Cameron's Coffee Reviews

This is a review of Cameron's Hawaiian Blend light roast whole bean coffee. I purchased a 10 ounce bag that was on sale for $5.99 US at my local Meijers. Regular price is $8.99 US.. This coffee came packaged in a heavy weight resealable Mylar foil bag with a standard degassing valve. The package had some basic information about the coffee inside, roast type and basic brewing instructions and expiration date. This is a blend of Arabica beans, 10% Hawaiian and the rest from Central and South America, more on this later. Upon opening the bag the fragrance of the whole beans was pleasant, nutty, Chocolatey and coffee like. Inspecting the beans I found a high-quality bean roasted to just passes a light roast in my opinion. This coffee had an expiration date of 7/2025. I ground 50 grams to a medium grind 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 reminiscent of a typical South American Arabica coffee, smooth coffee aroma. Upon cupping I found this coffee to have a similar aroma, tasting this brewed coffee I found no acidity, no bitterness and a pleasant mouth feel. This coffee was delightful and bold on the palate with a slightly nutty coffee flavor. This is NOT 100% single origin Hawaiian coffee but a blend of different Arabica beans with 10% Hawaiian coffee thrown in. My uneducated guess Is Brazilian and Peruvian. 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 88. Cameron's is known for their smooth never bitter specialty coffee. This Cameron's Hawaiian Blend is on par. This Cameron's Hawaiian made an excellent cup of coffee one of the best I have had. At a sale price of $5.99/10 ounce bag or 60cents/ounce this falls into my personal upper end of what I consider to be affordable coffee. looking at this coffee on Cameron's web site it can be purchased for 50cents/ounce when you purchase a 4 pound bag. Who is this coffee for, anyone who is looking for a substantial upgrade from their daily supermarket brew. Cameron's Hawaiian Blend light roast whole bean coffee comes highly recommended.

(PODS) The Jamaican Blend (medium roast) is excellent. The 2nd best is the Hawaiian Blend (light roast). I have NEVER had any problems with the pods. Both are unflavored coffee. My favorites.

Kcup's don't work right. I have contacted the company to let them know about the issue with their kcup's but never received a response. The coffee is delicious when you can get the kcup's to work. However, a large majority of the time they either explode so you have coffee grounds all through your machine and cup OR they don't sit right and just drop down in to the machine so you wind up with a cup of lightly colored water from the grounds that are stuck in your machine. Just this morning I got the first cup of coffee to brew just fine except for left over coffee grounds but when I went to make a second cup of coffee, I tried 5 times with 2 different kcup's and all I ended up with was 5 cups of lightly colored water. The kcup's slipped right through and were never even punctured. Yesterday when I went to make a cup of coffee, I ended up with an exploded one. Hence the coffee grounds in the first cup of coffee. I would appreciate someone with their company contacting me. This is extremely annoying.