Eggnog Needs Coffee

Earlier today I was out for coffee with my dad and my buddy. We do this once a week together. I love these hangouts. They're good for catching up and having delicious coffee drinks.

The two people I normally go with get Americanos. They like straight up coffee. They don't want anything added to it. The more like coffee it tastes, the better for them. I like to try a bunch of different coffee drinks. I am enamored with espresso tonics right now. They're the best in my opinion. I like how refreshing they taste, and they have a good caffeine boost. But, it's pretty cold here in St Louis right now. We got snow over the weekend and it has stuck to the ground. That means it's quite chilly. I love this weather, but this weather means that iced coffee isn't always the best option. Today I got a hot drink.

We went to a local spot called Shaw's, my dad's favorite, and he and Kirk got their Americanos. I decided to look at the menu a bit. They have their holiday specials going on right now, and I wanted a warm and sweet holiday drink today. As I perused the menu, I kept coming back to the eggnog latte. The other drinks sounded good, but the eggnog one was calling my name. I ordered it and it was fantastic. It wasn't overly sweet. I could taste the eggnog and cinnamon. The coffee was piping hot and it hit the spot.

As I was drinking it and the three of us were chatting, I made the declaration that, even though the drink was excellent, I do not like eggnog unless it is used as a creamer for coffee. Eggnog, for me, is too creamy and gloopy. It has an odd taste when served over ice. I have never had the alcoholic version of it because I don't drink, but I know plenty of people who like it, and I have to assume the NA version tastes very much the same. But, there's something intriguing to me about using it in coffee as opposed to cream and Splenda. As much as I enjoy cream and Splenda, it can be monotonous. It all begins to taste the same. Even if I brew flavored ground coffee, the taste all melds together. So changing things up from time to time is nice and needed. Adding eggnog to the latte was the perfect change of pace. The creaminess really elevated the coffee. The cinnamon gave it a small bite that I enjoyed. Whatever other flavors they put in eggnog, it all worked really well. Like I said, I enjoy sweet, hot coffee. But this was the right amount of sweet. It can be too much if it's too sweet. I see people putting all types of stuff in their coffee drinks that it fails to be coffee in the end. I watched a Dunkin employee the other day put double digit pumps of sweetener in a customer's coffee. It looked like chocolate milk as opposed to coffee. That wasn't the case with this eggnog latte.

I think I'm going to try and recreate this drink as best I can at home. This drink was so good that I'm going to go and buy NA eggnog from my store to make more at home. So, while I won't drink eggnog on its own, it is going to become a creamer in my coffee for the foreseeable future. 

Ty

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