The Matcha+Chocolate+Jalapeno drink should be called the Shreckuccino

please make the cursed drink a customer ordered when I worked at Starbucks; the pumpkin water... literally it was just pumpkin spice sauce and water... weirdest order I ever took.

I wish I had a real source to cite for this, but I think the "dirty" matcha or any matcha + coffee + chocolate combo came about thanks to Hiroshi Sawada. He opened his first US shop called Sawada Coffee back in 2015 (here in Chicago), and the signature drink is a military latte. It's an espresso and matcha with vanilla and some cocoa powder, and it was named for the green and brown colors that resembled camo. I highly recommend pairing it with the complementary military donut!

This is not something I order in a cafe, but at home I love to make for myself a honey rose iced latte. I pour some hot water over rose petals, let it steep for 5 mins and then add to iced coffe with milk and honey and that's it. You can balance it by adding more honey to make it sweeter or steeping the petals longer up to 10 mins to make it more idk natural and almost minty. Very summery, flowery and refreshing drink

As a Starbucks barista my favorite thing someone ordered that confused me and then surprised me over how good it was was chai in steamed lemonade. Shockingly good.

when she said "that is LOVELY!" it just makes me wanna drink all the coffee she's ever made

A drink I really like that gets a few people turning their heads before they tried it was called a "cherry bomb." It was a barista's specialty drink who no longer works at the café i got it at. I think it was a white chocolate mocha late with cherry syrup, cinnamon, and cayenne pepper mixed in, and as a sprinkle on top as a garnish~ sweet spicy and delicious 😋 is what I remember about it. Cayenne has a softer profile than jalapeños I think, but still has that kick ;)

I'm picturing, in a competition setting and in Morgan's comp-presentation-voice, "the tactile is alarming" and it's cracking me up way more than it has any right to.

As a lifelong marshmallow afficianado, I'm intrigued by the marshmallow espresso. Next time try putting the marshmallows in the cup first and then brew directly over them!

I love how the chapters go from nicely named and organized to a chaotic not even given a properly named title lol

i once scared my local coffee shop when I was bone-tired and also the weather was to warm for anything milky by ordering a raspberry frappe (so basically blended frozen raspberries and ice and it is all over on its own great) with a double espresso shot...they looked at me horrified - quite honestly - and were like "are you sure?" and I was like "yes, please" so, yeah, I found it to be amazing and maybe a drink you could make for the next "weird coffee orders" (it would also be more coffee adjacent)

✨A dash of marshmallow liquer in straight espresso! It's SOOOO different than just using marshmallow syrup. Pay attention to the way the flavor changes after taking a sip, I've never had an espresso whose flavor goes thru so many transitions after it enters your mouth... (You can find the liquer at Total Wine) ✨

Not a particularly weird combo, but a mocha with orange syrup (not juice). Very nice twist on a standard mocha.

1/4 espresso (double shot), blueberry syrup, 1/4 heavy cream, 2/4 whole milk cold. Delicious festive drink

I’ve had a matcha and peppermint latte once, and it was surprisingly nice. The peppermint brightened the grassy notes from the matcha, and the matcha mellowed out the peppermint. It was around Christmas and it was called a Grinch tea latte, I mainly got it because of the name lol

Being Canadian, I work at a Tim Horton's (bc of course). There's the "Gretzky" aka the 9 sugars, 9 cream. But I've had people order 12/12s with a straight face and those are the people that scare me more than the people adding weird flavours to their coffees

I like doing a lot of "dirty" drinks with that added shot of espresso. It'll mix into just about anything. My favorite during summer is a Dirty Lemonade.

I often make my coffee with a little molasses in place of any other sweeteners and a bit of half and half. It adds a malty-ish flavor to the coffee without being overly sweet. I discovered this combination years ago when my Dad brought me a cup of coffee and my migraine-addled self was convinced that he had added molasses to my coffee when he hadn't and afterwards I couldn't stop thinking about the combination, so I eventually tried it. It turned out to be pretty good and is still one of my favorites.

When we were in Geneva, we stumbled upon a coffee company whose specialty was 50/50 cold brew and ginger beer. It was delicious. Add that to your list!

