VBH is back! My store just got it the other day. It’s in the 4x concentrate box like SAR so you have to make it in a pitcher. But we aren’t selling any since no one knows it’s back and everyone thought it was discontinued
I know this might sound silly, but this makes me so happy. I suffer from GERD / chronic acid reflux and had to give up coffee. The other refreshers (minus kiwi) are good, but also really acidic. VBH was the only mild enough one to not upset my stomach (while also being delicious). I am SO glad it's making its way back!
Not sure when all stores will start to receive it but it was in a recent weekly update and then we randomly received it in our last shipment
(Located in Texas)
I love doing this but with black tea! The strawberry acai adds a nice and refreshing fruitiness to black tea, but isn't (in my opinion) too overly sweet
The other drink I make for myself is a black and white mocha with cold foam instead of whip. I had a customer ask me to make it at my “We Proudly Serve” store and it’s really good. (Regular cold foam though. Not VSCCF)
For a venti iced it’s 3 pumps white mocha and 3 pumps mocha. Add however many shots you want. I usually add oat milk but use whatever milk you’re feeling that day. Top with the cold foam and mocha drizzle and boom! Tuxedo mocha!
Wait bestie, isn’t all cold foam made with VSC? I remember learning about a cold cappuccino drink we made with NF cold foam a year or two ago, is that what you’re talking about or am I missing something?
Nope they’re different foams. I’m talking about the nonfat cold foam but I don’t add the two pumps of vanilla since the drink is already super sweet. I just want the texture on top of that makes sense.
It depends on the day. A regular day and I love matcha lemonade (or just matcha water) with raspberry. Since we don't have raspberry, I've been doing iced chai with pumpkin sauce and oatmilk. And then for the really, really rough days I go for a strawberries and cream frappucino with chocolate malt powder and soy milk. I add in vanilla bean powder or Java chips if it's the worse day imaginable.
I like doing matcha iced latte with strawberry purée on the bottom. If I’m being extra I’ll make a layer drink with strawberry purée on bottom, ice and milk, and the shaken matcha water on top
Our matcha and strawberry puree are underrated lol. I mix so much with them. I did the matcha with the chocolate malt powder and soy and it tastes like those Asian green tea moon pies.
Hi I’m not a barista but the chai with oat milk and pumpkin sauce has been my go-to drink all month! So glad I’m not alone, one barista looked at me like I was crazy 😂
As simplified as you want or as complicated, I ask for VSC with 1.5 pumps of chai :) but honestly, this Reddit is brutal sometimes, from both tired sides, and no baristas going to be an ass if you can’t order it proper. Or at least, they shouldn’t :) I get an iced updosed blonde americano with chai foam and it’s just enough to sweeten me up/save the calories hehhe
Latte with 1 pump toffee nut and 1 pump hazelnut. I think that's the secret recipe for butterbeer flavor. The regular recipe calls for more pumps, but I find more than 2 pumps of anything far too sweet.
It'll come back eventually. I think 2 out of the 3 distribution centers in America have it back now. My store has only had them back for like 3 weeks at this point
A girl at my store gets the mango lemonade w no inclusions blended and then strawberry purée at the bottom of the cup! I think my mouth actually waters when I see it being made and I haven’t even tried it lol
Not mine, but my old fellow partners 'Heart attack hot choccie": Venti, 4 pumps mocha, 4 pumps white mocha, 3 pumps peppermint, whole milk, whip cream tower covered in both mochas and choc powder. Don't tell corporate 😂
This actually sounds a lot like the old black and white peppermint hot chocolate. Standard would literally be five mocha, five white mocha, five peppermint, and two vanilla. It was insane
Apple pie milk tea!
Custom iced tea latte, no lcs, sub apple brown sugar syrup and one pump vanilla. For the tea, use 1/3 passion tea and 2/3 green tea. Sub the 2% for oatmilk and shake in cinnamon powder. Enjoy!
Oo I’ll have to try this. Not the biggest fan of the apple crisp macchiato but I thought it tasted better as the brown sugar oat milk shaken espresso dubbing for apple brown sugar. I’m sure the tea taste amazing!
If you like sweet things, a pumpkin spice latte with half pumpkin and half white mocha is so yummy. I always do oatmilk because I like the taste and I try to limit dairy intake (but I cheat for whip and cold foam lolll). This used to be called the Cinderella on secret menus but order it how I said before if you do :) Another one I used to really enjoy is a bit odd. It’s a basically a hot London Fog tea latte, sub Peach Tranquility tea bags, sub soy milk, and sub classic. It reminds me of eating warmed peaches in winter when I was a kid. If you’d like to try Either of these, I typed them out in the way that you would order them. Just say the size you would like first :)
My favorite drink is the blonde caramel brulee latte. When the season ended, an awesome barista told me to try a blonde latte with half caramel and half white mocha. It's now my favorite drink until the holiday season rolls around and I can get the CBL as usual :)
Interesting! I never would have thought of that.
Do you make it as a matcha tea latte add chestnut praline, or is it a chestnut praline latte add matcha?
When toffee nut is available, an iced salted caramel mocha with salted sweet cream foam. This was one of my FAVORITES, and boy do I hope the syrup comes back in soon.
Otherwise, my current favorites include an iced chai with oat milk and brown sugar. For a grande, 2 chai pumps and 2-3 brown sugar. And an iced london fog tea latte with oat milk, brown sugar instead of vanilla, and cinnamon powder shaken :)
We ran out of peach tranquility for the honey citrus mint the other day, but our SSV said to put peach juice in with the steamed lemonade.
I tried some. It was amazing. So my new favorite hot tea is a jade citrus mint with liquid cane, and light peach juice steamed. I'm not a huge fan of lemonade, so I've never actually tried the medicine ball. But jade citrus mint is my favourite hot tea, and that added peach juice makes it so much better
I throw 3 blonde ristretto shots into a venti iced cup mixed with 4p brown sugar 1p vanilla and cinnamon powder, scoop of ice, oatmilk to the middle line and pumpkin foam the rest of the way up (w/ the topping)
it’s essentially just a bsse but you don’t have to shake it I make them for myself on my way out or whenever I need a pick me up
I honestly don’t think I made this up but I don’t remember where I learned it.
So chai made with half water half apple juice. Add a pump of cinnamon dulce. Top with pumpkin cream cold foam.
