The coconut milk froths well, but not as much as you’d expect — this is essentially a blend of soy and coconut milk, and the protein in the soybeans help with the frothing. 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 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. In fact, it uses more oats than any other oat milk on this list, even Oaty Bruce, with a 14% oat base. The almonds, given their strong flavour, make up for only 3% of the milk, which is also higher than most almond milks. Sunflower lecithin and sea salt are the other two additions. It’s a quite remarkable and minimal blend for a barista milk. It does get better as you drink it, and turns out to be quite refreshing and light. But the acidity is just way too high and distracting. 3.5/5 Rebel Kitchen 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. Making coconut milk cold foam is very easy, and it makes for one amazing cup of coffee. Ingredients RequiredIt does leave a little residue at the end, and, surprisingly, is slightly less creamy than you’d expect it to be. 4/5 Read our ultimate showdown for the best vegan Easter egg in 2021. Ingredients, price and availability

Soy was the first one in the market and Mari told me that you can notice that from the product ( Alpro Soy for Professionals) in a good and bad way. From my barista perspective it foamed really fast, almost twice as fast as regular cow’s milk. I tried also two temperatures with the steaming; 55 and 65 degrees and it didn’t affect the texture or taste of the milk at all. Mari explained to me that there are quite a lot of food additives such as acidity regulators and stabilizers used in the soy milk which has to do with both “easy” foaming and temperature resistance. The soy milk has also as much protein as regular cow’s milk which enables microfoaming. The microfoam was also really long lasting which is due to stabilizers and high amounts of protein and fat. Making latte art with the soy milk was easy and the milk behaved almost like cow’s milk. It is slightly bitter, though, and as you drink it, the watery consistency is a bit more noticeable. 3.5/5 Happy Happy Soy Boy Rude Health’s barista almond milk is both quite sweet and acidic in cold brew. There’s no almond flavour and the consistency resembles that of semi-skimmed milk added to cold brew. Holy crap, this is good. This is really, really good. Happy Happy Soy Boy is quite possibly the best soy milk I’ve ever had. For us, the acidity isn’t as well controlled as it should be, and it dominates everything else. 2.5/5 Find out how Good Hemp’s Oat + Hemp blend fared in our review. Happy Happy Soy BoyThis 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. Good Hemp Barista is slightly sweet as well, and, frankly, adds a completely new dimension to the coffee. Whether that’s a plus or not is up to personal preference, but it does take focus away from the coffee and its notes, neither of which you can taste much. The Vegan Review tested 12 of the best barista milks in the UK in three ways — how they froth, how they hold up and tastes in espresso-based hot drinks, and how they complement cold brew. It tastes almondy, but not overly so, and leaves a hint of a bitter aftertaste. This is because it isn’t as milky or smooth as it should be. You essentially need quite a bit more of the milk to make the drink taste better, but that would then overtake the coffee.