@phendrick@warpedrotors The idea of a spirits-only online site was hoped-for years ago on the previous wine site. But the problem is that state laws are much more restrictive and liquor taxes vary greatly as well. I wish for a site like that too (not sure if you were kidding), but don’t think the varied laws would allow it.
@phendrick@pmarin I was definitely not kidding. I want bourbon deals shipped to my door. Drizly is fucking stupid. I know it’s hard to do with all the crazy laws, but I really only need them to ship to me. I don’t care about other states. I do have a case of bourbon barrel aged wine arriving Thursday thanks to casemates. I guess that will have to do for now.
@ShotgunX Hey, on work zoom calls it just looks like a coffee cup! (actually the engineers I work with don’t enable the cameras at all anyway. otherwise we’d have to shave and get kind-of dressed.)
For .70 the cost of a cup of coffee you can feed a child for a day in Ethiopia. At that what Sally Struthers used to say back in the 80’s. Now it’s a pod of coffee.
@Achromatter not sure but Keurig might have the answer with their Drinkworks machine.https://www.keurig.com/drinkworks
I haven’t tried it yet, tried to win one for all places the Hallmark Channel during the Christmas season.
@Achromatter Not the way the little trees people made bourbon scent for their air fresheners, because that shit doesn’t smell like any bourbon I’ve had.
@Achromatter@dtwsportsfan I douse myself with bourbon before every drive just in case I get pulled over. Trying to get that false arrest lawsuit money.
@Achromatter bed bath and bey ond has a 72 count of the dark for 39.99 that’s .55 each, but if you get one of those 20% off coupons they seem to send me every week that takes it down to $32.00 and .44 cents still not as good the .35 here but at least it all the same flavor.
If I buy these, and my kido’s start drinking them, are they more likely to favor Jim Beam products in the future, or just bourbon in general, like the effects of candy cigarettes in the 70-80’s.
@mike808@pmarin Dorignacs is my only store when I go back home. Robért’s is where the bougie new New Orleanians go. (They’re the ones who say “NOLA” instead of “New Orleans.”)
@JekiTheRogue On a related note, the Pappy maple syrup is fucking delicious, and as close as I’ve come to trying Pappy so far. It’s a bit pricey($18 I think), but worth the splurge at least once. The bourbon barrel aged maple syrup that Costco and other stores sell is good, but the Pappy stuff is on another level.
@JekiTheRogue@Noddy93 There’s a good chance I’m retarded. I thought it was $18, but it’s not very likely now that I checked the price. There was some kind of sale before Christmas though. I think it was cheaper, and you got entered into a drawing for actual Pappy. Even at $38, buy it once.
Once our Keurig started serving lukewarm coffee I broke out the new Motif Essential Pour Coffee Brewer w/ Thermal Carafe & wow, I will never look back. Much better coffee. Two cups max because this coffee maker seems to add additional caffeine & I get a case of the jitters. Good thing I like the jitters. No more Keurig cups making weak coffee for me.
@Joedetroit I will second that. These make great coffee, cheaper too, unless you buy super-expensive beans… which I do sometimes. And these machines will actually make it worthwhile by getting the full benefit of the high-quality beans.
@Joedetroit@pmarin yup. I have this machine, a Baratza Encore, and a kitchen scale. I just did the math, and my $12.50 a lb beans works out to roughly 30¢ a cup.
@j37hr0@pmarin Thanks for the maths!! I pay less at Costco for my beans (& they seem very fresh to me!). A lot less so a cup of joe is a great value in my house (not cheap, I would never say cheap).
I did something stupid while cleaning it, and broke a piece of the glass tube.
There is no way in hell Motiff was willing to back up a warrantee repair - I really just wanted the glass tube. They claimed that meh.com was a clearinghouse sale, or somesuch.
ANYWAY, it still works. The glass kind of “chipped” off, buy it was a big fucking “chip”. The rubber gozinta still makes a seal.