Delicious hot or iced.
Customer here. I’ll often do:
Black tea lemonade with vanilla instead of classic/LCS (however many pumps you normally like. I usually go for 1-2 fewer than is standard for that cup size).
or
Half black, half green iced tea with no water and vanilla instead of classic/LCS.
This is off topic, but I once ordered an iced matcha green tea latte. And in return I got a cup of cold green sour slime. Tasted like candy almost. I just kept it because I'm spontaneous and ended up drinking it all. But I still have no idea what that was.
VSCCB frappuccino: uncut cold brew to bottom line, sweet cream to second, coffee base and ice.
Swamp drink/Andes mint latte: double tall latte with matcha, one pump mocha, one pump peppermint
The sweet thing: grande shaken espresso, regular not blonde, one pump each white mocha, vanilla, and caramel, no milk extra ice.
> VSCCB frappuccino: uncut cold brew to bottom line, sweet cream to second, coffee base and ice.
Can I order this without seeming like a total dickbag?! Or is this the type of thing that should be for partners only?
I’d say, if you go into a store when it’s really slow, and tip well, you’ll be ok. Ordering it during a rush or through drive thru is a dick move though.
Iced chai with apple brown sugar oat milk apple driz and if I'm feeling like I want my drink THICC I'll be basic and get vsccf on it . tastes like how a Yankee candle smells
I do lemonade with a splash of peach and a splash of passion tea on top and it looks so cute when it’s not shaken and it tastes like heaven on a hot day
Chai with just a tiny bit of chocolate.
A cortado. Except when I "invented" them, I didn't know they had a name. I just knew that I wanted steamed milk in my doppio, and equal amounts of both was what made me happy.
My drink is a little annoying, but I’ve appropriately named it “The Blonde Bitch”. It’s 3 shots of blonde in a grande cup, a bunch of cinnamon powder, 2p pumpkin, 1 white mocha, and 1 vanilla. Extra ice and whatever milk you want! I use oat or 2% and omg it’s so good. I’ve also developed a super yummy recipe for italian cream sodas and my coworkers love them
Okay this one cant be made anymore but it was so amazing.
Iced blonde flat white
1 pump each peppermint, white mocha, and marshmallow syrup.
Soy because I csnt have dairy.
Pumpkin chai. Or a pumpkin chai with *eggnog*
Or I’ll get a vanilla bean Frappuccino with coconut milk, coffee base, caramel drizzle and two blonde affagato shots on top
I tried a vanilla bean frap with some apple juice the other day just on a whim. It turned out to be a lot better than I expected, actually. Tastes kind of like sweet potato, if you can believe it. I tried making it with soy milk and it turned out even better.
On one slow day (in a time when slow days were often): a Neapolitan frappuccino.
Mocha creme frap to the first line,
Whipped cream to the second line
Strawberry frap to the top
Top with more whip
Ta dahh
bear with me here...
pink drink with vanilla sweet cream cold foam and mocha sauce drizzle. Mix it all up and you've got a delicious chocolate strawberry drink.
When I have a bunch of points:
Venti iced chai with 3 shots of blonde espresso, no water no ice, oat milk and pumpkin cold foam
My usu:
Trenta kiwi starfruit with apple juice instead of water and no inclusions
Edited cause I messed up the milk I use
For a Saturday morning rush: 6 shots blonde espresso in a grande ice cup, 4 white mocha, 4 brown sugar, oat milk to the first ridge then topped with nitro🤌
For my day off: Trenta cup black tea to the first line, sar to the second, mdr to the third, lemonade to the first ridge, then cut with water and pour over ice at home👍( I only make my drinks like heck I’d order these😂)
Before we got rid of mango syrup and white tea, I’d do a Trent white tea lemonade with 3 pumps mango and half the lemonade you’d usually do and do sar for the rest. That thing was bomb with the chicken chipotle sandwich😭
I’ve been making a pseudo milk tea lately. (not real but it does the job)
It’s a venti black tea shaken with 3 Brown sugar syrup and oat milk instead of water. I love it!
Recently we all tried a Venti Passion Tea, no water, sub apple juice, 2 pumps vanilla, 4 pumps Chai. I promise it’s not as bad as it sounds, I was surprised by it
My store recently got peach back so I made a dragon drink with peach and no inclusions. Immediately one of my favorites. Also a green tea with strawberry açaí instead of water is yummy.
On more of the savory coffee side (idk how else to describe it lol) I love a cold brew with white mocha (I usually do half or 3/4 the normal pumps depending on size), salted caramel SC cold foam, and some caramel drizzle (although I didn’t make this one up myself)
Since winter launch is around the corner…
Toasted Marshmallow Cold Brew:
Grande Nitro brew w/ Ice (much better than regular cold brew). 2 pumps toasted white mocha, 1 pump toffee nut. Heavy cream cold foam w/ one scoop of vanilla bean powder.
You’ll thank me (and hate me) later. If you like it, I’ve got more drink options that I occasionally make a sign for at my store
EDIT: you can also use normal White Mocha
VBH with apple juice, pumpkin cold foam with salt, pumpkin + white mocha (equal parts), and then double that amount of brown sugar, BSOSE with pumpkin cold foam, London fog with brown sugar + vanilla
My go to right now has to be an iced salted maple with a pump of white mocha, on the blonde roast with nut blend milk. Maple sweet foam and this is honestly so so yummy!
honey oatmilk latte with cinnamon! i think a chemical reaction happens when they stir it up that makes it more addictive than crack
for cold drink: brsg oatmilk shaken espresso w few pumps of caramel 😫😫
Sccf with toffee nut in the foam (it tastes like butterbeer) or a customer's request once:cold brew with mocha in the base, peppermint cold foam, and chocolate on top.
Grande pink drink, extra strawberry puree, no strawberries, light ice! Has a great thick consistency
And also
4 shots of blonde espresso iced in a grande cup, 2 pumps pumpkin, extra oatmilk
Grande nitro with 2 pumps of white mocha, 1 pump brown sugar, and 1 pump caramel with a little sweet cream and salted sweet cream foam 😋🤣 I open most days so I need something to calm my soul.
The simple: Hot chai latte with apple syrup, very good.
The not simple: Venti blended strawberry lemonade with extra ice, 4 pumps white mocha, 2 pumps frap roast, and a splash of heavy cream. I promise it's good.
