Why I Sometimes Return to Instant Coffee

Instant coffee is bad bla bla bla, you're not a true coffee lover if you drink instant coffee.

Over the course of the years, I heard something along the lines. As much as my palate has been refined, I need to remember where I came from and how it all started. The first time I had coffee was simply an instant coffee when I was around 10 years old. My parents were into instant coffee too and it's why I got introduced to it. Safe to say, I got addicted to caffeine and I love how it made me awake for long periods of time to study. I went crazy with my good day addiction during highschool and I remembered being awake for more than 3 days straight. Strangely, I loved that feeling.

I got into specialty coffee only when I started college and that was the moment of me trying out all the coffee I could and got sucked into it. Somehow, I never truly look back and rarely have instant coffee unless extreme cases. Now, it all boils down to whether I am positioning as someone who needs caffeine or someone who wants to savor every sip of the coffee.

The first coffee that I used to enjoy was this brand called Good Day. They are flavored coffee, cheap as dirt and they definitely gives caffeine boost that could make an elephant awake for days. Mainly, it's because the coffee is robusta and it typically has 70-ish mg caffeine in a sachet. If you drink about 4 of them because that's very possible since they're pretty tasty, I doubt you'd be falling asleep anytime soon. Today, just so out of the blue, I grabbed one of those and choose the nutty flavor. This nutty flavor is one of their latest flavoring that didn't exist then. In the past, they used to have simple flavors but overtime, they added more flavoring and Carebian nut is one of my favorite from their brand.

I only made it in this size because they're supposed to be diluted in 150ml water anything more would taste like it's watered down coffee and ruined all the flavor it has. Even this one I made tasted slightly like that as I didn't measure the water properly.

I won't recommend having this daily though for reasons like high in sugar and also preservatives but it's fun to drink once in a while and hassle free, no waiting time, no measuring, no making sure the water temperature is right or even involve some other mixology knowledge just to add more flavoring to the coffee. Today was just one of those days I wanted to get back to my roots and remembered where I came from before all the specialty coffee delights that I have these days. The good thing is that my mom even told me that she'd drink the rest because occasionally she craves the sugary taste of this drink.