My next descaling will be under white-knuckle duress.
I, as well, Love My Motif! Bought my BF a different model. He loves it as well. Gave my Mom the 2nd 1 I bought which is like the picture. My Daughter in Law threw away her Expensive Keurig after she heard about the Bio Slime that forms. Pretty sure she could have cleaned it. She is a “Little” Weird. So, no thanks on K cups…Try out Brew Rite coffee cleaner if you haven’t. It cleans out the carafe as well as the brewer. Makes it all shiny and new again. Well, Ice, lemon and salt will do it too, especially a glass carafe you can’t get hands in to scrub.
My Keurig confession: I had been a sucker for “deals” even if in the long run they weren’t good ideas. For example, I’m on this site, which should be evidence enough for that.
Back when I used to shop the clearance racks of local grocery stores just for fun (pre-Covid), I’d find deals on K-cup coffees. I then had to pick up a Keurig brewer (also on clearance) so I could give these coffee things a try, plus it did look convenient. I was used to fairly “strong” coffee (note: strong is not the same as “dark”, but they are often related. But you can have a strong concentrated brew of a light-roast as well). At first I was pretty disappointed with the Keurig in how “weak” the coffee always was, even if I went for the smallest cup size (usually 6oz). A lot of different products always were just kind of “OK, not terrible; certainly not good.”
I eventually found a few brands of K-cups that I thought were reasonably “good” (or as good as you can given the technology). One key was “how much actual coffee is in each cup.” This may not be obvious – not all K-cups contain the same amount of coffee. These have 0.35oz, which is on the weak side. I did find some that were 0.4oz or greater, and from my experience these were better. I think I found one or two over 0.5oz that were specially marketed as extra-strong, and indeed they were. For my taste, the ones with 0.4oz or more is all I would buy now. Of course the quality of the beans is important too – but from my experience the ones making the higher “doses” also tend to the be specialty ones that use better-quality beans.
Overall the “K” machine was fun as a toy and to learn about the products – after that I decided to go back to drip-brewing (by hand or with the Motif), or actual espresso machines, though that is a different style entirely.
@G1 I know the original deal page was a few weeks ago, but since you asked, I’d say for national brands, it would be Peets and some varieties of the Starbucks. But your best bet is actually if you have smaller local producers in your area that won’t be available nation-wide. Sometimes I would find them in the supermarket clearance racks which was a great way to try new ones at a low price. Usually it was because it was near the “best by” date, but I wasn’t too worried about the exact date. Or the supermarkets have limited shelf space and maybe just discontinued them so put them on clearance. (unfortunately a lot of people only go to the big-name brands they know rather than experimenting with less-known local producers, but I like to do the opposite).
I was in the Pacific Northwest and so my best finds were from smaller Seattle and Portland producers that offered K-cups. But now almost all parts of the country have some good local roasters – though it’s hard to beat the Pacific NW.
Again, best rule-of-thumb is to look at the number of ounces per capsule, and it should be 0.40 or greater.
Uike the “brew-ha-ha” over pour over vs Kuerig, I use c, none of the above. Long time ago I discovered a great gizmo call the Cafejo. It is a french press that uses Kcups, Nespresso pods or refillable cups. Unfortunately it seems it is no longer made, but since my original one lasted nearly 10 years, the replacement I bought couple years ago is now my “precious”. There are a few similar gizmos out there, but none as compact and as few parts as the Cafejo. Keep the Kcup deals a-coming!
Fed Ex says delivered but wasn’t. Been here all day even looking out window at time Fed Ex says it was delivered. This seems to be an ongoing problem with Fed Ex. Not sure why MEH continues to use them. Awful delivery service.
@mfearing FedEx sat on my delivery since they received it locally on 2/14. Finally got it this afternoon. I’ll give them Monday as a pass, since it was Presidents Day and the worse snow this area has gotten in 10 years (a whopping 8", as I giggled at the pandemonium it caused, since I’m from a place where that isnt so unusual). But no excuse for Tuesday or Wednesday, since I got UPS and USPS packages delivered both days.
