Pepsi Tries Again to Combine Cola and Coffee With Pepsi Café

Pepsi Gets Into the Canned Iced Coffee Game With Pepsi Café

Two flavors of coffee-infused soda are coming in 2020

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Iced coffee drinkers looking for another kind of pick-me-up will soon have a new option, courtesy of Pepsi.

The soft drink brand is launching Pepsi Café, a Pepsi-coffee hybrid product, in April 2020. Pepsi Café is a combination of soda and Arabica coffee bean extract, and offers nearly double the amount of caffeine in regular Pepsi.

Sold in slim, 12-ounce aluminum cans, Pepsi Café will come in original and vanilla flavors. The original version will offer a stronger coffee flavor, while the vanilla option provides a sweeter flavor with a creamier finish.

Pepsi Café isn’t the brand’s first foray into coffee products. From 1996 to 1997, the brand test-marketed Pepsi Kona, a highly carbonated mix of coffee and Pepsi.

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