Sometimes things just don't click (with me, that is). I wrote about Green Mountain Coffee and mentioned that Keurig was a wholly owned subsidiary of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, but it just didn't click. It wasn't until I saw something about how the coffee was brewed that it finally registered in my pea brain. Their coffee makers are for gourmet coffee, not the regular kind, and K-Cups are required.

Gourmet Coffee Brewers

The Keurig coffee makers are one-cup coffee brewers designed for gourmet coffee. You have to insert one of the K-Cup packets to start the process, but it seems simple enough. You're not even limited to coffee — you can brew tea or hot cocoa because they have K-Cups for them too. You can even forgo a packet if all you want is a cup of hot water for something else.

There are several Keurig coffee maker models to choose from and they range in prices from $89.95 to $249.95. Ouch! All that and the K-Cups too in order to get the perfect cup of coffee. Of course, this is perfectly understandable from the perspective that people with pay $5.00 per cup at Starbucks on a regular basis. Why not get a perfect cup of coffee without having to go to a coffee shop to get it? It makes sense.

Alas… It's not for me.

Even IF could find one of the Keurig coffee makers locally and even IF I could get a supply of K-Cups, I probably wouldn't pursue that route to getting my daily fix of coffee.

I currently make my coffee one cup at a time, using instant coffee, so it's not the steps toward making a cup that I have a problem with. The problem is the coffee itself.

You see, sometimes I like my coffee strong and WITH sugar and sometimes I like my coffee weak and WITHOUT sugar (I don't use any kind of creamer, except on rare occasions). I kind of like having granular control on how much and how strong my coffee is going to be.

The pre-measured, pre-decided coffee portions that describe K-Cups in a nutshell is the reason I don't like the San Mig coffee products (3-in-1, 2-in-1, etc.).

Of course, I'm only one person. If this is the kind of product that floats your boat, then have at it. There's absolutely nothing wrong with using Keurig coffee makers and the K-Cups to go with them. They say there's a product out there for everyone. This one just doesn't happen to be mine.

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Although a lot of Filipinos seem to like the San Mig 3-in-1 coffee products, I don't. Of course, I'm not Filipino either.

In an attempt to be a bit adventurous with my coffee-drinking routine, I tried two different varieties of the San Mig 3-in-1 coffee, the original and mild flavors.

Ingredients of San Mig 3-in-1 Coffee

There are more varieties of the coffee than I can think of right now, but they also include the sugar-free versions. There's even a 2-in-1 version that leaves something out and I think it's the coffee creamer.

The regular 3-in-1 flavors include coffee, non-dairy creamer and sugar. I didn't keep the packages long enough to check the proportions, but maybe I should have.

The Taste Test

I don't know what it was that I didn't like about the coffee, but it wasn't the fact that it was instant coffee. I drink instant coffee at home and brewed coffee when I'm at a restaurant and I don't see a difference in taste in that regard.

My first thought was that it would taste better without the non-dairy creamer since I drink my coffee without any creamer normally. It could have been that there wasn't enough coffee in proportion to the other ingredients, but I wasn't willing to add more coffee to see if that was the case. It definitely wasn't the sugar because I don't make my own coffee very sweet.

Regardless, I couldn't drink either of the varieties I taste-tested.

My Relatives Love It

Minus one packet in each box (and each box was less than a single US dollar), I gave them to my in-laws. Within two days, both boxes of the San Mig 3-in-1 boxes were used and discarded. It was almost like they were starving for coffee.

I have a more discriminating taste than my relatives, obviously. I'll tell you one thing for sure: I would rather give up coffee than drink this stuff if I had no other choices. Call me fickle.

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