MR BROWN ICED COFFEE

Iced. Coffee. Coffee status: iced. Mr. Brown has no more to say about this coffee than that it’s iced. I could’ve had it at room temperature, but I didn’t. I could have it hot, but that would break the rules of the universe. Here’s a sample of a review I wrote yesterday for another Mr. brown product:

Cub is a local grocery store chain in Minnesota that, well it’s sort of like a food lion really. Notably they have a great international section, catering to the many ethnicities and cultures that call the twin cities home. In that international section they sell Mr. Brown coffee’s for a dollar 60 a piece. Instead of driving all the way to Asia Mall every weekend to get that weeks batch of work coffees, I can just get them with my normal groceries. Huzzah! What a revelation! Truthfully I don’t know how much longer I’ll do this over just making coffee at home or sucking it up and drinking the office coffee, but who knows.

The standard Mr. Brown iced coffee I’ve talked about before here, but this one* and the cappuccino are new to me. Well, I’ve seen them In stores before and in fact already tasted them, but they’re new to me sort of. Look, there’s an ugly truth to the Omnibus that I haven’t talked about too much. I don’t get absolutely every coffee I find, especially after major buying periods. There’s something like two or three I saw in Ebisu and Asia Mall that I chose not to buy, despite meeting criteria, because I had just bought twelve of the damn things. But these, I can buy with my normal groceries, and that sort of accessibility and relative cost makes them much more tempting. These also come in a very dense can, see my last Mr. Brown review for all of my lovely jokes on the subject.

And yesterdays writing went on a little further before I realized I was making a grave mistake. The Mr. Brown I had at the start of this year was the blue mountain blend, not the brown iced coffee can. I was having a duplicate! Well that’s corrected now, I have the actual Iced flavor Coffee here in front of me. I can’t A/B with the other one, sadly, but it’s probably best to review this on its own merits. It’s bitter and fake tasting, cheap. The one I had before I got from Li-Mings for a dollar 29, at Cub these are a dollar 59. And that’s before the slight increase to state sales tax. Incredible! I’m paying more for fake coffee! I need to start making the fresh stuff again. By the standards of the Omnibus this isn’t terrible, but a real iced coffee from Caribou or Starbucks (if you’re a scab) would smoke this. I apologize for the stock photos, I forgot to get pictures of this particular can.

FLAVOR SCORE-7/8

VALUE SCORE-7/8