Yet another coffee pod purchase from Meh that is an epic failure. The basically burst in my machine, stop the brewing and give me a nice cup of grounds.
First thing I bought from you guys that is terrible!! They split with the heat I guess and the one we could brew tasted awful!! Sorry but thought you might want to know!
Just got mine (no problems with shipping, yay!), immediately brewed a cup of the Original Blend, it was tasty. It smells sweet, but isn’t overpowering. Brewed up a Dark Roast as a follow-up, this one smells suuuuuper chocolatey. Flavor is OK. I’ll wait until dinner to try the Bourbon Vanilla flavor.
Specs
Jim Beam Bourbon Vanilla 18-Count
Jim Beam Original Bourbon Flavored Coffee 18-Count
Jim Beam Signature Dark Roast Bourbon Flavored Coffee 18-Count
What’s in the Box?
Price Comparison
$36.17 at Amazon for 54 Count ($0.67 per cup)
1 | 2 | 3
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Friday, Sep 17 - Tuesday, Sep 21
Coughee!!
I’d rather have coffee-flavored bourbon.
But, even more, I prefer bourbon-flavored bourbon.
@phendrick Someone let me know when meh starts having bourbon deals. Maybe a bourbon spinoff site like casemates is in order.
@phendrick @warpedrotors The idea of a spirits-only online site was hoped-for years ago on the previous wine site. But the problem is that state laws are much more restrictive and liquor taxes vary greatly as well. I wish for a site like that too (not sure if you were kidding), but don’t think the varied laws would allow it.
@phendrick @pmarin I was definitely not kidding. I want bourbon deals shipped to my door. Drizly is fucking stupid. I know it’s hard to do with all the crazy laws, but I really only need them to ship to me. I don’t care about other states. I do have a case of bourbon barrel aged wine arriving Thursday thanks to casemates. I guess that will have to do for now.
@phendrick @warpedrotors no point since you can’t legally ship liquor to Texas addresses.
Oh, it’s coffee
/image my disappointment is immeasurable
Ew.
But what does this product offer to those of us who already put coffee in our bourbon every morning?
@ShotgunX Artificial bourbon flavor
@ShotgunX Hey, on work zoom calls it just looks like a coffee cup! (actually the engineers I work with don’t enable the cameras at all anyway. otherwise we’d have to shave and get kind-of dressed.)
I don’t have a Keurig machine but this deal makes me want to buy one.
Would this go well with Stroopwafels?
@JT954
Check out the Aldi site this week. They have a 30 buck Keurig knockoff
@chienfou @JT954 I’m trying one of these instead of Keuring (supposed to arrive today):
/image Presto MyJo
@chienfou @compunaut @JT954 I got one of those for camping, when I didn’t have any good grinds for the Aeropress.
I somehow crave Paul Newman’s Newman’s Own Special Blend when camping.
For some reason, I thought that one slow pump would do the trick, but it was a weird process, with several pumps.
Aeropress or the canned Starbucks “coffee-pop” for camping from now on.
For .70 the cost of a cup of coffee you can feed a child for a day in Ethiopia. At that what Sally Struthers used to say back in the 80’s. Now it’s a pod of coffee.
@dtwsportsfan I don’t have any children in Ethiopia. Why the fuck should I feed them?
@dtwsportsfan
@ShotgunX Thanks so much, I don’t know how I’ve never seen that skit.
@ShotgunX Im adding the original tv commercial for peoples reference.
@dtwsportsfan @ShotgunX as a bills fan, I approve this message
@dtwsportsfan But then who’s going to pick the coffee if we pay them for free?
How exactly does one make artificial bourbon flavor?
@Achromatter Use artificial bourbon, maybe?
