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Coca-Cola BlāK

Coca-Cola Blak (stylized as Coca-Cola BlāK) was a coffee-flavored cola introduced by The Coca-Cola Company in 2006 and discontinued in 2008. The mid-calorie drink was introduced first in France and subsequently in other markets, including Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Lithuania.

Coca-Cola Blak launched in the United States[1] on April 3, and in Canada on August 29, 2006[2] in Toronto, Ontario, at Yonge–Dundas Square.[3] In August 2007, trade magazine Beverage Digest noted that Coca-Cola would discontinue the drink within the United States.[4]

The French and Canadian versions of Coca-Cola Blak were sweetened with sugar. The U.S. version of Coca-Cola Blak replaced sugar with high fructose corn syrup, aspartame, and acesulfame potassium. Consumer Reports taste-testers found the French version to be less sweet and to contain more coffee flavor.

The American and Canadian versions had a plastic resealable cap on a glass bottle that resembled the classic Coke bottle, where the French/Czech version was a bottle shape formed in aluminum.

In 2010, Coca-Cola FEMSA, the largest Coca-Cola bottler in Latin America, released coffee dispenser machines in Mexico under the brand name Blak.[5]

In 2019, it was reported that Coca-Cola have started to plan an introduction of coffee-related products across 25 markets by the end of the year. The coffee has been planned to combine Coca-Cola with coffee, which will contain less caffeine than a regular cup of coffee but more than a regular can of Coke.[6] This rollout, which started in European markets, culminated in the release of Coca-Cola with Coffee in the US on January 25, 2021.

Nutritional facts

See also

  • Coffee-flavored Pepsi
  • Syrup, a 1999 novel featuring a plot revolving around a fictional but similar product

External links

References

  1. Cola Blak arrives in the United States, 2006-03-15^
  2. Coca-Cola Blak enters Canada, 2006-08-31^
  3. Coca-Cola launches Blak with a bevy of beauties, 2006-08-30^
  4. Coke Blak goes dark, 2007-08-31^
  5. Thomas Black. Coca-Cola Femsa Begins Coffee-Dispenser Business in Mexico Bloomberg, 2010-10-26, retrieved 2012-10-22^
  6. Coca-Cola is making a big push into coffee CNBC, 23 April 2019^
  7. The Coca-Cola Company Coca-Cola, retrieved 2012-10-22^
  8. Taken from a Nutrition PDF from the Coca-Cola website.^
  9. Erreur 404 Coca-colablak.fr, retrieved 2012-10-22^