Jot Original Ultra Coffee Concentrate vs Mount Hagen Organic Instant Coffee Sticks 25ct

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

The best instant on this site, in the format that travels

Scores higher on convenience & format, sourcing transparency, packaging & shelf life.

• +$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

• +The same freeze-dried, USDA Organic and Fair Trade coffee as the jar, in 25 portable 2g sticks
• +Published for cold water and milk as well as hot
• +Arabica from Papua New Guinea, Peru and Honduras, the origins Mount Hagen names for the blend

• −25 servings against roughly 50 in the jar, for a format that is usually dearer per cup
• −No price is published for it here