Turns out I have some opinions about coffee and one
of them you've probably seen from the title of this video.
I feel quite strongly that people
should stop trying to put coffee and things.
Now I like coffee.
I think coffee is a delicious flavor
when it's the flavor.
Like I like to drink a cup of coffee.
I think that it tastes very good.
I often think coffee doesn't work very well
when you put it into other things.
There is some things.
Sure, you can put it into milk
or milk alternatives, tastes good.
You can mix it with chocolate, tastes good.
No argument from me there
but there has been this increasing trend
of trying to shove coffee into other products.
Products that really don't make sense.
I feel like this started when Lays
in the U.S made cappuccino flavored chips to them,
crisps to me and everyone broadly hated them.
And so quite quickly they stopped making them.
And that was very sensible,
but it seems to have inspired others
to just shove coffee into stuff.
And we've seen it on this channel.
We know that coffee and orange juice may not work that well.
We know that Jagermeister,
maybe doesn't benefit from having
a shot of cold brew put into it.
But the way I feel is if you're gonna have a strong opinion
you should test it from time to time.
And so that's what we're gonna do today.
I've acquired eight different things that you
can see here that have coffee in them
that I wouldn't really expect to have coffee in them.
I'm gonna start with this here.
Someone's decided to start putting coffee in red wine.
Now already I'm concerned.
The very idea is quite unsettling.
This is called 19 Crimes.
All of the jokes feel very easy at this point.
So I'm actually gonna let them go.
The whole brand of this thing is based around
when the British empire abused the island of Australia
as a penal colony in the late 1700.
Let me just read the bottle it'll make more sense.
This is a liquid ode to our past.
19 Crimes is inspired by those who beginning in 1788,
were transported to Australia for a life of hard labor.
A pioneering jammy red with a bold coffee finish.
It's a bit early in the day.
It's morning time here but let's find out.
Now I will confess that I lost my corkscrew.
I could only find this and it's really for old bottles,
old corks it's terrifying to use for some reason.
Extremely awkward from this position to be honest.
There we go.
I'm aware the glass is overkill, I know that.
So color genuinely expected
sort of a bit more coffeeness in there.
It's a dark looking red, it's a...
What was the booze on this?
I'm not gonna become a wine review channel don't worry,
or a coffee wine review channel anyway.
Well, the good news is that it doesn't
really smell like coffee.
There's like a little dirtiness in there.
It is made with 100% Colombian Arabica beans but why.
A little grippy in the finish there, it's fruity
I don't really get a lot of coffee out of this.
Like it's a bit rough.
Is this what...
If you'd left like a centimeter of coffee in a coffee cup
and then there was a house party that night
and someone couldn't find a glass and was just like,
I'll just use this mug and poured that wine in.
Maybe that's kind of the vibe we're getting here.
Like it mostly tastes of wine
but something tastes just a bit off in a way.
But it just looks a bit dirty.
It's like a dirty strawberry.
The slurping is so much gentler in wine.
I don't really get it.
I don't really understand why you would add coffee to this.
Why you would add caffeine to a nighttime drink.
If it is a breakfast wine, I'm very pro breakfast wine.
This is not a breakfast wine.
And the addition of coffee
does not make it a breakfast wine.
Not a great finish, quite a lot of tan in there
balanced out by a kind of big fruity thing.
I'm not a wine reviewer, I'm a coffee whatever I am.
Nope and never again.
So next up is the Jameson cold brew edition,
whiskey and coffee.
Lot of people asked me to review this
and I've been reluctant to.
You might say, hang on a minute.
Coffee and whiskey are friend.
The Irish coffee is one of
the great coffee cocktails of all time.
How can you say that coffee and whiskey don't go together.
I'm not saying that at some point
we will look at the Irish coffee on this channel.
It's a great drink when done superbly well.
The thing for me is
if you're gonna put coffee in the whiskey,
well you're kind of picking the coffee
and making a bunch of decisions about
what kind of coffee I should be drinking with my whiskey
that I can't ever really undo.
And surely fresh coffee is gonna be better
than bottled preserved coffee
which is what this is gonna be.
But maybe it works really well, maybe it's good.
There's only one way to find out.
Out of the bottle things are getting better.
It's got a little musty coffee bananaliness, wish me luck.
I feel a little bit like I do about this
which is I can't work out if I'm disappointed
that there isn't more coffee to it.
Because I feel like when coffee and whiskey go well
it's about balancing flavors.
And whiskey is a big flavor
so you need quite a bit of coffee to balance your whiskey.
And here it's there in a kind of really awkward level.
It's not a particularly powerful flavor.
It's just kind of a distraction from the whiskey.
It just feels like the addition of coffee
is like a nice idea but the execution leaves
me wondering why really?
From like a sensory perspective,
from a hedonic perspective, like why do this?
Let me throw in some ice.
Here's the thing, if you love coffee so much
that you want it in your whiskey
then I suspect you love coffee enough
that you would wanna control what coffee went in
and how it went into your whiskey.
Like you might want to an infusion of whole beans
into some whiskey that you really like.
