On a rare visit to Ikea (getting wooden railway parts for my 6 year old daughter) I see they do coffee and beer (which I also collect and review), so I grab some. It's reasonably priced at £1.90 for 0.25 kg, but that doesn't make it good value. It's a blend of coffee beans from around the world - mostly Brazil, but also Vietnam and Uganda, countries known more for the amount of coffee they export rather than the quality. This is not a quality coffee. It's not actually nasty, but it's not a coffee for folks that like coffee. Made normally it is bland and inoffensive, lacking in character and flavour. It's barely there. Made a little stronger, or left a little longer to brew and it becomes bitter and sludgy with little redeeming factors. There's no depth or range of flavours here to compensate. To be fair I'll play around with it for a while, but I suspect I'll end up blending this with other coffees.
One funky aspect of Ikea using Utz Certified coffee beans is that it's traceable (sort of). Put in the expiry date and you'll be presented with a long list of producers - I assume these are the producers used in the batch that was blended. Most of the coffee I like can be traced to one farm, so it's interesting to have a coffee that is traced to around 50 different farms around the world!
Rating: 2
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