Pulls yer gums away from your teeth, nice though! (Nescafe Espresso)

Member Name: GR-Design

Product:	Nescafe Espresso
Date:	07/10/02 (235 review reads)
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Advantages: Nice flavour, Not too expensive

Disadvantages: none, unless you hate coffee!

I’d never tried an Espresso before I tried this. I suppose I was a bit scared of the ‘short and very strong’ type flavours that surrounds the coffee. I’m someone who likes a creamy coffee, with quite a bit of milk, and I’m a sucker for a cappuccino. But after giving Nescafe Espresso a go, I was pleasantly surprised and will probably be drinking a lot more of Espressos from now on!

Nescafe host a wide range of different coffee’s, from their Original to coffees such as Costa Rican and others. Espresso is just one of their ‘Black Jar’ range. The coffee in the black jars are the ‘better’ coffee’s. or another way to put it, the more specialist coffees which are drunk less than the normal instant coffees.

So what’s it like? Well as any coffee lover will tell you, all coffees taste different. I was expecting a watery black coffee, but instead, I got a quite creamy coffee, considering I used no milk. It is short, dark and intense like it says on the jar and tastes really very nice. I have 1 sugar with mine, which takes the bitterness of the coffee away, as without it really is a bit to bitter for the likes of myself.

On tasting, you will be welcomed with the strong coffee smell, which really does invite you into the coffee itself. The you will be taken in by the very nice, strong coffee flavour, which does not taste cheap in any way whatsoever. After that, you will be hit by how strong the coffee really is. Once devoured, the coffee taste stays in your mouth, making you want another sip. That’s the best way I can describe it really.

Making the coffee is even easier than making a normal coffee with milk, afterall, you don’t have to use any milk, well you shouldn’t anyway, as that really does go against the point of the coffee. It is mean to be drunk black. You simply take a heaped teaspoon, or however much you like of the fine coffee powder and plac
e it into an espresso cup. If like me your common and don’t have such things, just take a mug and put it in that, and fill the mug half way up, or less if you like. It will give the same effect, just not in the right china so to speak! Add to that coffee powder hot, but not boiling water and stir. After that you can add a sugar or two if you like, depending on your tastes, though I recommend it as it really does take your gums away otherwise and give you an ‘Esther’ look. (You’ll get that if you can picture that mature Esther lady who has her own chat show!!)

Once you have done the preparation bit, you will be presented with a very black coffee with a froth on top, which does look pretty inviting to the hardened coffee addicts out there. It’s so black it leaves nice stains on your mug, but don’t worry, they don’t last long when they hit the sink!

Overall, it’s a good coffee, though you really do have to like your coffee to begin with to enjoy this. For those of you who like a good load of milk in your coffee, don’t shy away from this, it really is quite nice and I never thought I would like it, but now do, and would probably go out and buy my own jar (yes, I have been drinking someone elses!).

It retails for around £2.70 for a 100g jar, which does sound expensive, but is quite a nice treat for yourself, and you would probably be able to get around 30 cups of the stuff out of the jar. Put it that way and it don’t sound to bad, especially when you think you will pay anything from £1.30 upwards in a café for it!

Excellent for those of us who find it extremely hard to get up in the morning, even after 3 coffees and 2 fags!

Go ahead and treat yourself. Stay away if your one of those woosie tea people! (Don’t start on me you tea drinkers, I drink tea too!!)

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