Comments on: Community Coffee Sumatra Mandheling

By: Marye Audet

Marye Audet — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:16:36 +0000

Julia, first of all…thanks for commenting. I LOVE comments..it helps me know I am not talking to myself.
Second…Beans can have a lot of oil, especially if they are dark roast. I buy whole bean coffees and often they are oily and glistening…so depending on the type of coffee you got yes, it could well be oil.

If it has an off smell, looks molded or what ever then of course that is different.

Thanks for reading.

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:53:17 +0000

Marye:

The description you gave sounded so yummy. I have been a coffee drinker for longer than I can remember. Well actually maybe some of your readers remember how their mom used to mix coffee with sugar and a lot of milk when you were little? That’s how my love for it began.

The main reason for my commenting is that I have tried Googling this situation. I have enjoyed Starbuck’s, Folger’s, Yuban, Hills Bros., Dunkin Donuts, Organic coffees, and even gourmet brands. I have purchased them in the now hard to find cans, plastic containers and the vaccum sealed packages.

NEVER have I experienced ANY of the coffees to be “clumpy”. Not from ANY of the containers–as with Community Coffee. After trying them (I have purchased 3 such vaccum containers over the past 6 weeks) from our local WalMart…I decided to contact Community Coffee’s Customer Care department. I spoke with a very pleasant gal by the name of Megan…she listened to my experience and said she would ask questions and get back to me the next day with an answer.

Now…the packages I purchased were VERY hard…NOT due to the vaccume sealing…they felt to be “solid”? Anyway…upon opening…you don’t experience that “rush” of air into the package you get from other brands and that even sound of air rushing into it. The brick of coffee just sits there.

When I pour it into a coffee container…there are VERY noticeable lumps of coffee…so much so that you have to break them down. This to me indicates “moisture”.

Well…Megan called me today, stated that according to their technical department it is “oil” from the beans? What???? I have NEVER EVER had this happen in all the years I have purchased coffee.

So I would like to know…since I am having trouble finding this information…

Has ANYONE else EVER experienced this? Is this true? And is not “oil” from the beans “moisture”.

I appreciate your input since they, Community Coffee came to you to evaluate their coffee.

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By: Marye

Marye — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:59:21 +0000

Peggy I haven’t tried 8 o clock in years because it used to be soooooo bad.

By: Peggy

Peggy — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:52:42 +0000

I remember the same thing about them from years ago. Maybe they’ve gotten better?

Have you tried 8 o clock brand? I heard on the news it was recently named best in a tasting test by Consumer Reports. But it looks like they don’t do the whole bean thing.