The city is getting pretty experimental when it comes to our caffeine comforts and now rainbow coffee is becoming a thing.

Last week we saw “deconstructed coffee” creep into cafes and it caused outrage among many frequent sippers.

And now, rainbow coffee has again been confusing people who just want a traditional latte.

The new drink certainly takes coffee art to another level, with reds, blues and greens swirling around the coffee mug, but it might be an acquired taste, as it’s not exactly coffee you’re getting.

The rainbow coffee is a healthy alternative, created by Too Many Chiefs, a cafe in Brighton in Melbourne’s south east, and owners claim the drink gives you your vitamin C fix, fights the flu, boosts your immune system and acts as an anti-inflammatory.

“Coffee gone mad,” a coffee lover wrote on Twitter.

The rainbow coffees are free from caffeine and are made out of turmeric, beetroot and matcha, a green tea plant.

You can also buy the beverages in separate flavours and the turmeric latte, also known at the “golden” latte, has proven to be pretty popular.

While some would be loving the healthy alternative, caffeine addicts seem slightly disappointed with the idea and some even say it is again taking the hipster coffee scene a bit too far.

“Just make coffee, like real coffee,” one wrote on Facebook.

Another questioned “why can’t coffee just be coffee?”

Others were quick to jump to the rainbow coffee’s defence and said it was better than the “deconstructed coffee” and thought it looked pretty appealing.

“It hasn’t gone too far! Plenty of places you can still get a normal coffee. Some people just enjoy there’s with a little dose of weirdness. What’s the big deal? This looks wicked,” a woman said.

Melbourne wasn’t the first to think of this new coffee hipster trend, with cafes in Las Vegas already brightening people’s mornings.

However, baristas in the US are simply tinting steamed milk with food colouring and not creating the healthy alternatives.

Article written by news.com.au