@Achromatter not sure but Keurig might have the answer with their Drinkworks machine.https://www.keurig.com/drinkworks
I haven’t tried it yet, tried to win one for all places the Hallmark Channel during the Christmas season.
@Jackinga why? LOL…
@dtwsportsfan LOL, that thing’s not big enough for my house…
@Achromatter Not the way the little trees people made bourbon scent for their air fresheners, because that shit doesn’t smell like any bourbon I’ve had.
@Achromatter @warpedrotors that’s probably good so when the police pull you over for some b.s. you vehicle dose not smell like a well aged bourbon.
@Achromatter @dtwsportsfan I douse myself with bourbon before every drive just in case I get pulled over. Trying to get that false arrest lawsuit money.
Why can’t we buy all one flavor? I’m only interested in the dark roast…
@Achromatter and I only want the White Chocolate flavor.
@Achromatter Oh, sorry wrong message board.
@Achromatter bed bath and bey ond has a 72 count of the dark for 39.99 that’s .55 each, but if you get one of those 20% off coupons they seem to send me every week that takes it down to $32.00 and .44 cents still not as good the .35 here but at least it all the same flavor.
If I buy these, and my kido’s start drinking them, are they more likely to favor Jim Beam products in the future, or just bourbon in general, like the effects of candy cigarettes in the 70-80’s.
Nope.
Like this delicious King Cake Rum Cream.
@mike808 Looks like interesting stuff. Is that for sale in LA-only? (Louisiana, not Los Angeles).
@pmarin Probably only New Orleans and Baton Rouge, since it is Gambino’s branded. I have a connection who got it at Dorignsc’s.
Rouses and Martin’s and Publix are on my “no go” list as a consequence of their enthuiastic participation in the events of Jan 6.
@mike808 @pmarin Ever since one unfortunate experience in college, I can’t get behind mixing alcohol and dairy.
@mike808 @pmarin I’ll look for it here, as they sell a heck of a lot of Gambino’s King Cakes in Alexandria now. Thanks for the idea!
@mike808 @pmarin Dorignacs is my only store when I go back home. Robért’s is where the bougie new New Orleanians go. (They’re the ones who say “NOLA” instead of “New Orleans.”)
/giphy nola
@Limewater @mike808 @pmarin I had a similar experience, except with alcohol & lime juice
is the 90day warranty code for expiration / best by date.
Maybe if it wasn’t Jim Beam white label bourbon. Pappy’s flavored coffee, that’s where it’s at.
@JekiTheRogue On a related note, the Pappy maple syrup is fucking delicious, and as close as I’ve come to trying Pappy so far. It’s a bit pricey($18 I think), but worth the splurge at least once. The bourbon barrel aged maple syrup that Costco and other stores sell is good, but the Pappy stuff is on another level.
@JekiTheRogue @warpedrotors what’s f*cking delicious?
PUMPKIN, M#THERF%CKERS!!!
@JekiTheRogue @warpedrotors I’ve only had the Blantons Maple Syrup.
$18 would be an absolute steal cuz Pappy Syrup is $38 and Blantons is $43.
@JekiTheRogue @Noddy93 There’s a good chance I’m retarded. I thought it was $18, but it’s not very likely now that I checked the price. There was some kind of sale before Christmas though. I think it was cheaper, and you got entered into a drawing for actual Pappy. Even at $38, buy it once.
I’d love to try this, but the last time I drank 10 cups of Jim Beam in the morning didn’t go well.
@donver
Are you out yet or were you typing that in the prison library?
gross
@robson Well it’s 3/8’s of a gross, anyway.
I can’t tell you how disappointed I was to see “54 count assorted Jim Beam…” end with “coffee”.
@cpierce I assume you were hoping for soup? Me too… me too.
Once our Keurig started serving lukewarm coffee I broke out the new Motif Essential Pour Coffee Brewer w/ Thermal Carafe & wow, I will never look back. Much better coffee. Two cups max because this coffee maker seems to add additional caffeine & I get a case of the jitters. Good thing I like the jitters. No more Keurig cups making weak coffee for me.
