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[VydorScope]

Using this to track what I have tried and what I like/do not like since there are to many options for my memory to track!

USING THIS REVIEW - Note, all K-Cups were brewed in my B40 with the original needle, but tested with both cup sizes, using the machine as designed (no pre-wetting, pulsing, short draws, etc).


5 Stars:

Coffee People Extra Bold Black Tiger - Wow, I am going to have a drink off between this and Rainforest! This is tops!
Timothy's Extra Bold Rainforest Espresso K-cups - With my newest order, I picked this up again and it just blows away the other 4 stars, so promoting it to top dog.

4 Stars:

Coffee People Extra Bold Chai Coffee - If you like Chai tea, then you will likely like this. A mild, but not too mild chai taste the coffee, and a nice aroma
Coffee People - Jetfuel - OK Jetfuel sure lives up to its name! WOW, talk about taste. Its the first kCup I could call strong from this machine. Its also very dark tasting, almost Starbucks dark.
Coffee People - Coffee People Organic Nice and mild coffee.
GM Dark Magic - Extra Bold Decaf
GM Dark Magic - Extra Bold
Timothy's Extra Bold Midnight Magic Great coffee. Strong and Dark with out being burnt.

3 Stars:

GM Nantucket
Bellaccino Extra Bold Blueberry Cobbler -smells great. Just like a pie, and it delivers more blueberry flavor then most flavored K-Cups, but still is a bit on the weak side.
Bellaccino Extra Bold Cinnamon Stick -Again they nailed the flavor, but the coffee taste is on the weak side. Still a good cup.
Gloria Jeans Cappuccino - Weak, but has the faint hint of a gas station instant cappuccino machine.
GM Golden French Toast - Okay, if your in to what maple syurp and butter would taste like in a blender, this is for you... if your into coffee? Not so much.
GM Raspberry Rhapsody. -- This is very good when brewed in to Swiss Miss Hot Cocoa. Esply if you add a Irish Cream creamer.
Gloria Jeans Pumpkin Spice - Not bad taste, but nothing like pumpkin and a bit on the week side.

2 Stars:

Coffee People Berry Blast - Extra Bold - Smells Great, and has a cool name... but it was a disappointment. The mild berry flavor does not sufficiently hid the boring coffee under it.
Coffee People Santa's Buzz - YAWN. Slight hint of a good flavor, if only it were EB.
Emeril's Big Easy Bold --Distinct Flavor and smell. Strong enough, I just do not like the flavor.
Gloria Jean's Ginger Snap -a disappointment. Just not a good clear ginger flavor or smell.
Gloria Jeans Mudslide - typical chocolate coffee taste, over all pretty weak and non distinct.
Gloria Jeans Sleigh ride - touch weak, but great flavor.
Gloria Jeans Butter Toffee - Boring. No real stand out flavor or texture
Green Mountain Breakfast Blend Decaf
Green Mountain Island Coconut - Boring. No real stand out flavor or texture
Green Mountain Hazelnut Decaf
Green Mountain Vermont Country Blend Decaf

1 Star:

Timothy's Germany Chocolate Cake
Timothy's Cinnamon Party

0 Stars:

GM PBS Blend - Extremely bland. Just about anything has more flavor then this.

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[Justbcaws]

I love the raspberry, I'll have to try it with cocoa.

Emerils is one of my favorites, but I got another one full of grounds, I hate that.

[VydorScope]

UPDATED: Added Gloria Jeans
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[wgm]

GJ what

[VydorScope]

[wgm]

hmmm... they make so many... below are a few...

Gloria Jean's
- Black Gold Extra Bold
- Butter Toffee
- Cappuccino
- Cinnamon Mocha
- Classic Reserve
- Flavor Variety Pack
- French Vanilla
- French Vanilla Dcf.
- Hazelnut
- Hazelnut Dcf.
- Irish Cream
- Mudslide
- Regular Variety Pack
- Pecan Pie
- Special Blend
- Special Blend Dcf.
- Sumatran Dark Xtra Bold
- Swiss Chocolate Almond

[VydorScope]

When I get to work I'll take another look at the k-cup (assuming the trash is not taken) and check again, but I am sure it did not say anything like that.
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[MichFan]

It may have been the Chocolate Turtle Extra Bold -- that is the only GJ's I know of with no name on the cover right now.

[VydorScope]

Nope, nothing on the K-Cup lid at all, but indented into the side is "Sleigh ride" think that is the variety?
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[wgm]

Yep that's it... Sleigh ride is an old discontinued one...

[wgm]

Try - Gloria Jean's
- Black Gold Extra Bold

One of my very favorite k-cups !

[NDJollyMon]

My fav GJ is Special Blend.
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[VydorScope]

UPDATE: Well I have drank through most of the expired coffee, so I can start this back up since I only want to review fresh k-cups.

Today I am drinking GJ Mudslide. The flavor is faint but distinct. It has that typical coffee-chocolate taste that tastes something like, but not really, chocolate. The coffee taste is mild and not really distinct.
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[MichFan]

Many of the flavored K-Cups are simply too weak. As you mentioned -- faint flavoring, less-than-faint coffee presence. It would be interesting to hear about the success of GMCR with their Hazelnut Bold, and the other companies that make EB KCups (Bellacino, Coffee People). I simply can't go back to drinking another watered down flavored coffee, and that means I miss all the seasonals now.