Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Barista Blend Drink

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Rebel Kitchen’s barista version, at least for frothing, lives up to the hype. It’s a great example of milks formulated specifically for barista use. It froths fantastically, leaving only tiny bubbles that disappear into the silky-smooth microfoam once tapped and swirled. Alpro’s barista coconut milk fuses well with the coffee, creating a homogeneous consistency. It doesn’t have the same sweetness you associate with coconut milk, but it does highlight the bitter notes of the cold brew more. Still, all in all, it’s a pretty refreshing drink. 3.5/5 Califia Farms Oat Barista Rude Health’s barista almond milk has an intriguing and impressive ingredients list. Even though it is marketed as an almond milk, its oat content is way higher than the almonds. Barista Blend delivers a great tasting product which is made using almonds, completely free from dairy, lactose, casein, soy and gluten. Distribution and availability:

This is ever so slightly watery, but it doesn’t matter much. Because this is one of the only barista plant-based milks that don’t just complement the coffee, but actually make it shine. The all-important taste test. After so much frothing, the next stage was tasting these best barista milks for their flavour and to determine how they perform in coffee drinks like lattes and cappuccinos.Good Hemp is the UK’s most well-known hemp milk brand. While it does a pretty great oat and hemp blend, it’s not really made for coffee.

Almond Breeze’s barista milk takes extra time to froth properly, but when it does, the bubbles are super small, which is exactly what you’re looking for in microfoam. Minor Figures turned out to be amongst the best plant-based milk for cold brew coffee too. There’s a fruity acidity to this, not as loud as Good Hemp’s, but it’s still rather unexpected and very welcome. However, since the foam doesn’t blend too well with the liquid, the drinking experience is disturbed. 3.5/5 Read our guide to the best almond milk brands in the UK. Alpro Barista Coconut Creamy Perfection : Our Barista Blend Unsweetened Almond Milk ensures a velvety texture that froths and steams like dairy milk, adding a delightful richness to your coffee creations. Indulge in Non-Dairy Perfection with Almond Breeze Barista Blend Unsweetened Almond Milk at Wholesale PricesThe Rebel Kitchen Barista Mylk uses 10.5% oats, 1.5% coconut cream, sunflower oil, 0.5% faba bean protein, sunflower seed extract, nutritional yeast (it’s the only brand on the market to use this in its milks), sea salt and an acidity regulator. Rude Health Barista Almond Unsweetened Goodness : Enjoy the pure taste of almonds without added sugars. With zero grams of sugar per serving, you have the flexibility to customize your drinks to perfection.

Like Oatly, Oaty Bruce’s flavour is what you’d expect from it. There’s a nice oat sweetness to it, but owing to the ingredients, it tastes like a watered-down latte. As is the case with our other ultimate showdown tests, I wanted to look at the ingredients, price and availability of all these plant-based barista milks. Accessibility, affordability and composition are key to the success of any product.

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This is incredible. It’s not watery at all, it acts like regular dairy would and it doesn’t overpower the coffee. The natural sweetness of the oats shines through with this. Balanced Taste: Experience a neutral flavor profile that enhances the natural notes of your coffee without overpowering, letting your brew shine with every sip. This is quite hard to find. Alpro is one of the most accessible brands on the market, but the barista milks can’t be found in local supermarket stores. While it’s available in a few local off-licences for a much higher price or at online retailers, Tesco superstores are where you’re most likely to find the barista coconut milk. But while there are hints of oat in it, this resembles watered-down cold brew with a splash of milk a lot more than an equal parts composition. You don’t taste those weird synthetic notes, but you don’t taste much else either. It’s very average and doesn’t do anything to the coffee in terms of the flavour. The usability has been tested by some of New Zealand ’s leading baristas. Over the course of a year, many trials were undertaken to ensure a quality, easy to use product was developed. Barista Blend’s unique café milk formulation has been validated by New Zealand baristas for baristas. Nutrition:

You can taste the coffee’s notes, even though they’re muted. The soy pairs stunningly well with the coffee, even if the consistency is just a little thinner than you’d want. The coffee is the star here, and that’s what matters. 4/5 Minor Figures There’s not a lot of almond flavour, which is due to the fact that there are more oats than almonds in this milk. This isn’t a watery drink, which is a plus, but the flavour is just a little too loud and funky to actually make the coffee shine. 2.5/5 Sproud Barista The flavour is quite neutral and there is no trace of that chemical aftertaste present in the espresso test. My guess is that it’s the application of heat to certain ingredients that lend plant-based milks like Rebel Kitchen’s and Califia Farms’s barista editions the unappetising artificial flavour. Coffee is an important part of New Zealand culture and quality really matters. Recognising and understanding this culture, we knew it was critically important to develop a product that performs just like milk and complements fine coffee in terms of taste.Unlike Oatly, Oaty Bruce is, well, pretty oaty when it comes to cold brew. This was quite surprising as it isn’t cloyingly acidic to the point that it would taste sour.