Peet's CoffeeReviews of peets.com

This is a review of Peet's Big Bang medium roast whole bean coffee. I purchased a 10.5 ounce bag that was on sale for $8.99 US at my local Meijers. Regular price is $10.99 US.. This coffee came packaged in a light weight resealable Mylar foil bag with a standard degassing valve. The package had very little information about the coffee inside, roast type and basic brewing instructions and expiration date. This is a blend of Arabica beans. Upon opening the bag the fragrance of the whole beans was pleasant, sweet and coffee like. Inspecting the beans I found a high-quality bean roasted to a medium roast in my opinion. This coffee had an expiration date of 5/2025. I ground 50 grams to my normal one notch course of medium on my Bodum Bistro burr grinder, again this coffee had a very pleasant fragrance. This 50 gram dose was brewed with 1.2 liters of cold filtered water in a Cuisinart Pure Precision CPO-850 automatic pour over coffee maker. The aroma from this coffee while brewing was almost non existent. Upon cupping I found this coffee to have a similar aroma, tasting this brewed coffee I found virtually no acidity, and a pleasant but not heavy mouth feel. This coffee was smooth on the palate but I found it to have very little actual coffee flavors...it was quite bland. The SCA rates coffees with a cupping score of 80 or higher as specialty grade coffees. Using their scoring system I rate this coffee at 78. Peet's is considered by most as the originator of the second wave coffee movement...the introduction of specialty coffee. As many of you may know my benchmark for coffee blends is Eight O'clock Original whole bean. This Peet's blend has a long way to catch up. While I could not find anything to dislike about Peet's Big Bang, I really could not find anything to like about it either. At a price on sale of 86 cents/ounce or $13.75/pound this is quite expensive for coffee that is less than mediocre, let's say I was underwhelmed...very underwhelmed. Who is this coffee for, anyone who has money burning a hole in their pockets or someone who is a name dropper. I seriously can not recommend this coffee, it was a huge disappointment and is not worth the money spent.

Order was never shipped. Company never responded to Customer Service email inquiry. Expected a better experience from a premium coffee company.

Peet's coffee bags can not be recycled. From user friendly, easy to manipulate, long lasting,recyclable brown paper bags, Peet's has chosen heavy, difficult-to-bend-and-manipulate one-time-use heavy plastic bags. No more choosing how much coffee you buy. One pound bags are the only option. I have begun my search for another coffee to use in my daily cappuccino.

I'm a longtime fan of Peet's wonderful coffee. It's my go-to daily coffee. I typically buy the bags of beans at the grocery store and grind them at home. For something different, I decided to try the ground Honey Almond Peet's. My honest feedback is that it's terrible. The taste is so disagreeable that I couldn't even finish my mug- full. In fact, it gave me a bit of a stomach ache from the smell and the flavor. I won't stop drinking Peet's, but now I know to stick to my usual and not experiment with one of their new creations!

My husband have been loyal keurig customers since the machines were invented. We order all k cups from them. After a CA trip where we experienced Peet’s we switched over to Major Dickason’s. They have been excellent until the last few months. I was schooled by Keurig that the top of each k cup should be swelled up a little and now none of the Peet’s are, even those from the grocery store. It also tastes bitter. I called Peet’s, no prompt suited my purpose so I just picked one. The young man heard my story and said, “Oh, you are talking about HOT beverages…we just have cold ones here…let me give you that direct number.” It turned out to be Keurig! What is going on? They led me in circles, criticizing the water, the machine, the usual. I have gone back to Green Mountain…a shame.

Purchased Peet’s whole bean from Rosauers Spokane Valley 13OCT23. It was on sale so I should have been alerted // this coffee had to be well in excess of a year since roast as the soap taste was so powerful it made me nauseous. Obviously an inventory dump. I dumped it in thie trash this morning. There is a reason Peet’s does not provide a roast date. Caveat emptor.

I'm sitting in Peet's Coffee on 3rd Avenue in San Rafael opposite the Whole Foods and the server kind of entitled. While was talking to her doing my order trying to choose a pastry and a girl came through the door and cut the line and she took the her order before taking my order. I see this from time to time women taking preference over men to serve first. Her name was Jenjer. I'm so over this disrespectful treatment of men. Good luck

It's a sign of the times, now owned by Germans, Peet's Customer Service has gone to hell. After my order was delayed for weeks I cancelled it. I reordered online (horrible website) and bought a pound at a nearby store. Next they delivered BOTH orders. Calling or online Customer Service sends you to India. It was awful, they would not take back the cancelled order, even though their website confirmed the cancellation. They did take back an order mishap years ago but no longer. Now after 40 years I'm no longer a customer.