Salted maple in Brisbane

Maple syrup with a pinch of salt, most often whipped into the cold foam on an iced coffee or matcha: sweet and salty, close to salted caramel. In all our data to 13 Nov 2026, The Froth has seen it at 10 Brisbane cafes across 9 suburbs, in posts, customer reviews and menus. The 9 in "Where to get one" are the cafes with it on their current menu or in a cafe or creator post.

It is on 2 Brisbane cafe menus right now, including Cafe & Bar on Whites Hill in Camp Hill and Rising Sun Rituals in Morningside. 7 more cafes have posted it, though it is not on their current menu. The "Where to get one" list on this page has every one, with the price where the menu gives one, links to the menu or post, and directions. Menus change, so check with the cafe before you go.

Brisbane cafes also sell salted maple as "Salted Maple Cold Foam", "Salted Maple Cold Brew Cold Brew" and "Salted Maple Popcorn Cold Foam". The Froth counts every one of these names as the same trend, from cafes' own posts and menus.

It is on a bigger share of Gold Coast cafes: 1% against Brisbane's 0.8%, over the last 90 days.

It is early days. The Froth rates salted maple as Emerging as of 13 Nov 2026: it is on a small share of cafes (0.8% in the last 90 days) and holding steady. In the 90 days to 13 Nov 2026, 0.8% of the Brisbane cafes we see well (an Instagram post or a current menu in that time) had it. Among the 1,071 cafes we have followed through both periods, 1 of the same cafes had it, against 2 in the 90 days before. Brisbane searches for it were up 67% in Aug to Oct 2026 compared with Aug to Oct 2025.

There were 20 searches for salted maple in Brisbane in Oct 2026, with all its names added up. Across the 23 months we have, from Dec 2024 to Oct 2026, it ranged from 0 searches (Dec 2024) to 20 (Jul 2025). These are monthly estimates of search demand in Brisbane.

The earliest Brisbane cafe post or customer review about salted maple that The Froth has is from 22 Apr 2026. We only see what we collect, so that is when we first saw it, not when it started: it may have been sold earlier, here or elsewhere.

A typical salted maple cold brew, drawn from Brisbane cafes' own posts, is built from the top down with sea salt flakes (a pinch on top), salted maple foam (milk and cream whipped cold with maple syrup and a pinch of salt, about 2 cm), ice (fills the cup before anything is poured) and cold brew (about 250 ml over ice). Each cafe makes its own version, so this is a typical build, not one cafe's recipe.

A cafe counts for salted maple from the first public post or customer review we found about it, the cafe's own post or a customer's, and while it is on the cafe's current menu. Shares are of the cafes we see well: those with an Instagram post or a current menu in the same 90 days, a chain counting once. A change compares the same cafes in the last 90 days with the 90 before, only among cafes we have followed through both, so newly added cafes never look like growth. The 90 days end on the latest day with cafe posts or reviews (13 Nov 2026), not today. Searches are monthly search demand in Brisbane with all of a trend's names added up. Captions stay private; we only link to public posts. The full method is on our "How we track cafe trends" page.