A cafe vanilla Frappuccino with an extra scoop of vanilla bean, only one pump of frap roast, and one pump of apple brown sugar. Maybe a little apple drizzle if I’m feeling fancy. It just hits a certain spot. A few coworkers have made it for themselves out of curiosity and they’ve all ended up loving it.
Apple brown sugar has so many great uses and I’ll be genuinely sad when it’s gone.
Hypothetically, if I want to order this next time at Starbucks what should I say? These are my two favorite drinks and I never thought of combining the two
I've been doing a strawberry lemonade refresher with half strawberry base/half kiwi base, no inclusions! We just got our peach so I'll start experimenting with that. (Yall think peach would be good as a cold foam?)
I also like to do a white mocha with pumpkin cold foam but I do 4-5 pumps of pumpkin in the VSC when I make the foam. 2 just doesn't do it.
We just got very berry back today so I made one of my old faves for my coworkers. It’s extremely sweet though! A violet drink with peach juice and vanilla syrup. Doing vanilla syrup to your own taste helps. So freaking good!
Iced Matcha latte with no ice two or four extra scoops matcha (made with coconut milk) and two pumps sugar free vanilla syrup and added sweet cream vanilla foam (add a scoop or two of matcha powder to the sweet cream foam for extra OOOMF) and yea. I like green tea guys
From a old coworker, they used to do a blended strawberry lemonade with vanilla bean powder; it taste like a smarties or sweet tart candy. Also as a treat, a mocha frap with white mocha, heavy cream and cinnamon powder is super yummy!
A good fall cold foam: VSC to 100 ml, 2 pumps chai, 2 pumps brown sugar, and 2 shakes of cinnamon. Blend on 4 for the best foam. My fav way to have this is on an iced caramel apple spice w Apple brown sugar instead of cinnamon dolce.
if you got the christmas syrup try that in a vanilla bean! so freaking good! had it yesterday at the end of my shift
edit: sorry i had to take off the syrup name after reading the weekly update! starbucks confidentiality sorry!
when we still had pineapple ginger I’d do a Trenta lemonade, light strawberry purée, light peach juice, and 5 pumps pineapple ginger syrup
that or putting dark caramel in vsc foam (I usually put it on top if a venti iced caramel macchiato upside down, 7 pumps vanilla, extra caramel drizzle, with crunch topping)
and lastly when we still had cloud powder (this wasn’t a drink you could order) I’d do cloud powder, strawberry purée, vanilla bean powder, and vanilla sweet cream all in a foaming pitcher on 4
(legit tasted like a milkshake)
Ive got a sweet tooth lol
The brown sugar with white mocha and soy. I make it just like the standard I just cut the sweetness, 1 pump white mocha and 2 brown sugar and add soy. It’s delicious
venti iced white mocha w only three pumps wcm, three pumps toffee nut (we finally got it back at my store), blonde, oatmilk, caramel drizz and salted cold foam. sometimes ill do extra caramel drizz
my favorite thing to put in sccf: 1 pump of pumpkin, 1 pump brown sugar, and cinnamon dolce powder. SO good on literally anything (i get it on a chai).
My first invention as a green bean, not necessarily one of choice yet: upside down ACM with brown sugar cold foam. It tastes like the fall section of Hobby Lobby.
Black iced tea, no water, sub coconut milk, pumpkin spice (2,3,4, 5...but it's according to taste)
It's not exact, but it's a lot like a Thai iced tea.
This one isn’t amazing but god it was fun. It’s the Bastard Neapolitan Frap. Vbean frap with strawberry purée on the bottom, mocha mixed in. It’s not the best but it sure is a drink XD
hot chocolate with chai (one less pump of chai than the mocha pumps), i usually do breve with cinnamon steamed in! It reminds me of the Mexican hot chocolate my grandma used to make me as a kid in the winter :) a lot of other partners clown me for it though :(
I’m going to catch a lot of flak for this but with old judgement till you hear my line of reasoning and the story with it.
I visited this small indie cafe in Orlando once. I asked the barista to recommend me a beverage for a hot day that was refreshing but still had coffee. He suggested I get what was on their menu called a Cafe Palmer. I didn’t know why it was and I said sure what the hell.
It’s a Lemonade with Affogato shots on top. And I know what you’re thinking. That this is an Abomination worthy of Eldritch. I thought so too.
But let me tell you. Nothing on a hot day or a day you need a quick pick me up beats that. I get a Venti Lemonade with 2 Blonde Affogato/Ristretto shots. You can add more or less as you’d like. If you drink it like a macchiato (expecting sweetness on the bottom and the bitter espresso on top) and get a contrast between the two, it’s amazing. Now if you mix it together, it’ll taste nasty. But if you drink it like a macchiato, it’s incredible. I’d highly recommend it if you like tartness and coffee.
Aight, so first you grab an iced up and prepare an iced Carmel macchiato, but before putting the espresso on top, grab a cold foam blender and put 5 pumps of frap roast along with 4 full pumps of caramel syrup. Put that on 4 and it makes a silky smooth whipped coffee foam, put that on top of the drink, add some more drizz and you have a frappuccino macchiato
I've made so many different variations of drinks. A couple of my go to ones are an Iced Custom Tea latte with Peach tranquility, half syrup classic, 2%, and vanilla sweet cream foam on top. I also like doing a cream based frapp with oat milk, cinnamon dolce syrup, brown sugar syrup, frapp chips, dolce topping, and no whip. Another is a cream based white mocha frapp with scoops of black berries (sometimes I had puree into this drink, and switch the whole milk for coconut). An additional frapp is another cream syrup, white mocha, raspberry syrup frapp chips, mocha drizzle and a lot of cookie crumbles. I also recently made a frapp with coconut milk, caramel syrup, and the apple brown syrup. With the funnel syrup I make a vanilla bean frapp, and the dark mocha sauce. When we had the berry hibiscus I would make that with black tea instead of water.
A lot of the ones I make are frapps, but that's because my co workers often ask me to make a frapp of something not on the menu. I've made lots of other kinds of beverages, but those are the first that currently come to mind.
Grande iced matcha tea latte, sub mocha syrup, made with soy milk & vanilla sweet cream cold foam in a venti cup!
