To find the best instant coffee on the market, we blind-tested varieties from 11 different companies — from specialty roasters to supermarket brands.

The Best Instant Coffee of 2024 1. Nescafé Clasico Dark Roast Instant Coffee. Number of Reviews: 6,348. Rating: 4.7 / 5.

I tried instant coffee from Maxwell House, Café Bustelo, Folgers, Chock Full o' Nuts, and Nescafé to find the top brand. Here's what I found.

Nescafe Gold Blend instant coffee (£7.60 for 200g or £3.80 per 100g) came in joint third in the test. Tasters rated its flavour, aroma and mouth feel highly, with it getting a 66% overall rating.

Nescafe’s instant coffee sales up as cost-of-living hits takeaway budgets. As barista-brewed coffee gets more expensive, people are increasingly turning to premium instant coffee blends to drink ...

Coffee lovers are finding alternative ways to get their fix as the price of a barista-brewed cup at the local cafe races to $7, and increasingly, this means rediscovering a taste for instant coffee.