Go out to get a coffee and you’ll most likely have the options of whole milk, 2% milk, skim milk and soy milk.\u00a0\u00a0 Why do you never find rice milk, almond milk, or goat milk for that matter,\u00a0 as a choice in your coffee?\u00a0 I decided to get out of the soy milk rut at home with my coffee and picked up some rice milk.\u00a0 I used Trader Joe’s Rice Drink from the refrigerated section to try first.\u00a0 I always found rice milk to be watery and this was no exception.\u00a0 It is also a bit on the sweet side which isn’t a bad thing considering a like my coffee sweetened, usually with a vanilla syrup I make myself.\u00a0\u00a0 Steaming rice milk doesn’t seem to work well if you like foam.\u00a0 You seem to get a good foam started but it all breaks down to nothing as soon as it gets heavy.\u00a0 The rice milk lends no flavor to the end drink, so for me it doesn’t work.\u00a0 No foam, no flavor, no worky.<\/p>\n

I also tried hazelnut milk from Pacific Foods. \u00a0 The consistency is the same as rice milk but the flavor is a bit better.\u00a0 Still, if you like foam this one doesn’t work.\u00a0 I’m sure the watery formulas of these two are what lends to the lack of foam production during the steaming.<\/p>\n

For now I will stick with soy milk but I will be trying others.\u00a0 Oat Milk?\u00a0 Hemp Milk?<\/p>\n