For various personal reasons, I have had to give up caffinated coffee. Being coffee free is really helping my sleep, but it sucks not to be able to get a good tasting cup of coffee every day.
For the mo, I use my fab Nespresso machine at home and bring an insulated mug into the office with me, which does me 'till lunchtime.
Is there such a thing as decent instant decaf?
caffetierre?
Douwe Egberts
I drink probably for similar reason decaff and Douwe Eggs is the best so far.
like druidh say's and kenko.
i drink it all the time.
Douwe Egberts was horrible, Kenco Gold is my current one
I find Carte Noir just about acceptable.
I used to drink Italian blend filter coffee and I've been drinking Granarom decaff Gold from Lidl and find it drinkable as far as instant decaff goes. I've tried the 'gold' ones that Tesco and Morrisons sell and thought they were either watery or bitter.
reminds me of that keith bontrager quote; 'strong, light, cheap. pick two'
good tasting, instant decaf, coffee. pick two.
A friend has just popped round my desk and insisted that Clipper Organic Decaf is the biz. Can't personally recommend it yet, but I may try it out.
Douwe Egberts is by far the nicest instant I've tried, dunno about their decaf. By the way, the process for leaching the caffeine out of coffee involves the use of fairly unpleasant solvents.
You can get coffee made from beans that naturally don't have caffeine in but I don't imagine it's cheap.
I gave up coffee a few years ago and while I do occasionally miss a good real coffee, instant coffee [b]isn't[/b] coffee, it's a strange substitute that no one in their right mind would say tasted like the real thing.
If you're going to drink a caffeine free drink why not drink something natural like Red Bush tea? Yes, it tastes strange at first (never add milk) but you get used to it and now everything else taste weird.
If I do ever have a coffee now it makes me go all shaky.
I would not advocate anything other than fresh coffee,instant is not nice whatsoever!
any of the various ones that look like they have a nice jar. Bit like ordinary instant really, the more expensive ones taste better.
other option is to get an aeropress coffee maker and take some proper decaff into work with you.
not all decaff is done with solvents - there are solvent free varieties available.
Morrisons' own-brand decaf tastes OK to me - but I'm just a tight-wad Yorkshireman, so what do I know.
Theres not such thing as good tasting instant coffee!
Coffee is a bit like bikes, you try something a bit better than what you're used to and you want it. You then can't have anything worse because it feels rubbish. Then you trying something better and you want it, now the cafetiere coffee tastes rubbish. Before you know it you have a Gaggia and rancilio grinder and you buy your coffee from a man who tells you how many animals ate this coffee then crapped it out. Its a slippery slope, but I wouldn't go back 😉
animals ate this coffee then crapped it out
Been there done that too!
I heard that it was being sold for £25 a cup!
Try Starbucks sachets of microground cofee - they do decaf too.
Why is this on bike forum...
Instant -hmmmm
Decaf - hmmmm
Instant decaf - bleuch!
The best one I've found is the standard Nescafe blue top, all the posh ones try too hard to be 'proper' coffee and end up more disappointing as a result. The blue nescafe produces (to misquote the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) a drink that is almost but not quite entirely unlike coffee.
Some Rooibos, green tea a glass of water or fruit tea would be better in most instances.
I find I have to quit drinking coffee just after lunch or I struggle to sleep, if I find I can't drink it when I get up in the morning (because I can't sleep later that day) then I'll call it a day, instant coffee is crap.
cant you not just have the caffine and a light sedative?
not instant, but worth the wait.
I'm on clipper at the moment, not bad (not really selling it am i). I’ll happily spoon some into an envelope and post to you for tasting. You could have a taste off from the above selection if everyone chips in. 😆
I had to give up coffee after new year as it was giving me terrible indigestion and insomnia. Mrs Bowen wasn't best pleased as she bought me a new coffee machine for christmas and shipped over some Dunkin Doughnuts french vanilla coffee from America.
I've found that since giving coffee up i have generally felt healthier (apart from the withdrawal symptons during the 1st week without) and slept alot better
I now have a cup of tea in moderation and am looking for a nice decaf ground coffee for a cup on the weekend. There's no way i will be going down the instant decaf route.
Get one of these;
Add a small container of cafetiere coffee and you're good to go.
The filter is part of the cup so just plunge and then drink.
It doesn't have a lid but is insulated and does a good job of keeping your drink hot.
Just the two parts to rinse clean afterwards.
Easily worth the effort.
