Aldi Specially Selected Java Coffee

This review has moved to

   Aldi Specially Selected Java Coffee

Mokate Gold Premium Cappuccino Chocolate

There's a deeper, darker, more sombre feel to this than most creamy instant coffees, which makes it, for me, a little more appealing. There's a dark, almost bitter chocolate/coffee flavour. But at the same time it betrays its instant coffee origins a little more clearly.

Swings and roundabouts.....


Date: Aug 2016   Score: 5

***

Creamy instant coffees

Aldi tea and coffee

Aldi Ethiopian Ground Coffee

Score:  6

Lidl Bellarom Colombian

Score:  6

Aldi Alcafe Colombian

Score:  5

Alcafe Italian Blend

Score:  4

Aldi Alcafe Original Rich Roast 

Score: 3  Price:  £1.49/250g

Aldi Specially Selected Java

Score:  3

Instant Coffee

Aldi Alcafe Cappuccino
Score: 2

Aldi Alcafe Latte
Score: 2

Tea

Aldi Specially Selected 
Forest Fruits Infusions Score:  8

Aldi Diplomat
Jasmine Green Tea
Score: 8

Aldi Diplomat 
Reviving Peppermint Score:  6

Supermarket tea and coffee

Indonesian coffee

Indonesia is the fourth largest producer of coffee in the world, with a reputation for low acidity and strong flavour which inclines them to blending or use in high roasts such as espresso where coffee character and individuality is not as important as strength. However, some parts of  Indonesia are known for producing beans of character, and Sumatra, particularly the north region where Mandheling branded coffees come from, produces beans which have both depth of flavour and enough acidity to produce character and intriguing lime notes. The  Mandheling name comes from the Mandailing people who live in the area and grow the coffee.

Java is the main island of Indonesia (not the biggest island, but the most populated), and is associated with robust, high caffeine beans. Production is mostly robusta, and is mainly used in blends to give them strength, though arabica is grown, and aged beans are sold as specialist coffee, usually under names such as Old Java, Old Brown or Old Government.

Sainsburys Taste the Difference Sumatra Mandheling

Score:  8

Tesco Finest Sumatra Mandheling Coffee Beans

Score: 8

Taylors Hot Lava Java

Score:  7

Aldi Specially Selected Java Coffee

Score:  3

Taylors Hot Lava Java

I like this. It's more about the roast than the origin, because it's a blend of Indonesian and Brazilian beans roasted to extinction at roast number six, and I don't normally like dark roasted coffees, but this one has an appeal I find attractive. Yes, you can smell its been burned as soon as you pour on the hot water; and that burned coffee bean aroma and flavour is there throughout, but when fresh, this blend is invigorating without being aggressive. It's a great wake me up coffee.

Java is the main island of Indonesia (not the biggest island, but the most populated), and is associated with robust, high caffeine beans. Production is mostly robusta, and is mainly used in blends to give them strength, though arabica is grown, and aged beans are sold as specialist coffee, usually under names such as Old Java, Old Brown or Old Government.


Score: 7

Indonesian coffee

Coffee roasts

Taylors of Harrogate