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New instant coffee on the market

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  • May 11, 2017 at 8:58 am #3467435
    JCH
    BPL Member

    @pastyj-2-2

    …or at least one I haven’t heard of previously.

    Has anyone tried Alpine Start instant coffee?  https://alpinestartfoods.com/products/alpine-start-original-blend-instant-coffee

    May 11, 2017 at 10:01 am #3467445
    Nick Gatel
    BPL Member

    @ngatel

    Locale: Southern California

    Cost is over $1 per cup. $9 for a box of 8 packages.

    You can buy a large jar of Nestle Clasico for $7 that will yield 100 cups of coffee. Plus you don’t have to deal with the heavy individual packaging.

    Now, the Alpine Start might taste better, but that is subjective. Cofffee is an acquired taste. Most people did not enjoy their first taste of coffee, beer, wine, or whiskey. My favorite food is a 16 oz porterhouse or ribeye steak with a large baked potatoe smothered with better, something I gladly do without when backpacking. Clasico has served me well for years and years, but I don’t drink it at home or when camping in my trailer.

    May 11, 2017 at 10:22 am #3467446
    Link .
    BPL Member

    @annapurna

    I saw DARWIN ON THE TRAIL do a coffee taste test a few months ago and it was one of the coffees he and his friend tried

    May 11, 2017 at 10:24 am #3467447
    Jerry Adams
    BPL Member

    @retiredjerry

    Locale: Oregon and Washington

    Nick and Jerry, two peas out of the same pod : )

    Nestles Taster’s Choice freeze dried – it has caffeine and is dark colored.  I just put some in a zip loc bag along with tea bags.

    </trolling>

    May 11, 2017 at 10:58 am #3467453
    Greg Mihalik
    BPL Member

    @greg23

    Locale: Colorado

    ^^^

    +1 on Classico, and +1 on a snack bag.

     

    May 11, 2017 at 5:00 pm #3467514
    Alexander S
    BPL Member

    @cascadicus

    Trader Joe’s has instant coffee packets that include the creamer mixed in already, are stronger than Starbucks packets and come 10 for $1.99. I actually think they taste better than Starbucks.

    May 11, 2017 at 9:28 pm #3467555
    Jerry Adams
    BPL Member

    @retiredjerry

    Locale: Oregon and Washington

    I rarely use cream.  I used to more often.

    I have never used creamer : )

    May 12, 2017 at 5:06 am #3467587
    JCH
    BPL Member

    @pastyj-2-2

    Probably should have realized that asking anything about instant coffee would open up all the old debates.  I really was just wondering if anyone had tried Alpine Start and if so, what they thought of it.  Link provided exactly what I was looking for (thank you).

    Apologies for opening old wounds.

    May 12, 2017 at 5:26 am #3467588
    Bob Moulder
    BPL Member

    @bobmny10562

    Locale: Westchester County, NY

    Well at least no coffee snobs weighed in this time with a smackdown of the abomination known as instant “coffee.”   :^/

    Not yet, anyway…

    May 12, 2017 at 6:38 am #3467591
    JCH
    BPL Member

    @pastyj-2-2

    On the other hand, “Good” Coffee arguably deserves spirited debate.  Whomever first roasted, ground and steeped the seed of that cherry was a frikin genius, and to whom the entire world owes a debt of gratitude :)

    May 12, 2017 at 7:35 am #3467592
    Jerry Adams
    BPL Member

    @retiredjerry

    Locale: Oregon and Washington

    “Probably should have realized that asking anything about instant coffee would open up all the old debates…”

    ha, ha, ha,…

    ” Whomever first roasted, ground and steeped the seed of that cherry was a frikin genius, and to whom the entire world owes a debt of gratitude :)”

    domestic goats in Ethiopia.  “Why are those goats hopping around so oddly?   We better check that out…”

    (Probably a misremembered documentary about a “fake news” historical legend)

    May 12, 2017 at 8:48 am #3467603
    JCH
    BPL Member

    @pastyj-2-2

    domestic goats in Ethiopia.

    Ha!  Similar Kudos to whomever first ate cheese (“coulda sworn it didn’t look like this a week ago…”), drank beer (“that stuff is really bubbling up…”), etc.

    There were some brave, or more likely really hungry, people “back in the day” :)

    May 12, 2017 at 9:40 am #3467610
    Nick Gatel
    BPL Member

    @ngatel

    Locale: Southern California

    Had any of you good folks drank the military coffee in K-rations or C-rations, then anything else would be considered wonderful, thus my affection for Clasico. As an interesting side note, both K and C contained a small package of cigarettes.

