Conscience Coffee

Advantages: Fairtrade, ethical business, reasonable product
Disadvantages: Bit bland, not full bodied as rivals or real ground coffee

...I really love the taste and smell of fresh ground coffee, especially from Colombia or Costa Rica. There is a richness and distinctive aroma as you open the pack which just sets the taste buds tingling???..Alas, all too often it is simply not practical or best use of time to indulge in real brewed coffee so instant must suffice. Unfortunately in this sector of the beverage market price is often indicative of quality, and premium brand instant coffees almost always taste better than the standard or economy offerings. Having experienced enjoyable cups of Percol Fresh Ground Colombian Coffee I had high expectations from the instant variety: even more so since it was on offer at just over £2 for a 100g jar making it very competitive against other premium brands. The packaging with it?s familiar green green hue and prominent Fairtrade...

suehome 22.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Percol Fairtrade Instant Colombian Coffee

Coffee with a Conscience?

Advantages: Good taste, cheap, sustainable development.
Disadvantages: Air miles?

...The particular Kenco instant coffee I am writing about is their 'Sustainable Development' variety. I could have asked Ciao to allow me to review this as a new product as this particular 'flavour' has not been reviewed, but as plenty of Kenco reviews exist I thought it would be okay (and less greedy) to simply review it in this category. I don't drink coffee much as I see it as a treat and I like my coffee strong enough for the spoon to stand up in, with (I use Elmlea light) cream. I also like it so hot it burns my lips, which is probably not too good for me, hence, the rare treat. Sustainability: I first tried this brand and type out about 6 months ago and was attracted to the fact that it boasts a 'Rainforest alliance' certificate and aids local farmers earn a fair deal. In fact the coffee comes from a cooperative in El Salvador...

paulhanton 08.04.2008 (09.04.2008) · Read review
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Review of Kenco Instant Coffee

Coffee with my Tea!

Advantages: delicious, quite cheap
Disadvantages: coffee doesn't appeal to as much

...Drinking a cup of coffee for me is a rare thing. I will decide on a cup maybe once every six months but even then when I drink it I am left with an awful headache and I feel quite sick too. However I love any food product which tastes of coffe - thats a total different ball game! Whether its coffee revels, coffee cake or coffee cream, I love it! I was shopping for my dad at Tesco when I stopped in the cake aisle to pick up his Kiplings. My Dad loves Mr Kipling cakes but to be honest I am not ovely excited by them nowadays. However I did I notice a selection of Tescos madeira cakes which I feltl ooked a bit more appetizing!: lemon, cherry, marble, coffee! Oh wow, coffee cake! I hadn't had in ages, not since my Grandma and I baked one a few years back. I checked the price - £1.29. That seemed quite pricey, but it was a fair size, quite...

Amy69 10.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Tesco Iced Coffee Madeira Cake

Coffee Conundrum

Advantages: Quick and covenient with a reasonably convincing fresh brewed taste
Disadvantages: Brown sludge on the bottom, enormous amoeba like bag

...Whilst I like coffee, I'd hardly consider myself a coffee aficionado. I love the smell of freshly brewed coffee, yet I am content to drink good quality instant. Still, freshly brewed coffee at home is a treat. I'd heard about Lyons one-cup coffee bags. It turns out you can get a free sample (in fact, two free samples - there are two bags in the free sample pack - click here to get your own: http://www.coffeeperfection.com/our-coffee.php). I'm a sucker for free samples, so I filled in the e-form, and many weeks later (and I mean lots - maybe six weeks), these dropped through my letterbox. Each bag was enclosed in a foil envelope (presumably for freshness). Lyons helpfully give me advice on what they are 'perfect' for (I love that - as if I need to be told when the time is right for a one-cup coffee bag - if I'm 'at work...

mattygroves 09.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Lyons Fresh Coffee Bags

Coffee with bite

Advantages: Tasty, strong alcohol content, not too expensive
Disadvantages: The weird bottle, leaves a slightly bitter aftertaste

...with Sheridan’s original written across it. The same label but this time oval shaped is stuck on the front of the fused bottles. The cap is a large black plastic umbrella shape with a round twist off lid on the front of it. Once you remove this you are greeted by two large holes that look like some kind of cannon staring you right in the mush just waiting to blast your nostrils off. Oh, it does tell you on the bottle that this is a coffee layered liqueur and it is a whopping 18.5% in the alcohol content. ~~~~~~WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THIS WEIRD BOTTLE?~~~~~~ Well, you are supposed to tilt your glass when you pour the drink and from one side of the now pouring bottle, you have some brown stuff oozing out and right next to it there is some weird milky looking stuff hitting your glass as well. Once your glass is full, you are then supposed...

deano_76 26.01.2003 · Read review
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Review of Sheridans Coffee Layered Liqueur

Not for coffee snobs. (Nescafe Original)

Advantages: Quick to make a cup or mug of coffee.
Disadvantages: Bitter taste.

