It’s going to be 80 degrees today – how crazy is that? Luckily, the good people of Champaign-Urbana are beginning to come out of their winter cocoons to experience the warm weather, and what goes better with that than a nice cold drink?
Probably nothing, honestly.
That’s where Flying Machine Coffee comes in. Just this week, they’ve unleashed a monster menu of new, summer drinks, including coffee-soda, fresh lemonade and more.
For a month-by-month breakdown, check out what FMC had to say below:
Flying Machine Coffee summer menu:
Mikado – all summer
Our favorite summer drink, white peach tea, tart cherry juice, and lime.
Coffee soda – all summer
We make a syrup from our toddy concentrate and add some bubbles. It’s really great with a wedge of lime;)
May – T.J. Palmer – cascara tea, pandan extract, lemon.
Little did I know 3 years ago when I named a drink after one of our wonderful regulars. That the drink would come to represent the impact this persons friendship has had on me, and the staff. Teej Is a warm, loving, intelligent, and passionate person. And the amount we have learned from them by just simply listening has been life changing. So the TJ Palmer very directly represents our friendship. If your familiar with the drink you’ll know that every year it changes. That’s because we have changed, and hopefully become better. As we challenge ourselves as people, we also challenge ourselves as baristas. So if we are doing this right, it’s going to be tasty.
June – Fresh lemonade
We will be adding stuff to the lemonade weekly. Whatever is fresh at the farmers market that week, cherry, peach, hoops, blackberry, raspberry, you get the picture.
July – Chicha Morada – purple corn, citrus, pineapple, cinnamon, clove, sugar.
This is a traditional Peruvian drink that I only learned about last year. Even though it’s older than our constitution. Oddly captivating, and really delicious, It’s a deep purple color from the specific corn grown for it. An all around an interesting drink.
August – Cantaloupe & Rosewater
This is just crazy refreshing. If you like cantaloupe you should definitely try it.
