Very WEAK coffee

Eddie Williams · Apr 29, 2026

Lately Folgers & pack singles have doubled in price and cut the flavor in half. Only thing my local food lion sells in singles anymore. It's enough to make you quit drinking coffee. Will not be buying anymore

topher · Apr 30, 2026

I don't blame you! I have never purchased Folgers and can safely say I wont. I would suggest finding an online coffee roaster that can get you fresh coffee. It will be more expensive than folgers singles..but the taste is day and night.

Admin · May 1, 2026

Thread title spelling error fixed

froze · May 4, 2026

Folgers use to be halfway decent back when they first came out, but over the years they changed it, probably because they saved money somehow, but the flavor got bad as did all those types of canned coffees that came out back then. Even Starsucks has watered down their coffee over the last 15 or so years, and now the CEO announced a new coffee that will cost $9 a cup?! He's bragging it up as being a "premium experience", when I heard him say that I was LMAO!

All those coffees you buy today in pods and k-cup, and baggies are weak and to me they have a strange taste, and they will weaken the flavor over time to save money, and that's why you need to be using either pre-ground coffee in a bag or coffee beans which is what I use 90% of the time. I store my coffee in a Airscape vacuum cannister to keep the beans as fresh as possible.

Even bicycle campers/touring people will use instant or coffee bags, I hate that stuff, so when I go bicycle camping, I pre-grind enough to last me while I'm out. I then use a simple extremely lightweight, takes up no space, and cheap GSI Ultralight Java Drip coffee maker, it's a pour over design but requires no filters, all I do when I'm done is dump the grounds onto the ground, rinse out the netting and it's good to pack back up. While it doesn't make coffee as good as the various makers I have at home, but I'm camping on a bicycle, everything is compromised from what home is all about!

topher · May 13, 2026

Man, you are spot on about the quality drop. I actually worked for the founder of Brothers Coffee back in the day. When they started, he had incredibly strict rules on rotating stock and maintaining roast integrity—quality wasn't a suggestion, it was the standard. But the second they sold to Proctor & Gamble, the whole thing went to shit. They traded craft for shelf-life and bottom lines, and you can taste that corporate shift in every bag. It’s the same story with Folgers and Starbucks—they're selling a 'premium experience' that’s really just watered-down inventory management.

I’m with you 100% on using the Airscope canister to keep things fresh. Since you're using that GSI ultralight java drip for bike camping, one thing to consider is that the mesh doesn't catch the 'bad' oils like cafestol, which can drive up cholesterol. If you want to keep the cup clean and filter those out without adding weight to your kit, you can just tuck a Hario V60 paper filter inside the mesh. It gives you the convenience of the GSI but with the high-standard, clean cup you’re used to having at home.

froze · May 13, 2026

I ride a bike a lot so much my doctor is impressed with my cholesterol levels. Even the coffee I make at home all of the makers I use pass the oil through to the coffee, which makes the coffee taste better...in my opinion, some don't like the stronger flavor that the oil makes the coffee. I use a Bialetti Brikka Moka pot, Vietnamese Phin, Turkish Ibrik, Cafelat Robot espresso maker, and a Hario V60 Switch. The Hario is normally used with a paper filter which will take out most of the oil, but I switched to a cloth filter so the oil will pass through and into my coffee! Those coffee things I have make European size cups, which is a lot different than American size cups. The Moka pot makes the equivalent of 2 to 3 shots of espresso, as does the Phin, the Ibrik and the espresso maker, The Hario is their smallest 02 size, it makes about 4 to 5 shot sizes equivalent of espresso.

I'm 73 years old I eat meat too without any reservations...except when bicycle camping then I can't take meat, but sometimes if I get a sale price, I'll take beef jerky, (I probably need to buy a dehydrator and make my own Jerky, the price for Jerky is stupidly high).

I do believe that genetics plays a role in whether or not a person is more susceptible to cholesterol levels, but I do know for a fact that regular cardio exercise can be a huge help in maintaining healthy cholesterol levels even if your genetics predispose you to have high cholesterol. Regular cardio will also help with keeping blood pressure and blood sugar levels at healthy levels, and it keeps you moving which is good the older we get.

I've been riding a bike for about 50 years, before that I ran a lot 6 to 8 miles every night, but one day I had a tinge of pain in one of my knees and decided to try something different so as not to stress out a knee before I even turned 23! After I retired, I started going to the gym to add weight training, before I retired, I didn't have time to do both, so only did cycling. My problem as I aged is arthritis pain when I ride and push weight at the gym, it's in my hands and one foot, I just keep riding and pushing weight regardless, it's just pain, it calms down after I get home and rest, the pain is always there to some degree depending on weather, but it peaks when cycling but some days are worse than others. If I stay away from sugar that arthritis pain isn't as intense, so I try to limit my sugar intake, but being human sometimes I indulge myself, LOL!!

froze · May 28, 2026

I like immersion coffee, French Press and the Hario V60 Switch are two such examples. I don't know what kind of French press you have but the main problem with most French presses is that their single wall glass containers, and because you need to let it steep for at least 4 minutes, I wait 7 to 8, but in that 4 minutes alone you lose about 10 to 15 degrees of heat even if you preheat the unit first, in my longer wait I can lose 20 to 25 degrees, once you lose more than 1 or 2 degrees that coffee is no longer in the idea temperature range for steeping, that's why I have a double walled stainless steel French Press, it won't lose more than a 1/2 of degree in my 7 to 8 minute wait time.

One of the disadvantages to Hario V60 Switch is the same thing, except the heat loss goes out the top more instead of out the sides, so I put a plastic lid I repurposed over the top of the unit, and I found using a thermometer that the cloth sock I use does retain a bit more heat than a paper filter did. I did send Hario an e-mail about making a lid for the V60 Switch and explained why, the crazy thing was their response, they didn't realize the temperature lost thing and what it means? These are supposedly coffee professionals?? or are they just investors? Anyway, they did say they like my idea and will be passing it on to engineering to design a lid, when those will start being included with every unit, I don't know, or maybe they're just placating me! LOL!!