@Joedetroit I will second that. These make great coffee, cheaper too, unless you buy super-expensive beans… which I do sometimes. And these machines will actually make it worthwhile by getting the full benefit of the high-quality beans.
@Joedetroit @pmarin yup. I have this machine, a Baratza Encore, and a kitchen scale. I just did the math, and my $12.50 a lb beans works out to roughly 30¢ a cup.
@Joedetroit Love this using it since recommended on Security Now by Steve Gibson.
@Joedetroit One more
I love mine, makes a great cup
@j37hr0 @pmarin Thanks for the maths!! I pay less at Costco for my beans (& they seem very fresh to me!). A lot less so a cup of joe is a great value in my house (not cheap, I would never say cheap).
@j37hr0 @Joedetroit @pmarin Yep.
I did something stupid while cleaning it, and broke a piece of the glass tube.
There is no way in hell Motiff was willing to back up a warrantee repair - I really just wanted the glass tube. They claimed that meh.com was a clearinghouse sale, or somesuch.
ANYWAY, it still works. The glass kind of “chipped” off, buy it was a big fucking “chip”. The rubber gozinta still makes a seal.
My next descaling will be under white-knuckle duress.
@G1 @Joedetroit @pmarin yikes! My next coffee maker will be a Ninja with the ice brew. The only thing about this coffee maker I don’t love.
Star for the write-up; I’m ready for a Jim Beam coffee Choose Your Own Adventure. “Space Coffee and Beyond”!
Pre-ground with contrived bourbon “”“flavor”“” - I can’t remember a coffee deal I’ve wanted less.
I prefer the Jim Beam roll on antiperspirant—Aye! It smells like a man (with a serious drinking problem) — SO ‘90’s!
Conspiracy! Everything is K cups these days…what about us Nespresso machine users???
No. Coffee flavor for the morning time. Bourbon flavor for the evening time. You’re gonna mix em up!! Worlds are colliding!!
@supremecourtney My expression in college (seemed like a good idea at the time): “Stimulants by day, Depressants by night.”
@supremecourtney
worked just fine for Elvis.
Until it didn’t, of course.
I, as well, Love My Motif! Bought my BF a different model. He loves it as well. Gave my Mom the 2nd 1 I bought which is like the picture. My Daughter in Law threw away her Expensive Keurig after she heard about the Bio Slime that forms. Pretty sure she could have cleaned it. She is a “Little” Weird. So, no thanks on K cups…Try out Brew Rite coffee cleaner if you haven’t. It cleans out the carafe as well as the brewer. Makes it all shiny and new again. Well, Ice, lemon and salt will do it too, especially a glass carafe you can’t get hands in to scrub.
My Keurig confession: I had been a sucker for “deals” even if in the long run they weren’t good ideas. For example, I’m on this site, which should be evidence enough for that.
Back when I used to shop the clearance racks of local grocery stores just for fun (pre-Covid), I’d find deals on K-cup coffees. I then had to pick up a Keurig brewer (also on clearance) so I could give these coffee things a try, plus it did look convenient. I was used to fairly “strong” coffee (note: strong is not the same as “dark”, but they are often related. But you can have a strong concentrated brew of a light-roast as well). At first I was pretty disappointed with the Keurig in how “weak” the coffee always was, even if I went for the smallest cup size (usually 6oz). A lot of different products always were just kind of “OK, not terrible; certainly not good.”
I eventually found a few brands of K-cups that I thought were reasonably “good” (or as good as you can given the technology). One key was “how much actual coffee is in each cup.” This may not be obvious – not all K-cups contain the same amount of coffee. These have 0.35oz, which is on the weak side. I did find some that were 0.4oz or greater, and from my experience these were better. I think I found one or two over 0.5oz that were specially marketed as extra-strong, and indeed they were. For my taste, the ones with 0.4oz or more is all I would buy now. Of course the quality of the beans is important too – but from my experience the ones making the higher “doses” also tend to the be specialty ones that use better-quality beans.
