{"id":1748,"date":"2016-01-15T09:05:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T15:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2023-12-27T12:05:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T18:05:50","slug":"review-folgers-100-colombian-pre-ground-coffee-orrville-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/?p=1748","title":{"rendered":"Review: Folgers 100% Colombian pre-ground coffee (Orrville, Ohio)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This review started out as a joke, because I woke up one morning and found a container of Folgers sitting in front of my espresso machine. The following text message conversation ensued between me and Shutterbug:<\/p>\n

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I then figured, hell, why not? I was curious about how this coffee would fare in manual methods. I do not own an automatic drip coffeemaker, and this coffee is pre-ground for that purpose, so I knew the results would be less than ideal since I couldn’t control the grind size.<\/p>\n

Notes from the packaging: The container proclaimed that it “makes up to 90<\/strong> 6 fl oz cups.” The container has 10.3 oz (292 grams) of ground coffee. Hold on a second. When I make coffee in the Hario V60, I use 25 grams of coffee for 400 grams of water (1:16 ratio) which results in 12 fl oz of coffee. By my math, using those proportions would result in just over 23<\/strong> 6 fl oz cups by my normal recipe. Somehow they are estimating 90 <\/strong>cups can be made from this container??? Oy.<\/p>\n

Ground beans: Vaguely milk chocolaty aroma – it actually reminded me most of Hershey’s chocolate, plus something like overripe fruit. After the container was open for a while (around 10 minutes), the kitchen started smelling like the bread from the Subway sandwich chain. You know how when you walk into a Subway restaurant, the slightly sweet, yeasty aroma of the bread they bake hits you in the nose? That smell started permeating my kitchen. This was so confusing to my senses.<\/p>\n

V60: I couldn’t adjust the grind size for any of these applications so the extraction time was, to put it lightly, less than ideal. Extraction time was only 1:35. There was NO bloom whatsoever (who knows how old this ground coffee is?). In the cup, this coffee tasted like nothing. It smelled like a cup of hot water. Actually, I would have preferred a cup of hot water over this because the filtered water at my house has just the slightest hint of sweetness about it. This just tasted like an empty void.<\/p>\n

AeroPress: I typically will brew the standard way with an AeroPress, where the coffee conceivably could drip a bit through the filter as it sits due to gravity, but usually not much coffee will drip through the filter (just a few drops worth, really). Well, this time, half the cup flowed through the filter while it sat brewing. The resulting coffee tasted like cardboard with a bitter edge to it.<\/p>\n

Chemex: These coffee grounds are STILL too coarse, even for this method! I would have expected that the grind size would have been at least close, but this resulted in only a 3:20 extraction time, far short of the 4:00 I aim for. The coffee tasted like chemicals from a nail salon. At this point I was getting really depressed.<\/p>\n

French press: Well, of the four methods, this was the best of the lot, but the best I can say is that it was not awful. It actually tasted like coffee, though I felt it was slightly bitter after 4 minutes in the press pot. This coffee had a decent amount of body but there was very little aroma. It’s comparable to what I might expect from coffee from a gas station.<\/p>\n

Summary: <\/strong>If I had an absolute coffee emergency and this was the only option, it makes passable coffee in a french press. Not great, but it’s drinkable if I was desperate… though I’d probably rather get a Coke if it was just the caffeine I was after!<\/p>\n

From the roaster: Distinctively rich. 100% pure coffee.<\/p>\n

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This review started out as a joke, because I woke up one morning and found a container of Folgers sitting in front of my espresso machine. The following text message conversation ensued between me and Shutterbug: I then figured, hell, why not? I was curious about how this coffee would fare in manual methods. I do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"My recommendation? 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