Nerd Fuel: Green Mountain – Toasted Marshmallow Mocha

Every January I take a week’s vacation. I do this so that I can spend a whole week relaxing, catching up on my honey-do list, and so I can have a chance to refresh my brain before jumping in and tackling all that the new year has to offer. It’s my way saying goodbye to the holidays. So, with that, I’ve come down to the last seasonal coffee I have in the line up to review. For this Nerd Fuel post, I’m going to share my thoughts on Green Mountain’s  Toasted Marshmallow Mocha.

This is an odd cup of coffee. When brewing it, you get a nice toasted marshmallow aroma. It smells absolutely incredible. In fact, I reminds me a lot of the little freeze-dried marshmallows you might find in a box of Lucky Charms. It’s also the first thing you taste when you take a sip, but it’s quickly replaced with an awful cardboard-ish after taste. This is actually the mocha, but to me, it clashes with the marshmallow flavor. Both flavors are very artificial. They taste cheap and just overall… bad. This is not the quality I had come to expect from Green Mountain.

Somehow I managed to drink my way through 18 cups of this since the start of the winter season, and it never got any better. I tried it a number of ways too. I drank it black, I used my favorite Sweet Italian creme, I tried milk and sugar, I even tried a variety of different flavored creamers. Nothing helped me to enjoy it. I don’t know what to say about this selection. Maybe it could be good in some kind of shake or iced concoction. But I won’t be spending the effort to find out. This might be the worst K-Cup I’ve tried thus far.

Score: 1 out of 4

Would Purchase again?: No. Cheap artificial flavoring. Bad after taste. Overall, a real stinker.