Nescafe - Dolce Gusto and the History of Instant Coffee

Fine Instant Coffee Products Offered By Nestle Company

What Is Nescafe?

Nescafe is a particular brand of instant coffee made by the Nestle company. Various different Nescafe products are offered (see below).

Where did the name Nescafe come from?

The term Nescafe comes from a mix of the two words Nestle and Cafe. It was way back in 1938 when Nestle first introduced its powdered coffee product.

This took place in Switzerland after seven years of research and development by a man named Max Morgenthaler along with Vernon Chapman. You can read more about this in the History of Instant Coffee.

How popular is Nescafe?

By one account some three thousand cups of Nescafe are consumed each second around the world.

What are the different products offered by Nescafe?

There is the Nescafe Original along with Nescafe Classic and also Classico, the Nescafe Gold Blend (also in Decaffeinated) and the Nescafe Gold Blend Half Caff.

Other Nescafe products include the Nescafe Black Gold, Blend 43, Deaff, Half Caff, and Nescafe Fine Blend. A Fairtrade product is the Nescafe Partners Blend, and “The Paris Experience” is found with the Cafe Parisien Nescafe product.

Finally there is the Nescafe Suraya, Nescafe Alta Rica and Alta Rica Decaff as well as Nescafe Cap Colombie, Nescafe Espresso, Nescafe Red Cup (in Europe) and Nescafe Green Blend (in Sweden).

There are also some specialty range Nescafe products including Nescafe Cappuccino (and an unsweetened variety, a skinny variety and a decaffeinated variety). Also Nescafe Latte (and skinny), Nescafe Latte Macchiato, Nescafe Ice Java Coffee Syrup and Nescafe Excella.

Flavors of Nescafe include Irish Cream, Vanilla, Mocha, Double Choca Mocha and Mocha Skinny.

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Is Nescafe a brand or a company?

Nescafe is a brand of the Nestle company. The name Nescafe was used all the way back in the 1930s but its use discontinued in the 1960s. Then Nestle introduced the Taster's Choice brand in the United States and this replaced the Nescafe name for a long time.

The Nescafe brand was reintroduced in the United States in 2003 and now goes by the name Nescafe Taster's Choice. Offered in both plastic and glass packaging, Nescafe Taster's Choice is available in supermarkets in the United States.es

Nescafe Brand Began As Instant Coffee

Originally the Nescafe Brand was used for instant coffee (soluble coffee) but later was used as somewhat of an umbrella brand to cover a whole variety of instant coffee products such as the Blend 37 and Gold Blend freeze-dried coffees.

The first “instant coffee” was made in Britain in 1771 and was given a patent by the British government. In America the first instant coffee product was created in 1853 and “cakes” of instant coffee were given to soldiers in the Civil War.

It wasn't until 1901 that the chemist Dr. Sartori Kato in Chicago created the first stable soluble coffee powder similar to today's instant coffee. Kato got a patent for his product in 1903.

The first mass production of instant coffee took place after the inventor George Constant Louis Washington in 1909 saw powder deposited on a coffee pot spout inspiring him to make the product which he began marketing in 1909.

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It was in 1930 that the Brazilian Coffee Institute asked the chairman of the Nestle company to create a very tasty soluble coffee product (e.g., “instant coffee”) with the goal of assisting Brazil deal with its large coffee surplus at the time.

Nestle then conducted years of research that led to a new instant coffee making technique discovered at the Nestle's Switzerland research center laboratory. They named this product Nescafe, a name they got by joining Nestle and Cafe. The product began selling in Switzerland in 1938.

During one year of World War II the United States military bought more than one million cases of Nescafe which was the total annual output of Nestle's U.S. plant.

Nescafe Launches Dolce Gusto Brewing Machine

Nescafe introduced its Dolce Gusto coffee brewing system in 2006 and it is now sold worldwide. Dolce Gusto means “Sweet Taste” in Italian.

The Dolce Gusto machines allow users to prepare various types of coffee such as an Espresso, Cappuccino, Latte Macchiato, Espresso Lungo and more. The Dolce Gusto machines can also be used to make hot chocolate and cold drinks.

Nescafe Makes the News

During the recent unrest in Libya the embattled leader of the country Moammar Gaddafi aired a rant against the protesters saying “Their ages are 17. They give them pills at night, they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their Nescafe.”

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Aspiring Baristas can read about espresso brewing and learn how to Pull A Perfect Espresso Shot and techniques for Steaming and Frothing Milk to create a creamy velvety texture for great Espresso Drinks. We even provide you with tips on how to write a Barista Resume.

Finally you may be interested in learning about all of the different terms and expressions in the coffee world, then see the Coffee Terms. If you want to learn about the storied past of the coffee plant and its spread around the world, then see the World's Best History of Coffee.