Telling It Like It Is

Consumer Reports was a great tool for me to use in my search for the top 10 coffee makers that are on the market, and now we’re on a mission to try some of the top 10 coffee brands in hopes of finding the brand of coffee with the best taste, even if it means having a pay a little more.

Online reviews about coffee can be confusing sometimes, since some coffee brands are those we’ve never even heard of, or the reviews are not based on the most current information. Did you know there are more than 70 brands of coffee on the market today?

Having grown weary of the bitter taste and poor flavor quality of many of the cheaper coffee varieties in the grocery stores we’ve tried, we decided to compare coffees and began looking for a list of coffee brands and companies that make the best tasting coffee, and was surprised to learn there are more unrecognizable names and brands of coffee than there are well-known brands.
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For people that drink as much coffee as we do, our recent experience with a single serve coffee maker in our hotel room during our Chicago vacation created temporary disappointment. I can only guess as to why hotels choose to provide hotel guests with one-cup coffee machines versus one that brews more than one cup of coffee at a time, but we weren’t impressed.

The moment we checked into our hotel room and saw the tiny coffee making appliance sitting on the counter at the hotel we stayed at, we knew we weren’t going to make it through our entire vacation trip with that silly looking coffee maker. We made a beeline to the nearest store and bought a cheap, black 12-cup automatic coffee maker that was sitting all by itself on a discount clearance shelf for just ten dollars.
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