Coffee fedi, help me out!
I’m getting more and more milk/lactose intolerant as I get older, but lactose free milk is too sweet for me.
I don’t sweeten my coffee, and even lactose free milk with no sweetener else makes my coffee too sweet.
So, what do I replace my milk with when I order coffee?
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Oat milk is the best alternative I’ve found. Most places offer it so I switched to oat milk lattes and haven’t gone back.
If brewing at home, there are barista versions made specifically for coffee, but the original works too.
Oat milk > actual milk when it comes to coffee imo.
As a barista and a vegan, this is the answer. Out of all the plant-based milks, oat is the closest to cow’s milk when it comes to how it foams up, so baristas tend to make way better and more consistent drinks with oat than almond or soy. And this is just personal preference, but IMO the taste profile of oat works the best with coffee.
Totally agree! I am currently frothing Chobani oat milk with no added sugar for diy lattes and it is perfect!
I second this, but you will need to find the one you like, different brands can taste VERY differently.
Agreed. I love one particular brand and find a lot of others have cardboard undertones.
A friend recommended Oat milk to me - I’m exactly the same as you re disliking the sweetness of lactose free - she reckons it’s ‘inoffensive’.
BLACK. DRINK IT BLACK. PUT SOME HAIR ON YOUR CHEST. DRINK IT BLACK.
Sorry about that. I have seen you say you cannot do it, but this is false. You can acquire a taste for black coffee, and it will make your coffee drinking much easier as well as improve your palate for tasting coffee. Also black coffee has only like 5 calories per cup vs 80-120 calories if you put milk in it.
I love black coffee.
Just pure raw dogging coffee bean water.
I went black and, well, you know the saying.
One of the upsides is it’s now really easy to tell what places sell garbage tier coffee (cough, Tim Hortons, cough)
I’m not sure I’m keen on my boobs being hairy, but I got myself a black coffee today…
We’ll see how it goes :)
Yes! Welcome to the dark side. Have fun!
I think it’s probably good to leave misguided ideas about masculinity out of it - although I’m sure you weren’t being serious, of course.
That being said, speciality coffee brewed with care can often be quite enjoyable to drink black and I agree that it’s worth trying out for OP.
Almond milk
Yes, non-sweetened almond milk is my favourite and it doesn’t go weird when you pour it in coffee.
After starting to drink my coffee black I’ve just been using it as an alternative to milk in nearly everything.
Nothing? Or alternatively a single mocha shot?
But really I think the best thing would be to switch to cold brew dilute with a little water and ice and nothing more.
Nothing isn’t going to happen. I’ve tried and tried to enjoy it over the years, but it lacks “body” or something…
Have you tried doing your own cold brew concentrate and then cutting it with water and Ice before? It really changes the profile of some coffee.
There is also the phrase garbage in garbage out, so if your starting with a low quality bean or over roasted bean you could be missing out on all the natural flavors in coffee.
Im lazy so I generally just do a simple Chemex filtered drip but even that created a cup miles better than any kurig or mr coffee equivalent that I found out I could really enjoy coffee without adding anything.
If I end up at Tim’s or Dunkin then its a shot of mocha because I struggle to drink their coffee black because of how over roasted the beans are. They cook all the flavors out of it to make it “consistent.”
Another vote from me for out and almond milk. If you do any kind of milk steaming or latte art then oat is great for that…and I just like the flavour of almond milk. It’s really nice with breakfast cereals too as it adds a nice nutty flavour to everything.
There is nothing wrong with Soy milk, but with coffee you have to be careful you don’t curdle it due to the high temperature.
A friend recently made me black coffee with a little honey and it was excellent. There was only enough honey to take the bitter edge off the coffee without getting too sweet. Although my friend did use some high quality beans I wouldnt normally use so I’m not sure it will work on the cheap stuff most commercial places use.
I would have recommended oat, but if you say lactose free milk is already too sweet I think you’re likely to find the same with oat. Macadamia is probably the “creamiest” non-sweet alternative I’ve tried, give it a shot.
That being said, stay open to the idea of cutting back on additives altogether. I went through all sorts of things just to discover that what I liked wasn’t a particular creamer or sweetener or coffee brand - it was just lighter roasted coffee 😅
Whiskey
I usually do oat milk, it’s not bad
Soy milk! You can find no sugars added options
I had the same issue a half a decade ago and my solution was, like most of the answers I imagine you’ll get here, to just get better coffee and drink it black. If you visit your local third wave cafes they should have a regular rotation of drip specialty coffee that you could try and usually they sell it too. I order from Th3rd Wave which sends me a box of different specialty coffees every month which really helps me discover what’s out there, maybe you have something similar in your area?
Oat milk is probably the best, imho. Although don’t dismiss soya milk, especially the barista versions. Personally I went cold turkey on milk in coffee years ago and never looked back. If it’s lacking something without milk, try different coffee! 20 years ago I was a 100% grande latte drinker, but now I’m a freshly ground double espresso every morning.
Additional coffee
Water? Maybe shift to a “long black” style.
