JavaPop: Fair-Trade, Organic Coffee Soda
by Jasmin Malik Chua, Jersey City, USA 
on 03. 8.07
Tastebuds everywhere should brace themselves for JavaPop, the nation's first organic- and fair-trade-certified coffee soda.
Developing JavaPop has been a true labor of love," says JavaPop founder and president Paul C. Hendler in a press release. "With the organic movement taking hold in the U.S., we wanted to provide a healthy alternative for the ready-to-drink coffee market. I'm proud of the outstanding network of coffee growers and suppliers whose products have enabled us to create an environmentally friendly, healthy and delicious beverage."
JavaPop, which is distributed by Snapple, is available in five varieties: Espresso, Vanilla, Mocha, Hazelnut, and Caramel. It features fair-trade-certified, organic coffee beans from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, as well as freshly pressed organic cane juice.
Another nice touch: JavaPop uses recycled packaging materials, including recycled and repurposed bottles. ::JavaPop
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This could be very dangerous for me. All organic, fair-trade, and recycled packaging. That's great...now can I overlook that Snapple is the distributor?
I’m a Vermonter and familiar with Green Mountain Coffee. You say this is the first organic fair trade coffee soda, but Green Mountain has been making four flavors of coffee soda from the same beans they sell to Java Pop for about a year now.
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JMC: Patrick, I do believe the coffee soda you saw was manufactured by JavaPop for Green Mountain.
Check this press release out: http://www.bevnet.com/news/2005/11-10-2005-Java_Pop.asp
this is by far one of the best new drinks out there. i ordered some off their website... javapop.com
espresso and hazelnut are my favs
This product looks great, I can't wait to try it out!
I'm a Bavarian from Germany, and we say, that cold coffee the people makes beautyful. Unfortunately, Javapop is not distributed to Europe yet.
This stuff is great. My fav is Espresso, because it's got the most coffee flavor.
I found these at biglots for $2.00 for a 4 pack!!!
Great deal, find a biglots near you.
Big Lots had it here also until I found out just how great the stuff was. Now for the past year I have drank the store's dry. I have almost one case left 7 there is no more to be found. Now that I am addicted to the stuff, just where can i get some more??
I'm from Media Pa., "America's First Fair Trade Town", and a friend I'm visiting in Alabama just served me a bottle of this JavaPop. It's awesome! I can only imagine how great this would be as an ice cream soda. We've got to get a supplier in Media! It will become my mission when I get home.
Check out "VisitMediaPa.com" and go to our Fair Trade committee website.