Posted on 10/21/2012 7:26:51 PM PDT by randita
Eight O'Clock whole bean coffee has been my mainstay for years. Lately, it has been horrible. I can hardly drink it any more. Wonder why it's gotten so awful. Other family members have concurred.
I'm looking for recommendations on some other brands to try that would be similar to what Eight O'Clock used to be in a similar price range.
I'm not extremely picky but since I usually only have one cup of coffee per day, I would like it to be very good.
I live in a rural area so don't have the luxury of bopping into a gourmet coffee shop on a regular basis, unfortunately.
Thanks for your input.
http://rangercoffee.com/
I can recommend everything there.
http://rangercoffee.com/
I can recommend everything there.
http://rangercoffee.com/
I can recommend everything there.
http://rangercoffee.com/
I can recommend everything there.
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I second what a lot of others said. Use filtered water. A lot of municipalities tinker with their tap water formulation, and even your own well water can change its taste depending on what's going on in the aquifer.
I second that. The eight-o-clock italian roast is delicious. I’ve been making my coffee single cup for the last few years,keeping it to generally one cup a day. I use
the mellita filters/plastic cone and just pour the kettle
water through. No more waste and i’ve come to enjoy the
ritual of making it.
Dark roast Sumatra.
Go here: http://stores.lakotacoffee.com/-strse-Top-Sellers/Categories.bok
order mocha java. I’ve been drinking it since 1998.
Go here: http://stores.lakotacoffee.com/-strse-Top-Sellers/Categories.bok
order mocha java. I’ve been drinking it since 1998.
Go here: http://stores.lakotacoffee.com/-strse-Top-Sellers/Categories.bok
order mocha java. I’ve been drinking it since 1998.
Go here: http://stores.lakotacoffee.com/-strse-Top-Sellers/Categories.bok
order mocha java. I’ve been drinking it since 1998.
We make a 10 cup pot every day (we can do 12 cups, but don’t drink that much...). Enough for my wife to have with breakfast and take some to work,and a double cup for me. We don’t have more than that on any day.
I second that. Dark roast Sumatra. Costco sells a good version of it for a relatively low price (considering the quality of the brew). Mixing it with Arabian beans is pure perfection, although Arabian beans are rather expensive.
I'm assuming b/c of your rural location you'll look at mail order. Roasted in Maine . They know what they are doing. Consistently superior whole beans.
I love the flexibility and ease of the Keurig K-Cups. Mostly a Starbucks person myself, so I like their French Roasy and Cafe Verona. Sumatra is pretty good, but clogs up the Keurig machine.
San Franciso brand (I get mine on Amazon) is very good.
Good thread everyone. lets keep it going. (nice break from the politics)
“Wonder why it’s gotten so awful. “
Could be your coffee maker. I assume it is a drip maker? Sometimes they get clogged with calcium deposits or the heating elements change and it doesn’t brew at the correct temperature.
The best drip maker I’ve ever owned in the past 45 years is a Zojirushi.
Peet’s Coffee
I also drink only one cup a day and really like the Peet’s. It’s in the Safeway/Randall’s/Tom Thumb chains, also available online.
I’ll second and third other posters who recommend coffeebeandirect.com. Have used them for a long time. Good prices, good service, good coffee beans. I buy roasted, whole beans in 5 pound bags, usually 5 bags of various kinds to get free shipping. I go for lighter roasts and low-acid coffees. Sumartra, Kenya AA, Columbian, etc. Lately I’ve been buying their half-caf/haf-decaf mixes to save me the effort of doing that myself. I have not liked their own blends, like Morning Blend for example, at all! Tastes to me like their special blends were crap they swept up off the floor. Also, avoid buying coffeebeandirect coffees from amazon. They are stale, stale, stale from sitting around at Amazon.
I order from coffeebeandirect.com over the weekend so they ship on Monday, to give them a full five days for shipment without having the coffee beans sit in some unheated/uncooled UPS warehouse or truck over the weekend.
Dunkin Donuts. Brew it up strong, and it’s addictive. I haven’t found a coffee that comes close.
Grocery stores have the regular sized bag; Sam’s Club has the 40 oz. size.
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