You like the beans, you like the whiskey.
You could totally do that yourself.
It just like again, like a dirtied up kinda whiskey.
And I'm just not here for it.
Let's move along.
You might say drinking on an empty stomach is unwise.
And I'd probably agree with you,
even if it's a coffee based thing.
So I should have a snack I think
These are chickpeas,
cappuccino dark chocolate flavored chickpeas.
Which is not what I expected to find.
I'm curious, I'm genuinely curious.
What unsettles me on the ingredients list
is the fact that I don't see the word coffee
anywhere on the ingredients list, like nowhere.
There is flavoring.
I don't know that...
I mean, that's a broad charge I guess.
Oh no, these look like mini eggs,
like the classic Easter treat.
Will they taste of coffee?
Is this an empty promise?
Why am I nervous?
That's a journey.
That is the weirdest product.
Talk about the flavor.
It has the classic-like coffee into confectionary flavor.
I don't know how they do it.
If it's just flavorings or like instant coffee
or something like that.
It doesn't taste like a cup of coffee.
It tastes like if you eat something that's coffee flavored
and you put it in your mouth and you chew for a little bit
and you're like oh, that's disgusting, what flavor is that?
Oh, it's like a coffee flavored chocolate or whatever else.
Like it's that coffee flavor.
This is a really weird use of chickpeas.
Is this like a healthy M and M?
If you'd like a commercial
like confectionary coffee flavor
and you like a little crunch,
you might have a nice time.
I just feel like just let the chocolate be chocolate,
have a crunchy chocolate time.
You don't need to bring the coffee in is how I feel here.
Why am I eating them still?
I'm getting a bit wound up.
And so what I need is to calm down.
And thankfully someone's made a candle
with warm espresso flavor.
Now I know you don't flavor a candle,
but I'm just gonna call it.
If it's coffee, it's coffee flavor.
I don't have any matches.
The only thing that I have with flame in the studio
is the blue flame lighter from my Bripe,
so that's how we're gonna roll today.
I might have melted the wrong bit slightly there
but we got it lit
Soothing smells.
It smells like I live inside a coffee flavored revel.
It does, it's got that...
I'm curious, I'm so interested in how you make that.
Like where did you get the coffee for this?
If you make candles, where did you get that?
Did you buy that?
Is that a thing that people sell?
Maybe I should do a video
on where coffee flavor comes from commercially.
Kinda go and buy, these big flavor houses.
They make flavors, maybe I should go and see one
of them and talk about coffee flavor.
It smells like hot.
Now already I suspect,
my brain has begun to ignore the aroma in the room.
So I'm gonna treat myself to one of the great smells in life
which is the smell of a candle freshly blown out.
I see that's a good smell.
That's a great smell, everyone loves that smell.
Oh, look at it.
Wait, where's the fire detector in here?
I don't know, I probably wouldn't want this in my house.
I feel like I probably smell of coffee most days
and then going home and taking a bath in coffee smell
would be crossing a line.
Fair enough warm espresso.
I feel warmed to some extent,
but I feel like honestly
I don't want coffee flavored candles in my life.
Let's move along.
It's time I think for me to suffer because,
and this is an area that is quite contentious.
And I thought maybe I will do an entire video on.
It's coffee and hot sauce.
Now, hot sauce is one thing
and then there's the kind of coffee and barbecue sauce.
And so I kinda was thinking about
like coffee sauces generally for barbecue
or other things like that.
I historically have not tied my sense of masculinity
into my ability to handle spicy foods.
I'm not gonna be like DJ Khaled on hot ones.
Now I could be wrong actually.
This one, coffee and hot sauces could definitely be a thing.
Where's the little test.
I've got a big spoon but I'm gonna have
a little tiny taste and a big spoon.
It smells like hot.
Now what's in this?
First thing on this list.
So therefore the primary ingredient
is organic coffee infused white vinegar.
Then we've got sweet onions, bell peppers,
red habanero peppers, apple cider vinegar with mother,
garlic, ginger, olive oil, salt and spices.
It's quite an immediate heat.
I'm not gonna sweat.
I might sweat, I might sweat soon.
That's solidly spicy.
I can taste quite a few of the ingredients but no coffee.
I can taste the habanero,
it's quite a kinda clean habanero kinda taste.
What else is in you?
Onions, yes.
Bell peppers, sure.
I can't tell if I'm disappointed or relieved,
but I don't get a lot of coffee flavor.
I think that's a nice hot sauce.
Like it's a nice sauce.
I don't taste any coffee and I kinda wanna know
what it would taste like without the coffee in it
as a side-by-side.
We're getting towards the end of our journey
and I need to talk about perhaps the strangest
of the things here.
This is Doctor Organic, probably not his real name.
This is their organic coffee
stimulating hair and scalp shampoo.
It's a targeted action.
Energizing 'cause my hair is often lethargic.
As you can tell it's just lying down almost the whole day.
Revitalizing, sure whatever.
Stimulating, it's a caffeine kick for your hair
and an energizing shampoo with organic coffee,
protein packed guarana.
