Beanies 50 Coffee Sticks - Mixed Blends, Instant Flavored Coffee

I've been buying these for my airbnb for a few years now and honestly I use them more than my guests, who I assume are "real" coffee drinkers. I like that they are not acidic and the caffeine content is not excessive. The flavors are unique, and I like almost all of them except the fruit flavors (raspberry/amaretto), and same, it seems, for my guests. I have purchased them a few times and while I am now looking for a flavorless coffee for my guests, I didn't want to leave these without a good review.

I can’t tell the difference between the flavors which is disappointing because they have fun flavors such as cookie dough, chocolate orange and mint. So if your looking to taste the flavors pass these by. That said, these are super good for instant coffee. Usually instant coffee is pretty awful, but these are smooth, rich and taste a little chocolatey. They taste like a good cup of fresh coffee and don’t have the artificial instant coffee taste.

All British food is based on a dare; this is historical fact. American coffee is always predictable dessert flavors. This variety pack has three flavors that are beyond American standards. All remaining seven flavors are outstandingly delicious! However 30% (3/10) is an above average amount of outlying flavors. After multiple purchases, you end up with a HUGE overflowing tin of the three Very British flavors left over. Do you gift these to your enemies? White Chocolate Raspberry- chapstick coffee. Orange Chocolate- like a creamsicle in your coffee Mint Chocolate- toothpaste coffee Still, I do recommend this Beanies variety. The granules melt into hot or warm water very well. The flavors are intense and taste authentic to what they say they are. The coffee is strong. The caffeine is there. You get a fresh, strong, flavored coffee without calories. And you get it faster than k-cup machine! It’s great.

I like the convenience of the single serve instant coffees but some of the flavors are better than others. The only flavor I don't care for is the Mint Chocolate flavor. It smells fine but when I drank it, it tastes faintly like dirt(?). The coffee base for most of the flavors appears to be a dark or French roast. Some drinkers may want to add milk or sugar. Update: Mar 2, 2023: The Mint Chocolate flavor seems improved since my original review. In my last few purchases, a popcorn flavored coffee was added - strangest flavor coffee ever. My new least favorite.

This is a huge variety pack and I think a fairly good value for the money. I have discovered some of the flavors aren’t my favorite, but I’m fairly sure they are someone else’s favorite. These are really convenient when I don’t want to brew an entire pot- or wait for a pot to brew. Also nice because I would never make an entire pot of “raspberry white chocolate truffle” but I might enjoy a cup. These don’t have sugar- so the flavor is more like “essence” of chocolate than actual chocolate, but you can obviously add sugar. I’d probably buy again.