Duplicate for Starbucks Via instant coffee

Post date: 2024-04-20 19:36:26

I occasionally have the need to make an instant cup of coffee. My favourite instant coffee is the "Via" packets that Starbucks sells. However, I find them to be a) expensive b) wasteful as it's individual foil sachets. But all the other instant coffee I've ever tried doesn't taste quite the same. So is it possible to get something very close in taste, in a larger container?

I've never been able to find that Starbucks sells Via in a large container and when I google it I just get a blog post from 10+ years ago saying it's coming soon. In fact, it doesn't seem like Starbucks sells any instant coffee powder in a large container in a supermarket (at least here in the UK? I only ever see flavoured ones and the sachets).

I don't think I have a very sophisticated palate (as you can probably tell from this question...) so I'm not sure I can define what the taste is that I like. It just doesn't seem to taste like Nescafe Gold and Azera, Kenco, the Costa-brand instant that supermarkets sell, or any of the other ones I've recently tried. I guess there must be something about the way that they make it that's different - does anyone know and like a similar-tasting instant coffee?

Ideally available in the UK but if it's US-based I am actually going over this summer so I could smuggle something back.

P.S. For the purposes of this question it's only instant coffee I'm interested in, like the powder you add hot water to and that's it! I am aware there are ways to make much nicer cups of coffee (and I do)...it's just that sometimes I only have time/facilities to make a cup of instant and I'm sick of those single-serve sachets...thank you very much!

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