Milk (Raspberry Candy)
A complete contrast to our first milk selection (Axil’s seasonal).
This one’s all about sweetness.
For those who have been interested in coffee for a while, you may have heard about this blend.
You either hate it or swear by it, and probably your favourite barista’s favourite milk blend.
For many, it’s a coffee that challenges the traditional coffee taste and turns milk coffee into a dessert.
Inspired by Saša Šestić's 2015 World Barista Championship-winning coffee, this blend always consists of heavily fermented Ethiopian coffees, including Carbonic Maceration coffees, which Saša introduced to the industry.
It’s a fruit candy bomb. Just from opening the bag of coffee, you think of white chocolate and raspberry. It seriously is like the name suggests —“raspberry candy.”
There aren’t that many coffees where the general population can taste and identify the flavor notes, but this is one of them, and it sure will blow anyones mind for a relatively cheap price.
ONA suggests a recipe of:
1:1.9 in 25-30 seconds at 93.5 degrees Celsius with 120g of milk per shot (and suggests using 30% freeze-distilled milk).
We found it best at 27 seconds but not with freeze-distilled milk.
For those who haven’t tried it, yes, it’s mind-blowing and worth the effort, but it tastes way too sweet and a little too much, even at just 30%.
I find it easier, tastier, and just as sweet using lactose-free milk.
This is because, to make lactose-free milk, you need to hydrolyse lactose, and this is done by adding lactase. Lactase splits lactose into galactose and glucose, which makes lactose-free milk around three times sweeter (sorry a little sciency).
This one’s not a crowd-pleaser, but if you’ve never tried it, you sure are missing out.
Roaster’s Remarks
“Inspired by ONA's founder Saša Šestić's winning 2015 World Barista Championship coffee. Raspberry Candy is a milk-based coffee designed to push your conception of specialty coffee to a whole new level.”
TASTES LIKE: Sweet berries and creamy white chocolate
ROAST: Milk-based
COMPONENTS
● Ethiopia Limu Washed
● Ethiopia Shakisso Natural
● Ethiopia Birtukan Supernatural
● Ethiopia 4322 Uraga Jasper Carbonic Maceration Natural
● Ethiopia PR14 Amber Carbonic Maceration Natural
