View Full Version : Starbucks to sell instant coffee
gearfreak
02-13-2009, 15:56
Article (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123447245575379071.html)
Frick Frack
02-13-2009, 16:48
Thanks! The most important item in our packs has hopefully got better! (grammer ?....the trail took it out of me....)
sheepdog
02-13-2009, 18:32
blasphemy
Great! Just what we need. Overpriced INSTANT coffee. :datz:
Tinker I hear that! When my wife and I do our budget every month we have a place just for starbucks. I cant stand that they can charge that much for a dam cup of coffee!!!!!What I really cant stand more is that my wife pays that much for it!:)
Its like $1 for one cup of instant coffee. Can it really by that good. Keep in mind you still have to have your own milk and sugar.
Panzer
Its like $1 for one cup of instant coffee. Can it really by that good. Keep in mind you still have to have your own milk and sugar.
Panzer
milk and sugar in coffee?? now that's blasphemy!
Toolshed
02-14-2009, 11:40
So I agree with the whole UK thing. That's what everyone has out on the kitchen table - A big jar of Instant Coffee. Usually Nescafe.
I drank it for about a decade, but I prefer drip or pressed.
Just the taste of instant usually brings me back to those simpler days.:sun
Funny story
I decided to bring my father back home in the 90's to visit his sisters, and I remembered from living there previously how hard it was to find good coffee. So I bought with us about a dozen 1-2lb bags of a variety of expensive roasts for my aunts and uncles.
It became clear over time as we visited each and they opened the coffee gifts, the puzzled looks on their faces. What do you do with 2 pounds of coffee beans. No one had Grinders, nor even Perc or Drip pots. They all still used instant. Think of it this way in your best Scottish accent...."Right Richard. Lovely Gift. Coffee Beans are they? Shall I put them in a fancy jar on the counter, or what do you do with them in america?"
I felt like a yuppie Idiot back then.
greginmi
02-15-2009, 10:07
Found another instant coffee that is pretty good. Nescafe Clasico. Found it at Wally World in the Latin food section. Big improvement over Nescafe instant in the coffee aisle. Good flavor without the the burned coffee aftertaste of Medaglia D'Oro.
YMMV.
Regards,
Greg
SunnyWalker
02-18-2009, 23:18
Nescafe Classico-I'll try it. I take Nescafe on hiking/backpacking trips. All other angels on this for me was extra weight.
Mrs Baggins
02-19-2009, 08:52
While trekking in Chile and Argentina all we had was Nescafe instant coffee every single day 2 weeks. When I got home (a week ahead of my husband) I made a full 12-cup pot of drip coffee and drank the entire pot myself in less than an hour. It was like I just could not get enough real coffee!
fiddlehead
02-19-2009, 10:13
I like instant coffee. It's simple and taste fine to me.
Two problems with regular: Expensive, a lot of work for slightly better taste. driving cross town to buy it, grinding beans, the perking it. By the time all that is done, i'm awake anyway.
Almost all the coffee here in Asia is instant even though Laos grows some pretty good beans.
Best coffee i ever had was from Yemen. but $10 a lb? nah.
Pedaling Fool
02-19-2009, 10:23
I always have some type of instant coffee on the trail, but I rarely drink coffee when hiking (except those days I got no energy). I carry the coffee for when I get to town, love coffee with my breakfast, but Americans can't make coffee so I use the instant to spike the resturant "coffee". I'll give starbucks a try.
Starbucks makes the best (strongest) coffee compared to most establisments out there.
As I go, I chew on coffee rinds and spit some out. Saves me making hot water and dirtying my cup.
Rhododendrons and other acid-loving plants love this.
Pedaling Fool
02-19-2009, 10:27
That sounds kind of efficient, but how is it on your teeth in the long run? Seems like, at least, some serious staining would occur.
superman
02-19-2009, 11:13
blasphemy
Instant coffee ...what the ****!
Lol...well, I was in SB's today and there was a meeting going on with the workers/uper muckies talking about it. I saw a massive container of the tubes....tried my hardest to weasel a tube out of them. Usually I can succeed...not today. Ah well.
I'll try the SB on the other side of town that I have an in on...(we have 4 SB's in our small town). Dangit, I wanna try it! :D
Farr Away
02-20-2009, 12:07
I signed up for a free sample on their website. Don't know if they still have the offer up or not though.
