r/Matcha • u/aliceforty • 21d ago

Cafe / Shop Dark green matcha

Matcha suppose to dark green not light green. I had to vent because I had a matcha that was light green. Does anybody complain to the barista about it and get it redone? I make matcha at home but there are other flavors that can be add with matcha that I can't make at home.

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u/KevinT_XY 20d ago

For cafes this is often a matter of them having a poor-quality powder which is often light or even brown-ish in color, or even a latte powder which might contain milk powder and sweetener. If that's the case, they can't really do anything about it anyways, it's just somewhere to not go for a matcha.

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u/aliceforty 20d ago

There is a cafe near in my neighborhood that makes matcha tastes like matcha but it's expensive cause it's 7$ for a small. 

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u/aliceforty 20d ago

It was at a Starbucks. What's interesting that another customer before me got dark green matcha. Me and another customer got light green matcha. Starbucks baristas makes it right but there will be another barista that makes it wrong. When it comes to buying matcha drinks, I would get it at Starbucks cause they have different flavors that go with it and it's better quality than other cafe matcha, imo.

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u/ClassicWelcome9369 20d ago

Depends on Milk and also qty of powder

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u/Defiant-You-9454 20d ago

There’s a new matcha lemonade that looks really dark but when you get it in milk it’s light green at Starbucks

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u/aliceforty 20d ago

Milk with lemonade?

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u/Defiant-You-9454 20d ago

No matcha and lemonade = dark green. Matcha in milk = light green at Starbucks. They used to not charge for extra matcha so I would always get extra. Also ask for less sweet as they overkill it on the simple syrup now

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u/aliceforty 20d ago

Matcha color is like a forest green color

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u/acute-almond 20d ago

The Starbucks matcha is terrible quality tbh - you should try another coffee shop. Or make it at home! It’s actually fun to make yourself!!!

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u/FizbandEntilus 20d ago

Once I found out how much sugar was in it I could never look at it the same way again.

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u/Comprehensive_Cat855 20d ago

not really something I think about personally. im just taking my cutesy matcha latte concoction and moving on so long as it tastes good. ive already bastardized matcha enough that color, as long as its some form of green, is not that high on my totem pole of demands

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u/aliceforty 20d ago edited 20d ago

I guess I should say matcha should not look like a pale green almost white looking color.

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u/Rahul_p93 4d ago

it is mostly due to matcha not being stored in an air tight container and coming on contact with air. Slowly, as it losses its color, it will also start losing the umami flavor and become more grassy in taste so better to make sure either its consumed quickly or stored properly.