I once messed up my whipped cream for coffee. I was trying to make something more fluffy, but overmixied it instead. It was still fluffy and floaty, but the texture was more dense. This cream didn't mix in the coffee well, so i ate it with spoon. But i loved the combo! I named it "cloudy sky" because the cream was floating on top like some heavy clouds, which about to pour some rain. It's a simple combo, but i had fun creating it🌸

I like putting cayenne in my hot chocolate, so I’m definitely going to have to experiment with the chocolate+matcha+jalapeño combo.

LOL we do this all the time at the NYC coffee shop I work at 😂 We test customers strange orders and have learned how many syrups DO NOT taste good in matcha

we had a seasonal drink in the fall where we did an apple cider latte with 1/4 cider and 3/4 milk steamed together, espresso, orange syrup, and fall spices. it was amazing

I don't think it's weird but baristas always seemed confused when I would get a hot matcha latte with hazelnut syrup, it's so nice! My favourite that I always make at home nowadays is an iced matcha latte with pumpkin spice syrup 🤤 (always with oat milk of course)

I think that marshmallow fluff would work better instead of small marshmallow.

One of my favourite drinks I've made is a Ras Malai Latte. It's a regular latte, but it's made with the liquid from ras malai thinned out with a bit of whole milk. Also works well as a Chai latte. If you haven't tried it, ras malai is a south asian dairy dessert that is sort of like a spongy cheese swimming in a bunch of sweet and aromatic cream and topped with some chopped/crushed nuts. The flavour I used was saffron, but it is also made with cardamom. You can find frozen trays of it in south asian grocery stores.

I wonder if the texture of the apple cider latte could be improved by reducing the apple cider into something more like a syrup (it'd be easy to add spices to this too!) and steaming milk normally (so the way you'd make any other flavored latte, basically)?

As a barista of 7 years, one combination I used to really enjoy was having a Cortado with mint. On my breaks i used to make a cortado and drink it with a piece of Kendal mint cake. (or if you cant get it in the states, a dash of mint syrup works too.) You let the mint cake melt on your tongue and then have a sip of the drink. It was my daily drink.

I have also fallen victim to the coffee and orange juice fever. I make mine with cold brew and sometimes a little bit of sweet cream. My last coffee fixation was my "blueberry muffin" creation: a hot drink with oat milk & blueberry syrup. My ultimate goal has been to make a coffee drink that's tastes like a lemon poppyseed muffin. But the syrup I tried it with didn't mix well even with milk alternatives.

I’m a big fan of combining white chocolate and Matcha like you said, but I really can’t imagine chocolate doing the same thing for me. I’ll have to try it though!

oh, let's add another one: banana hot chocolate w. espresso 🤤 add some milk to a pan, add a banana, puree until banana is completely "dissolved", heat it up on a stove, then add unsweetened cocoa powder (the baking stuff) and a double shot of espresso. ah and just don't ask how one comes up with these recipes they just happen to be lucky accidents 😅

I feel like the spicy matcha chocolate thing would lend its self more to a darker chocolate flavour and maybe a dried, smoky chilli instead of jalapeño. What I’m saying is there’s definitely promise, especially (in my mind) with an old school almost South American approach to the flavours

One of my all time faves I created when I was a barista at SB: chai concentrate + lemonade + ice = yum. Another option is that plus a healthy splash of oat milk. Double yum! Just happened to be talking with our regional manager on his visit to the store and he said, go ahead and make one…I’ll try it. He took one sip and immediately gave the wait-a-minute-now eyebrow raise and nod. He said you might be onto something! He even asked for the rest of it in a to-go cup. 😊

I enjoy Morgan’s overall presence. Positive and knowledgable. This is my first stop in on this channel but I really enjoyed it. 😄

I love love love a black and tonic with lemon! One can of tonic water, two shots of espresso, sweeten with honey if you prefer it sweet, and squeezed lemon over top. It has to be my favorite summer drink of all time. I've also gently poured espresso over lemon, orange, or blood orange San Pellegrino sodas and they are equally lovely. Gentle being the keyword, as the crema of the espresso will foam up like crazy once it meets the cold carbonated drink. But if its poured just so, you get a delicious head to the top, not unlike a beer!

