Out shopping one day for my Mum, I decided to stop using our normal brand of coffee, which was Kenco and opt for a cheaper option called Mellow Birds. The major difference with this and our normal brand was that we normally buy Kenco Granules and this jar of Mellow Birds was in the form of ... Read review
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...for a cheaper option called Mellow Birds. The major difference with this and our normal brand was that we normally buy Kenco Granules and this jar of Mellow Birds was in the form of powder. Baa, I thought and decided to buy it anyway. I mean what is the worst that can happen?
Anyways, I get this coffee home and within 15 minutes it had been opened by Dad the Coffee Freak. He is not bothered in the slightest what coffee he drinks so ... ...what I can remember with Mellow Birds written all over it.
THE COMPANY
This coffee is made by Kraft Suchard Nestle I think. This company is also guilty of making popular cereals, expensive chocolate and the better tasting Kenco coffee, which happens to be my favourite.
OVERALL
Sorry, but this product gets a thumbs down from me with that rancid taste and the horrid smell. Don’t buy it. Go for a cheaper, ... more
Out shopping one day for my Mum, I decided to stop using our normal brand of coffee, which was Kenco and opt for a cheaper option called Mellow Birds. The major difference with this and our normal brand was that we normally buy Kenco Granules and this jar of Mellow Birds was in the form of powder. Baa, I thought and decided to buy it anyway. I mean what is the worst that can happen?
Anyways, I get this coffee home and within 15 minutes it had been opened by Dad the Coffee Freak. He is not bothered in the slightest what coffee he drinks so all was OK there, but I am very meticulous about what coffee I have and because I had never tried this before, I thought I would give it a go. I put a small, heaped teaspoon full in mine and my mother’s cup. Then I added the water and the milk and stirred. With one heaped teaspoon, it looked quite frankly like urine, so to make the coffee look more “normal”, I added another half teaspoon of coffee to each mug. The colour change was not petite, but huge, as it had turned the coffee to a mud like substance within the space of a few seconds. With this nonsense I looked again on the jar and it clearly stated that I only needed one heaped teaspoonful of coffee in each mug. Mystified, I thought, I have bought rubbish. By the time I had got the look of the coffee and the taste of the coffee right, the damn thing was cold.
Forgetting my experience now, and on to the product info…
SMELL As you open the coffee, you get this horrid smell that is simply very strong and overpowering. When added to water when making the drink, it actually does not smell too bad. This does not make up for the fact that it tastes like muck though.
TASTE To be fair, this coffee may taste nice if you add the exact amount needed for your cup size, but I found it fiddly and thus, the taste suffered. It either tasted weak, or too strong and to the point of gagging!
LOOK The coffee comes in the form of granules and powder. The powder version was the one I tried because it was cheaper. The powder is very fine and looks like it has been grinded for days. It is very light powder to, and this is obvious because when you open the jar, half of it is blown away. It is horrible, brown, but the colour coffee powder should be I suppose.
PRICE For a 100g jar, I paid 0.99p but normally, you would pay upwards of £1.35. I suppose the 0.99p price was not so bad but as I read in Borgs opinion of this, Value coffee powder from supermarkets is cheaper, and tastier. You are better off buying Tesco Value coffee powder or Asda Smartprice Coffee. For a large jar, and I do not know the weight, but you should expect to pay about £2.
CONTAINER The jars are just the normal run of the mill designs. The only difference is the label. With a blue and yellow design from what I can remember with Mellow Birds written all over it.
THE COMPANY This coffee is made by Kraft Suchard Nestle I think. This company is also guilty of making popular cereals, expensive chocolate and the better tasting Kenco coffee, which happens to be my favourite.
OVERALL Sorry, but this product gets a thumbs down from me with that rancid taste and the horrid smell. Don’t buy it. Go for a cheaper, but tastier Value coffee. Thanks for reading.
PS, I suppose there is one good use for it. Serve it to pain-in-the-backside relatives! LOL
...rancid rancidity. Why call it mellow and why call it birds. Tis but neither! Should I venture on a quest to seek out persons with bad taste and enquire what their problem is and why they feel the need to poison their bodies, to churn their stomachs with such foulness?
If you ever feel the urge to get a packet of wood-chippings, mix it with water and add mustard, you will come close to knowing the taste of this coffee. Borg does not like, and will ... ...proclaimed that Mellow Birds would make you Smile. I feel an urge to erase certain words here and do a bit of cutting and pasting. ‘Mellow Birds will make you feel like retching.’
Okay, I realise that those of you who love this putridity will be groaning at me now and reaching with twitching fingers to the Helpful button. ‘Well, I like it!’ You might exclaim. Well, I don’t and this is just a review and my personal opinion ...
Borg 23.01.2002
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Advantages: very mild, cheap to buy Disadvantages: cannot think of any
...I am actually drinking is Mellow Birds Instant Coffee. It comes in a powder form and is indeed mellow.
PACKAGING
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The packaging is simple, low cost looking. To me it looks quite old fashioned. The coffee comes in your usual glass jar and it has a blue lid. The label around the outside shows a blue mug of coffee with the name Mellow Birds written across it in yellow.
TASTE AND SMELL
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This is a very ... ...word mellow in the name but I have no idea where the birds part came from. The coffee smells, to me, just like any other. It is quite a strong smell considering how mild the taste is which I find surprising.
OTHER INFO
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When using this to make a cup of coffee the powder dissolves really easy and I find I never have to stir it in.
As well as powder it comes in a granules form. I have never tried the granules so I do not know ...
sear69 09.05.2006
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