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Cravens' Buttery, Caramel, Butterscotch, Medium Roast Coffee

 When a person tastes a variety of gourmet coffees long enough, they begin to recognize characteristics of how coffee will taste. Cravens, Buttery, Caramel, Butterscotch is a good example. Its packaging is a decorative bag, good design, that has a sticker on the front giving a brief description of the coffee: single origin, medium roast. Upon opening the bag, the smell is mundane. The scent is reminiscent of plastic tub coffees rather than gourmet coffee. Its grind is fine, so much so that it can cause some difficulty with filters.  This Cravens Coffee selection is a flavored coffee: butter, caramel, and butterscotch. With my first cup, unsweetened, I can taste none of these. There is a medium roast consistency in the coffee. Its unsweetened flavor is very much a tub coffee flavor match. It is smooth, with some coffee flavor with a bitterness that warns the drinker of the next sip. Its presence on the tongue and cheeks is negligible with an acidic aftertaste. I sweetened the s...