Meet the espresso retailers indulging in enjoyable flavors of blood orange, peach, cereal, and marshmallow all month lengthy.
BY EMILY JOY MENESES
BARISTA MAGAZINE ONLINE
Featured picture courtesy of Ceresia Espresso Roasters
The Delight celebrations are nonetheless going sturdy! Final week, we launched half one of this text sequence and heard from three espresso retailers about their Delight-themed drinks and what impressed them. Right this moment, we’re highlighting three extra cafés: Learn on to see what they’re serving up in honor of the queer espresso neighborhood world wide.
Take pleasure in One thing Candy at XO Espresso Store
We featured Kissimmee, Fla.-based XO Espresso Store in our February + March 2025 print challenge, and the café/tattoo parlor as soon as once more caught our consideration with their Delight Month particular: a luxuriously candy beverage that they’ve playfully named the “Honey, I’m Fruity!” Latte.
”The (drink) is a playful, colourful nod to queer pleasure and a spin on one among our best-selling drinks, the ‘Honey, I’m Residence!’ Latte,” the workforce at XO wrote to Barista Journal On-line. “It includes a house-made fruity cereal syrup, espresso, milk, and a fluffy marshmallow chilly foam topped with fruity cereal garnish. We needed one thing nostalgic, candy, and unapologetically enjoyable—as a result of Delight ought to style like happiness.”
Ember Items Turns Up the Quantity for Delight
For these dwelling in or round Olympia, Wash., make sure to try the “Get together 4 U” menu at Ember Items. It options drinks impressed by a wide range of popular culture references—together with songs from artists Charli XCX, Doechii, and Chappell Roan—and is centered round vibrant, summery flavors like peach and blood orange.
Mac Calhoun, espresso educator and coach on the store, shares some favorites from the menu. “I personally created the ‘Rhinestone Cowgirl’ (espresso tonic with lemon and blood orange) and ‘Swamp Princess’ (blood orange with lemonade and matcha).”
”My co-workers Tessa and Tatiana created ‘The Peach Scene’ (espresso with peach syrup and peach chilly foam) and ‘Peach, Please’ (espresso with brown sugar, milk, and cinnamon),” Mac continues.
Mac additionally shares that Ember Items shall be donating $1 for each Delight Month drink bought to Pizza Klatch, a neighborhood group that helps queer youth. We love a celebration with a trigger!
Delight in Thailand: Rejoice with Ceresia Espresso Roasters
In fact, Delight Month isn’t simply being celebrated in the US! Bangkok, Thailand’s Ceresia Espresso Roasters can also be providing up a colourful menu of drinks and meals impressed by Delight. All through the month, they’ll be serving drinks and snacks proudly dressed up in vibrant colours—together with a must-try rainbow tart.
“We consider espresso is about neighborhood, creativity, and connection,” the Ceresia workforce wrote to Barista Journal On-line. “Our Delight drinks had been impressed by the enjoyment, resilience, and vibrancy of the LGBTQ+ neighborhood. Every beverage is crafted not solely to have a good time Delight Month, however to indicate our ongoing assist for inclusivity and love in all its kinds. We’re proud to be a secure and welcoming area for everybody, all yr spherical.”
The Get together’s Not Over But …
Delight Month is far from over, so make sure to hold an eye fixed out for extra Delight content material within the coming weeks!
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