Iโ€™ve made no secret for my love of refreshing, carbonated cold coffee drinks. If itโ€™s sweet, bubbly, and caffeinated, thereโ€™s a pretty good chance Iโ€™m going to at least try to mix it into some sort of poolside alcoholic beverage. And now Bon Appรฉtit has turned me on to my newest love affair: Keepers Citrus Coffee Soda.

Keepers is the next step in cold coffee beverages–one that I am very excited aboutโ€”because it uses Japanese iced coffee instead of cold brew as its base. Or as Bon Appรฉtit calls it, a โ€œJapanese flash cold-brewing method.โ€ But thatโ€™s two different cold coffee methods: Japanese iced coffee and cold brew. If youโ€™re going to be a little glib about coffee (and you know you were, Alex. We all know you were), you should at least not sound like an asshole when you do it. /rant. Iโ€™m sure it was an honest mistake.

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Aaaaaanyway, Keepers adds to their in-house “light-roasted” coffee tangerine oil, pure cane sugar, and a juice blend of tangerine, lime, and lemon. That tasty little concoction then gets carbonated by โ€œstep[ping] on to a trampoline and bounc[ing] the crap out of it (true story),โ€ according to Keepersโ€™ website. The result sounds like a blend between Stumptown’s Sparkling Cold Brew and Coffer (yโ€™all remember Coffer? RIP Coffer, we hardly knew ye), which is to say, it sounds delicious.

Keepers Citrus Coffee Soda is currently on pre-order for $48 for a 12-can case. Scheduled ship date for any pre-orders is August 15th, and you better believe Iโ€™ll have an order in by then. Unless, of course, Keepers needs an expert taste-tester/QA analyst, one with years of experience drinking and writing about cold coffee drinks that they want to send a case to. Should they require such a knowledgeable opinion, Iโ€™m sure I could avail myself for a few coldies.

Call me, Keepers!

Zac Cadwaladerย is the news editor at Sprudge Media Network.

*top image via Bon Appรฉtit

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