Comments on: Why the Keurig K-Cup is the beginning of the end for great coffee http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/why-the-keurig-k-cup-is-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-great-coffee/ Sit. Stay. Have some coffee. Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:22:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bruce Olson http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/why-the-keurig-k-cup-is-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-great-coffee/#comment-4498 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:22:43 +0000 http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/?p=1685#comment-4498 The World Is Not Going to End.
Little roasters as well as all small companies will find a way to survive.
Everyone will not trade quality for convenience.

]]> By: Tom Lee http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/why-the-keurig-k-cup-is-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-great-coffee/#comment-4492 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 02:40:36 +0000 http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/?p=1685#comment-4492 Best post on here, by far! Thanks.

]]> By: Robert Danielson http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/why-the-keurig-k-cup-is-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-great-coffee/#comment-4491 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 22:23:06 +0000 http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/?p=1685#comment-4491 Just received it in the mail. Grinded it up and enjoying a cup right now. I love it. Thanks, man.

]]> By: jhayesboh http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/why-the-keurig-k-cup-is-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-great-coffee/#comment-4489 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:27:25 +0000 http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/?p=1685#comment-4489 “Selling time” is a probably a better way to look at it and does help to explain the tremendous markup. But the costs are more than the $75/pound cost of the coffee itself. There is the needlessly diminished quality of the coffee and the incredible waste.

There is also a difference — as Pirsig wrote years ago — between “GOOD time” and “good TIME.” I actually enjoy spending a few minutes in the preparation of my coffee.

]]> By: muddydogcoffee http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/why-the-keurig-k-cup-is-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-great-coffee/#comment-4488 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:19:47 +0000 http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/?p=1685#comment-4488 Hi Robert. Thanks for the math – you are correct, K-cups are expensive. As for our current offerings, my favorites are Ethiopians, especially the Natural Sidama. Use the search box on our website, http://www.muddydogcoffee.com. I don’t want to paste a permalink to the product because it will be outdated in months. Hope to see an order from you!

]]> By: Robert Danielson http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/why-the-keurig-k-cup-is-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-great-coffee/#comment-4486 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 04:30:16 +0000 http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/?p=1685#comment-4486 just did a bit of math and if my math is correct, 10oz of coffee is equivalent to 56 k-cups. with that, it’s definitely cheaper to buy coffee from you guys. i have a my-k-cup thing with my keurig so that i can use my own ground up coffee with it rather than the pods and i gotta tell you, you may have just found a new customer. any recommendations for a particular flavor from you guys?

]]> By: mike http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/why-the-keurig-k-cup-is-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-great-coffee/#comment-4466 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:48:36 +0000 http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/?p=1685#comment-4466 Keurig isn’t selling coffee, they are selling time. Time is the one commodity that both rich and poor can’t buy more of. So it’s hardly surprising that people value 5 to 10 min a day more than a good cup of coffee. I dnt see this as a bad thing, there will always be niche markets for specialty products.

]]> By: Deeeerrooo http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/why-the-keurig-k-cup-is-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-great-coffee/#comment-4411 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:24:47 +0000 http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/?p=1685#comment-4411 I’ve been using a Keurig for the past few years. For a lot of that, I was a smoker and didn’t really have taste-buds and was just choking down some caffeine in the morning before going to work – but it never actually tasted like GOOD COFFEE.

For the past year or so, I had a refillable K-Cup filter… and it still just didn’t taste like good coffee. I’m more in tune to the flavor now, and no matter what I put in that filter, or what kind of cup you use, it’s just not as good as coffee is supposed to be. It works if you’re in a hurry and don’t mind the sub-par flavor, but it’s just not where it should be.

I don’t think the world will ever be satisfied with that as a total solution for coffee brewing. People still have to brew large pots when family is in town, or when entertaining, etcetera. And people aren’t really happy with what they get from a k-cup.

I just bought a french press and it has changed my world. Start the water when I get up, put in the grounds, take a shower, then pour the water, get ready, come back, have GOOD coffee.

]]> By: Steph http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/why-the-keurig-k-cup-is-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-great-coffee/#comment-4367 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 03:02:52 +0000 http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/?p=1685#comment-4367 Great post! Ive been using a french press up till now and just purchased the keurig. If it makes you feel any better you can buy eco reusable cups NOT made by keurig of course to fill up with your favorite coffee. Saves money and the eviorment

]]> By: Rana Dorada http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/why-the-keurig-k-cup-is-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-great-coffee/#comment-4326 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:10:43 +0000 http://muddydogcoffee.wordpress.com/?p=1685#comment-4326 I read the first post, glanced through some of the following and jumped to the end. I sell Rainforest Alliance certified single estate Gourmet Costa Rican coffee, from a sweet little varietal called Geisha. The plantation belonged to my German grandfather, who would drink coffee as thick as tar daily. It now belongs to his five daughters. I import our coffee and roast it locally, fresh to order. And even though this sounds like an ad, it’s the preface to the point that I too am seeing how some of my clients are switching to K and wish I had my coffee in a K cup (even though they can choose to use the reusable one, it’s not as convenient). That’s how I came across this blog. If K cups become the mean, my absolutely exceptional coffee will be no more; instead will be sold to a major corporation so it can be blended and sold as their own special crap. It will be the end of small boutique lots. So it is scary to think we are headed in the direction of crappy coffee being the norm. But, I hope that all those that for years and years could stomach Folgers are the ones using K cups and those of us who truly appreciate the flavor of a good cup of coffee will take the extra 10 minutes to make it from real good and fresh beans. Has anyone looked at expiration or production dates on the k cups? Coffee is considered old 30 days after roasting and once it’s ground, it needs to be brewed within 20 minutes or it starts losing its properties. Old coffee tastes nasty. Jim, there’s hope. Keurig is just an annoying trend. Hang in there! My plan is to buy the Keurig brew-your-own cups and re-sell them to my K clients along with my coffee! You can’t beat them, join them!

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