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May 13, 2014 at 5:07 pm #1316795
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May 14, 2014 at 6:38 am #2102245This sounds quite like instant coffee with sugar. Artisan instant, but still instant.
May 14, 2014 at 9:27 am #2102328Too much pre-processing, in my opinion. In the end, we will be fed with food cubes:
1 cube food for salad and 1 cube food for main course.
I just don't like it. Too robotic.
I prefer to see real coffee and, if possible, real coffee beans. And of course, eat real food. Thank you for the review.May 14, 2014 at 11:19 am #2102368What about BPL related use?
Website says one cube weigths .5 oz right?May 14, 2014 at 11:37 am #2102373OK, so each cube weighs .5 oz., and it takes 2 cubes (1.0 oz.) to make a real cup of joe, right? That same ounce will get you 7 packs of Starbucks Via, and they don't have that foo-foo sweet stuff in them.
May 14, 2014 at 3:40 pm #2102463All comments noted, no problem.
Fwiiw, I drink filtered (ie real) Espresso-blend ground coffee, black, no sugar. Even out back.Cheers
Edited to clarify what I meant by 'Espresso', and to spell it correctly. :-)May 14, 2014 at 3:45 pm #2102466"Fwiiw, I drink filtered (ie real) Expresso, black, no sugar. Even out back."
You haul an espresso machine out there to get the required 10 bar (135 psi) pressure?
May 14, 2014 at 4:50 pm #2102484Thanks for the review. Looks like Starbucks Via is still the only way to get a decent cup of black coffee without going as far as cowboy coffee.
I'll pass this on to my wife. She like the sweet stuff. I just don't care for any sweetener at all.
May 14, 2014 at 4:54 pm #2102485Thanks for the review. Nice to know that others prefer coffee for the pure taste of coffee not additives. The Jiva coffee cubes will not be in my backpack.
May 14, 2014 at 6:59 pm #2102514I was hoping that a block of coffee flavored sugar would at least boast some decent calories as a silver lining but alas, only 30 calories.
May 14, 2014 at 7:42 pm #2102526Anonymous
Inactive"I was hoping that a block of coffee flavored sugar would at least boast some decent calories as a silver lining but alas, only 30 calories."
Try to look at the bright side. Those 30 calories will support the metabolism of ~65 calories of body fat(7 grams). ;0)
May 14, 2014 at 7:58 pm #2102529Good, just what the marketplace needs. Another mediocre instant coffee with a gimmick.
Like coffee? Here's a read.
We use to get articles like that one all the time.
@ Roger Since this product is of no real interest to you, why the review?
May 14, 2014 at 8:06 pm #2102530"@ Roger Since this product is of no real interest to you, why the review?"
My humble guess is that he thought it might be of interest to others on this site – and I'll bet it is (though not me, I'm a black, no sugar coffee guy myself).
It's easy to forget, but I believe there's a large (relatively) population of folks who visit this site who are not exceptionally weight conscious (I'd be one of those) and who like sweet coffee. They just don't post. Big lurker population, I think.
Edit to add: oh, and they were free….. :-)
May 14, 2014 at 8:10 pm #2102531Why would anyone go and ruin a coffee with sugar?
May 14, 2014 at 8:15 pm #2102532Lurkers. Oh yeah, them.
Carry on.
May 14, 2014 at 8:19 pm #2102536del
May 14, 2014 at 8:21 pm #2102538"Fwiiw, I drink filtered (ie real) Expresso, black, no sugar. Even out back."
I call BS. Anyone who actually gives a poo about real coffee would call it espresso, not "expresso".
May 14, 2014 at 8:36 pm #2102542I thought it was Australian slang.
May 14, 2014 at 9:13 pm #2102553Why? Doug I has it right. I thought some readers might be interested.
Oh – and spelling corrected. :-}Cheers
May 14, 2014 at 10:44 pm #2102564While I am normally a black coffee drinker, the best coffee I ever drank was a sweetened coffee in South America. If this coffee is anything like that, I'll be one happy hiker.
Jiva ordered.
May 15, 2014 at 2:24 am #2102571Any Australian BPL readers can have the left-overs for the cost of P&P within Oz – say $10. (Postage to USA is ~$25 – may not be worth while?)
There's about 23 standard Jiva packets and at least one of each of the other flavours, if not more.
Cheers
[email protected]May 15, 2014 at 5:12 am #2102574"You haul an espresso machine out there to get the required 10 bar (135 psi) pressure?"
There's always the Handpresso.
(No, I'm not crazy enough to carry it in my backpack. But it has gone car camping with me.)
May 15, 2014 at 7:12 am #2102589Hi Roger, just sent you an email. I'll take them off your hands and give them a try!
May 15, 2014 at 10:41 am #2102634"While I am normally a black coffee drinker, the best coffee I ever drank was a sweetened coffee in South America. If this coffee is anything like that, I'll be one happy hiker."
+1. I normally drink coffee as black as my soul but I've had some sweetened Turkish coffee in the Balkans which was pretty dang good.
May 15, 2014 at 5:08 pm #2102712Anonymous
Inactive"Why would anyone go and ruin a coffee with sugar?"
Because there is a lot of swill out there masquerading as coffee, which can only be improved by adding an adulterant.
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