Community Coffee Pecan Praline Flavored Medium Roast Premium Ground 12 Oz Bag, Medium Full Body Sweet Hints of Pecan, 100% Select Arabica Coffee Beans

Very smooth tasting and a lovely praline taste

THIS! I have been sampling coffees for years. I’ve bought them by the lb, already ground, grinding my own beans, using a Keurig, a drip coffee pot and a French Press. I’ve bought a bag of every kind of Starbucks they sell, I have tried expensive coffee, cheap coffee, regularly priced coffee, off brand coffee and specialty coffees. After years of searching I can finally say I found it. But it has to be prepared just like this to be perfect: buy an already ground bag of Community Coffee Southern Pecan Praline. The bag cannot sit around for weeks after opening. So cut open a new bag of this coffee, fill a tiny empty Keurig cup (they sell them for this reason) but don’t pack coffee into the little cup. Fill it to the top of Keurig cup, fill machine with a cup of spring water. Turn on Keurig and let it happen. Take the coffee cup as soon as it is brewed (be sure you have turned Keurig to “strong”). And top it off only with half and half. Cream once in a while for a treat. Milk is too weak and watery for this coffee. And make sure you don’t use any Coffee Mate or flavoring. Waa-laa. You have a hot, creamy cup of coffee so perfect, so unblemished that you can taste the pralines. 5 giant starts because so few things in life are perfect.

Definitely a wonderful coffee. When I first ordered it I definitely did not expect it to be such a hit. My husband and I absolutely love it. The smell is amazing. When my mother in law stayed and tried it she immediately fell in love. This is now the coffee she regularly has at her house. Anyone I've had try to say it tastes amazing. Dare I must say it might be the best coffee I've ever had.

Great flavor, relatively inexpensive and it arrives on time. I love it because I drink my coffee black so this flavor makes it more special!

I have always rather liked community coffee, but have spent the past 30 years insisting on espresso and cappuccino and using my delightful Italian machines and fine Italian Lavazza beans, roasting mine own... etc.. I give this blend and flavor one less star because it is not my favorite blend.. not because the coffee is substandard in any way.. It is not... just not my favorite. I recently went back to a percolator (partially out of nostalgia) and have been parusing the older brands because of this. (Fine quality, high end coffee doesn't really do well in a percolator. You need coffee that grew up around them, or you will end up with tea instead of Proper Kaffee). Soooooo once again.. back to the old tried and true brands. I am a bit of a purist when it comes to coffee. The only flavors I ever really enjoyed were Swiss Chocolate Almond (Must have real almonds and not just flavoring, and be properly rolled in Callebaut Cocoa) and Hazelnut, but I thought about giving this a try. Do keep in mind that I am very.. Very.. well acquainted with coffee after workiing at Gloria Jean's Coffee Bean with over 50 different kinds of coffee at my disposal and being ToTaLLy spoiled working on that wonderful old Gaggia with the three brass domes and the eagle on top. Very... spoiled.. almost coffee snob spoiled... I can make virtually any kind of coffee anyone wants kind of spoiled. It is very much, a passion of mine. Community is a good old tried and true standard brand from Louisana that was founded near the turn of last century in 1919 by a certain Norman "Cap" Saurage, in downtown Baton Rouge -so it is now 106 years old.. I like the Cafe special the best, and the dark roast second -at this time.. The Southern Pecan is almost like putting incense or aromatherapy into the air -the smell is so strong.. In this way it reminds me of Jamacia Blue Mountain and how it is mostly smell and very little taste. The Southern Pecan is also a very mild, more of a "City Roast" coffee. The first pot in the old perk (that i nicknamed ""The Kerpolator 9000"" heh) turned out more like tea, and the smell was overpowering for my "Super Smeller" nose. The fragrance was so strong that it triggered my synesthesia, and generated strong caramel and pecan colors and thoughts of pralines --like it is supposed to. I tasted it and it's not bad, but again is about 65% smell. The coffee itself is mild enough that you could drink it black - no sugar, so that means the remarks I have read are true; that it is also easy on the stomach. Too much sugar would ruin this already naturally sweet coffee. The ground variety of this coffee is fine enough to be sort of between auto drip and espresso, so it will work in just about anything without regrinding (Espresso does need a bit of a finer grind). I decided that this would go best today with some Safr Cheese and deluxe crackers, instead of somethig like a nice toasted croissant, and I am pleased to say I was correct. I might also serve this with chocolate biscotti for those wioth a sweet tooth, but never with other types of cookies. "Flavorists" might rate this coffee around an 8.5 out of 10.. Purists like me are more incliend to say 7 out of 10.. I so love coffee... and know A LOT about it.. Both coffee, and chocolate, and tea are three of the finest things on earth.. to be sure, as certain as possible, and true. This blend overall is not bad.. but I will have to use it more sparingly as an accent coffee. My personal preference is the Cafe Special in the community line.. Namaste and enjoy