Douwe EgbertsAroma Rood Decaf Coffee, 17.6 Ounce

Been drinking this coffee for years. It is very flavorful and smooth. I would highly recommend it. It is one of the most popular coffees in Europe.

Good but as good as caffeinated! Oh well..,

I absolutely love the regular (non-decaf) version of this coffee when I occasionally run across it. Very rare to find it anywhere where I live but one gas station I go to has it. But I have to drink decaf most times. I like most decaf versions of various coffee brands but I was disappointed in Douwe Egberts Decaf. I was so hopeful this would be good tasting but it's just not.

We had high hopes for this after having tasted two absolutely smooth, rich, perfect cups of D-E decaf at a local restaurant. We learned that the restaurant has a D-E coffee maker that uses D-E liquid concentrate decaf and just adds hot water. That is amazing. Unfortunately, making our own from this lovely ground coffee package was no match. (Yes, we start with RO filtered fresh water, and brewed through the entire package, one batch at a time, altering the strength each time to try to achieve the perfect results.) No luck. It always tasted fine, for sure. But never as rich or smooth as our restaurant cups, nor as good as the Gevalia we buy at Wal-Mart.

OMG! All you people who avoid that awful burnt coffee taste.... which has been made so popular these days by a chain (who shall remain nameless)...this is the brand to buy. No wonder you must have flavor shots, sugar and milk to even get it down! A local restaurant here in Sedona, AZ, Cucina Rustica, served this coffee to me after a sumptuous dinner one evening and I practically had to sleep with the waiter to get him to go back in the kitchen and tell me what brand of coffee they use. I buy the caffeinated and decaf and switch off. BOTH taste marvelously mellow and mild. (good kick for morning: light roast means more caffeine, actually, I'm told...) You can sometimes get a bargain on it, but it is worth every single penny either way. I freeze it if I buy it in larger quantities, and then keep it refrigerated as I use it to stay fresh.This is the only coffee I will buy now. (Those sneaky Netherlanders, keeping the good stuff for themselves!)