Dunkin Donuts K Cups are here!
While most young professionals these days are sipping away at fancy Starbuck’s cappuccinos and lattes, the more blue collar of you are probably a little more accustomed to a little place called Dunkin Donuts. Dunkin Donuts K Cups are now here to bring that down-to-earth flavor and appeal to the Keurig K-Cups world. And not only that, Dunkin Donuts K Cups come in enough variety to fill your every K-Cups need.
The HUGE variety of Dunkin Donuts K Cups
Dunkin Donuts evokes for me an image of black coffee. That’s it. Just “Black Coffee.” There’s no real special thrills, bells, or whistles attached. It’s just a standard cup of black joe that you can’t really argue with. But today, Dunkin Donuts K Cups are challenging my old assumptions with a truly uncharacteristic showing of strong flavor options. Now, don’t get me wrong — we’re not talking about an incredibly fancy, out-there flavor explosion of uniqueness. You’re not going to find a cinnamon-sugar-mint-cappu-latte-spresso coming in a set of Dunkin Donuts K Cups… but you will find more than the standard variety of Dunkin’ Donuts flavors you could expect.
The coffee flavors that come in a Dunkin Donuts K Cups pack are made up of 5 well-chosen flavors. We’re presented with: Original Blend, Dunkin’ Dark Roast, Hazelnut, French Vanilla, and of course, Dunkin’ Decaf. The flavors don’t really do anything to shock and amaze me — but they do impress me as to how well-chosen they are. They follow a clear range from the mildest Keurig K-Cups to the boldest K-cups. Now, the mildest Dunkin Donuts K-Cups isn’t milder than a lot of other flavors I’ve tasted from other K-Cups companies — and the dark roast certainly doesn’t rival many of the Green Mountain offerings. But it’s a decent enough spread, and I think with regards to their typical blue collar audience, Dunkin Donuts K Cups offer a pretty excellent selection of flavors.
Now, as to the taste… it’s probably around somewhere you expect, if you’ve ever had coffee from a Dunkin’ Donuts before. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I give DD huge props for being able to accurately translate their flavor profile into a Keurig K-Cups product. It’s doubtlessly really hard to take the flavor of a complex, complicated coffee drink and condense it down into powder for processing by a Keurig K Cups brewer. Dunkin Donuts K Cups, however, have done exactly that. I had to go to a real DD to taste all five of these flavors so I could properly review them, and I have to say that they’ve done the best job of translating their in-restaurant brews to their Dunkin Donuts K Cups.
All in all, though, I can’t say there’s many outstanding things to be said for Dunkin Donuts K Cups coffee in the first place. It gets the job done right, and it tastes, well, good. It doesn’t taste excellent, or out of this world, but it tastes good and that’s the part of the market they fill. I can’t begrudge Dunkin Donuts K Cups for not being an artisan blend — it’d be like blaming Domino’s for not matching an authentic New York pizzeria in pizza quality. All things considered, I enjoyed my Dunkin’ Donuts K Cups, as a workhorse if nothing else.