Nescafe Azera x Grindsmith: Coffee Review
Nescafe came out with a new instant coffee in collaboration with Grindsmith coffee roasters, it is the UK’s first-ever instant craft coffee by Nescafe and I’ve been so excited to try it.
It’s described flavour profile is: sweet, chocolate, cherry
It retails for about £4.50 and comes in an 80g tin.
I tested it both black with no sugar and as an iced americano, again with no sugar, this way I could really taste and smell everything properly. It has a strong, sweet, slightly bitter almost maple-like smell before brewing.
It’s a super fine powder, much like the original Nescafe Azera coffee and the smell once brewed is, chocolatey, strong, and slightly fruity, it almost smells like raw brownie batter to me. The flavour is strong and smooth with a slight fragrant fruitiness and a lovely chocolate taste, the tiniest bit of sea salt flavour comes through at the end which gives it a very nice finish. When it is cold it tastes very similar except it has a lovely citrus flavour coming through.
Overall it is a lovely well-rounded coffee, strong, smooth and very unique, it would be perfect for a flat white, cortado or in a simple iced latte and it is lovely served black. My favourite thing about this coffee is how much it tastes like coffee shop coffee and honesty that is so perfect especially in lockdown. I hope they make this a regular part of there range because it really is that good.
