Cofee pod of the day: Gourmet Café Limited Edition Guatemala Aurora

Been awhile since I got new coffee in...today’s new pod is the Gourmet Café Limited Edition Guatemala Aurora.  It’s a Gourmet Café pod, so contruction is tailor-made for the Simple Human/Senseo type of brewer.  Good size, excellent filter material, etc.

Taste is what we’re after here, so how do the Guatemala Aurora pods taste?  First, the marketing blurb:

Grown on the Finca Aurora estate farm in the southern region of Guatemala where the temperate climate allows the coffee to mature slowly resulting in an intense concentration of flavor

Yeah, I didn’t get that.  The “intense concentration of flavor?” Someone forgot to put it in my batch, apparently.  What I got was a plain-jane, generic-tasting dark roast with just a touch too much bitterness.  No distinguishing flavor characteristics at all, really, other than it was somehow smooth and bitter at the same time.  Now, I like a bitter dark roast, but this was the bad kind of bitter.  It was a tangy, bright bitterness.  I thought maybe I’d brewed them too strong, so I tried a cup the next day using more water per pod.  Same flavor, only diluted.  Today I brewed them as I have every other pod I’ve tested and made my decision - not worth the extra money.

You see, boxes of Gourmet Café pods generally cost $5.99 a box.  There are some truly great daily drinkers in that price range.  The Columbian Supremo, the Kona Blend, the Estate Costa Rican, those three alone could keep a cup happy for a very, very long time.  At $7.49 per box, the limited edition pods come with a premium price, and one should expect a premium taste as well.  The Tanzinia Peaberry pods from Gourmet Café are exactly that; premium taste at the slightly higher price.  These Guatemala Aurora pods get a pass from me. I’ll finish the box, but after that?  No mas, senors and senoritas.  Back to the Hawaiian, Costa Rican and Columbian for me.

Posted by JimK at 03:07 PM on August 05, 2007
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