Coffee Milk
Cold milk sweetened and flavoured with coffee syrup, the coffee answer to chocolate milk, and a fixture of Rhode Island.
ColdServed coldFrom United States
- Volume
- 270ml9.1 US fl oz
- Espresso
- 0shots
- Caffeine
- not published
- Glass
- Highball300 ml
The build
Watch it made, step by step- Milk240 ml89%
- Syrup30 ml11%
- Volume
- 270ml
- Caffeine
- not published
- Espresso
- 0shots
Scales every component together, so the ratio holds; caffeine scales with the coffee.
About one part coffee syrup to eight of cold milk, stirred until even, like chocolate milk made with coffee.
Caffeine
Not verifiedNo FoodData Central reference food matches this preparation, so no caffeine figure is given.
USDA FoodData Central has no reference food for coffee syrup, so caffeine is not given.
A derived figure: the reference food's caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee in this build. Real cups vary with the coffee, the dose and the shot.
Variants by country
1| Name | Country | How it differs |
|---|---|---|
| coffee cabinet | United States | The milkshake: coffee syrup and milk blended with coffee ice cream. |
History
Popular accountWikidata classes it as a flavoured milk from the United States. Rhode Island naming it the official state drink in 1993 is a popular account here.
Rhode Island, United States; Wikidata records the United States as country of origin.
Parts of this story are repeated widely but were not confirmed against a source this atlas accepts. They are kept as the story people tell, not as fact.
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Rhode Island's coffee milkshake: coffee syrup, milk and coffee ice cream blended thick.
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