After reading most of my caffeinated entries on this blog I’m sure you know about my love and obsession with single serve coffee machines. One of my most loved is my Keurig B70. It is simply the best single serve system out there.

Unfortunately, the same can’t be said of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, the company with the largest selection of KCups and who also owns Keurig as a subsidiary.

When I first started my affair with Keurig, I went through a multitude of sample packs of KCups trying to find the ones I liked best. I realized quickly that many roasters were not created equal. Some burned their roasts to the point where their full city roast was more along the lines of a French roast. And then some made weaker roasts of coffee.

This was where I found myself with Green Mountain Coffee. When I first tried some of their Colombian Fair Trade, I found it to be very week and lacking the flavor I expected from a medium roast. At that point I wrote them off and decided to keep with Diedrich Coffee’s KCups which I felt had the best flavor.

So, fast forward to a couple of months ago when my neighbor had purchased his own Keurig and being the neighborly sort, I gave him some Diedrich KCups and he gave me some of his Green Mountain Colombian.

Now, I wasn’t too thrilled about the exchange, thinking that I would end up tossing the those KCups into the trash, but it had been a while since I last tasted Green Mountain KCups (at least since they had purchased Keurig) and I have learned a variety of techniques to improve the flavor of weaker cups of coffee, so I decided to give them another shot.

That was when the unbelievable happened and I found that Green Mountain’s Colombian Fair Trade was actually very good. I found myself purchasing a large pack of the coffee from BJ’s the next day in order to supplement the other KCups on hand.

Initially, I was concerned when Green Mountain have purchased Keurig and thought that I would be relegated to either drinking KCups I hated or to just use the MyKCup adapter to brew my own blends, but thankfully they’re still licensing to other roasters and still bringing new ones on-board. The fact I also now like some of their KCups is of course also a plus.

I walk away from this with a fresh perspective on Green Mountain, and also with the desire to revisit some of the KCups I wasn’t too happy with in the past. Let’s see what other new “old” roasters I can discover.