Lord knows we all need more protein apparently
and a boost of intense Chili.
It's got coffee seed extract.
I've never heard it called that before.
Would you like a cup of coffee of seed extract.
Coffee oil, extra caffeine, ginger oil, aloe vera.
Stuff like pepper, cedar wood.
I can't tell if I can smell chili
or if I just still have chili in my mouth.
And the question is,
should I as a coffee person,
as a weird coffee person,
should I be washing my hair in organic coffee shampoo?
No.
Okay as we reached the penultimate destination
in our journey, we're at coffee gum.
Maybe you're like me in that your relationship
between say coffee and gum is that
after you've had a lot of coffee,
in particular after you might've had a bad coffee,
you might want to chew some gum to get rid of coffee flavor.
Like you want to fresh in your mouth with some mint.
And that's why you might chew some gum.
So the idea of I'll chew gum
to have my mouth taste of coffee
is a new kind of thought to me.
So ingredients flavor,
there's no coffee in this just coffee flavor.
I think I need to get to the bottom of coffee flavor
and where it comes from.
Now one quick thing, on the back here
it says post-chew wraps because in the box,
and I have to say I like this.
There are these little sheets to wrap your gum in
before you throw it away.
So you can be a good human,
dispose of your gum, nicely, sensibly, responsibly, socially
and not be a bad human and just spit it on the street.
Let's have a look.
Now I'm gonna say it looks a little bit natural.
How will it taste?
They're all getting their flavor from the same place.
The coffee tastes just like this.
It's not bad, it's got like a dessert-like quality to it.
I feel like you could do like a tiramisu version
of this and it would be kind of okay.
It's not for me.
If anything I'm just obsessed now
with commercial coffee flavor and where it comes from.
Now, we've got one left
and it is the one I'm the most excited about.
And it's the one that was the hardest to get.
This is not available in Europe.
You cannot buy this anywhere in Europe.
How it got here I believe for legal reasons is a mystery,
but we have some and that's very exciting.
Now I feel and I've talked about this in the past
that I don't really like putting
a lot of negativity out into the world.
Like I know I've been critical of a bunch of product here
but it really, I feel like it's fair to ask.
If you're a coffee loving person
should you buy these coffee flavored things?
And I feel that we should talk about that.
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Now it's time for the Guinness.
Now this one we've had out for a little while.
It's not cold enough.
Now for full I don't know commitment to the bid
we've got ourselves a Guinness glass,
and I'm gonna open, I'm gonna pour in a second.
Now these cans have had a difficult journey
because you can only buy this in the U.S right now.
What's interesting is I looked in the side of the can,
this is actually brewed in Dublin and imported
by Diageo Beer in the U.S and sold there.
So even though it's brewed in Europe
you can't buy it in Europe.
So apologies for the wrong glass in terms of size.
These are 14.3 fluid ounces,
could that be a more obscure size.
About 400 mils, less obscure, proper money but how is it?
Well, that's unexpected.
I was worried that like some of these drinks,
the coffee would be a distraction
but not a featured player.
And here that is not the case.
This is a featured player.
Like the coffee is very present
and it's actually quite well balanced
with the Guinness flavor.
I'm not saying I like it.
I'm impressed by the composition of flavor here.
Really makes this feel much sweeter as a drink,
which I don't know if that's appealing to a Guinness drinker
to kind of have the sweetness of it kind of amped up.
It has a dessert-like quality to it.
It comes through really strongly in the finish
with this sort of sweet almost vanillary, cakey,
very confectionary coffee flavor in the end there.
I mean it's beer with coffee and natural coffee flavors.
Now that's the thing.
Like I wonder do they have to put any sort
of ingredient list on here?
I don't like it but it's really a surprising product to me.
Like it's just interesting that it exists,
that it exists in such a casual way.
Because of course you want Guinness
with coffee and coffee flavor in it of course you do.
A little bit more just to make sure
I have a thorough opinion
and we'll get no work done this afternoon.
It's got the same coffee flavoring in it.
It's there on the nose as you bring the glass to your nose,
that recurring artificially coffee flavor
that's in other products just pops.
But then you drink it and there's a different
kind of coffee taste and it has a little bit more sweetness.
I would not be having a second one of these.
I would feel very done at the end of this.
Like I would feel like I've had enough.
I've had coffee, beer, I'm full, I'm overwhelmed.
The sweetness is a little too much.
Now I will say in filming this video,
I was a little disappointed that Aldi
had stopped selling its coffee infused bacon.
Maybe if that comes back, we'll have a look at it.
Apparently it was really popular,
which is I don't know, confusing.
But I wanna hear from you now.
What is a coffee flavored product that you've seen
that is just kind of mind bending to you?
Have there been any surprises?
Have you tasted something that was coffee flavored
that shouldn't have been
that somehow worked incredibly well.
Do you know how coffee flavor is made?
Let me know down in the comments below.
Share your thoughts, share opinions.
I wanna hear too.
But for now, I'll say thank you so much for watching
and I hope you have a great day.