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?
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’.
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?
Brew better coffee so you don’t need milk? Try some light roast beans.
I was able to cut out milk entirely first from my filter coffee and then from my moka pot coffee just by using better freshly roasted and light roasted beans.
Oat milk and coffee taste like they’re meant to be together.
Just make sure it’s a good Oat Milk. The Chobani extra creamy is my favorite.
Another idea is to drop some coconut oil into the coffee. It’s different but it’s something and you don’t taste the coconut if you get refined oil.
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.
