaments and is topped with a strawberry'
So this is what we've been dying to see. Here it is. This is the actual Christmas tree Frappuccino
Nothing says the holiday season like this right doesn't this look like the Christmas tree you got over in your your living room
I know I know mine actually has this plastic thing over the top, too
So it kind of is almost an exact match there. Well, this is what it looks like you can see hopefully
The coloring of the drink could see some of the little bit of the drizzle the the candied
Strawberry that's on there and everything in between
This is fresh so it, you know. I think it looks pretty much as advertised and as pictured and
But it actually looks pretty good, I remember with the zombie Frappuccino
I got it and people were saying it looked like a mess and like nothing
compared to the advertisement, but I say this looks pretty good and
Honestly, I'm really excited to try this out. This is a new release
I'm getting on it the day it's out, so I'm actually I'm really looking forward to this a bit of a
Starbucks consumer an avid one I always like their new stuff, so I'm gonna try it out. This is the
Christmas tree Frappuccino from Starbucks, I'm gonna try it out, so it's going in
See if I could get any additional info on this
Let me try some of the top here
Take a few more sips for you
This is a limited time offer
It says it's only good till December 11th so from the 7th
That's this Thursday to the 11th, so it's only a limited time offer of course to try to increase sales and whatnot
One more one more sip
Christmas tree frappuccino
christmas tree it up
I don't know if you could see that I I can but there's some sort of insect crawling around there
Maybe it crawled on the lens and you could see it. I hope it didn't but there it is. It's
crawling around hopping around whatever. It's doing
Let it, maybe that's a
I don't know, i don't know what that thing is but it's just doing what it does
Alright
Now anyway, what does this thing taste like?
There are a couple
prevailing flavors
And then there's a couple flavors that they advertised
that maybe weren't as strong as you know you would have an intended them to be and this is kind of an issue that I
Experienced with the zombie Frappuccino where all in all it was good it tasted fine
It was an enjoyable beverage
But they they advertised it to have this huge collection of flavors
And if you go in there with an idea that all of them are going to be equally potent and equally flavorful. Etc etc
You'll sadly be mistaken
So with that being said what can you taste? What can't you taste?
At least what can you taste more than others? Well the first sip and almost every sip subsequently
It's really a minty beverage. It's a sweet minty beverage
That's pretty simple isn't it? it is
It's a it's a sweet minty beverage
but it has a very interesting type of
Consistency to it because when it comes down to holiday type
Beverages you expect these kind of sweet and minty beverages to be served hot you know you expect them to be a like a steaming
Beverage rather you're here. You're here sipping it and it's
You know it's an iced Frappuccino, so it has these very very tiny little particulate matter
Of ice that you're sipping at so it's actually a very chilled beverage if you slip a little bit too much
You might get some mild brain freeze as they say
But you know it gives a very interesting
Consistency to it because you always expect one flavor to kind of be prepared a certain way while it's absolutely not
But it comes out good in that regard though. It really does it you know. It's a nice minty beverage
It's not overwhelmingly so because the sweetness kind of balances it out well in that regards. It's a very pleasant
Wintertime drink that way now the one thing that I can see becoming an issue with this though is
What really helps us out in terms of the drinking experience is when you drink it right away
The ice still has that little you know it's like the little particles, and it has a little bit of a resistance to it
kind of like
Not quite like a milkshake, but you know what I mean when you're drinking that and it's liquidy
But you have a little bit of a pull to it
that really helps in terms of just the
Consistency and overall experience of this if you were to let this sit around I would wager for even ten minutes
And then started drinking and it started getting more liquidy
I think that takes a lot of the
Drinking experience and the the the potential pleasure you could derive from drinking this just out of it completely
And it kind of makes it a different thing and it ruins it a little bit
This is something that needs to be consumed immediately for the most part
Now to make sure that we got everything let's just go back and see what they said this has
Completely because I have an article open here
So I could just really see what they were saying so here's what we got all right?
It was supposed to be the peppermint mocha cream
Which they had that was that's the star of the show that's what you're really going to be able to taste
the matcha whipped cream I
Really, wish I could have tasted that better you can see it is green in color kind of like a Christmas tree
See it's definitely there. It's definitely present, but I find that to be more or less for aesthetic purposes
really than any flavor as
for the caramel drizzle
That kind of just combines and mixes in with the sweetness, but again I think it's there a lot for uh,
well really for aesthetics
I've been dying to do this since I got it. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna eat the little
This little this little thing right here, and I think, I think this is a strawberry here
Don't get your hopes up of that. It's dry and
flavorless and purely for aesthetics
But this beverage itself is
Around five dollars five dollars sixty three cents I believe this one came in up to this was for a Grande mind you
This beverage, kind of like the zombie Frappuccino I find in conclusion
Tastes good. It's an enjoyable holiday beverage, but really this is being done as a release to
sensationalize that you get the beverage you you post that that precious
Selfie of yourself with the beverage with just a picture of it to Instagram and and you know it's a viral marketing
Strategy on the part of Starbucks, but nonetheless
It's a very pretty beverage it it tastes good
But just don't expect all the little bells and whistles in terms of flavor to be there and equally potent all
Throughout so keep that in mind and therefore all things considered out of 10
I'm gonna be giving the Christmas tree Frappuccino from Starbucks an 8.0 out of 10
All in all though I think you won't be too disappointed if you just keep in mind that not all the flavors will be equally represented
in this beverage
Now on a few final notes of course
In a few days, I'll be quiet about this because it's not going to be there anymore
So you know I just have to spread the word if you're interested in getting any report of the week merchandise for the holiday season
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That's all I have for you ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host the report of the week and today's drink reviews is for the newly released
Christmas tree Frappuccino from Starbucks, thank you for watching take care, and I'll see you later with another video. That's all good day