One of my favorite drinks in a Czech café was a lavender latte. A few drops of essential lavender oil in the cup before constructing the latte, then topped with whipped cream and lavender sugar (lavender flowers and sugar blitzed up). So good if you like floral flavors. If not it will taste like laundry detergent to you 😅

The last drink, and the mention of Chai reminds me of a drink a coffee shop had called “Chaider” not sure if it was just Chai and apple cider, or if it was more of a latte-type drink with steamed milk, but it was always my favorite to get!

I’m not sure about espresso and matcha but I know that Vietnamese coffee (sweetened with condensed milk) and matcha has been popular in the Vietnamese coffee scene

This has me VERY intrigued to experiment with the marshmallow idea. I plan to grab a culinary torch and toast the marshmallows until lightly golden, then place in the cup and pour the espresso over them. My hope is that the toasting starts the melting process and the Maillard reaction adds some complexity to the beverage.

I tried the orange coffee a few weeks ago because of this video and now i cannot go in a day without it 😂 thank you Morgan for the discovery!

I love horchata latte sometimes with a shot of hazelnut...idk if that's weird but it's a really refreshing twist on the regular latte

A 20 minute Morgan video?! I can’t wait to try some of these

Hot Chocolate + chili is definitely a thing. Very traditional, if I remember correctly. I've had hot chili fudge as well.

Apple cider always makes me do a duble take in videos like this. Because to me, that is a clear alcoholic drink, often with some form of carbonation. Which would not pair well with milk at all. Coffee, I don't know tbh. But with the american version, which to me would be unclarified juice, I can see it being an interesting combination.

I recently discovered your channel and I don't think I've ever heard someone talk about coffee nuances in such an inviting and approachable way as you! I don't tolerate caffeine really well but I appreciate a Good Coffee (before lunch lol otherwise no sleep) and I also experiment with herbal bitters, mocktails etc so I love video's like this!

I didn't do it this year but previous years I've made a really lovely syrup just by reducing apple cider to 50% of its original volume. I would for sure try that in a latte. You could add whole spices during the reduction.

The other day I made myself a snickers inspired iced latte. I used one tsp of peanut butter, a pump of caramel syrup, chocolate sauce and 2 shots of espresso as the base. Then I added the milk, topped it with whipped cream and drizzled it with cinnamon. It was so so good! Tasted just like the candy!

Cider and coffee is delicious! You're definitely right about the spices too. What's really good is making boiled cider (basically reduce a gallon of cider down to a thick syrup. I believe it was King Arthur Flour that had a great recipe/method for it) with spices added and adding that to coffee with milk. It's a more intense cider flavor and really good. Thanks for moving your clock by the way!! It helped my wife and I both. Between that and the extra lighting it was really helpful for focus! :) Very much appreciated.

The strangest thing that I’ve ordered was a red velvet latte. And it was absolutely delicious. It was so chocolatey and it taste just like red velvet cake.

I found your channel recently and I haven't seen many videos of you, but I love your way of describing tastes and also your way of objectively enjoying things. Like there are sooo many people not liking bitter drinks and drinking everything way too sweet or the other way around. I like how you enjoy both. thanks for this cozy environment!

At the coffee shop I work at we have a regular named Ann. She’s a snowbird who only shows up in the summer but when she’s in town she’s a regular to the point that she has her own drink option in the register: Ann’s Drink. Ann’s Drink is iced earl gray tea, honey, one shot of espresso, and I think sugar free vanilla syrup. I think about Ann a lot

Matcha works well with coconut milk😋

I've been loving your content lately! Love the syrup recipes and making new drinks~ I can't wait to try these at home!