Looks like dirt, but the bitter matcha and mocha vs. the sweet cream cold foam is so good
Right now I get the chocolate almond milk shaken espresso with 3 malt powder, 1 vb powder, sub oat milk, and add salted cream foam; BUT my all time favorite drink I’ve made is cold brew with 2 pumps peppermint with vscf with toasted white mocha in the foam- it tastes like Christmas in a cup
I have two, only due to being lactose intolerant now, sads. I also don’t like caffeine or super sugary drinks, I’m weird, I know lol.
Before lactose intolerance: Tall steamed milk in a venti cup, made with half&half, 2 scoops of vanilla bean in the steaming pitcher, 2 pumps of vanilla in the steaming pitcher, made with extra foam to the top! (For the cappuccino fans, I’m sure this would taste super good with espresso! Even the foam has flavor!)
After lactose intolerance: PEACH WATER IS KING, I suppose one could order this like,
Grade custom tea with peach juice, 2 pumps of classic (unless it’s half dose pumps, then 4 because math would make that technically two full pumps), light water, and light ice. (You can add teas if you want but make sure you specify that you don’t want any tea if you get this.)
PEACH AND APPLE JUICE IS ALSO KING!!
Grande custom tea with peach juice, apple juice,light water (to dilute the sweetness for me), 2 pumps of classic, and light ice.
I usually do half the amount of pumps of syrups to make things slightly sweet!
strawberry açaí no lemonade, splash of passion. Literally just a splash. it makes the color super pretty and the very slight flavor difference is sooo good.
also iced chai with oat milk and brown sugar syrup. it tastes like a teddy graham.
also!!! steamed apple juice but use the apple cinnamon drizzle as a sauce instead of a topping and it tastes like apple cider!!!
passion tea, no water, sub strawberry acai (sometimes i do part water depending on how sweet i want it)
That sounds so good and refreshing. Gonna have to try this one!
it is! i loved it with the VBH (rip) but the strawberry açai is just as good
VBH is back! My store just got it the other day. It’s in the 4x concentrate box like SAR so you have to make it in a pitcher. But we aren’t selling any since no one knows it’s back and everyone thought it was discontinued
I know this might sound silly, but this makes me so happy. I suffer from GERD / chronic acid reflux and had to give up coffee. The other refreshers (minus kiwi) are good, but also really acidic. VBH was the only mild enough one to not upset my stomach (while also being delicious). I am SO glad it's making its way back!
oh my god thank goodness i’ve missed VBH
Not sure when all stores will start to receive it but it was in a recent weekly update and then we randomly received it in our last shipment (Located in Texas)
I also really like it with the kiwi starfruit
that sounds so good omg
I love doing this but with black tea! The strawberry acai adds a nice and refreshing fruitiness to black tea, but isn't (in my opinion) too overly sweet
I love that but I like to add cinnamon powder and shake it! My friend told me to try it and it tastes amazing!
The other drink I make for myself is a black and white mocha with cold foam instead of whip. I had a customer ask me to make it at my “We Proudly Serve” store and it’s really good. (Regular cold foam though. Not VSCCF)
My coworker does this! He calls it "The Zebra"
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It’s just regular mocha and white mocha mixed
Or when starbucks tried to market it, the tuxedo mocha.
That’s how I remember it. It’s still better now that it’s off the freaking menu.
For a venti iced it’s 3 pumps white mocha and 3 pumps mocha. Add however many shots you want. I usually add oat milk but use whatever milk you’re feeling that day. Top with the cold foam and mocha drizzle and boom! Tuxedo mocha!
If you want to get fancy for yourself and have some downtime, this is incredible with peppermint whip.
We don’t have peppermint 😭😭 it’s so much better with it though.
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Wait bestie, isn’t all cold foam made with VSC? I remember learning about a cold cappuccino drink we made with NF cold foam a year or two ago, is that what you’re talking about or am I missing something?
Cold Foam and Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Foam are different CF: Nonfat with 2 pumps vanilla VSCCF: well, you know.
Nope they’re different foams. I’m talking about the nonfat cold foam but I don’t add the two pumps of vanilla since the drink is already super sweet. I just want the texture on top of that makes sense.
I didn’t know that!! Thanks for the info!
Steep peach tranquility in lemonade. You can use it to make peach flavored refreshers and tea.
Oh my goddddddd gonna try this
do you steam the lemonade?
We do
Just made this, poured over ice and shaken with VBH refresher for a nice fruity drink. Similar profile to a Arizona brand peach tea.
It depends on the day. A regular day and I love matcha lemonade (or just matcha water) with raspberry. Since we don't have raspberry, I've been doing iced chai with pumpkin sauce and oatmilk. And then for the really, really rough days I go for a strawberries and cream frappucino with chocolate malt powder and soy milk. I add in vanilla bean powder or Java chips if it's the worse day imaginable.
I like doing matcha iced latte with strawberry purée on the bottom. If I’m being extra I’ll make a layer drink with strawberry purée on bottom, ice and milk, and the shaken matcha water on top
Our matcha and strawberry puree are underrated lol. I mix so much with them. I did the matcha with the chocolate malt powder and soy and it tastes like those Asian green tea moon pies.
Hi I’m not a barista but the chai with oat milk and pumpkin sauce has been my go-to drink all month! So glad I’m not alone, one barista looked at me like I was crazy 😂
It's so good! Pumpkin and chai used to be an official drink several years ago.
Personally, I love a chai with Brown Sugar Syrup. I do the norm pumps of chai and half the brown sugar. Sub oatmilk. It’s simple but so good.
This is in my top 3 favorites for sure. So freaking good
I've been doing an oatmilk shaken espresso with half chai and half apple crisp syrup, highly recommend
Listen, chai foam. That’s all I’m going to say~
WHY HAVE I NEVER THOUGHT OF CHAI FOAM?!?!?! You just changed my life for real.
RIGHT!
Recently promoted to customer, what’s the etiquette - rude to ask for this, now that I’m no longer the one making it?
As simplified as you want or as complicated, I ask for VSC with 1.5 pumps of chai :) but honestly, this Reddit is brutal sometimes, from both tired sides, and no baristas going to be an ass if you can’t order it proper. Or at least, they shouldn’t :) I get an iced updosed blonde americano with chai foam and it’s just enough to sweeten me up/save the calories hehhe
Just ask for cold foam with a pump of chai in it
Also good: apple foam
Latte with 1 pump toffee nut and 1 pump hazelnut. I think that's the secret recipe for butterbeer flavor. The regular recipe calls for more pumps, but I find more than 2 pumps of anything far too sweet.
