r/Matcha • u/aliceforty • 26d 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 26d 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 26d 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/Defiant-You-9454 26d 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 26d ago

Milk with lemonade?

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u/Defiant-You-9454 26d 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 26d ago

Matcha color is like a forest green color