Laurie recently switched to using a Keurig for her coffee.  She’s used one before, but had gone back to a regular coffee pot due to reasons that cannot be explained at this time quite a while ago.

But, I digress.  So, she has switched to using a machine that uses the small K-Cups filled with coffee (or hot chocolate, as I found out).

One of the challenges with K-Cups is finding coffee you like.  We bought a 27 pack of K-Cups from Amazon recently.  It had Italian Roast, and it had Breakfast blend, and French Roast.  9 K-Cups for each blend.  Decent price.

She’s found that she doesn’t like the Breakfast Blend.  Which is fine.  We only have nine K-cups in that flavor.

But how do you, as a coffee consumer, explore new coffees in a K-Cup world?  She has always been a dark roast person, and so Sumatra, and Italian Roast, and French Roast are no brainers. But surely, there have to be other dark roasts out there she could try?

But in order to do that, you have to buy a package of K-Cups.  Minimum of twelve, as far as I can tell.  What do you do then when you decide that “Hey, this flavor isn’t for me?”  Discard the unused K-Cups?  Put them on Ebay?

What we need is a place where you can buy two to five K-Cups at a time, of a certain flavor.  Just to try it out.

Is this a money losing operation?  Probably.  But it seems like it would be less about losing money and more about teaching people about “other flavors” of coffee that they might enjoy, given their current tastes.

Hmmmmmmmm……Maybe a service that offers 2-5 K-Cups of a new flavor each month. You are sent the K-Cups, you try it out, and if you don’t like them, you aren’t out a huge amount of money.  If you DO like the flavor of the coffee, you know what it is and where to get it.