News: Seattle's Best - New Frozen Coffee Blends to Make at Home

Seattle's Best Coffee teams up with Inventure Foods, Inc. to introduce Frozen Coffee Blends, a frozen coffee drink you can blend at home.

Seattle's Best Coffee Frozen Coffee Blends are made with 100% arabica coffee beans and are available in four flavors: Coffee Chiller (i.e. plain), Creamy Caramel, Very Vanilla, and Mega Mocha.

News: Seattle's Best Coffee - Iced Latte Cans Available Nationwide

They've been available here on the West Coast since last year, but Seattle's Best Coffee Iced Latte Cans are now available nationwide. The cans are of the tall, skinny 9.5-ounce variety and come in three flavors: Iced Latte, Iced Vanilla Latte, and Iced Mocha Latte (I tried each of them thanks my cousin buying a crapload of them. You can click on the links for the reviews and nutritional information).

Review: Seattle's Best Canned Iced Latte

Seattle's Best Canned Iced Coffee comes in a tall, thin 9.5-ounce can (like Red Bull) and features a blend of milk, coffee, and sugar. The suggested retail price is $1.49 for a single can and $4.99 for a four-pack (though will probably go up with the way coffee prices are).

Review: Seattle's Best - Iced Mocha Can

Seattle's Best Iced Mocha Can boasts of "an uncommonly smooth blend of coffee and milk flavored with chocolate." They retail for around $6 dollars for a pack of four 9.5 ounce skinny cans (usually about $1 or $2 less than a 4-pack of Starbucks Frappuccino).

Review: Burger King - Seattle's Best Iced Mocha Coffee

Burger King's Seattle's Best Iced Mocha Coffee is part of their new breakfast menu. It's brewed Seattle's Best coffee with a flavor shot of chocolate syrup over ice. The suggested retail is $1.89, but my local Burger King was charging $2.49 for a regular (They also charge 30 cents extra for an extra flavor shot and for whip cream) which comes in a narrow but tall cup.

Review: Seattle's Best Iced Vanilla Latte Can

I got a couple of Seattle's Best coffee cans from my cousin, who bought a bunch of them on the cheap with a combination of sales and coupons. I believe they normally cost around $1 for a 9.5-ounce can.

Seattle's Best Iced Vanilla Latte has a fairly strong vanilla taste finished with milky coffee flavor.

Seattle's Best: Starbucks' Answer to McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts?

It looks like Seattle's Best is poised to become the Toyota to Starbucks' Lexus. With competitors like McDonald's and Dunkin Donuts serving up espresso-based drinks, Starbucks recently announced the relaunch of Seattle's Best with a new simpler look, a publicity push, and new growth strategy.

With contracts in place with AMC Theaters (beginning in July), Burger King (beginning in September), and Subway (currently serving), Seattle's Best is now poised as Starbucks' mainstream/value brand with plans to increase distribution with more value-oriented locations such as conveniences stores, vending machines, and fast food eateries as well as bookstores, and common carriers (airlines, cruise lines, and the like).

The new look is meant to be simpler and incorporates universal coffee symbols with the cup and the drop. If you ask me, it looks a bit generic but that might be what they're going for. It reminds me a bit of the look of Target's generic store branding for some household items.

Review: Subway - Seattle's Best Coffee

Subway served Starbucks-owned Seattle's Best brand Brewed Coffee for breakfast price at $1.59 for a 16-ounce cup (I got this 8-ounce cup during their breakfast giveaway).  Subway is also currently running a promo where you can get an English Muffin Melt and a 16-ounce Coffee for $2.50.

News: Burger King Serving Starbucks Coffee

Burger King today announced a signed agreement with Starbucks Coffee to carry Seattle's Best Coffee, part of Starbucks' brand portfolio. By September 2010, you should be seeing Seattle's Best Coffee in Burger King restaurants across the nation.

The agreement is part of a larger effort to improve Burger King's breakfast menu, and boost flagging sales. It also happens to allow the chain to better compete with McDonald's McCafe efforts.

Seattle's Best Coffee will be available at Burger King, hot or iced, with optional vanilla or mocha flavor, and whipped topping (I always find it dubious when they say "whipped topping" and not "whipped cream"). The suggested retail price will range from $1 to $2.79.