Recently started drinking coffee after 37 years. I am under the impression that gold blend is one of the nicest. Am I wrong, what else is recommended?

No nestle products please.
fairtrade is the way to go.

percol expresso instant is nice.

Kenco really rich, blue jar.

Douwe Egberts pure gold is my favourite instant!

carte noire tastes like coffee.

Starbucks Via, if you must, is a cut above the rest of the instants imo.

Lovely. Been drinking it for 22 years and it still grooves my truffles.

+1 for kenco blue top.

Yeah I like a Douwe Egberts for a smoooooth instant taste.

If I want something with more bite I make a proper coffee.

Alta Rica is crap imo, I don't think it really tastes of anything.

+1 for Kenco Rich. Buy it in the Eco Refill bag & feel good about yourself.

no nestle products!!!!!! Baby killers they are
*stamps feet*

At work I use Percol Cafe Espresso not too bad.

Clipper organic decaff. The one with the green lid. It's so nice, I prefer it to other caffeinated brands. Highly recommended.

my god! i agree with tj.plus instant coffee of any ilk is tasteless. 😯

no nestle products!!!!!! Baby killers they are
*stamps feet*

Worlds over populated anyway

and Alta Rica is lush

There is loads of so called proper coffee in expensive places like sxxxxxxks etc which is bitter and horrible

I like Gold Blend. In fact all Nestle products are great.
The Milky Bars are on me!!

3 words: Nestle, Nestle, Nestle.

agree with TJ and nicest instant coffee is some kind of triple oxymoron

Instant coffee and NESTLE condensed milk only if camping in a wilderness though where fresh is unavailable

Instant karma's gonna get you

Instant Karma ,by Kenco is it?

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and some pre ground coffee.

Na – its by lennon

Instant karma’s gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon you’re gonna be dead

fairtrade is the way to go.

Overpriced inferior products. People buy this shit just to think they are doing some good.

It does do some good tho – especially with coffee and chocolate.

Some fairtrade instant coffee is acceptable – I would say it was great tho

fairtrade is the way to go.

Overpriced inferior products. People buy this shit just to think they are doing some good.
I concur. (but don't know for certain)
Anyway, what's the point of these threads? One mans meat is another mans poison. I can drink most coffee apart from proper cheap stuff, without going 'BLEURGHH!' I must have no taste buds.

Didn't like the fairtrade coffee or tea I tried and i've only got to look at my corporate clothing to see the shody stitching and odd size's for clothing.

For instant coffee I like Douwe Egberts or Carte Noir.

Life is too short for instant coffee – just drink the real stuff.

Rocket Fuel coffee with guarana is so good

Douwe Egberts pure gold is my favourite instant!

Mine too.

Call me a total pleb but the best coffee I've even had was from an isolated café off a trail near Morzine. It was a double espresso … with cream… and a tiny sprinkling of sugar… mmmm

Tj and tootall+1

+1 for bruneep and TooTall

Instant is minging get the plastic filter thingys that sit on top of your cup if you don't have a cafetiere or percolator.

I do try and avoid Nestle stuff, but their Pretentious Range or whatever it's called has some nice stuff. Alta Rica's decent, Cap Columbie's my own favourite, good enough that I can't be bothered with anything else really. Don't really like the Parisien but it's indistinguishable from a lot of "proper" cafe coffee to me. The Green Blend is interesting, tastes a bit fresher and, well, quite reminiscent of weed smoke, though that's not how they describe it.

The Espresso is impressive. Looks like Espresso, smells like Espresso, tastes of MDF.

tesco gold label @ £1.29 per jar – as good as owt else !

You can't get a better instant coffee than Mellow Birds.

I avoid all Fairtrade coffee as I can't help feeling that it's an attempt to rip me off. Presumably what they refer to as "fair" is me paying overinflated prices so that some greedy coffee bean growers can overcharge for their produce.

And I don't buy into this nonsense about it helping to pay for their children's university education ………….. why would anyone need a university degree to grow coffee beans FFS 😕

The only "lesson" they need to learn, is how market forces work. And the best way to teach them that, is to make certain they only get the market rate for their coffee beans ……………. ungrateful greedy gits 😐

I would avoid Nestle products (specially KitKats) as TJ suggests, because they have started to introduce Fairtade produce. Basically just don't buy anything with the Fairtrade logo.

Buy it in the Eco Refill bag & feel good about yourself.

Jar sizes – 100g and 200g. Refill pouch, "new size" 150g. They've thought about this, haven't they. I don't want 'new size', I want 'old size' to refill my gorram old jars. Hence, y'know, "refill."

Eejits.

Instant coffee + nice = impossible.