By ANEEKA SIMONIS
A STANDARD latte or flat white just doesn’t cut it anymore on the hipster cafe scene.
And paving the way as Berwick’s most progressive cafe is Nomadic which serves up a variety of trendy brews including the newest craze, the Golden Latte.
The turmeric-based drink has been drawing the town’s clean-eating folk for the past two weeks and is one of the many interesting left-of-centre drinks that is fuelling the buzz.
The drink is 100 per cent coffee free and is instead packed with cinnamon, ginger and black pepper and served with coconut milk.
But, more importantly, it is packed with potent anti-oxidants and anti-inflammatory powers.
Dubbed “a hug in a mug”, the turmeric-based Golden Latte is used in Ayurvedic, Indian and Chinese medicine to remedy colds, flus, sore throats and stomach pains.
Nomadic’s head barista Leigh Howard-Guerin said the raw, vegan drink is building up popularity among cafe-goers and joins a wave of other funky drinks on offer including a chai with an espresso shot, called a Dirty Chai, and the Magic Green Tea Latte which is made with Japanese matcha.
“I have a feeling the Golden Latte will catch up in popularity (to the Green Tea Latte) very soon,” Mr Howard-Guerin said.
He said those who are after a caffeine hit should look no further than the Double Ristretto – a double espresso in which the first, sweeter half of the espresso is served and the bitter second half is discarded in what is described as a three-quarter flat white.
“In theory, it is meant to be the magic ratio of coffee to milk,” Mr Howard-Guerin said.
A better known drink on offer is the cold drip coffee which is extracted in a brewing tower for 24 hours and served chilled.
Kids don’t miss out on the hype either.
Nomadic, recognisable by its unique pig logo, serves up special babycinos to littles – complete with a marshmallow piglet on top.
Asked if the trendsetters were expecting to serve up ‘deconstructed coffee’ anytime soon, Mr Howard-Guerin laughed, saying it was unlikely.
