Millennials are used to being told that all they need to do to save for a home is cut down on the lattes and the avocado toast. Often these tips are pretty useless, but if your daily coffee order involves fresh milk from Mossgiel Farm in Ayrshire, you might want to take that advice to heart, because you’ll be saving yourself nearly £300 a pop. Now that’s not to be sniffed at.
On Saturday (November 23), Britain’s most expensive ever flat-white will be available for purchase at 13 cafés across Scotland. One cup will set you back a hefty £272 thanks to the creamy milk which comes straight from the west Scotland farm.
Until now, the nation’s priciest cuppa was from SHOT, a Mayfair specialist which offered a rare Japanese espresso shot for £265, but its reign has come to an end. So what makes this flat-white so special? Is it gold plated? Does it come with a free iPad? Sadly, it’s a no to both.
But, you’re probably wondering, then what makes it any different from a bog-standard classic flat-white?
The answer is that it sort of isn’t that special at all. It’s primarily a fundraiser to enable the Mossgiel to become more sustainable, but Bryce Cunningham also hopes it will raise awareness about the importance of future proofing the farming industry for an eco-friendly future.
Cunningham is aware that the price-tag is ‘crazy’, but believes that, ‘sometimes it takes a little shock factor to make people think differently.’ According to him: ‘This coffee costs nearly 80 times the price of an average flat white in the UK, but it's much more than just a lovely drink.
‘You're investing in a sustainable future for farming and joining a movement that's changing the dairy industry.’
He’s been trying to turn customers into investors in order to fund its transformation into an industry leader in ‘sustainable agriculture’. He’s critical of ‘big dairy’, and hopes that this budget-busting coffee will encourage people to consider how much the produce they use on a day to day basis is actually worth to them, and hopefully recruit some more people to the cause. Plus, the milk is actually higher quality than most due to state-of-the-art pasteurisation techniques, so you’ll at least be getting some bang for your buck.
Cunningham’s farm is thought to be the first of its kind in the country to completely stop the use of single-use plastics, and it also operates on a farming model which allows cows to raise their calves naturally without separating the pair at birth.
If you want to get involved but don’t have a few hundred to spare, there are investment opportunities starting at just £8 – the cost of a slightly upmarket coffee at any trendy café. You can find out more about those here.
You’ll be able to purchase the flat-white with creamy Mossgiel milk at the following places across Scotland:
Edinburgh
- William & Johnson
- The Lady and the Bear
- The Dean
- Disposition Coffee.
Ayrshire
- Gilmartin’s.
Glasgow
- Hinba, Great Western Road, Sauchiehall Street and Dumbarton Road
- The Good Coffee Cartel
- Ottoman Coffee
- Spitfire Espresso
- Thomson’s, Gallowgate.
East Renfrewshire
- Thomson’s, Giffnock.
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