I'm sorry to report that the Clipper coffee is horrible. No more horrible than any other instant decaf I admit, but horrible nonetheless.
I'm beginning to accept the coffee/instant/decaf - choose two motto.
Maybe I'm just using the wrong coffee grains in my little one person cafetiere. I hate using cafetieres because it's so grainy towards the bottom. Could I use a coarser grain which the filter is more effective at catching?
No there is not a good decaff coffee
Maybe I'm just using the wrong coffee grains in my little one person cafetiere.
You're using instant coffee in a cafetiere?
I usually sleep after a strong cup of coffee or three. Not sure what's going wrong with me but I could have a big mug of strong fresh coffee and crash after half an hour for the night (after drinking it around midnight)
To the OP - an insulated mug of coffee does you till lunch??? Do you start work at 11am? 😉
Douwe Eggberts & Carte Noir are my fave instants, with Carte Noir edging it.
To everyone else - I quite like a cup of instant, it has to be at least two teaspoons of coffee though. I've had plenty of cups of filter/ground coffee that taste like crap too, so it's all subjective really, isn't it?
I drink lots of normal tea and coffee up to 6 pm but after 6 it's beer, wine, water, decaf tea or rooibos. By bed time the caffeine has worked its way out of my system and I get to sleep OK.
Kenco decaf is the best Ive tasted so far, remember some aldi decaf, tasted like metal.
But also have some normal Douwe Egberts in the draw incase I'm really flagging.
Kenco decaf for me - I drink proper (espresso) coffee up to about 6pm but after that no caffeine.
For me they're two different drinks. There's no point trying to make a decaf equivalent of my espresso so I have a mug of it, with more milk and [i]maybe[/i] a slice of something cakey.
It needs to be said. MTFU and just have a cup of tea.
I think some of us need to get over ourselves. Yes, Instant coffee tastes nothing like real coffee, but that doesn't make it undrinkable. It's just different.
If taking an insulated mug from you nespresso thing is doing you til lunchtime then why not just use a flask and have enough for the whole day.
I take a flask of cafetiere coffee with me most days when I'm out working, made at 7am its still good to drink at 3 or 4 in the afternoon (if I don't guzzle it before then). If you take milk in your coffee just don't add it to the flask - add it later when you are drinking it.
But...... As someone who's had to give up a one or two foodstuffs over the years - better advise is don't do substitutes they're just unsatisfactory and inconvenient. If you have to cut out coffee, just cut it out and drink something else entirely
[i]If you take milk in your coffee just don't add it to the flask - add it later when you are drinking it.[/i]
So that'll be two flasks then ?.
Q.
Why are some people cutting out coffee ?.
(Genuine like)
So that'll be two flasks then ?.
I don't think the OP works in an the sort of extreme environment where a fridge isn't to hand.
Q.
Why are some people cutting out coffee ?
If caffeine effects you badly - the op is having sleep problems - then not drinking caffeine is a reason to stop drinking coffee.
I know you'd want a more complicated answer though Solo 😆 I can't think of one though, maybe its got something to do with oxybollocarbons, the bad sort rather than the good sort 🙂
[i]I know you'd want a more complicated answer though Solo[/i]
Not at all.
If its just that simple as its keeping you awake, stoppig you catching your Z's.
Then thats my curiosity satisfied.
😀
EDIT:
I'm new to this coffee drinking malarkey and haven't really a clue about any of it.
I didnt got to Coffee school.
I'm in my early 40s and have only started to drink it, recently.
I usually get a coffee from a local Costa, once or twice a day.
A medium black.
This, I'm thinking, is [i]Fresh[/i] coffee as opposed to instant, I'm guessing.
This, I'm thinking, is Fresh coffee as opposed to instant, I'm guessing.
I should hope so, for the price of it.
Instant is the stuff that 99% of us just stir into a cup at home or at work.
Fresh coffee needs to be filtered and is a bit more of a faff on. But tastes a lot better and is usually available from coffee shops if you can't be bothered with all that faff.
Thanks Butch.
I've watched them ( at the Costa ) fill a metal cup with a handle on it and then run water through the cup on a machine.
so they appear to be runnig hot water through recently ground beans.
A chap in the office has a small machine on his desk which, shortly after making a buzzing noise.
Produces a beverage which, to my nose.
Smells like Sugar Puffs and warm milk.
Nescafe Dolce, Lungo or summmat.
I think the 'problem' some people have with coffee is that with instant coffee its possible to drink an awful lot of it without really noticing. Good coffee is more of an event - so you drink less of it