Blue Sky II
03-11-2009, 21:23
Got some Columbian Via by mailorder from Starbucks. It makes a decent cup of coffee, no major aftertaste. Added 8 oz of water per directions on the package. Smooth for an instant coffee and it probably can make a decent 10 oz cup. "Best before" date is 01/21/2010.
superman
03-11-2009, 21:43
An Irish woman of advanced age visited her physician to ask
his advice in reviving her husband's libido.
'What about trying Viagra?' asked the doctor.
'Not a chance', she said. 'He won't even take an aspirin.'
'Not a problem,' replied the doctor. 'Give him an 'Irish Viagra'. It's when
you drop the Viagra tablet into his coffee. He won't even taste it. Give it
a try and call me in a week to let me know how things went.'
It wasn't a week later when she called the doctor, who directly inquired as
to her progress. The poor dear exclaimed, 'Oh, faith, bejaysus and begorrah!
T'was horrid! Just terrible, doctor!'
'Really? What happened?' asked the doctor.
'Well, I did as you advised and slipped it in his coffee and the effect was
almost immediate. He jumped straight up, with a twinkle in his eye and with
his pants a-bulging fiercely! With one swoop of his arm, he sent me, cups
and tablecloth flying, ripped me clothes to tatters and took me then and
there passionately on the tabletop! It was a nightmare, I tell you, an
absolute nightmare!'
'Why so terrible?' asked the doctor, 'Do you mean the sex your husband
provided wasn't good?'
' Sweet jaysus, 'twas the best sex I've had in 25 years! But sure as I'm
sittin here, I'll never be able to show me face in Starbucks again!
boarstone
03-11-2009, 22:09
Oh no! Tell me it's not true! As it is I can't afford the perked stuff!
I picked up a bunch this past week and gave them away to people across the country. Was fun :D
milk and sugar in coffee?? now that's blasphemy!
Indeed. Coffee is just fine on its own! :sun
(OK..maybe add a little..corrective..to it once in a while. ;) )
Idealist
03-12-2009, 09:58
Chicago is one of Starbuck's instant coffee launch sites. I had a sample, and it taste surprisingly like a cup of Starbucks coffee. My first thought: " Well, I wouldn't drink this at home, but it would have been perfect for the trail." Last year on our thru we used Folgers Singles.
Surplusman
03-12-2009, 16:27
As I go, I chew on coffee rinds and spit some out. Saves me making hot water and dirtying my cup.
"Coffee grounds chewed at intervals on a march,......, will repress thirst, and satiate the cravings of hunger....."
--Confederate Receipt (recipe) Book,
1863
As I sit here I am enjoying a cup of home brewed Starbucks. I usually do that about mid-afternoon. Just me and my dog Max. My wife works, so it's just us two. Nice.
My question about the instant coffee is, what size cup will it make? Tall? grande?
My question about the instant coffee is, what size cup will it make? Tall? grande?
Short :)
Surplusman
03-13-2009, 05:35
Starbucks coffee always smelled like a burnt clutch plate to me.The taste was equally nasty. Regular or instant Starbucks coffee = you're going to pay more.
Even McDonalds makes good coffee and it's cheaper, too.
Starbucks coffee always smelled like a burnt clutch plate to me.The taste was equally nasty. Regular or instant Starbucks coffee = you're going to pay more.
Even McDonalds makes good coffee and it's cheaper, too.
You do realize that McDonald's coffee comes from Starbucks? :D Said beans come from one of the subsidiaries in most areas of the US.
I much prefer Java Juice. Infinitely better than plain Nescafe. Someone here on WB suggested it, one taste made converts of Nessmuk and me.
Frau
I pre-ordered the mug and a box of each blend. I was pleasantly surprised. A buck a cup and it tastes good as well as gives a nice coffee buzz. Comes packaged in foil.
Surplusman
03-13-2009, 18:08
You do realize that McDonald's coffee comes from Starbucks? :D Said beans come from one of the subsidiaries in most areas of the US.
In the Northwest US it does, but up here in the Northeast it comes from Green Mountain thru Paul Newman. I really don't care if it comes from a Starbucks susidiary, as long as it doesn't stink like it, taste like it, and most of all, cost like it. And Mickey Dee's doesn't. And that's the ONLY thing I will buy there. :)
Surplusman
03-13-2009, 19:45
Having dissed Starbucks, I have to admit that I am a fanatic about a certain type of tea, the way loyal Starbucks fans are about their coffee. I won't drink any type of tea except Lapsang Souchong, which is a heavy smoked tea that smells like...well...smoke and tastes like road tar, according to a lot of people around me. Now if Starbucks sold that, I'd hijack the store to my home. Hey,I'm no better than anyone else.