Does anyone have recommendations for dairy alternatives?

Oat milk has been our favorite hands down. We keep Oatly Barista stocked for lattes, its taste and texture are spot on. Even does latte art pretty well, though mine often looks more like abstract art...

I use Oatly at home. The barista version makes better foam, but I purchase the full fat (dark blue carton) Oatly because it's cheaper and the foam is 90% as good.

We use Oat milk at home (partner is dairy free), and both Oatly Barista and Califia Barista oat milks and they're fantastic. We steam at ~130*C. It frothes well, tastes good, has some body to it. Highly recommend

I use the Califia Farms barista oat milk and it's been my favorite so far. It has a thicker texture and foams nicely. No weird after taste to me.

Oatmilk is easily the best alternative imo. It can be frothed pretty well too.

I like Chobani extra creamy oat milk, but I don't do latte art so I don't know how it is for that.

I've tried a lot and always came back to oatly barista. Pea is by far the worst I've ever tried. Soy is ok, almond is meh. Cashew can be pretty good and creamy, but it's expensive.

Pea is the only I've just thrown out. I've tried multiple brands but they were all disgusting.

I'm going to go against the trend here and say soy. We get one here called happy happy soy boy and it's excellent for milk coffee.

I personally prefer the taste of soy in coffee to oat, I find oat slightly too thin.

Almond is the worst, I believe there's a technical explanation for this, something about the oils, but I can't recall the details.

Anyway I recommend finding a high quality soy and giving that a go.

IMO Oat is better for coffee and Soy is better for baking. Soy can also have a strong flavor. Silk is pretty watered down, which why they add the thickener. The big thing like I've seen others mentioned is the thickeners when heated has weird consistency and flavor.

The consistency of oat milk is more like evaporated milk so could be better for some coffee beverages. There are some brands of almond milk I don't like (i.e. Target brand) that have a curdled appearance but I've never had that issue with Blue Diamond. Califia Farms adds thickening agents to their products and it gives them all a play-doh taste.

I'm good with most kinds of oat milk (and I live in a country where there are plenty). My wife, who's much more of a coffee snob, only drinks Oatly's dedicated coffee milk (which is probably called Oatly Barista where you live).

I think folks are right about Oat-based milks, but I’ll through out one I haven’t seen: Fairlife. My diet is higher in protein, so I tend to gravitate toward Fairlife anyway, but I’ve found the ones with a little more fat steam well.

Edit: The filtration process they use removes lactose.

I haven’t found any alternative milks that froth particularly well, but the best I’ve had for taste and texture are oat (Oatly barista) and soy. “NOTMilk” did alright too, but it contains pineapple for some odd reason, and you can taste it. All the nut milks I’ve tried are too watery. Whatever you go for, non-/low-fat will generally be worse than the full unhealthy goodness.

Sounds kinda strange but I once used potato milk and really liked it

I personally use lactose free milk (fairlife) or oat milk. Flavor wise, Oat milk takes a bit to get used to but then you realize how creamy it is, even more so than regular milk.

Oatly barista is the best I've tried but it's just nothing like using whole milk. I suppose it depends on the coffee as well, some just don't go well with oat flavors and others may be better that way

I can't speak to how well it froths, but both Silk's NextMilk and the Not Milk plant based alternatives are (to this non-vegan who cooks for a vegan) as close enough as to be indistinguishable.

Also Starbucks also has a line of flavoured plant-based coffee whitners in the grocery stores now which my vegan is particularly enjoying.