Pumpkin Spice Latte season comes to an end. Make way for Christmas flavors.
Everything's coming up pumpkin spice, but for how long?
The fall flavor favorite will be around as long as long as supplies last — which could be a month from now or early 2024 at three of the biggest coffee chains.
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So get 'em while you can because it's beginning to look like Christmas in the coffee world, with both confirmed and unofficial holiday menu launchings in the area. Here's a roundup of who is still slinging PSLs and who's making the transition to those peppermint holiday favorites:
Starbucks
Unless there's a sudden run on pumpkin spice, the popular potables at Starbucks will be around through the holiday season, according to media relations representatives who said they were not ready to unwrap the details of the holiday menu yet.
However, the website Let's Eat Cake, reported that the Starbucks menu will bring back such favorites as peppermint mocha, iced sugar cookie almond milk latte, caramel brulee latte, and chestnut praline latte, as well as a snowman cookie, sugar plum cheese danish, peppermint brownie cake pop and cranberry bliss bar. An iced gingerbread oatmilk chai also will reportedly make its debut. A local Starbucks employee said the new menu will drop on Thursday, Nov. 2.
A spokesperson for Starbucks confirmed the reports from Let's Eat Cake and the local store, adding that the chain's gingerbread loaf also will be returning for the holidays on Thursday.
Also coming: Starbucks' Christmas Blend, a dark roast with notes of spiced chocolate and spruce tips, available as whole bean, decaf and ground coffee, and Holiday Blend, a whole-bean coffee featuring notes of sweet maple and herbs.
In addition, Starbucks also will introduce four new holiday hot cup designs, along with a holiday cold cup. All of the aforementioned items will be available for a limited time, while supplies last.
Dunkin'
The doughnut dynasty's winter menu was leaked a couple of weeks ago by food news Instagram account Snackolator and its selection of coffees and baked goods looks delectable.
Returning on Wednesday, Nov. 1 are the peppermint mocha latte, the cookie butter cold brew, the toasted white chocolate latte and the new spiced cookie coffee, which can be ordered hot or iced. The Snackolator leak also showed Dunkin's holiday sprinkle doughnuts making a comeback.
According to Yahoo!, a few of 2022's holiday treats weren't listed in the post, including the cookie butter donut and the gingerbread and sugar cookies. It's unclear if they'll make a return.
Caribou Coffee
With 15 pumpkin spice beverages on the menu, Caribou might not run out anytime soon, but that won't stop the coffee shop from unveiling its winter menu on Thursday.
The lineup will include a ho-ho mint mocha (hot, iced or blended); vanilla oat nog latte (hot or iced); and the decidedly unusual spicy mocha, which will tantalize tastebuds with its ancho pepper flavor — "kind of like a Mexican-style hot chocolate," said Hannah Cohen, general manager of the Reynoldsburg store.
And if you need an extra jolt of caffeine, both the ho-ho and the spicy mocha come in "nitro" versions. Top it off with one of Caribou's orange cranberry muffins, which also will be on the winter menu.
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Caribou also will be selling two new ground coffees on Thursday: Bold North, with a "warm caramel and barrel oak flavor," Cohen said, as well as a Reindeer dark roast redolent of "cherry and decadence."
The full menu can be viewed on Thursday by downloading the Caribou Coffee app from the Apple store or Google Play.
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Pumpkin spice season is ending. Here come Christmas flavors
