![]() I followed the instructions on the back to pour 3-4 ounces of hot water, to make Vietnamese-style coffee. The coffee, a robusta & arabica blend, was quite good, given that the filter dripped way too quickly. It’s silkier than most, which is a sign that it was made of good, wholesome fresh milk. Taste (7/10): It exceeded my expectations, I’m impressed! The sweetened condensed milk reminds me of my gold standard, Longevity Brand’s Gold edition. But, for the company to encourage every day use via subscriptions, I must say, is quite ironic. This kit is such a convenient way to have coffee for long distance travel or camping trips for that matter – I’m sure my mother will appreciate having some of these in case of emergencies. The box is recyclable and the filter compostable, but the coffee and milk packets are made of single-use plastic. Sustainability 5/10: The coffee and milk itself might be sourced sustainably, but half of the packaging is not. Here are my final impressions:Īesthetics 10/10: Impeccable! Gold-foiled box encasing black coffee packets and white milk packets. I purchased through Amazon Prime, which meant that I got the kit within a couple of days. Best to be aware and not make what might seemingly be a small mistake and alienate what’s potentially a large part of the customer base.Īll that aside, I finally decided that I wanted to purchase the kit. There was a lack of awareness of Vietamese history and politics there, and I question whether the Vietnamese-American community is in CCC’s target market at all. In some PR material, they’d enthusiastically used the flag emoji of the current state of Vietnam, the same one that most refugees of the Vietnam War oppose. More notable is that the filter is a very fast drip, while the traditional Vietnamese phin is meant to be tuned to a slow drip which produces a very concentrated coffee. In fact, similar hanging filters had been used in a number of semi-instant coffee offerings. A quick browse through their feed and I became apprehensive.įrom my memory they had marketed their single-use hanging filter as a novel invention. Trendy brand name, aesthetics on point (even more so now), and, hipster Vietnamese product? I was intensely curious. ![]() In 2017, when I first happened upon CCC’s Instagram account, my attention was piqued. For all intents and purposes, we’ll only be talking about The Classic. ![]() Copper Cow Coffee has since their inception added a number of other drink kits, among them Thai tea and rose latte. Their coffee is indeed sourced from sustainable farms of the Central Highlands of Vietnam, and their condensed milk – in good fashion – is made from Californian cow milk and pure sugar cane. Positioned as “a sweet primer to the wide world of Vietnamese coffee,” The Classic consists of 5 individually wrapped packets of coffee pre-packaged in disposable drip filters and 5 individual packets of condensed milk, and it goes for $15. Their first and best selling product, “ The Classic ”, is the brainchild of the Vietnamese-American founder, Debbie Wei Mullen. Today we’ll be talking about our experience drinking a product I had been following for a couple years: Copper Cow Coffee. ![]() If you’ve followed us enough, you’d know that we started this blog out of a passion for bubble tea, but it hasn’t been out of the question for us to venture into other sugary drinks, caffeinated or otherwise.
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