Cheap coffee

[single]

Not sure if anyone else uses these, but i find them great on the boat.Anyway cheap now-
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/nes...l&utm_content=03052014&utm_campaign=Daily+Hot

 

[sailorman]

Nescafe do not produce good coffee from Robusta beans

Go to Lidl & buy their Italian & French ground coffee made from Arabica beans & only costs £1.89 a pack

 

[robmcg]

Calling that stuff coffee would be bending the definition in my book

 

[dancrane]

Here's a tip - don't keep buying the same type of coffee. However splendid and complex the flavour, after a few days one gets too familiar with what's exciting about it.

Changing to another decent single-origin coffee with markedly different character or roast, means each cup gives one a pleasant sense of novelty. Doesn't have to be preposterously expensive, though I avoid blends which have had the notable flavour characteristics smoothed out of them.

I was shocked to find myself enjoying a cup of my mother's instant, at the weekend. Genuinely very good. Not sure from where, I'll enquire...brewing and filtering ground coffee in the dinghy was going to be a real pain (although the ostentatious inconvenience is quite fun, amongst crowds of other boats surviving with gritted teeth on energy drinks).

Edit...Oh! I only just realised the OP wasn't talking about real coffee. Dear me, we could end up squabbling over hot drinks as if they were AWBs and MABs...

 

[sailorman]

One NEVER drinks instant, NEVER. I will always ask for tea unless i know they have the real thing

 

[dancrane]

My instinct too, absolument. But dear mother had made the cupful, so...

...but I rather enjoy the fuss of brewing up the real thing, and drinking it easily justifies the trouble. I used to sell it by the pound, in Harrods. That did turn my nose up, at instant!

 

[Danbury]

I find that the Nescafe instant you buy in France is quite drinkable, but the Nescafe instant you buy here is vile... It appears to be the same stuff, but it clearly isn't...

I make mine like this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBCqP7R42K0

 

[Sandy]

When I was young I drunk coffee, it is all yugh now. Tea is my drink of choice now.

 

[dancrane]

Tea is my drink of choice now.

Did that influence how you named your boat? On that basis perhaps mine should be christened La Gavulin. Un nom d'Ecosse.

 

[FWB]

Lyons coffee bags are very boat friendly, great at home too.
http://lyonscoffeeuk.com/products

 

[Sandy]

Did that influence how you named your boat? On that basis perhaps mine should be christened La Gavulin. Un nom d'Ecosse.

No, she was named that by her original owner, who I am in contact with, I am at least the 4th.

 

[Angele]

I make mine like this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBCqP7R42K0

So do I, and I have a nice stainless cafetiere on board to do so. I do try to minimise the amount of glass on board for safety reasons....

I didn't realise that cafetieres had such a long history - The Ipcress File came out in the 1960s. The only device I recall from my youth for making fresh coffee at home was my parents' percolator. Having googled "cafetiere" I see that they do indeed go back much further than that.

 

[robmcg]

+1 for the stainless cafetiere. More essential on board than the life raft! :encouragement:

 

[dancrane]

And an absolute essential in the liferaft, surely?

 

[CAPTAIN FANTASTIC]

Nescafe is a coffee flavoured like drink, it is not coffee

 

[Captn D]

Probably not in the "cheap coffee" bracket, however, I find the Starbucks Via sachets (http://www.amazon.com/Starbucks-Ready-Italian-Roast-Coffee/dp/B00438ZXAM/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top) produce a quickly made acceptable alternative to proper coffee when aboard.

 

[sailorman]

So do I, and I have a nice stainless cafetiere on board to do so. I do try to minimise the amount of glass on board for safety reasons....

I didn't realise that cafetieres had such a long history - The Ipcress File came out in the 1960s. The only device I recall from my youth for making fresh coffee at home was my parents' percolator. Having googled "cafetiere" I see that they do indeed go back much further than that.

we have s/s insulated cafeterias, one the other o/b. bought in the Whittards closing down sale in Cambridge. I was intending to give our son one of them

 

[sailorman]

Nescafe is a coffee flavoured like drink, it is not coffee

It will never be anything else due to the inferior bitter robusta bean. All of Vietnamese coffee production goes into instant

 

[dancrane]

My understanding was that pure Arabica is generally considered superior, and it's easy to get it right if you buy pure Columbian. We used to sell Jamaica Blue and weird rare stuff at silly prices, from St Helena and Hawaii. And Turkish! Not actually from Turkey, but ultra-fine-ground, pulverized and not filtered. Unholy muck. Like oily black silt. Popular though.

 

[onesea]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kenco-140-Pack/dp/B004Q44930
I know I am going to get shot for this but this is now my boat coffee....