Instant Coffee

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What is the history of instant coffee? Instant coffee is made from real coffee beans which have been roasted, ground and brewed before the drying process. Soluble coffee and coffee powder are made by either spray drying coffee or for a better quality instant coffee, freeze-drying the liquid coffee. The British government granted a patent in 1771 for an early version of instant coffee called a "coffee compound".In 1890 New Zealand inventor David Strang patented instant coffee using the Dry Hot Air method which evaporated the moisture out of freshly brewed liquid coffee leaving behind crusty nuggets of dried coffee, unfortunately, it didn't taste very good. By 1910 launched America's first commercially successful instant coffee brand called Red E Coffee, which at least tasted like coffee. The big breakthrough in the development of good flavoured instant coffee happened almost by accident when in 1930 the Brazilian Government worried about what to do with huge surpluses of coffee beans approached the Swiss food company Nestle to develop a process to make a great tasting soluble coffee which would solve the storage issues of excess coffee beans and develop a new market for their instant coffee. In 1938 after years of research and development "Nescafe" is launched and is an immediate success, using the new method of mixing carbohydrates with soluble coffee to make a better tasting instant coffee. The Second World War created massive demand for instant coffee for soldiers and American GIs are credited with the popularisation of instant coffee in the UK when they brought over their instant coffee rations. Liquid coffee in a glass bottle, such as Camp Coffee, had been the most popular method of making a cup of instant coffee in the UK prior to the arrival of Nescafe. Nestle further improved the quality of instant coffee with the agglomeration process which produces instant coffee particles by steaming the brewed coffee and then the latest and best method to date, the high-q