History of instant coffee

It history is link to wars; military commanders had long sought a way to give their troops in the field a caffeine boosts without having to carry along cumbersome brewing equipment.

In 1771, the British granted a patent for a ‘coffee compound’ and in the late nineteenth century a Glasgow firm invented Camp Coffee, a liquid ‘essence’.

In the 1900 the Tokyo chemist Sartori Kato made a version of instant coffee. In 1901, he began introducing the American public to powdered coffee at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, new York.

In United States, the earliest experiments with and patent for, instant coffee date to the civil war. As an outgrowth of these experiments, a European immigrant named George Washington produced the first commercially viable instant coffee in the United States beginning in 1906.

While aiding Brazil in marketing a surplus of beans, Nestle, developed its instant coffee, Nescafe, which retained flavorful oils through a process of freeze drying. Nestle started marketing Nescafe in 1938 and quickly dominated the market.

After World War II, instant coffee became popular in America, prompting an increase in the growth of inferior robusta beans for the cheap blends used for soluble coffee.
History of instant coffee

History of Nescafe

History of Nescafe
The beginnings of Nescafe can be traced all the way back to 1930, when the Brazilian government, first approached Nestlé. The agency, Brazilian Coffee Institute seeks Nestle to preserve the huge coffee surpluses, by develop coffee that was soluble in hot water.

Coffee guru, Max Morgenthaler, and his team set out immediately to find a way of producing a quality cup of coffee that could be made simply by adding water, yet would retain the coffee’s natural flavor.

After seven long years of research in Nestle Swiss laboratories, they found the answer. The new product was named Nescafe – a combination of Nestlé and café. Nestle introduced Nescafe, the first commercially successful soluble coffee, in Switzerland, on April 1st, 1938. The company applied the technology at its Hayes factory, west London.

Instant coffee processing was not a new idea; it was invented by a Japanese chemist in 1901 and had been marketed and sold by other companies without success. Nestle revolutionized the way instant coffee was made. Nestle developed a new process for dehydrating the concentrated coffee which vastly improved the quality. In entailed spraying a fine mist of the solution into a heated tower where the droplets turned to powder almost instantly.

For the first half of the next decade, however, World War II hindered its success in Europe.
Nescafé was soon exported to France, Great Britain and the USA. Its popularity grew rapidly through the rest of the decade. It was so popular that the entire production of its US plant was reserved for military use.

By the 1950s, coffee had become the beverage of choice for teenagers, who were flocking to coffeehouses to hear the new rock ’n’ roll music.

Over the years the company has kept the emphasis on innovation, introducing pure soluble coffee (1952) solely using roast coffee beans, freeze dried soluble coffee (1965) and coffee granules (1967). In 1994 Nestle invented the full aroma process, which improved the quality of instant coffee. Such innovations have made sure that Nescafe has remained the world’s leading coffee. It is also the third most valuable brand in the entire drinks sector.
History of Nescafe