When in Peru I had iced black coffee with fresh orange juice quite often. First it sounded disgusting but from the first sip on I was in love. Especially on a hot day this is SO good. So I’ll definitely try your version with the vanilla Sirup. That sounds amazing ❤

something i had never seen on a cafe menu before but was immedietky intrigued by was iced black tea with cloudy apple juice. it was really nice tho! will definitely make that myself at home in the summer

The Dirty Matcha latte is actually something I really like and started making for myself a few months ago with no outside influence, I just wanted to know what what happen if I did it. Now I make it for myself fairly often. It's become kind of a comfort drink for me, honestly. I like to add honey and white chocolate sauce because you're right, there's not very much going on by itself but once you add a little sweetener it's really good.

I don't have an answer on the dirty matcha rising but I can speculate that it might have been the popularity of the dirty chai (which was really popular awhile ago) and then matcha rose in popularity over chai and people just combined them. Like they were already putting espresso in tea why not in the "new" tea.

espresso+orange juice also taste great with vanilla ice cream instead of milk. I really like to wait for the scoop of ice cream to slowly melt into the drink!

Okay but actually try this ~ double shot espresso mixed w a tablespoon of creamy jif peanut butter, add steamed whole milk, stir in a tablespoon of maple syrup. It’s amazing

You are one of my major comfort channels, and I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your videos. Also, the first drink reminds me of Orange Joe from OMORI!

a matcha latte with espresso is called "shot green tea latte" in cafes in South Korea, Hong Kong, and other cafes in Asia, so it's been pretty popular over there for a while. As for the dark chocolate and matcha, I think that the earthiness of the green tea brings out the earthiness of the dark chocolate really well, personally. I'm a fan of both of those (minus the jalapeno)

"adding the addition of additional spices" may be my new favorite unnecessarily roundabout way of saying "adding" :P

i'd love to see a hundred more of this please!

Years and years back, I dated someone who really liked turmeric chai. But she couldn't get chai at most shops at the time, so she ordered a turmeric latte. Her local NYC coffee shop was happy to do it for her. But one time she tried ordering a turmeric latte from my local coffee shop. But I don't live in NYC, and this place only made basic coffee and tea drinks. I usually just get a double latte from there. So, being extra, she ordered a regular latte, and friggin'... Just squirted a packet of yellow mustard in there. MUSTARD. SHE SEEMED TO ENJOY IT.

I had something very similar to the dirty matcha, except it was a double shot of espresso with milk tea instead, which pushed it a bit to the sweeter side of things. I didn't expect the two flavours to work together as well as they did, but it was a surprisingly pleasant drink.

this is the first video im watching from your youtube channel (although i have been following your on tt for a while) and your voice is exactly how i imagined it)) love the video!!

You are so well spoken, it's very satisfactory to my ears

i honestly love your channel so much, so thanks for making my day a bit better :)

The popularity of espresso matcha might have come from Ten Thousand Coffee which is a fairly small chain but in a lot of major cities, but I’m not totally sure. I just know they’ve had espresso matcha on their menu for years.

An order I got was, a shot of matcha over ice, top with lemon soda and add a scoop of lemon sorbet on top.

espresso + orange juice + vanilla syrup is a common combination at least in eastern europe, it's called bumble 😌 usually served with ice and is amazing for summer. in winter juice could be treated as milk for cappuccino (ends up hot and with a foam) + mulled wine spices are added - hot bumble is also fantastic!

Like I've heard of a Mayan Hot Chocolate, i forget what it's spiced with but it's more akin to like a cinnamony clovey Cayenne spice within a dark/milk hot chocolate drink. It's REALLY good, not sure if I've had it with coffee but it likely would make for a good mocha

Matcha and espresso: there is a real amazing american-undiscovered thing. I've been wanting to share this gem with you ,Morgan, because it was the best drink I've ever had and will probably never have again. Ages ago, while I visited Osaka Japan with friends we had a once in a lifetime dinner at a nondescript but high end restaurant. Our host family knew the chef and he personally made the multi-course meal himself for just for the six of us. He ended the meal by serving a black coffee,or maybe more likely espresso shot, that was topped with matcha foam. You must try this, it was a 12 out of 10. No joke. Simply devine. I wish I knew what kind of matcha or coffee was used....

My favorite go-to order for a local place has been the dirty matcha you made, but adding a little bit of vanilla syrup to it. Like you said, a little bit of sweetness really rounds out the drink; and the added vanilla adds a nice subtlety!

