Dunkin and Kahlúa Launch Caramel Swirl Cream Liqueur

Dunkin’ is hoping you’ll begin and finish your day with its espresso any further. The beloved Boston-based model is again within the grownup beverage enterprise with a nightcap ok to rival its personal spiked canned coffees. 

Dunkin’ and iconic espresso liqueur model Kahlúa simply collaborated on a brand-new cream liqueur — and it’s sweeter than something we’ve seen earlier than. The duo’s Caramel Swirl Cream Liqueur begins with a base of Kahlúa’s signature rum and low mix and is infused with one of many espresso chain’s hottest taste customizations.

Clocking in at 16% alcohol by quantity (ABV), the liqueur is already headed to spirits retailers nationwide. Yow will discover it at shops together with Whole Wine, the place it’s listed for $25.99.

“Kahlúa Dunkin’ Caramel Swirl Cream Liqueur was impressed by how folks already take pleasure in Kahlúa — combined with espresso, cream, or milk — so we noticed a possibility to deepen our presence within the cream liqueur house with one thing each [delicious and] indulgent,” Kahlúa’s vice chairman of selling Caroline Begley tells Meals & Wine. “By partnering with Dunkin’, a model so iconic and so related in folks’s every day routines, and particularly [its] widespread Caramel Swirl taste, the model pairs superbly with Kahlúa’s wealthy espresso and rum base.”

You’ll be able to take pleasure in this candy, creamy drink neat, chilled, or over ice. After all, the urged garnish is a single, skewered Munchkin, simply in case the caramel-swirled liqueur isn’t candy sufficient already. Feeling particularly extravagant? We advocate mixing it with ice for a silky summer season cocktail that channels the flavour and texture of a Dunkin’ Frozen Espresso.

No matter the way it’s served, this bottle is taken into account a “true collaboration” between the Pernod Ricard-owned spirit model and the drive-thru espresso behemoth. Begley explains that after months of improvement and a number of other checks, the 2 groups landed on a “balanced” taste profile of “creamy sweetness and wealthy depth.” The outcome gives notes of candy toffee, vanilla, dulce de leche, and even chocolate.

Kahlúa’s basic taste is formed by the Arabic espresso beans which might be all the time used to craft it. Consequently, swirls of Arabica espresso — a shade-grown espresso that may take as much as six years to domesticate — from Veracruz, Mexico, spherical out the brand new liqueur’s decadent (but acquainted) profile. 

When you want another excuse to do this candy, creamy, and craveable new beverage, the Kahlúa Dunkin’ Caramel Swirl was additionally named probably the greatest liqueurs of the 12 months in 2025 by the New York Worldwide Spirits Competitors.

This isn’t the primary time that Dunkin’ has wandered into the world of grownup drinks. In August 2023, the model labored with Massachusetts-based Harpoon Brewery to launch canned, spiked variations of its espresso and tea. The discharge prompted equal elements skepticism and delight from Dunkin’ followers, and you may nonetheless purchase the drinks as we speak. Kahlúa’s newest launch, nonetheless, marks the primary time that Dunkin’ has partnered with a cream liqueur model, and it has a notably larger ABV than the usually 5-6% spiked coffees.

Whether or not you need to sip a espresso beverage out of a can as a substitute of a beer or pour a candy liqueur over ice for a sublime nightcap, Dunkin’ is ensuring you’ve gotten loads of choices with regards to having fun with its espresso within the night.