Eight O'Clock Coffee, 100% Columbian Whole Bean, 40-Ounce Package

My wife and I have tried many brands of whole coffee beans over the years. Eight O'Clock Coffee 100% Colombian Peaks is very consistent for freshness, flavor, and price. It smells great. Always high quality and one of the best medium roast on the market. I keep trying to find something that taste better, but haven't. We end up back with Eight O'Clock because it is very good. In fact, the only one that comes close is Peet's, but it is more than twice the cost. All in all this is really good coffee. Well worth a full 5 stars!

The price is good and the taste is OK, but lacks the intensity that we prefer. We won't order it again.

We've been drinking Eight O'Clock Columbian for well over 20 years. We've tried others, but we always come back to Eight O'Clock. It's a great value. For the money, my wife and I have found that this is absolutely the best coffee for the money you can find anywhere. We always buy the whole bean and grind it ourselves in a high-quality mill for the French press. My wife uses about 12 tablespoons for 8 cups of coffee, and most mornings I say to her, "Honey, the coffee is exceptional this morning." And I mean it. There are a few coffee shop in a 10 mile radius that serve a cup that's at least as good if not a little better (although none of them start with the letter "S"). It's a mild blend that works best (we think) when using ample amounts because that produces a hearty cup without any bitterness.

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I ordered whole bean coffee, and received ground in a bag that had a small razor knife cut in the bottom of the 8 O'Clock Coffee bag. I contacted Amazon, and the refund went smoothly, but they didn't require that I return the ground coffee. Overall, this is my favorite 'supermarket coffee', but like many supermarket brands, the dark roasts are really medium, and the medium are actually light roast. I have no idea what the light roast versions taste like!. I bought this to experiment with Cold Brew coffee. Knowing that it takes a LOT of coffee to make a decent amount of CB concentrate, I thought I'd buy a good cheap brand that I like. I made a batch with 8 O'Clock (Ground, what was I going to do with it?) and a batch with Allegro Blue Nile Whole bean (Medium Roast). In both cases, the cold brewed coffee had less of an acidic coffee "Bite" to it, However, the 8 O'clock version was much less flavorful than the (much more expensive) Allegro coffee. I suspect that the 'optimistic' branding of the 8 O'Clock coffee as 'medium roast' was to blame. It was almost 'medium roast' and it is close enough that the hot brew method with it's greater 'bite' hides it well, but that the cold brew can't hide the shorter, slightly lighter roasting time. The pre-ground nature of the coffee may have also played a part in this. It would be interesting to see if the 8 O'Clock dark roast flavors would be more suitable for cold brew. When I'm in the mood for experimenting, I will try it out. But for now, I can not recommend the 8 O'Clock Columbian, medium roast for cold brew. However it does make a pleasant cup of hot brew!