Award-winning baristas launch UK’s first coffee cordial

Solo Coffee has launched what it is calling the UK’s first “coffee cordial”, offering instant, barista grade coffee where consumers just have to add water or milk.

‘Solo Coffee Concentrate’, dubbed “squash for adults”, is an espresso-strength cold brew coffee using a Brazilian and Columbian blend with a medium roast profile and is the brainchild of award-winning barista’s, Alex Foss Sims and Theo Garcia.

Alex and Theo spent years working as baristas in some of the UK’s finest coffee shops winning multiple industry-respected awards. The pair launched Solo in 2018 after seeing a gap in the market to create a perfectly brewed, speciality grade coffee that was convenient, accessible to all and versatile.

The versatile and cost-effective cold brew coffee can be used to make several drinks and even desserts.

Solo Coffee Concentrate comes in a 1L Tetra Pak containing 40 shots of cold brew espresso and unlike a lot of coffee products, it contains no sugars, is vegan friendly, 100% arabica.

Theo Garcia, co-founder at Solo said: “Our new coffee concentrate is the first of its kind and tastes better than any instant coffee available on the market. We’ve made sure to use only the best blend of beans to ensure it has the best flavour profile possible.

“For us, it felt that an outstanding cup of coffee is hard to come by. It’s easy enough to find a promising bag of coffee beans, but it then takes lots of skill to brew it to perfection, even at a good café the quality seems to be hit and miss. That’s when we decided to make it our mission to make great coffee more accessible.”

Solo Coffee Concentrate is available to buy now for £9.95 per 1L Tetra Pak (equivalent to 25p per shot serving). Solo will be donating 12.5% of profits of the new concentrate to The Drinks Trust until the end of the year.

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