    May 12, 2017 at 10:38 am #3467619
    Jeffs Eleven
    BPL Member

    @woodenwizard

    Locale: NePo

    My Dad used to trade his Cigs for gum.

    He also got a tattoo of a girl with a blouse on.

     

    (jk about the tattoo)

    May 12, 2017 at 11:24 am #3467624
    rubmybelly!
    BPL Member

    @sleeping

    Locale: The Cascades

    “both K and C contained a small package of cigarettes.”

    They stopped that in ’75, though Drills still told us young trainees to ‘smoke ’em if you got ’em’ when I was in Basic.

    “Had any of you good folks drank the military coffee in K-rations or C-rations, then anything else would be considered wonderful…”

    Army rations coffee is precisely why I won’t stoop to Nescafe and such! Give me good stuff or forget it!

    May 12, 2017 at 11:35 am #3467626
    Nick Gatel
    BPL Member

    @ngatel

    Locale: Southern California

    They stopped that in ’75, though Drills still told us young trainees to ‘smoke ’em if you got ’em’ when I was in Basic.

    We were actually taught how to “field strip” a filtered cigarette after it had been consumed. The reason was it would be more difficult for the enemy to track you.

     

    May 12, 2017 at 11:46 am #3467628
    JCH
    BPL Member

    @pastyj-2-2

    We were actually taught how to “field strip” a filtered cigarette after it had been consumed. The reason was it would be more difficult for the enemy to track you.

    Seems like the solution would have been to only include non-filtered cigs :)

    May 12, 2017 at 6:44 pm #3467671
    Roger Caffin
    Moderator

    @rcaffin

    Locale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe

    Well at least no coffee snobs weighed in this time with a smackdown of the abomination known as instant “coffee.” :^/

    Just so. (It isn’t coffee.)

    “Listen to me and I’m sure you’ll agree
    The bravest man in the whole country
    Was not the soldier who went to war
    But the first man who swallowed an oyster raw”

    Court Jester in Wizard of Id

    Cheers

    May 12, 2017 at 7:02 pm #3467673
    JCH
    BPL Member

    @pastyj-2-2

    Imagine how frightening many of humankind’s finest achievements where the very first time…

    “Welp…here goes nuthin…”

    Really makes you appreciate the time in which we live :)

    May 13, 2017 at 5:57 am #3467710
    Bob Moulder
    BPL Member

    @bobmny10562

    Locale: Westchester County, NY

    I’ve been auditioning the Mt Hagen stuff and it’s pretty good, although I think I still prefer the stout espresso of Bustelo.

    I’ll have to try the Trader Joe’s packets.

    Honestly I could live with most of them because I’m not too picky… if it’s ‘coffee-esque’ and has adequate caffeine it’ll do in a pinch.

    May 25, 2017 at 10:32 pm #3469872
    Andrew D
    BPL Member

    @adegar

    On a recent trip to the Ozarks, my partner and I mixed two packets of Cafe Bustello with half a packet of cocoa. Morning mochas were wonderful.

    Jun 13, 2017 at 9:07 am #3473117
    kristine s
    BPL Member

    @summitdweller

    Laird instafuel very good has creamer added

    Jun 13, 2017 at 3:57 pm #3473208
    Roger Caffin
    Moderator

    @rcaffin

    Locale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe

    has creamer added
    Yeah, well, that sort of disqualifies it immediately. :-)

    Cheers

    Jul 1, 2017 at 12:45 pm #3476569
    Greg K
    BPL Member

    @ziasdad

    Just got back from a car camp to and from southwestern CO and a backpack on the Colorado Trail while we were there.  I’m liking this for coffee:

    https://www.iherb.com/pr/Mount-Hagen-Organic-Fairtrade-Instant-Coffee-25-Packets-1-76-oz-50-g/30264

    I prefer it to Starbucks (also costs quite a bit less than Starbucks).  It doesn’t have the bitter/burnt taste that I don’t care for in Starbucks.

    I just had a cup here at home (as a test, because food/drink always tastes better on a backpack!), and I still like it.  I don’t detect any of the “metallic” taste that some coffee drinkers say that every instant coffee has.

    So this will be my choice for backpacking coffee. My wife still prefers Starbucks however.

    EDIT:  Just noticed the comments re Cafe Bustelo single serve packets.  Something else I will have to try.  :-\

    Jul 1, 2017 at 2:47 pm #3476592
    Greg K
    BPL Member

    @ziasdad

    for those who want to continue to beat this dead horse:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/05/best-instant-coffee_n_1405887.html

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