Provided is a coffee beverage which has a good balance among sweetness bitterness and other unpleasant taste at both a liquid temperature of 10°C or lower which is a liquid temperature during cold storage and a liquid temperature of around ambient temperature (e.g. 20 30°C) which is a liquid temperature at which the coffee beverage is to be drunk. A coffee beverage containing fructose maltose and a cacao extract. For example fructose is contained in the form of high fructose corn syrup. For example maltose is contained in the form of starch syrup. The preferred content of each of high fructose corn syrup and starch syrup in the coffee beverage is 1 10 wt%. The preferred content ratio of high fructose corn syrup to starch syrup in the coffee beverage is 3:1 to 1:3 by weight. The preferred content of the cacao extract in the coffee beverage is 0.01 0.1 wt%. The coffee beverage may additionally contain sugar.
