Puroast Low Acid Ground Coffee, Vanilla Nut, High Antioxidant, 12 Ounce Bag (Pack of 2)

This review is for the Vanilla flavored Puroast. First, I have to admit I'm not a coffee connoisseur, my favorite stuff is probably Dunkin Donuts Vanilla brewed at home.I have pretty severe reflux disease. At one point I had a choice between drinking coffee or sounding like I smoked eight thousand unfiltered cigarettes a day because of the hoarseness and wheeziness. For what it's worth, I chose to eliminate the coffee and keep my voice and lung capacity. Problem is, I love coffee both for the flavor and for the mood boost and, as my only vice, it was terribly hard to give up. I looked at a few options in low-acid coffees and went with Puroast for the good reviews on here and other sites.I'm not sure if the reviews lauding the flavor are planted or what, but this stuff tastes like watered down Folgers even when brewed strong. When I do brew it strong it's bitter and needs a lot of creamer and sugar. When I brew it in the coffee maker at home there is no intoxicating coffee aroma wafting through the house like you get with a normal coffee. I also don't feel a strong buzz when I drink it, but then again I don't, and I'm trying to be polite here, have the same sense of "urgency" to use the washroom afterward.Probably the biggest complaint I have is that the stuff simply does not taste like vanilla flavored coffee. Does not taste like it, does not smell like it. At all.I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but the bags I bought simply had a "Vanilla" sticker on top of an old label that said "French Roast". Maybe they changed the contents along with the sticker but there is no real way of knowing as again, either the vanilla they put in is extremely weak, or they just sold me some old french roast tarted up as vanilla flavored.On the plus side, and this is a big plus in spite of my complaints, I can drink coffee again. I even tried the "acid test"; orange juice and two cups of this coffee in the same day. I had very minimal reflux and it was the orange juice. If this had been normal coffee I would have been doubled over with chest and gut pain and would have sounded like a wizened female truck driver the next day. I have been drinking at least a cup of this stuff a day for over a week and have not had an episode. This is a notable difference for me.In summation, if you have reflux and are craving coffee, give this stuff a shot. It's not perfect in flavor, doesn't provide a great buzz, but it's coffee and you can drink it without killing your insides.I hope this review helps someone.

Took too much coffee to get strength needed.

this low Acid coffee is great for the everyday coffee drinker. I can go thru a pot a day and never have stomach problems now.. the flavor is great ..