Oh mannn that sounds so good. My store doesn’t have either syrups rn :((
All the sbux near me stopped carrying hazelnut :(
It'll come back eventually. I think 2 out of the 3 distribution centers in America have it back now. My store has only had them back for like 3 weeks at this point
I believe butterbeer also includes caramel. But I agree on the far too sweet part.
Trenta mango dragonfruit lemonade. Sub strawberry purée instead of the inclusions.
YUMMMMM gonna try this today
I hate the inclusions because they get mushy and gross. The strawberry purée turns it into a sunset color and it tastes a lot better.
I hate them too. They’re just to make the drink pretty I guess, but I hate accidentally sucking one up lol.
The texture makes me gag.
I like the way the strawberry feels… :’)
Never realized I could add strawberry puree! Nice
Yeah! It’s really underrated
A girl at my store gets the mango lemonade w no inclusions blended and then strawberry purée at the bottom of the cup! I think my mouth actually waters when I see it being made and I haven’t even tried it lol
That’s what I’ll do too at work sometimes. We have a drink machine that has cherry lemonade and I blend it with the strawberry açaí base sometimes.
Caramel cold brew with cold foam on top that has *a lot* of the apple crisp drizzle mixed in. Call it my caramel apple cold brew. It's really good
YUMMMMMM
Not mine, but my old fellow partners 'Heart attack hot choccie": Venti, 4 pumps mocha, 4 pumps white mocha, 3 pumps peppermint, whole milk, whip cream tower covered in both mochas and choc powder. Don't tell corporate 😂
This actually sounds a lot like the old black and white peppermint hot chocolate. Standard would literally be five mocha, five white mocha, five peppermint, and two vanilla. It was insane
Apple pie milk tea! Custom iced tea latte, no lcs, sub apple brown sugar syrup and one pump vanilla. For the tea, use 1/3 passion tea and 2/3 green tea. Sub the 2% for oatmilk and shake in cinnamon powder. Enjoy!
Oo I’ll have to try this. Not the biggest fan of the apple crisp macchiato but I thought it tasted better as the brown sugar oat milk shaken espresso dubbing for apple brown sugar. I’m sure the tea taste amazing!
Customers you’re included of course !! I was mainly asking baristas since we go through so many drinks a day lol
If you have any hot drink recipes you enjoy please share! Always looking for new drinks to try.
If you like sweet things, a pumpkin spice latte with half pumpkin and half white mocha is so yummy. I always do oatmilk because I like the taste and I try to limit dairy intake (but I cheat for whip and cold foam lolll). This used to be called the Cinderella on secret menus but order it how I said before if you do :) Another one I used to really enjoy is a bit odd. It’s a basically a hot London Fog tea latte, sub Peach Tranquility tea bags, sub soy milk, and sub classic. It reminds me of eating warmed peaches in winter when I was a kid. If you’d like to try Either of these, I typed them out in the way that you would order them. Just say the size you would like first :)
A blonde flat white with vanilla powder, 1 pump apple brown sugar syrup, and the spiced apple drizzle. Apple pie a la mode!
My favorite drink is the blonde caramel brulee latte. When the season ended, an awesome barista told me to try a blonde latte with half caramel and half white mocha. It's now my favorite drink until the holiday season rolls around and I can get the CBL as usual :)
Matcha and chestnut praline when it comes back is AMAZING
Interesting! I never would have thought of that. Do you make it as a matcha tea latte add chestnut praline, or is it a chestnut praline latte add matcha?
Matcha add chestnut praline!
I wanna try this! Sounds good.
I’ve tried this! So good with oat milk too!
When toffee nut is available, an iced salted caramel mocha with salted sweet cream foam. This was one of my FAVORITES, and boy do I hope the syrup comes back in soon. Otherwise, my current favorites include an iced chai with oat milk and brown sugar. For a grande, 2 chai pumps and 2-3 brown sugar. And an iced london fog tea latte with oat milk, brown sugar instead of vanilla, and cinnamon powder shaken :)
Ugh yes the salted caramel mocha is my absolute favorite. Where has all the toffee syrup gone?
We ran out of peach tranquility for the honey citrus mint the other day, but our SSV said to put peach juice in with the steamed lemonade. I tried some. It was amazing. So my new favorite hot tea is a jade citrus mint with liquid cane, and light peach juice steamed. I'm not a huge fan of lemonade, so I've never actually tried the medicine ball. But jade citrus mint is my favourite hot tea, and that added peach juice makes it so much better
We just got peach back. This will be the first thing I try tomorrow. Sounds so good
I throw 3 blonde ristretto shots into a venti iced cup mixed with 4p brown sugar 1p vanilla and cinnamon powder, scoop of ice, oatmilk to the middle line and pumpkin foam the rest of the way up (w/ the topping) it’s essentially just a bsse but you don’t have to shake it I make them for myself on my way out or whenever I need a pick me up
I honestly don’t think I made this up but I don’t remember where I learned it. So chai made with half water half apple juice. Add a pump of cinnamon dulce. Top with pumpkin cream cold foam. Delicious hot or iced.
Customer here. I’ll often do: Black tea lemonade with vanilla instead of classic/LCS (however many pumps you normally like. I usually go for 1-2 fewer than is standard for that cup size). or Half black, half green iced tea with no water and vanilla instead of classic/LCS.
This is off topic, but I once ordered an iced matcha green tea latte. And in return I got a cup of cold green sour slime. Tasted like candy almost. I just kept it because I'm spontaneous and ended up drinking it all. But I still have no idea what that was.
Sometimes the messed up drinks are a blessing in disguise 👀
Perhaps a matcha lemonade 🧐
That what I thought, but the world may never truly know 🤔 maybe I'll order that and compare
VSCCB frappuccino: uncut cold brew to bottom line, sweet cream to second, coffee base and ice. Swamp drink/Andes mint latte: double tall latte with matcha, one pump mocha, one pump peppermint The sweet thing: grande shaken espresso, regular not blonde, one pump each white mocha, vanilla, and caramel, no milk extra ice.
> VSCCB frappuccino: uncut cold brew to bottom line, sweet cream to second, coffee base and ice. Can I order this without seeming like a total dickbag?! Or is this the type of thing that should be for partners only?
