I usually order from Amazon or get what's on sale. Try to stay around the 20-25 dollar mark for about 70 to 80 cups. SF Bay was the last I ordered and was pretty good, have also ordered Donut Shop since it's usually around the right price but i notice the difference between that and SF bay. Would like recommendations on these types of K cups and the difference between the roast, I usually go medium to dark roast. As long as it's not extremely bitter or too weak I am good. Is there anything particular I should be looking for does age of coffee matter?
@JuanValdez I got a Keurig a few months ago that came with a bunch of free k-cups. It was a box of their Coffee Lovers collection with something like 30-40 cups, another box of Starbucks French Roast, and a small box of some other variety pack. I'm no coffee expert since I pretty much do it for the caffeine addiction, and I generally don't care that much for dark roast; I'm more of medium and light roast guy. So take my advice with a grain of salt. I pretty much liked any variety of Green Mountain coffee that was in the box and that I've ever drank at work (even the Dark roast was "ok"). I could not stand the Starbucks French Roast. Most dark roasts taste like burnt wood to me. This tasted like something that had burned to the ground. The date on the package was getting close to the "best by" date, so that may have had something to do with it. I bought some Walmart/Great Value coffee, and to be honest, while not as good as GMCR, they were "good enough" and a lot cheaper. Laughing Man's Dukale's Blend was one that wasn't your every day coffee that I liked. It tasted more towards the darker end but didn't taste like the generic office coffee. It was odd how from cup-to-cup of the same coffee, things tasted different. There was a cup of REVV's No Surrender coffee. The first cup tasted like something even the Phoenix couldn't rise from. Like they went to a crematorium for the coffee. The 2nd cup of it tasted like one of the best dark roasts I had tried. Laughing Man's Colombia Huila tasted pretty good for a dark roast, too. As did GMCR's Colombia Huila. As for the medium and light roasts, Damn near anything from GMCR, Laughing Man, Newman's Own, Tully's, Krispy Kreme, Caribou, Gloria Jean's, Donut Shop, etc. all tasted good to me. The weakest tasting among those were Newman's Special Blend and Krispy Kreme's Classic Medium Roast. But like I said, any of them would do ok for me. I can notice a difference in taste among them if I drank them back-to-back, but since I never drink them back-to-back, it's not that big a deal. In most cases the taste wasn't so different that I'd say "I have to have Brand A or nothing at all". Yeah, be careful buying on Amazon. I think in some cases you may end up with old stock and, yes, it matters. Basically as soon as you've roasted the coffee bean, the taste starts degrading, and it's made worse by grinding it. I'm eventually going to decide on a coffee I like and just buy the beans if I can and grind them myself maybe. I'll let the experts comment on that. I also bought one of those re-usable K-cups to put grounds in instead of flooding the planet with more k-cups, and for when I want to grind my own or just buy grounds or something.
I have done Green Mountain several times and like you I cannot really tell the difference. The SFBay is all biodegradable which was a selling point and it was consistent. We seem to approach coffee the same way I just want to see if there is a brand I am missing out on.
HEB Nicaraguan is a really good dark roast. Pricier than most brands though. https://www.heb.com/product-detail/...s-nicaraguan-single-serve-coffee-cups/1868725
Tried the re-usable K-Cups but can’t get it strong enough for my liking, I’m definitely a dark roast drinker though. Would really like to find a way to make it work because we go through a lot of them. Been buying Starbucks Sumatra through Amazon and haven’t had an issue with expiration as of yet. Surprisingly it’s cheaper than Sams or Costco and usually next day shipping.
Light Roast = more caffeine= a better aura= more b****es. Dark roast= less caffeine= stronger foul smell=low testosterone= less b****es. Alot of people don't know this.
I'm no coffee expert, but this isn't necessarily true. Light roasts have more caffeine "per scoop", but not when you take into account the "mass" of the scoop. For all practical purposes, there's not much difference. https://www.cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/8237-caffeine-content-of-coffee-dark-roast-vs-light-roast
Have tried this with multiple brands and packing as much coffee as I could into a reusable one. Still couldn’t get it nearly as strong as a regular K-Cup.
If you're drinking for yourself, this is a nice green investment. It takes a while to baby, but works well with an on demand water boiler. (not this one but something like it) www.amazon.com/Double-Coffee-Dripper-Stainless-Teapots/dp/B075M82YKG I'm not really sure how pods work w/ out you drinking some of the plastics, so I switched off them and use the old coffee machines for more than one. I guess a french press would do, but no way am I cleaning that on a daily basis.
Small French Press, Moka Pot or a Vietnamese slow dripper. I gave up coffee months back cause I was taking in too much caffeine, but those are what I used. I do still like a good cup of dark roast every now and again but after quitting coffee, Im wired as hell with one cup.
Kirkland brand Breakfast Blend (Costco) are good and great value Green Mountain - I like most of their coffee, Breakfast Blend and Nantucket blend come to mind, the French Roast isn't bad either for a medium blend Also really like Eight O'clock coffee, and if you're feeling like some really bold flavor Pete's Coffee Big Bang.
Not really a coffee connoisseur. My wife is more particular so I have a Breville espresso maker and buy good coffee. I'll drink most any swill with caffeine in it. But, not a fan of the k-cup method. It's a business strategy like HP's ink business -- give you the printer cheap and then make 40% margins on ink cartridges that fit. Or the Gillette razor business. Kuerig hasn't done as good a job with it because people have found ways to not buy their k-cups. But really, it's not that hard to put some coffee in a filter and pour hot water over it.
I prefer DARK ROAST because I like to drink a large volume throughout the day, so less caffeine is better. I also prefer the taste. It's deeper and more complex. But yee, my pee-pee got small.
As someone who did this for a living (well pre covid), anytime a consumer asked for dark roast it was code for get the cheapest shittiest coffee bean available and roast the crap out of it. Which we never did. You really won't find any quality roaster who roasts their beans "dark". Find a local quality roaster. Get a quality burr grinder. Get reusable kcups.
100 cups!!! https://caphin.com/collections/k-cups/products/variety-pack-single-serve-pods-100-count-k-cups