Overall the “K” machine was fun as a toy and to learn about the products – after that I decided to go back to drip-brewing (by hand or with the Motif), or actual espresso machines, though that is a different style entirely.
@pmarin What are the best k-cups, based on your research?
I DO like Newman’s Own Special Blend.
@G1 I know the original deal page was a few weeks ago, but since you asked, I’d say for national brands, it would be Peets and some varieties of the Starbucks. But your best bet is actually if you have smaller local producers in your area that won’t be available nation-wide. Sometimes I would find them in the supermarket clearance racks which was a great way to try new ones at a low price. Usually it was because it was near the “best by” date, but I wasn’t too worried about the exact date. Or the supermarkets have limited shelf space and maybe just discontinued them so put them on clearance. (unfortunately a lot of people only go to the big-name brands they know rather than experimenting with less-known local producers, but I like to do the opposite).
I was in the Pacific Northwest and so my best finds were from smaller Seattle and Portland producers that offered K-cups. But now almost all parts of the country have some good local roasters – though it’s hard to beat the Pacific NW.
Again, best rule-of-thumb is to look at the number of ounces per capsule, and it should be 0.40 or greater.
I’m in Brazil!
https://map.what3words.com/soaking.slim.peanut
Uike the “brew-ha-ha” over pour over vs Kuerig, I use c, none of the above. Long time ago I discovered a great gizmo call the Cafejo. It is a french press that uses Kcups, Nespresso pods or refillable cups. Unfortunately it seems it is no longer made, but since my original one lasted nearly 10 years, the replacement I bought couple years ago is now my “precious”. There are a few similar gizmos out there, but none as compact and as few parts as the Cafejo. Keep the Kcup deals a-coming!
My girlfriend had K cups but she developed back problems.
My Dad served aboard the Intrepid, now a floating museum in NYC. I’m sure the coffee sucked there too.
/giphy The Intrepid
Still enjoying my hoard of Harry & David k-cups.
So hoist up the Jim Beam cups
See how the main sail sets
Etc.
Big fan of the space western write-up!
That’s good work
Fed Ex says delivered but wasn’t. Been here all day even looking out window at time Fed Ex says it was delivered. This seems to be an ongoing problem with Fed Ex. Not sure why MEH continues to use them. Awful delivery service.
@mfearing FedEx sat on my delivery since they received it locally on 2/14. Finally got it this afternoon. I’ll give them Monday as a pass, since it was Presidents Day and the worse snow this area has gotten in 10 years (a whopping 8", as I giggled at the pandemonium it caused, since I’m from a place where that isnt so unusual). But no excuse for Tuesday or Wednesday, since I got UPS and USPS packages delivered both days.
NEVER RECEIVED MY ORDER
I SEE BY THE OTHER COMMENTS I’M NOT ALONE
PLEASE CANCEL THE ORDER AND GIVE ME A REFUND
@franl40 up at the top of this page:
Yet another coffee pod purchase from Meh that is an epic failure. The basically burst in my machine, stop the brewing and give me a nice cup of grounds.
Are you going to ship my order?
First thing I bought from you guys that is terrible!! They split with the heat I guess and the one we could brew tasted awful!! Sorry but thought you might want to know!
@hummingbird12
Meh.com/support
Just got mine, got 2 originals and a bourbon vanilla, was wanting to try the dark roast the most. Will be contacting service.
Just got mine (no problems with shipping, yay!), immediately brewed a cup of the Original Blend, it was tasty. It smells sweet, but isn’t overpowering. Brewed up a Dark Roast as a follow-up, this one smells suuuuuper chocolatey. Flavor is OK. I’ll wait until dinner to try the Bourbon Vanilla flavor.
Got my order on time will buy more. Best coffee ever.