Other Coffees

Sip. When I worked for a living I was permanently afloat on a lake of strong black coffee. There was always a steaming cup of Blend 37 on my desk and a spare jar in the cupboard in case I ran out. Looking back I must have spent years of my life on a permanent caffeine high. Sip. When work gave me up (yes; that was the way it happened) I found that I could no longer cope with the ridiculous amounts of caffeine that I'd been used to drinking. At about the same time Nescafe changed the blend of Blend 37 and frankly I thought it tasted disgusting, so for quite a while I gave up coffee altogether. No other instant came close to the original ...  Read the complete review

I first tried Carte Noire when I visited the Ideal Home Exhibition earlier this year. They had a promotional stand and were offering small cups of coffee to sample there and then as well as handing out money off coupons and small sample packets to take home. As I had enjoyed the taste of the samples I decided to put the money off coupons to good use and when I next needed to purchase coffee I chose Carte Noire instead of my usual brand, Nescafe Original. I have done a bit of research on Carte Noire coffee and have detailed below a brief history about the range. In 1978 Frenchman René Mannier created the 'Carte' range of coffees ...  Read the complete review

If you prefer the taste of cafetiére or filter coffee, but hate all the hassle involved with making cafetiére and filter coffee, you need coffee bags. I discovered these little bags of joy thanks to my friends and I have not looked back since. Now I?m not promising you that they make coffee as good as cafetiére or filter coffee. One of my friends swears blind that coffee bags are not as good as cafetiére or filter coffee, but then he has always been a bit stuck up. I personally think they are and either way coffee bags are a million times better than instant coffee. [DISCOVERING ...  Read the complete review

After searching inthe coffee section and not finding any iother catagory but this one, I decided this review had to go here. I'm usually an instant coffee drinker, early mornings are a rush in our house doing the school run and getting breakfast made to make sure everyone goes out of the house with a full stomach. Sometimes it is a lot easier to make a quick cup of instant coffee, just to wake me up and get me into the swing of things for the day. After all the mad noisey panic of the morning, I come home to work on my computer for a few hours, writting reviews, answering my email surveys, checking my webpage is up to date and putting up my lots on ebay. ...  Read the complete review

~ ~ The ‘mad cabbie’ made an impulse buy earlier this week. (doesn't happen often; it's my Scots blood) I’d called into the local supermarket on my way home from a shift in the old ‘joe maxi’ as I’d run out of my favourite Kenco coffee that morning, and didn’t fancy an evening of drinking one of the lesser blends of instant coffee (Nescafe and Maxwell House) that were left over in the kitchen cupboard. I recalled reading a recent opinion by Mel, (the ‘cheekychicken’) where she was extolling the merits of a coffee called ‘Carte Noire’, and saying that she and the ‘Deano’ fella ...  Read the complete review