Jot Original Ultra Coffee Concentrate vs Mount Hagen Organic Freeze Dried Instant Coffee

Iced coffee and milk drinks without equipment, cheaper per cup than specialty instant

The instant to buy if you have decided instant is beneath you and want to be proved wrong

Scores higher on convenience & format, sourcing transparency.

• +$1.90 a cup, against $2.60 for Intelligentsia's specialty instant
• +Mixes into cold milk without clumping, which instant does not, iced coffee in seconds
• +One tablespoon, no equipment, and the strength is yours to set
• +Origins named: Peruvian, with Colombian and Honduran

• −Refrigerated once opened, where a jar of instant keeps in a cupboard for a year
• −Fourteen cups a bottle, so a light drinker buys a fortnight at a time
• −A glass bottle does not travel the way a sachet does
• −Far more expensive than supermarket instant, which is cents a cup

• +USDA Organic and Fair Trade, freeze dried, roughly 50 servings a jar
• +Mount Hagen publishes it for cold water and milk as well as hot
• +Arabica in a glass jar rather than plastic

• −A 3.53oz jar, and no price published
• −A jar does not travel, which is what the same maker's sticks are for