...Nescafe Original is something that I have to admit I have gone back to even after purchasing a coffee machine! I still use the machine but for super quick coffee on the move you can't beat Nescafe Original, even though it does leave a bitter after taste. The jar of coffee I have is made of glass with a brown plastic top screw top lid. The jar contains 100g of instant coffee granules. There is a predominantly brown label on the front and back of the jar. The front label boasts that the coffee is rich and full flavoured (we will put that to the test later) and that the coffee is naturally rich in antioxidants (this I find interesting). The front label also depicts a large hot steaming mug of coffee sat on top of a scattering of coffee beans. The rear label contains an ingredients list (100% coffee), nutritional information per 100g (63...

StephenPhillips123 28.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Nescafe Coffee Granules

Cup Of Coffee Mate?

Advantages: A quick easy way to a creamy cup of coffee.
Disadvantages: Nothing major

...How many times have you been caught out? The milk is running low and there's no time to nip out to the shops and then the doorbell rings, this is when a jar of Nestle Coffeemate is worth its weight in gold. I used to keep some of those individual pots of coffee cream in for the unexpected but to be honest Coffeemate is a far better proposition. Nestle have more than one Coffeemate to offer us nowadays, there is the ordinary version, the virtually fat free type , Coffeemate original and Coffeemate Latte Creations Vanilla. I had never even heard of the last one on the list! But it is a whitening agent with sugar and vanilla flavouring that you add to your coffee to make a tasty latte apparently. I use the original Nestle Coffeemate, a 200g tub comes in at around £1.14p, sometimes you can manage to find it a touch cheaper but not...

Sarahjh1 17.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of Nestle Coffee-mate Original

OLDCHEM'S COFFEE GUIDE

Advantages: I love coffee to much
Disadvantages: I love coffee too much

... Before I choose my coffee - here is Oldchem's guide to coffee Oldchem cannot function without a constant caffeine intake, in fact I have considered having a little Senseo machine on my back fitted to a drip straight into my arm!! It is now over 38 years since a drop of tea entered my mouth; I went off tea, even the smell of it sent me running to the bathroom, when I was expecting my first daughter (and she will be 38 in January), I've not touched tea since so coffee is my mainstay and I love it strong and black Oh, but shock horror, this is supposedly SO bad for me!! HOW IS IT BAD FOR ME? 1. Experts say that caffeine should be avoided or limited during pregnancy. They say that drinking coffee during pregnancy has been linked to lower birth weight and an increased risk of miscarriage and stillbirth...

oldchem 16.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of If The Ciao Cafe Were A Real Cafe, What Sort Of Coffee Would You Order?

A 'Delicate' Coffee

Advantages: Delicate flavour
Disadvantages: Quite expensive

...There's nothing better than the rich aroma of freshly brewed coffee. But if you don't have the time or enthusiasm to make the real thing, there are some excellent instants out there. One of them is Nescafé Kenjara. Having recently tried the 'aromatic' Cap Colombie and the 'intense' Alta Rica varieties, I was keen to try the 'delicate' Kenjara variety too. SO WHAT IS IT? Like Cap Colombie and Alta Rica, Kenjara is a freeze dried soluble coffee, made 100% from Kenyan and Costa Rican arabica beans. These are lighted roasted to bring out the delicate flavours associated with this coffee. WHAT TO LOOK FOR Like the other varieties I have tried, the jar is made of dark brown glass and has a black plastic lid. This may not sound particularly enticing, but the jar's sleek, slender shape makes it instantly appealing to the consumer...

rowei 24.04.2005 · Read review
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Review of Nescafe Kenjara Coffee

Fancy a coffee?

Advantages: lovely coffee
Disadvantages: overpriced

...Let me tell you about the Coffee Union having been forced to use this on many occasions due to the location so the office where I work. What is the Coffee Union Well let me tell you, the coffee union is a Liverpool based company with five Coffee Shops located in the City centre, well that's what they say, however, I would say 4 in the City centre and 1 outside the City centre. The first shop was opened in 1998 on Bold Street in Liverpool and the business has expanded from there. The Coffee Union buys is beans direct from the plantation cutting out the middle man and where possible they use Rainforest Alliance and Organic beans What does the Coffee Union provide Well as you may have guest this is something along the line of Starbuck or Café Nero, and they sell coffee along with sandwiches and a few other items, but more...

Julieshobs 16.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of Coffee Union, Liverpool