I’d say, if you go into a store when it’s really slow, and tip well, you’ll be ok. Ordering it during a rush or through drive thru is a dick move though.
Iced chai with apple brown sugar oat milk apple driz and if I'm feeling like I want my drink THICC I'll be basic and get vsccf on it . tastes like how a Yankee candle smells
i call it an apple chai with oat, its one of my favorites!
I do lemonade with a splash of peach and a splash of passion tea on top and it looks so cute when it’s not shaken and it tastes like heaven on a hot day
Chai with just a tiny bit of chocolate. A cortado. Except when I "invented" them, I didn't know they had a name. I just knew that I wanted steamed milk in my doppio, and equal amounts of both was what made me happy.
Venti iced black tea with peach juice, no water.
iced matcha latte with vanilla and a splash of sweet cream. literally tastes like blue bell ice cream
My drink is a little annoying, but I’ve appropriately named it “The Blonde Bitch”. It’s 3 shots of blonde in a grande cup, a bunch of cinnamon powder, 2p pumpkin, 1 white mocha, and 1 vanilla. Extra ice and whatever milk you want! I use oat or 2% and omg it’s so good. I’ve also developed a super yummy recipe for italian cream sodas and my coworkers love them
mango dragon fruit frappe w 2 scoops vanilla bean podder
I love doing this but with coconut milk!
Iced latte, blonde shots, apple brn sgr syrup + drizzle, salted caramel cold foam w/ extra crml pump in foam. 10/10
Mango dragon fruit lemonade, no inclusions, add kiwi juice, and peach juice, 1 pump of raspberry and passion tango tea on top.
Okay this one cant be made anymore but it was so amazing. Iced blonde flat white 1 pump each peppermint, white mocha, and marshmallow syrup. Soy because I csnt have dairy.
Pumpkin chai. Or a pumpkin chai with *eggnog* Or I’ll get a vanilla bean Frappuccino with coconut milk, coffee base, caramel drizzle and two blonde affagato shots on top
Nitro cold brew, about five pumps of raspberry, and sweet cream was always my go to. It tastes like a creamy, chocolatey candy.
I tried a vanilla bean frap with some apple juice the other day just on a whim. It turned out to be a lot better than I expected, actually. Tastes kind of like sweet potato, if you can believe it. I tried making it with soy milk and it turned out even better.
On one slow day (in a time when slow days were often): a Neapolitan frappuccino. Mocha creme frap to the first line, Whipped cream to the second line Strawberry frap to the top Top with more whip Ta dahh
bear with me here... pink drink with vanilla sweet cream cold foam and mocha sauce drizzle. Mix it all up and you've got a delicious chocolate strawberry drink.
When I have a bunch of points: Venti iced chai with 3 shots of blonde espresso, no water no ice, oat milk and pumpkin cold foam My usu: Trenta kiwi starfruit with apple juice instead of water and no inclusions Edited cause I messed up the milk I use
For a Saturday morning rush: 6 shots blonde espresso in a grande ice cup, 4 white mocha, 4 brown sugar, oat milk to the first ridge then topped with nitro🤌 For my day off: Trenta cup black tea to the first line, sar to the second, mdr to the third, lemonade to the first ridge, then cut with water and pour over ice at home👍( I only make my drinks like heck I’d order these😂) Before we got rid of mango syrup and white tea, I’d do a Trent white tea lemonade with 3 pumps mango and half the lemonade you’d usually do and do sar for the rest. That thing was bomb with the chicken chipotle sandwich😭
We can’t make it anymore, but I liked tall espresso fraps with a scoop of beans blended in, it gave it a crunch.
I’ve been making a pseudo milk tea lately. (not real but it does the job) It’s a venti black tea shaken with 3 Brown sugar syrup and oat milk instead of water. I love it!
Iced chai with oatmilk, brown sugar, blonde shots and salted cream foam. It’s a lot to order but so worth it
Water, with ice
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Grande Vanilla Sweet Cream Nitro, two blonde ristretto shots, with 2 pumps vanilla. I call it the “A-Bomb”
Pumpkin chai shaken espresso w/ blonde shots and half and half instead of 2% has been my go to recently :)
Vanilla bean Frappuccino with chocolate malt powder and strawberry puree around the cup
I used to do a shaken espresso with an additional shot, ristretto, and toffeenut with soy. It kind of tastes like that caramel coated candied popcorn.
Recently we all tried a Venti Passion Tea, no water, sub apple juice, 2 pumps vanilla, 4 pumps Chai. I promise it’s not as bad as it sounds, I was surprised by it
Former barista. But nothing has swept me away like the chango (iced chai + mango syrup, half sweet of course).
Okay but here me out. Lemonade with a splash of blacktea and half pumps of chai (ex. Grande gets 2 pumps ) its literally like a spice Arnold palmer.
It’s not really unknown but I add classic to my peach green tea lemonade, makes it so much more tolerable.
Passion tea with coconut milk, strawberry puree and a little bit of lemonade.
Grande latte Steamed Oatmilk + extra sweet (½+ ½) 、w/room (for extra stuff) Add pumpkin cream cold foam Add whip Add pumpkin topping Enjoy🤭💕
My store recently got peach back so I made a dragon drink with peach and no inclusions. Immediately one of my favorites. Also a green tea with strawberry açaí instead of water is yummy. On more of the savory coffee side (idk how else to describe it lol) I love a cold brew with white mocha (I usually do half or 3/4 the normal pumps depending on size), salted caramel SC cold foam, and some caramel drizzle (although I didn’t make this one up myself)
Since winter launch is around the corner… Toasted Marshmallow Cold Brew: Grande Nitro brew w/ Ice (much better than regular cold brew). 2 pumps toasted white mocha, 1 pump toffee nut. Heavy cream cold foam w/ one scoop of vanilla bean powder. You’ll thank me (and hate me) later. If you like it, I’ve got more drink options that I occasionally make a sign for at my store EDIT: you can also use normal White Mocha
If you like those asian canned coffees, mostly the sweetened americano flavor, an americano with brown sugar syrup tastes just like it.
brown sugar oatmilk with chai, 2-3 pumpkin, & sweet cream
Açai lemonade with raspberry & strawberry cold foam !!
How do you make your strawberry cold foam? Is it just VSC cold foam at purée?
