
Swift Coffee
Mainstay Blend Instant Coffee
Specialty-grade instant from the company that makes many roasters' instants: sweet, balanced and pricey at about $2 a cup.
Sweet · Caramelized
13 products in our directory list caramel among their tasting notes. 8% of them come from Colombia. Most sit around a medium roast. It most often appears alongside cocoa powder, roasty, dark chocolate.
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13 products
13 products

Swift Coffee
Specialty-grade instant from the company that makes many roasters' instants: sweet, balanced and pricey at about $2 a cup.

Waka Coffee & Tea
Freeze-dried single-origin Colombian instant at about 43¢ a cup: clean and balanced, a big step up from supermarket jars.

Community Coffee
Louisiana's family-roasted medium-dark blend: full-bodied, low-acid and nutty, with caramel and cocoa notes.

Jordan's Skinny Mixes
Best-selling zero-calorie syrup layering vanilla and toasty caramel, sweetened with sucralose and acesulfame K. About 36¢ a serving.

Dunkin'
The donut-shop medium roast in a big canister: smooth, mild and easy to drink, at well under 50 cents a cup.

Lavazza
Lavazza's 100% Arabica drip blend for American coffee makers: smooth, low-bitterness and caramel-sweet at a mid-range price.

illy
A smooth 100% Arabica Italian espresso blend with caramel, orange blossom and jasmine, sealed in a nitrogen-pressurized tin.

Four Sigmatic
A 'proffee' powder: instant Arabica with 10 g protein, creatine, collagen and lion's mane in one scoop. Sweet, convenient and $3 a cup.

Café Bustelo
Bustelo's dark, cafecito-style roast for Keurig: about as close to espresso as a K-Cup gets, at a budget price.

Starbucks
Starbucks' everyday house coffee at home: a smooth, cocoa-toned Latin American blend roasted darker than most 'medium' coffees.

Califia Farms
Unsweetened two-ingredient cold brew in a 48 oz bottle, made for mixing with plant milks; clean, but caffeine and price go unpublished.

Starbucks
The dark, caramelly blend behind Starbucks café espresso since 1975, in whole-bean bags for home machines.

Starbucks
The Starbucks house cup for Keurig: tastes like the café's drip, which means dark, roasty and divisive.
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