[spoiler title=’Click here to read the transcript.’ style=’default’ collapse_link=’true’]- Hey, welcome to Coffee Coffee Coffee, your choice for Average Joe coffee reviews. Today’s coffee is Sam’s Choice. – Okay, so today we are reviewing Sam’s Choice Kenya AA 100% Arabica Coffee. It’s supposed to be a medium dark roast. It’s single-source. This is a 12-ounce bag, which, It’s kind’ve deceptively small. Cause’ see, this is like twice the size, what I mean is– – The bag is bigger than the amount of coffee. – Yes, sorry, that’s what I mean. So the bag, when I first saw this bag, I was like, oh that’s like a pound of coffee. No, it’s only 12 ounces, so it’s kind’ve deceptive. – Yeah it actually looks– it looks bigger than a pound. – Yeah, if you were to squish it down. – But, we’ve tried another Kenya AA, which was gourmet New York coffee, and it was great. We’ll link you to the video for you to watch there. – That was the chocolaty one, yep? – No, their Sumatra was the chocolaty one. – The Kenya was the peanuty one, oh, so good. – So this, I was at Walmart today, I don’t know why I did that. It’s Christmas season and I went to Walmart, but it was mostly older people, pharmaceutical area was full. I don’t know what they put the toothbrushes and the shaving things, and makeup, and all that, all in one place, because– – Categorically, it makes sense. – everybody needs those items, – Right. – so then everybody’s congregated into that one section, – Yeah, human fellowship. – It’s terrible, no, human bumpership cause’ we always hit each other with your carts. But anyway, so I was at Walmart, and I saw that and I thought, hey, gonna try it. – Yeah, single source from Mount Kenya, which is in Kenya, in Africa. It’s a long-extinct volcano, didn’t know if you knew that or not. – No. – This particular one is called the “Connoisseurs Cup,” that’s what they’re saying that it will be when you make a cup of coffee. – We are not connoisseurs. – We are not, so the largest beans are grated AA. Hence, Kenya AA. – Interesting, we didn’t know that for the last thing. – Yeah, and so it’s supposed to have some wine-like acidity. We like wine, so, and it’s supposed to be perfectly tempered by sweet berry flavors. Which reminds me of the Ethiopian coffee has like a blueberry flavor, so, we’ll see. I mean, it was $5.99, right? For a 12-ounce bag, so, on the cheaper end. Not the cheapest. – About average or a little below average, maybe. – Mm Hmm, so we shall see. – It does have a little beany smell, I think. – Yeah, maybe. – Maybe, if I smell longer it might, actually, kind’ve smell like fruit. Maybe not, if I wish. Well, no. – There is um– ugh, uh-uh, no, no, Nope, that’s enough coffee for me. Definitely beaniness, I wonder, though, we keep calling it beaniness, what if it’s a berry flavor that we keep– But no, cause’ the berry is something we did taste in the Ethiopian, and it was really good. Was that Sweetwater? – Yeah. – Sweetwater had the Ethiopian Coffee and it was very good. It did have that berry hint. – I’m trying to, it’s like– – For science, I’m doing this. – Mhm, so we can really give you the flavor that we’re tasting anyway. I can’t figure it out. – Yeah, it’s a… – It’s like it starts kind’ve cardboard-ish, but then, after it goes down, that’s gone. So, I don’t know what– – Yeah, it’s like, when it first hits me, it’s like, oh that’s not very good, and then it’s like, for a second I’m like oh, well maybe it’s not so bad, and then it’s like, oh no that’s not good. – Yeah, it has like an intermediate, interm, inter, inter, inter – Intermediate? – Intermediate flavor, it’s got three different ones. – Yeah and so it starts bad – The second ones like, wait, okay maybe that’s– And then the third one tells you not to drink any more of it. – It finishes, not nicely. And, there’s a bug in my cup, so, I’m definitely done. – Perfect fitting and– – So, I’m done. – So, if you’re at Walmart and you’re thinking, hey, this looks interesting because its, different, it says Kenya, Kenya AA, looks kinda like they did extra work to make it nice and good. – Also, handy feature, this ziplock bag. – I will say, that’s great. So many of the companies they put that little black strip on there, and it falls off. – Yeah, and it doesn’t seal, you know? You’ve got little squishy thing, like where it pushes all the air out, cause’ the little hole, but then you all these big gaps – And then the vacuum sucks it back up. So, other companies take note: this, now maybe Walmart can afford to do that, and put out the bad coffee, but this a nice little feature here. – Yeah. – If I were to give it a donut rating, what would we say, like on a scale of one to five? – Um, one and a half? – Yeah, yes, one and a half. She keeps trying to force these halves on me, so, we’re gonna concede and say one and a half because it wasn’t as bad as the one-donut ratings we’ve had, and it wasn’t as good as the two, so, we’ll have to say one and a half on that. – One and a half. – Let us know if you try it or something like that. – Or if you’ve tried other Sam’s Choice’s. – Yeah, cause’ there were four or five of them there that I’m sure we’ll try. – I’m sure we will. We try all the coffees. – We do it for you. – Yes we do. – So, let us know in the comments if you try it or if you’d like us to try something else, right? – Yep. – Anything else? – Nope. – Alright, until next time. – Keep grindin’. – [J.R.] Hey, thanks for watching our reviews. Please be sure to subscribe and check out our other reviews here.[/spoiler]

Review Recap

Brand: Sam’s Choice
Roast: Kenya AA
Price per pound: $7.98
Flavors we detected / other notes: Beany, cardboard, bad finish. Nice ziplock feature on the bag.
Overall rating:  
Would we buy it again? No

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