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07-13-2016, 10:15 AM
Here's the blue latte you never knew you wanted
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There are plenty of weird coffee out there, but this one takes the cake.
It's a so-called "smurf latte," available at a vegan café called Matcha Mylkbar in Melbourne, Australia.*The bright blue colour in the coffee is from a teaspoon of something called E3 live blue algae powder. Yes, algae.
SEE ALSO: San Francisco barista might be the world's best latte artist (http://mashable.com/2016/06/07/latte-art-melannie-aqui**/)
The drink also contains lemon, ginger agave and coconut milk — at this point, it's barely a coffee. So what does it taste like?
"People think it's going to be a bubble gummy sweet taste,"*the café's co-owner Nic Davidson told Mashable Australia.*"You can definitely taste the agave and the lemon. It's a quite sweet and 'soury' kind of taste ...*but it's a difficult to explain taste — everyone thinks it's different." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/13/blue-algae-coffee-melbourne/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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There are plenty of weird coffee out there, but this one takes the cake.
It's a so-called "smurf latte," available at a vegan café called Matcha Mylkbar in Melbourne, Australia.*The bright blue colour in the coffee is from a teaspoon of something called E3 live blue algae powder. Yes, algae.
SEE ALSO: San Francisco barista might be the world's best latte artist (http://mashable.com/2016/06/07/latte-art-melannie-aqui**/)
The drink also contains lemon, ginger agave and coconut milk — at this point, it's barely a coffee. So what does it taste like?
"People think it's going to be a bubble gummy sweet taste,"*the café's co-owner Nic Davidson told Mashable Australia.*"You can definitely taste the agave and the lemon. It's a quite sweet and 'soury' kind of taste ...*but it's a difficult to explain taste — everyone thinks it's different." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/13/blue-algae-coffee-melbourne/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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