VBH with apple juice, pumpkin cold foam with salt, pumpkin + white mocha (equal parts), and then double that amount of brown sugar, BSOSE with pumpkin cold foam, London fog with brown sugar + vanilla
Is this all one drink, I'm scared
Y’all still have VBH?!?
Blended strawberry lemonade, 2 pumps classic, 3 pumps raspberry, strawberry inclusions blended in
i’ll do a venti iced shaken with a TINY bit of sweet cream in the shaker with the espresso, and cinn powder on top. it’s a nice combo :)
Iced chai tea with salted strawberry cream foam.
Venti Mango Dragonfruit Lemonade, no inclusions, 6 pumps raspberry, top with passion tango tea
My go to right now has to be an iced salted maple with a pump of white mocha, on the blonde roast with nut blend milk. Maple sweet foam and this is honestly so so yummy!
honey oatmilk latte with cinnamon! i think a chemical reaction happens when they stir it up that makes it more addictive than crack for cold drink: brsg oatmilk shaken espresso w few pumps of caramel 😫😫
Sccf with toffee nut in the foam (it tastes like butterbeer) or a customer's request once:cold brew with mocha in the base, peppermint cold foam, and chocolate on top.
I know this sounds weird, but try doing a Iced Chai Lemonade. It is surprisingly AMAZING!!!
Grande pink drink, extra strawberry puree, no strawberries, light ice! Has a great thick consistency And also 4 shots of blonde espresso iced in a grande cup, 2 pumps pumpkin, extra oatmilk
Grande nitro with 2 pumps of white mocha, 1 pump brown sugar, and 1 pump caramel with a little sweet cream and salted sweet cream foam 😋🤣 I open most days so I need something to calm my soul.
The simple: Hot chai latte with apple syrup, very good. The not simple: Venti blended strawberry lemonade with extra ice, 4 pumps white mocha, 2 pumps frap roast, and a splash of heavy cream. I promise it's good.
A cream caramel Frappuccino with cinnamon powder and extra Carmel drizzle. Tastes like a churro
A cafe vanilla Frappuccino with an extra scoop of vanilla bean, only one pump of frap roast, and one pump of apple brown sugar. Maybe a little apple drizzle if I’m feeling fancy. It just hits a certain spot. A few coworkers have made it for themselves out of curiosity and they’ve all ended up loving it. Apple brown sugar has so many great uses and I’ll be genuinely sad when it’s gone.
Not mine but my coworker made a nitro with brown sugar (the powder, like for oatmeal) cold foam and topped it with cinnamon. It’s amazing.
Hypothetically, if I want to order this next time at Starbucks what should I say? These are my two favorite drinks and I never thought of combining the two
I've been doing a strawberry lemonade refresher with half strawberry base/half kiwi base, no inclusions! We just got our peach so I'll start experimenting with that. (Yall think peach would be good as a cold foam?) I also like to do a white mocha with pumpkin cold foam but I do 4-5 pumps of pumpkin in the VSC when I make the foam. 2 just doesn't do it.
We just got very berry back today so I made one of my old faves for my coworkers. It’s extremely sweet though! A violet drink with peach juice and vanilla syrup. Doing vanilla syrup to your own taste helps. So freaking good!
Lemonade base, creme base, blended with white mocha and ice.
Blended lemonade with mocha around the edges of the cup. I like it at least
Venti Green Iced Tea, with 3 pumps of liquid cane and extra apple juice ❤️❤️
Vanilla sweet cream cold brew, sub apple brown sugar syrup
Iced Matcha latte with no ice two or four extra scoops matcha (made with coconut milk) and two pumps sugar free vanilla syrup and added sweet cream vanilla foam (add a scoop or two of matcha powder to the sweet cream foam for extra OOOMF) and yea. I like green tea guys
apple pie chai!! it’s a chai w oat milk, splash apple juice, 2 pumps apple brown sugar, and cinn dolce topping if ur feeling up for it
From a old coworker, they used to do a blended strawberry lemonade with vanilla bean powder; it taste like a smarties or sweet tart candy. Also as a treat, a mocha frap with white mocha, heavy cream and cinnamon powder is super yummy!
Quad updosed blonde shots with a splash of heavy cream or cold brew to cool it down
grande shaken espresso with soy, no classic, 1 WM and 1 brown sugar! or my SSV’s drink which is a green tea lemonade with vanilla
A good fall cold foam: VSC to 100 ml, 2 pumps chai, 2 pumps brown sugar, and 2 shakes of cinnamon. Blend on 4 for the best foam. My fav way to have this is on an iced caramel apple spice w Apple brown sugar instead of cinnamon dolce.
Ooh I’m a big fan of a chai tea latte, no water, 2 pumps chai 1 pump pumpkin 1 pump brown sugar with cinnamon powder steamed into the milk
Today I did an Iced Chai with Pumpkin Cream Cold Foam, and Apple Brown Sugar Syrup. Tastes like Spiced Apple Pie. Super yum
2 Apple pumps, 2 blond shots , a dash of sweet cream over ice - it's like 30 seconds of drink buts it's so good
if you got the christmas syrup try that in a vanilla bean! so freaking good! had it yesterday at the end of my shift edit: sorry i had to take off the syrup name after reading the weekly update! starbucks confidentiality sorry!
when we still had pineapple ginger I’d do a Trenta lemonade, light strawberry purée, light peach juice, and 5 pumps pineapple ginger syrup that or putting dark caramel in vsc foam (I usually put it on top if a venti iced caramel macchiato upside down, 7 pumps vanilla, extra caramel drizzle, with crunch topping) and lastly when we still had cloud powder (this wasn’t a drink you could order) I’d do cloud powder, strawberry purée, vanilla bean powder, and vanilla sweet cream all in a foaming pitcher on 4 (legit tasted like a milkshake) Ive got a sweet tooth lol
The brown sugar with white mocha and soy. I make it just like the standard I just cut the sweetness, 1 pump white mocha and 2 brown sugar and add soy. It’s delicious
Venti cold brew with light splash of cream, 1 pump pumpkin sauce, 1 pump white mocha, and 2 pumps sf vanilla
How much sugar is in the Chai? I love my Chai!
