We Tried It: Cole Hauser's Free Rein Coffee and Yellowstone Season Preview

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Our Us Weekly writer's try Yellowstone's Cole Hauser's new Free Reign Coffee and also give us some predictions for the new season.

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00:00Today we're trying Free Reign Coffee, which is a new coffee line founded by

00:05Kohlhauser, who plays Rip Wheeler on Yellowstone. The Free Reign Coffee comes

00:10in seven different flavors. Today we're trying the light roast, which is called

00:14Prospect, and the dark roast, which is called American Dirt. So let's start with

00:18the light. Great. Cheers. Cheers. This is the Prospect, the light roast.

00:23Prospect. Smooth, mild, and bright. Oh, that's good. Oh, it is smooth, mild, and

00:30bright. It's good. It's really not like very bitter at all. No. This is like a

00:35sipping on the Yellowstone Ranch porch. Yes. Gazing off into the Montana sunset

00:40type of coffee. As Yellowstone fans and Us Weekly readers are surely aware, Kevin

00:45Costner is not coming back to the show, but his storyline has not been wrapped

00:49up. So we are going to brainstorm different ways that we think John Dutton

00:54could be written off of Yellowstone in the final episodes. It's misleading that

00:58he has a voiceover in the trailer. As our detective, Eliza Thompson, found out,

01:01that is old footage, old quote. So we are like, what are they gonna do with John

01:05Dutton? We need to wrap this up. We're devastated. My first instinct was they're

01:10gonna kill him off, and I think one way that he could die is Beth, as she's

01:14trying to get revenge on her brother Jamie, will accidentally kill her dad

01:18John, whether that's by like poison in the whiskey or the coffee, or maybe just

01:22straight up by a gun. She might, she's gonna shoot the wrong Dutton. I like the

01:26idea that she's gonna use poison. It's Beth! She could have them brew it at the

01:31ranch. I also thought, you know, getting killed off, but in a way that has less to

01:38do with the Duttons. So when when the first half of the season ended, we had

01:43John as governor of Montana, and clearly like Jamie was trying to get him out of

01:49the governorship, and so I thought, what if they arrested him on, you know, some

01:54trumped-up charges of corruption, and he goes to prison, and then while he's in

01:58prison, he runs into some old people that, you know, have been screwed over by the

02:04Yellowstone ranch hands, and they kill him off in prison. That's a good one. And

02:08so it's like Jamie's fault, kind of, but really it's just like a random guy gets

02:13him. And you won't have to see it, obviously, because he will be off camera.

02:16Okay, so if he doesn't die, which I feel like they're gonna kill him, because

02:21even though like the show was set up with him being ill, they've

02:24kind of dropped that storyline. So if he doesn't die, my other guess is that

02:28Piper Perabo, his love interest, brings him to New York, and they just go full

02:33Coyote Ugly, and I need to fight the moonlight with Liam Rimes, and he's just,

02:36he gives it up, and he's just, he's moving to the mixed city with Piper Perabo.

02:40But you know what, there's one option we still didn't discuss, which is what if he

02:43gets taken to the train station? That's, that would be crazy. So his ranchers

02:47turn on him, Rip, or someone else takes him to the train station. If you know, you

02:52know, that would be nuts. Who would do it, though? Would it, it would be Rip? Rip is

02:56the lead conductor. He takes him to the train station. But would Beth be able to

03:02forgive him? Well, also, would Rip even do that? Because Rip is like, like, John

03:07Dutton is like a father figure to him, basically. So then we get a little

03:12Shakespearean. So maybe the ranchers... Now that, now I'm kind of into this. Okay, maybe,

03:16or just some of the lower-level ranchers. Taylor Sheridan, call us if you need those scripts finished.

03:19And we know you have like 75 spinoffs, so we can write one. Okay, so we're also

03:24going to try the dark roast flavor, which is called American Dirt. I love that name.

03:31Even just pouring it, I can tell, you poured some already? Yes. I can already

03:35tell it's definitely darker in color. So that, I think, means it's gonna have a

03:41little bit of a stronger flavor. It is definitely a strong smell. Yeah, this is a

03:47more traditional, like, wake up and smell the coffee smell. It's very earthy. Does that

03:55make sense? Oh, that's good, too. Yeah. The back of the bag says it's bold and

04:02smooth, which is true. It's not as light as the light roast, but it's still not as

04:09heavy as you might think of a dark roast being. Very drinkable. Very drinkable, good

04:13with cream. Get up and get after it. Yeah. That's what this is giving. I'm also, I

04:18also did not put cream in this one yet, and it is a lot smoother drinking

04:24than normally a black coffee would be. Than you would expect. Yeah. Rip Wheeler

04:28knows his coffee. He knows his coffee. So the backstory here is that hanging out

04:32in Montana and Wyoming where they they film Yellowstone, he was excited to get

04:38to understand the cowboy life, and so that was what inspired him to create

04:42Free Reign Coffee, and he wanted the flavors to embody the spirit of the

04:46West. Do you feel like he has succeeded here? I really do, and they are very

04:51smooth. I feel as though I am a cowboy. Please, please tell me, how can I get

04:55this coffee? Freereigncoffee.com. They also have mugs like the one Sarah is

04:59drinking from. It comes in both ground coffee bean bags like these, which are

05:03$16 each per bag, or you can get coffee pods for, you know, your Keurig or

05:08Nespresso, and those are $12 for a box of 12. Oh, that's not a bad deal.

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