Ariana Losch

Credit: Merc / Walmart / Target Instant espresso might seem like the cheap way to get your daily caffeine fix, but in my experience, it’s actually a luxury—a surprise hack to make your average cup of coffee taste even stronger, fuller, more robust. Obviously, that isn’t true for all brands (some taste straight from the ashtray), but that’s where we come in. I taste-tested all of the brands I could find at major grocery stores to find the three best instant espresso powders out there.

At this very moment, I’m typing from a local coffee shop known for bringing the concept of “blueberry coffee” to this corner of Los Angeles (hi, Priscilla’s Gourmet Coffee) and using their objectively terrible wifi to research Chobani’s latest creamer flavor, American Blueberry. Serendipitous, isn’t it? (It’s not. I did this on purpose.) Chase Stokes, Rudy Pankow and Drew Starkey Talk Outer Banks Season 4 Blueberry coffee has been a niche trend in brick-and-mortar coffee shops for a while now.