Douwe Egberts

Douwe Egberts is a coffee brand by Dutch coffee company D.E. Master Blenders 1753 which was founded in 1753 as a grocery shop. It acquired several other tea, coffee and tobacco companies, before being taken over by the American Sara Lee company who then sold off the tobacco interests, before splitting the coffee division out into D.E. Master Blenders 1753.

Dark Roast (5)

Deep yet soft roast flavours. Good body. Easy drinking. No character, but it does the job, and it's quite likeable. Probably the Douwe Egberts I have liked the most..

Score: 4

Rich Roast (4) 

As expected from a dark roast, this is full of roast flavours. It's not aggressive, and not too bitter, and if you fancy the taste of burnt toast, then this works well enough. There's some chocolate sweetness to soften the dark roast flavours. Not a coffee to enthuse over, but drinkable.

Nice creamy chocolate notes. This is a robust and flavoursome coffee. Not aggressive, but certainly firmly roasty. Of the DE coffees I have tried, this comes in the middle.

Score: 4

Medium Roast (3) 

This doesn't seem to know what it's doing. The flavours are edging toward dark roast, and there's no fruit, floral or acidic notes, and no character.

This is a powdery and indifferent coffee. Not offensive, but lacking in any character or anything distinctive. It's drinkable, but so are many other coffees.

Score: 3

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