Coffee Cream Soda

About the Coffee Cream Soda

Soda shop nostalgia meets Timber Creek’s Florida Coffee Rum in the Coffee Cream Soda, a simple, three ingredient build that pairs the coffee rum with vanilla syrup and club soda for something that tastes closer to an old fashioned fountain drink than a typical cocktail. Vanilla syrup is what pulls this drink toward that soda shop territory, adding a sweet, creamy note without any actual cream in the glass, while club soda keeps the whole thing light and fizzy rather than heavy. Florida Coffee Rum, built with genuine roasted coffee character through Timber Creek’s grain to glass process, is what keeps the drink from tasting purely like dessert soda, adding a slightly bitter, grown up edge underneath the vanilla sweetness.

To build it, fill a tall glass with ice, add the rum and vanilla syrup, then top with club soda and stir gently to combine without losing too much carbonation. No garnish is required, though a straw and the fizz on top do most of the presentation work here on their own. Easygoing and nostalgic, this cocktail pairs well with the FoodPairings on this recipe, donuts and soft pretzels, both casual, slightly sweet foods that match the drink’s own soda shop character.

It works nicely as a lower effort cocktail for a casual afternoon or a relaxed evening at home, and it is an easy drink to batch the syrup and rum portion for ahead of time if you are serving a crowd, adding only the soda water at the very last minute to keep the finished glass properly fizzy for guests. Because it tastes more like a soda than a cocktail, it can be easy to forget there is real alcohol in the glass. Drink mindfully, and let this be the highlight of the evening, not the whole of it.

Soda shop nostalgia meets Timber Creek’s Florida Coffee Rum in the Coffee Cream Soda, a simple, three ingredient build that pairs the coffee rum with vanilla syrup and club soda for something that tastes closer to an old fashioned fountain drink than a typical cocktail. Vanilla syrup is what pulls this drink toward that soda shop territory, adding a sweet, creamy note without any actual cream in the glass, while club soda keeps the whole thing light and fizzy rather than heavy. Florida Coffee Rum, built with genuine roasted coffee character through Timber Creek’s grain to glass process, is what keeps the drink from tasting purely like dessert soda, adding a slightly bitter, grown up edge underneath the vanilla sweetness.

To build it, fill a tall glass with ice, add the rum and vanilla syrup, then top with club soda and stir gently to combine without losing too much carbonation. No garnish is required, though a straw and the fizz on top do most of the presentation work here on their own. Easygoing and nostalgic, this cocktail pairs well with the FoodPairings on this recipe, donuts and soft pretzels, both casual, slightly sweet foods that match the drink’s own soda shop character.

It works nicely as a lower effort cocktail for a casual afternoon or a relaxed evening at home, and it is an easy drink to batch the syrup and rum portion for ahead of time if you are serving a crowd, adding only the soda water at the very last minute to keep the finished glass properly fizzy for guests. Because it tastes more like a soda than a cocktail, it can be easy to forget there is real alcohol in the glass. Drink mindfully, and let this be the highlight of the evening, not the whole of it.