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Supermarket Reviews

We found 24 reviews for Supermarket. The reviews below appear in reverse chronological order by review date. Older reviews may no longer accurately reflect current versions of the same coffee.


92

Trader Joe's

Kenya AA Medium Roast

Review Date: Feb 2016
Price: $7.99/13 ounces

Those who value a roundly assertive Kenya with rich, complexly stated sweetness enveloping tart fruit notes. An almost shockingly low price for a Kenya this distinctive and pleasing.

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90

McCafe

Colombian 100% Arabica Medium-Dark Roast

Review Date: Feb 2016
Price: $8.49/12 ounces

Sweetly and gently pungent, quietly complex. Dark chocolate, cedar, hazelnut, plum in aroma and cup. Round, backgrounded but softly resonant acidity; lightly syrupy mouthfeel. Hints of dark chocolate, cedar and plum all linger faintly but persistently in a sweet-toned finish.

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84

Safeway Kitchens

100% Colombian Ground Coffee

Review Date: Feb 2016
Price: $4.49/10.3 ounces

Crisply sweet, delicate, balanced but simple. Molasses, raisin, freshly cut fir, a hint of hazelnut in aroma and cup. Crisp, though rather muted, acidity; silky, but very light, mouthfeel. Sweet in the finish, though drying and rather woody.

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75

Maxwell House

100% Colombian Medium Roast

Review Date: Feb 2016
Price: $8.49/28 ounces

Cloying raw nut and vaguely spicy wood dominate in both aroma and cup, with some suggestions of roasted cacao nib and raisin. Simple, bittersweet acidity; syrupy, though rather inert, mouthfeel. Flavor smooths out a bit in the finish, with a little more cacao and raisin and a little less raw nut and wood.

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87

Community Coffee

Between Roast

Review Date: Jan 2007
Price: NA

A quiet, sweetly rounded coffee. Cherry and a hint of chocolate in the aroma, softly acidy and rather full-bodied in the cup, with candied walnut, cacao and pipe tobacco notes. Simple, gently rich finish.

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84

Sara Lee Coffee and Tea

MJB 100% Colombian

Review Date: Dec 2002

The reader who nominated this canned supermarket coffee describes it as "not a harsh acid coffee. The taste comes through. Try it." I did, and found it a good though not great medium-roasted Colombia coffee: robustly acidy with decent complementing sweetness, full-bodied, but with little complexity or nuance. I agree that the acidity is not "harsh," but I did find it just a shade too overbearing and perhaps a touch sour.

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84

Yuban

100% Colombian

Review Date: Mar 2002

Sweet, balanced, restrained. The fruit and vegetal cocoa notes are faint but pleasant, the roasty tones understated.

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89

MJB

Hawaiian Blend

Review Date: Mar 2002

Delicate but authoritative, richly and sweetly acidy. The classic fruit/floral aromatics lean toward chocolate in the aroma, fruit in the cup, and carry through cleanly into the long, sweet finish.

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87

Dunkin' Donuts

Original Blend

Review Date: Mar 2002

Rather intensely acidy, with clean floral and wine-toned fruit notes that deepen toward a bright chocolate in the finish. The acidity is clean and free of astringency, but may be too aggressive for some coffee drinkers.

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86

Eight O'Clock Coffee

Original Bean Coffee

Review Date: Mar 2002

Low-toned but complex. A floral sweetness is supported by a slightly roasty pungency and a touch of mustiness, the agreeable kind that gives weight and character to the cup and hints at dry chocolate.

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85

Illy

Medium Roast and Grind

Review Date: Mar 2002

Understated to the point of self-effacement. The aroma is subdued but sweet and enlivened with a tickle of dry, fruit-toned chocolate. In the cup round, rather deeply dimensioned, with just enough acidity to keep the cup subtle rather than banal.

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85

Nescafé

Kona Blend, Special Reserve Light Roast, Whole Bean

Review Date: Mar 2002

Gently and sweetly acidy with crisp, pear-like fruit tones that round toward sweet cocoa in the finish. The cup is shadowed by an underlying astringent bitterness.

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72

Maxwell House

Master Blend

Review Date: Mar 2002

Cloyingly sweet and sharply musty - imagine the taste of mildewed nuts left sitting in a damp basement closet for a few weeks. The musty tones hint at cocoa but don't come through.

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83

Millstone

Mayan Black Onyx

Review Date: Mar 2002

A rather striking dark-roast coffee in its disconnected extremes of abandoned sweetness and charred bitterness. The only relief from this (to some exhilarating) contradiction are dry cocoa notes in the finish.

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81

Starbucks Coffee

Colombia, Whole Bean

Review Date: Mar 2002

Woody, dominated by a rather thin, roasty bitterness. Attenuated floral notes play at the top of the profile, dry cocoa-toned fruit toward the middle, but a rather shallow roast taste dominates.

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80

MJB

European Roast

Review Date: Mar 2002

The aroma is sweet, rather full in dimension, the cup pungent and roasty with a balancing hint of acidity. Limited but satisfying.

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79

Folgers

French Roast, Whole Bean

Review Date: Mar 2002

When hot, an impressive dark-roast cup: balanced, sweet modulating to bittersweet in the finish; dry, prune-like fruit complications with a pleasant roasty bite. As the cup cools, however, distinct (and rather unpleasant) rubber tones emerge.

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78

Hills Bros.

Coffee

Review Date: Mar 2002

About half of a classic American breakfast cup. The acidy brightness, gently complicated by a touch of nut-toned sweetness, is there. Nevertheless, shallow in dimension and limited in range, with a hint of musty, grainy robusta lurking not very far beneath the traditional brightness.

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78

Nescafé

Cool Java Blend, Special Reserve Dark Roast

Review Date: Mar 2002

The intentions of this blend announce themselves in the nose with extremely roasty, explicitly burned notes. In the cup the charred tones fade, giving way to a rather neutral woodiness with sweet undertones that suggest pungent spice.

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78

Lavazza

Premium Drip Coffee

Review Date: Mar 2002

Flat, feeble, tea-like aroma. The cup is sweet but the acidity is weak-kneed and a bit sour. A pleasant hint of fruit, but not enough to save the cup from its general dull listlessness.

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