Original roast and ground coffee (Other Coffees)

Member Name: January

Product:	Other Coffees
Date:	23/01/04 (48 review reads)
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Advantages: Tasty, Easy to make

Disadvantages: none it's worth it

After searching inthe coffee section and not finding any iother catagory but this one, I decided this review had to go here.
I'm usually an instant coffee drinker, early mornings are a rush in our house doing the school run and getting breakfast made to make sure everyone goes out of the house with a full stomach. Sometimes it is a lot easier to make a quick cup of instant coffee, just to wake me up and get me into the swing of things for the day.

After all the mad noisey panic of the morning, I come home to work on my computer for a few hours, writting reviews, answering my email surveys, checking my webpage is up to date and putting up my lots on ebay.
This takes a bit of time so as soon as I come back from school to the empty house, I put the kettle on.

My son bought me a loverly stainless steel coffee plunger for christmas, having broken the end off the spout of my last one, I was really pleased with the present. My son knows how much I love my coffee in the morning.
So on goes the kettle and out comes the coffee, ground roasted medium blend it the kind of coffee I like.
I love the taste and the smell of all coffee beans from columbian to java I will drink them all. When we lived in wales there was a loverly little coffee shop which had all the types of beans you could think of and they would grind the beans in the shop for the cups or you could buy it by the bag to take home later. I used to spend quite a lot of time in that shop on a shopping trip.

Having tried all sorts of flavours of coffee it is rare that something new to me in the coffee line will impress, but I have to say that I am quite surprised at the Fairtrade Coffee which can be bought in the Co-op.
The co-op has lots of fairtrade products and i have looked at a few of them and noticed that the prices can be a little more than other brands, being a penny saver type of person I have never bought anything fairtrade before. I have however read aa few r
eviews about the products and they have all been good reports.

On one trip to the local co0op I saw the fairtrade coffee was on offer with a buy one get one free, the packet I bought was £1.79 for a 227g bag with one free. I thought this was a good deal and had to at least be tried especially with my new christmas present still sitting in the box at home, so in my basket they went.
One thing I did notice was that when I picked up the packets I could smell the coffee. Thinking that one of the packets had ripped I had a good look at it and there under a silver picture of a coffee bean was a little hard bit in the packet, it said smell the aroma around this circle which has a coffee bean picture inside it, when you press this hard circle you get the smell of the coffee.
What a brilliant idea!
That was it, I went around the shop doing the rest of my shopping an occasionally pressing this circle to smell the coffee. Yes, I still am a big kid!

The Fairtrade original coffee is roasted and ground, it comes in a blue foil packet with silver writting on and the label is dark green.
This coffee is suitable to make in a coffee plunger, by putting the coffee in the bottom of the jug, one teaspoonfull for each cup. Pour over the hot not boiling water, and stir leave the coffee for about four to five minutes and then push down the pliunger which keeps the grains of coffee at the bottom of the jug so you can pour it easily.
You can use it in a fillter but this takes a bit longer to make and you have to buy filter papers, or you can use it in a perculator. This also takes a bit longer, but is worth the wait.

Fairtrade original has a really strong aroma of coffee, it isn't harsh to drink but smooth and rich tasting. If your a ground coffee drinker you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
One cup of this coffe will get you up and running, so to speak as it has caffeine so if your pregnant do think twice about drinking
this one.
It comes in different strenghts, mild, mild/medium, medium, medium/strong and strong.
I haven't tried the strong yet because this medium one suits me.
I have one cup in the morning when I come back from school and it helps me to get on with my work. I never drink coffee after dinner/lunch time in the day otherwise I have problems sleeping. I wouldn't suggest giving children coffee either as if they are hyperactive it could make them worse.

This fairtrade coffee bag has a resealable strip at the top so that you can keep it fresh for the next brew. The coffee itself will keep for about two weeks, you can keep it in the freezer for up to six months.
There is a freephone number 0800 0686727 if you have any questions about this product and it is made for the co-op.

On the whole it's a surprising change to my normal choice of ground coffee and I will be buying it again, if you get the chance have a test of it. If you buy some a part of the price goes to the coffee growers to help them get a fair price for their coffee. So it helps others too.

Have a nice day x

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