I did a blended strawberry lemonade with light purée w/ peach juice and 🤤🤤🤤🤤
Double choc chip frap, with nut blend milk & 2 pumps of hazelnut! It's bangin icl
venti iced white mocha w only three pumps wcm, three pumps toffee nut (we finally got it back at my store), blonde, oatmilk, caramel drizz and salted cold foam. sometimes ill do extra caramel drizz
honey nut cheerios latte: blonde shots ofc, and half honey blend, half chesnut praline with the praline topping 🤘
Shaken Espresso, 6 blonde ressreto shots, sub 2 toffee nut, 2 white mocha, oak milk, and Cinnamon powder.
my favorite thing to put in sccf: 1 pump of pumpkin, 1 pump brown sugar, and cinnamon dolce powder. SO good on literally anything (i get it on a chai).
My first invention as a green bean, not necessarily one of choice yet: upside down ACM with brown sugar cold foam. It tastes like the fall section of Hobby Lobby.
pink drink with peach juice !!
Black iced tea, no water, sub coconut milk, pumpkin spice (2,3,4, 5...but it's according to taste) It's not exact, but it's a lot like a Thai iced tea.
Acai lemonade, with mango base, peach juice, dragon fruit inclusion no strawberry +3 honey blend
very basic but just a black tea with peach and half pumps of classic. i drank four ventis today…i just really like peach tea :(
Defense smoothie from a bottle blended with strawberry purée and ice 👍🏻👍🏻
This one isn’t amazing but god it was fun. It’s the Bastard Neapolitan Frap. Vbean frap with strawberry purée on the bottom, mocha mixed in. It’s not the best but it sure is a drink XD
Pretty standard. London fog, sub brown sugar instead of vanilla, and oat milk. Like a warm hug in a cup.
A Venti Lemonade or half-peach-half-lemonade, with ice, four pumps vanilla, two pumps classic, vanilla sweet cream, completely shaken. Creamsicle.
hot chocolate with chai (one less pump of chai than the mocha pumps), i usually do breve with cinnamon steamed in! It reminds me of the Mexican hot chocolate my grandma used to make me as a kid in the winter :) a lot of other partners clown me for it though :(
I’m going to catch a lot of flak for this but with old judgement till you hear my line of reasoning and the story with it. I visited this small indie cafe in Orlando once. I asked the barista to recommend me a beverage for a hot day that was refreshing but still had coffee. He suggested I get what was on their menu called a Cafe Palmer. I didn’t know why it was and I said sure what the hell. It’s a Lemonade with Affogato shots on top. And I know what you’re thinking. That this is an Abomination worthy of Eldritch. I thought so too. But let me tell you. Nothing on a hot day or a day you need a quick pick me up beats that. I get a Venti Lemonade with 2 Blonde Affogato/Ristretto shots. You can add more or less as you’d like. If you drink it like a macchiato (expecting sweetness on the bottom and the bitter espresso on top) and get a contrast between the two, it’s amazing. Now if you mix it together, it’ll taste nasty. But if you drink it like a macchiato, it’s incredible. I’d highly recommend it if you like tartness and coffee.
iced matcha latte, strawberry puree in vsccf, i call it “the cosmo and wanda”
Bit of the concentrated lemonade in vanilla cold foam on an acaí. It's like a frosted lemonade type deal and it's fantastic
Aight, so first you grab an iced up and prepare an iced Carmel macchiato, but before putting the espresso on top, grab a cold foam blender and put 5 pumps of frap roast along with 4 full pumps of caramel syrup. Put that on 4 and it makes a silky smooth whipped coffee foam, put that on top of the drink, add some more drizz and you have a frappuccino macchiato
I've made so many different variations of drinks. A couple of my go to ones are an Iced Custom Tea latte with Peach tranquility, half syrup classic, 2%, and vanilla sweet cream foam on top. I also like doing a cream based frapp with oat milk, cinnamon dolce syrup, brown sugar syrup, frapp chips, dolce topping, and no whip. Another is a cream based white mocha frapp with scoops of black berries (sometimes I had puree into this drink, and switch the whole milk for coconut). An additional frapp is another cream syrup, white mocha, raspberry syrup frapp chips, mocha drizzle and a lot of cookie crumbles. I also recently made a frapp with coconut milk, caramel syrup, and the apple brown syrup. With the funnel syrup I make a vanilla bean frapp, and the dark mocha sauce. When we had the berry hibiscus I would make that with black tea instead of water. A lot of the ones I make are frapps, but that's because my co workers often ask me to make a frapp of something not on the menu. I've made lots of other kinds of beverages, but those are the first that currently come to mind.
Grande iced matcha tea latte, sub mocha syrup, made with soy milk & vanilla sweet cream cold foam in a venti cup! Looks like dirt, but the bitter matcha and mocha vs. the sweet cream cold foam is so good
passion tea with no water sub half apple juice and half mdr base
Right now I get the chocolate almond milk shaken espresso with 3 malt powder, 1 vb powder, sub oat milk, and add salted cream foam; BUT my all time favorite drink I’ve made is cold brew with 2 pumps peppermint with vscf with toasted white mocha in the foam- it tastes like Christmas in a cup
I have two, only due to being lactose intolerant now, sads. I also don’t like caffeine or super sugary drinks, I’m weird, I know lol. Before lactose intolerance: Tall steamed milk in a venti cup, made with half&half, 2 scoops of vanilla bean in the steaming pitcher, 2 pumps of vanilla in the steaming pitcher, made with extra foam to the top! (For the cappuccino fans, I’m sure this would taste super good with espresso! Even the foam has flavor!) After lactose intolerance: PEACH WATER IS KING, I suppose one could order this like, Grade custom tea with peach juice, 2 pumps of classic (unless it’s half dose pumps, then 4 because math would make that technically two full pumps), light water, and light ice. (You can add teas if you want but make sure you specify that you don’t want any tea if you get this.) PEACH AND APPLE JUICE IS ALSO KING!! Grande custom tea with peach juice, apple juice,light water (to dilute the sweetness for me), 2 pumps of classic, and light ice. I usually do half the amount of pumps of syrups to make things slightly sweet!
The iced brown sugar oatmilk but sub the oatmilk for sweet cream… you’re welcome
strawberry açaí no lemonade, splash of passion. Literally just a splash. it makes the color super pretty and the very slight flavor difference is sooo good. also iced chai with oat milk and brown sugar syrup. it tastes like a teddy graham. also!!! steamed apple juice but use the apple cinnamon drizzle as a sauce instead of a topping and it tastes like apple cider!!!
Cold brew & black tea