I love the play-by-play commentary of this. The 'That seems like the right move here' stuff they say. Big fan

Today’s dare: Espresso with strawberry preserves and dill pickle juice

As someone who coincidentally had a spicy (guajillo chili, which is smokier!) hot cocoa matcha today- gotta say I'd do it again. I think the dried pepper flavor is really nice, goes well with the chocolate and the bitterness of the matcha. Totally not for everyone, though! Also, take this with a grain of salt- I've asked for a drink that I didn't find all that weird that was declined for "sounding gross." Thanks for this video! :)

I don’t usually subscribe after only one video but this was so pleasant and sweet to watch, I can tell him gonna like this channel

I'm new to your channel and really enjoying it. Who would have thought that watching someone making and tasting coffee drinks would be so fascinating!

I had a customer one time order a vanilla bean cream frap (with oat milk, but that's optional) with added maple spice syrup (from Monin, 3 pumps worth). I didn't think it would taste good until I tried some of what was left over and it turns out it was fantastic. They were certainly on to something!

After stumbling upon your channel all of sudden, I tried the combination of orange juice + espresso and served it cold. It tasted wonderful! Thank you for showing it's actually great!

I actually went grocery shopping just to buy the ingredients for the vanilla, orange juice and milk combo and I LOVED it! I would never have thought to put those together myself

Guava juice (ideally thick pulp rather than thin nectar) and espresso, cold and topped with licorice plum powder on the rim

This is such a nice and calming video, thanks :)

I don’t like coffee but I love your ticktock’s. When I saw you on my KZfaq suggestions page I was so happy.

I haven't mixed them in the mug or cup but I like consuming berry mix yogurt and Turkish coffee together.

I'll admit, I was inspired to try matcha+chocolate because i love matcha and i love bitter hot chocolate (and i can't drink coffee). i made a matcha latte, added cocoa powder, and then mixed in some chili spice and sweetener. it tastes pretty good, though i think just hot chocolate or just matcha tastes equally good. just wanted to share my experiment!

There is one I like too. London Fog Latte with an extra shot Espresso. It’s normally sweetened with vanilla syrup. The Earl Grey for the London Fog is best when it’s a fragrant tea with a good amount of bergamot aroma.

i think the marshmallows were just for funsies. they float in your drink and it's very cute

Cold Brew + Campari + Fresh Grapefruit Juice. 1:2:3 ratio. Add a bit of simple syrup and you have a lightly alcoholic cocktail that tastes *bizarrely* similar to a dark chocolate raspberry truffle.

Your rating scale is very nice. Not dramatic at all and just honest, even when you don’t love the drink. I enjoyed that.

Jalapeno and dark chocolate and coffee goes well together, but not matcha. Matcha is better with white chocolate indeed, but if you want use orange syrup to make it similar to yuzu matcha drinks. Thanks for doing these Morgan! I have some experiments to look forward to.

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Oh I saw in that ad, Anodyne! :D They're my favorite local roaster here in the Milwaukee region, I get their coffee all the time from their stores. Their Ethiopia and Brazilian coffees are definitely my favorites.

One customer order i’ll never forget was an iced caramel latte with mint syrup added. Half & half was the milk choice…

I was surprised to hear you say Anodyne! It’s a local roaster by me and my absolute favorite!

One of my new favorites has been lemonade+coffee as fresh drink for the summer.

Once I ordered a matcha with mocha and the barista just looked at me like “what is this girl on?”, but I love it and is one of my go tos since trying a chocolate donut with matcha drizzle it is *chefs kiss*

Not a coffee drink, but an adjacent drink that I have absolutely love. Red bean Boba Tea. So it consists of red bean paste, mixed with a matcha latte, with honey boba pearls, and topped with a decently thick layer of sweet cream on top, sprinkled with the smallest pinch of salt for flavor enhancement. It's earthy, sweet, and absolutely delicious~!

The strangest combo I've had was a matcha latte with pumpkin spice syrup. My local cafe was serving it around Halloween and called it "Witches' Brew"! It was surprisingly cozy on a fall day and very sweet.