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The One Coffee Flavor Swirl We Will Always Pass On At Dunkin'
BY Autumn Swiers
Dunkin' cold brew with brown sugar flavor swirl
In our ranking of seven Dunkin' flavor swirls — the thick, creamy additions that can add sweetness and flavor to any Dunkin' drink — the chain's brown sugar syrup came in last.
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According to our taste-tester, the syrup certainly delivered on sweetness, but "it didn't have the depth of flavor that brown sugar has. Instead, it just tasted like white sugar."
It's seemingly a failed attempt to poach brown sugar coffee fans. As our taste-tester pointed out, brown sugar, unlike white sugar, contains molasses, which the syrup barely had.
"I don't know if Dunkin' used very little molasses or omitted it … but, in a blind test, I would have thought this drink was cold brew and simple syrup mixed together," they said.