Real Good Coffee Company – Whole Bean Coffee – Donut Shop Medium Roast Coffee Beans – 2 Pound Bag – 100% Whole Arabica Beans – Grind at Home, Brew How You Like

I’ve been looking for coffee beans that make a solid cup of coffee, and I’m delighted to say that I found it!

Coffee preferences and tastes are very subjective, and what’s good to one person might not be to another, so keep that in mind.

What I want in a good cup of coffee is a straight forward coffee taste. No bitterness, no burnt taste, just something smooth and simple.

I don’t use a lot of sweetener in my coffee, I generally make it in my Keurig and add a dollop of heavy whipping cream and sometimes a teaspoon of chocolate Keto Chow for the sweetness and flavor. This coffee tastes like a lightly sweetened coffee candy when I make it that way.

When I opened the bag, I was welcomed with the delicious aroma of quality coffee, and this bean does deliver on that promise. It’s a solid bold flavor without being too strong, and the coffee taste isn’t lost when I add the chocolate keto chow and heaving whipping cream.

Once this bag is almost empty I’ll begin subscribing to it for regular deliveries. it’s that good.

It’s a big bag o beans, dark and smoky. I’ll vacuum seal most of it in smaller bags. Tastes at least as good as Peet’s, my previous grocery store favorite, but less expensive.

I ordered Breakfast Blend for the first time in late 2023, and I received beans all of same roast : light end of medium. My wife and I liked this product, so we decided to reorder more of it in the near future…

So in late July 2023 my wife ordered our 2nd delivery of Breakfast Blend, but much to our disappointment we received a blend of two roasts; medium + dark. It’s not hard to imagine such roast blending being commonplace among brands that offer ready-ground coffee, but we didn’t expect this in whole bean. Mind you, I’ve been purchasing whole bean coffees since about 2003, and never before have I gotten a bag filled with anything other than than a single homogeneous shade of brown.

BOTTOM LINE
You might get a single roast of beans; all of a shade that is the lighter end of medium. That one tasted good to us, even though we couldn’t classify it as “true light roast”. Or you might get a mixture of both medium and dark beans. That batch had a distinctive burnt flavor, which we don’t like. Unless we find later reviews of Breakfast Blend describing it as a single roast that is ACTUALLY ( as opposed to nominally ) not darker than the lighter end of medium roast, we won’t repurchase it. Hopefully Real Good will get either their QC act or their labelling act together.

My wife and I have been brewing coffee for years, mainly to get a better bargain than what you get driving through Starbucks (PNW native here, these are fighting words already where we’re from), but also because the quality compared to drip coffee from these types of establishments is either burnt, old, bitter, take your pick. It hasn’t always been this way, we used to watch our checking account drain as the addictive convenience of getting a morning boost in the car was too good to turn down. But the pandemic (and with it, working from home) brought us back to brewing our own more consistently, and believing we would be doing this for a while we thought it necessary to put some time and effort into researching what roasts would earn their way into our cupboard. Heed all who read further: your search for your new favorite home-brewed coffee ends here. We have tried all of “Real Good Coffee Co.’s” whole bean roasts which we grind daily and drip through our Braun filtered coffee maker (another topic but wow, best kitchen appliance ever), and not one disappointed. Every. Single. Batch. About as fresh as you can imagine, so much so that my pregnant wife will open it when it arrives just to smell it, never at a time of day where we are even brewing coffee, it’s great. I tend to go towards the Breakfast blend myself, she prefers the dark, but we have not gotten a single batch that was even slightly off in terms of freshness. Very consistent on the roast, so we expect and are delivered the same quality every time. And in an air-tight 2 lb. bag you definitely get a killer deal per cup compared to the afore mentioned drive-thrus. We tried so many highly-rated roasteries from all over the world in our quest, and plenty of small local shops as well (good ones out there also, support local! Just a different experience-go through their drive-thrus!), and RGCC wins every time. I’m almost certain I’ve formed an addiction, and aknowledging that for me is the first step to buying more bags, baby. This is a 100% unsolicited review, and in fact I very rarely write reviews (don’t let the wordiness of this one fool you, I just finished a cup and the power of the bean is manifesting through my thumbs), however the product these guys put out very much warranted some praise. Plus, it’s important that folks recognize the greatness that comes out of the PNW (sorry ‘bux, not to knock you here, you play your role), and these guys fit the script!

This was my go to coffee for a while, mainly because of the quality for the price. With the price increases (most recently $5) may be time to find a new everyday blend.

We’ve been working our way through lots of lighter blends available online. I had high hopes for RGCC Breakfast Blend but I was a bit disappointed. It lacks much flavor and tastes “thin” – a bright taste, without being too bitter, but not much else. Though it isn’t great either, I’d probably take Lavazza Organic Tierra! Whole Bean Coffee Blend,Light Roast over this coffee as it’s similar but has more flavor and body. I might mix this with some dark Sumatran I picked up from Costco as it’s all body and could use some brightness.

This shouldn’t really be marketed as a light roast, I found it to be pretty darkly roasted and not the flavour I was after. I honestly couldn’t even finish it and ended up giving it to a friend that doesn’t mind a darker/almost burnt flavour. The price is pretty good, but again, it’s not a light roast by any means, and doesn’t have the same flavour. Just take a look at the beans, they are basically black in colour and shiny/greasy looking.