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Bean Box June 2015 Review
Bean Box if a coffee subscription that sends hand-picked whole bean coffee from Seattle's top-rated roasters. There are two different monthly options to choose from: The Expand Your Palate Box and the Fill Your Morning Cup Box. The Expand Your Palate Box is $20.00/month and it comes with four 1.8 ounce bags of whole bean coffee, tasting notes, roaster notes and brewing tips.
The Fill Your Morning Cup Box is $20.00/month for a 12 oz bag of coffee that is picked based on your specific tastes. When you sign up for this option, you pick if you prefer: light, light+medium, medium only etc. Bean Box also prints the roasting date on the back of each coffee, so you will know all your coffee is fresh.
The Details:
Cost: $20.00/month, Free Trial Available (see end of this review).
What's in the box?
- The Expand Your Palate Box comes with four 1.8 ounce bags of whole bean coffee, tasting notes, roaster notes and brewing tips.
- The Fill Your Morning Cup Box comes with a 12 oz bag of coffee that is picked based on your specific tastes, along with tasting notes, roaster notes and brewing tips.
Shipping: Free shipping to the USA. Shipping to Canada is available for an extra charge, other countries will be added in the near future.
Cancel: You can cancel right from your account. You need to cancel by the end of the day Wednesday (Pacific Time) the week before your next scheduled shipment, which is always on a Tuesday.
Bean Box comes in a little brown box. I was sent the The Expand Your Palate Box for review.
First Look
The back of the information card had a guide to different roast profiles. My husband thought this was pretty interesting and showed me the differences between the beans in the box.
The front of the information card has a list of all the brands of coffee in the box. For each coffee in the box, I am including some information about the coffee and then my husband included a taste profile for each coffee.
Kuma Coffee Guatamala Hunapu: This coffee has notes of red boubon cherries, toffee, fresh cream and caramel candy apple.
Kuma Coffee Taste Profile
Acidity: Mild to high acidity taste which matches the dark coffee
Body Very heavy taste
Sweetness: Bitter
Finish: Finishes the same as it tastes in the beginning
Lighthouse Roasters Roaster Choice: This is a combination of Ethiopian, Sumatran and Latin grown coffees.
Roasters Choice Taste Profile
Body bold flavor body
Sweetness Not really sweet at all slightly bitter
Finish After taste is okay.
Conduit Papua New Guinea Rika Rika: Conduit focuses their business on ethical and sustainable practices, they deliver their coffee by bike. This coffee has floral aroma and notes of tea and cherry.
Conduit Taste Profile
Acidity Low to slight acidity
Body medium body light flavor
Sweetness fruityish. It tastes really good with my normal cream and sugar added.
Finish Fine after taste
Herkimer Coffee Drip Blend: This is a very sweet coffee that doesn't need milk or sugar. This has notes of cherry, sugar and chocolate. This was my husband's favorite.
Herkimer Coffee Taste Profile
Acidity No acidity
Body good light flavor body
Sweetness Surprisingly sweet for a coffee. It tastes really good with my normal cream and sugar added.
Finish Great finish on after taste
This is a look at the beans, all the beans are freshly roasted and whole.
There was two pieces of chocolate in the box, along with a coupon code for 15% off full bags of coffee and subscriptions, use this link with the code FREMONT2.
Final Thought: My husband really enjoyed Bean Box. It had really diverse kinds of coffee. The best part was finding the coffee that could be drank without cream and sugar. Bean Box is a great way to discover new independent roasters. All the coffee comes fresh, and I like that you can get coffee customized to your tastes. You can get a free trial of coffee with this link.
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