That’s a whole latte java.
The latest kooky caffeine trend to take hold among fiends is bigger than ever — literally.
Venti, Trenta? No longer big enough. This summer, everyone’s turning to coffee buckets — clear, colossally-sized plastic takeout carriers filled with jitter-making iced joe and complete with handle for carrying ease.
TikTokkers, predictably, can’t get enough — #coffeebucket-tagged vids are vrooming up the charts on the popular social media app, reeling in millions of views. One six-second clip showing off one of the super-sized sippers pulled in 4.3 million alone.
And while the 32-to-50 oz. drink drums are supposedly shareable, they’re often showed online being enjoyed solo — if you can afford the steep prices, which can reportedly reach as high as $15 a pop, depending on where you buy.
“If you’re trying to lure me, it’s working,” someone quipped in the comments of another viral video, posted by Wicked Southern, a coffee shop in Salem, Conn.
“I fear i would get in the windowless white van for this,” another admitted.
“Just a little bucket of extra anxiety,” one laughed.
“I’d be on the toilet for days,” a user confessed.
“When we started seeing the bucket trend pop up more and more, we decided to give it a shot and launched ours at the beginning of June,” owner Kaylee Shilosky explained to Better Home & Gardens.
“People went crazy for it, and we sold out again that very same day,” she said.
TJ’s Burritos, another Nutmeg State business that sells Mexican food and coffee, started selling the titanic tumblers in late May — and sold out the first weekend.
The owner, Tricia Martin, told CT Insider she now sells at least 1,000 per week — sometimes 200 per day.
“It seems like it’s a thing right now,” Alaina Roberto, owner of Last Drop Coffee Shop in Monroe, Conn., chimed in. “It’s a bucket summer.”
While nobody seems to know exactly where the idea originated, coffee shops across the East and Midwest have been seen offering the bonus-sized beverages.
“Any of our lattes can be made in a bucket, as long as it’s iced and it [consists of] four shots of espresso, ice, eight to 10 ounces of milk, and then whatever syrups go with the flavor that they selected — and then we also offer a cold foam topping,” Brittany Stier, co-owner of Missouri’s Noctua Coffee told BHG.
Not only do people like the aesthetic of the coffee bucket, but it also shows the shift in coffee culture toward extravagant and bold creations, with many resembling — or at least sounding like — desserts.
Noctua Coffee’s most popular bucket at the moment, Stier said, is the Blueberry Muffin, which consists of blueberry syrup, brown sugar, cold foam and cinnamon.
Wicked Southern also reported seen great success with the Caramel Banana Latte — and their top-seller, the Tiramisu Latte.
“We’ve seen people posting our buckets at the beach, the local lake in town, and even grabbing a few to start a bachelorette trip,” Wicked Southern’s Shilosky shared. “A lot of people make it a little ritual.”
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