Acid Free Coffee? Tyler’s Coffee

The Drink: Tyler’s Coffee Regular
Type: Ground Acid Free Coffee
Overall Rating: See Article

From time to time, I do have heartburn problems. Coffee doesn’t usually cause my heartburn, but on the really rough days it can add to the problem. I know there’s people that have acid indigestion a lot worse than me, so I can see a need for acid free coffee. When I heard about Tyler’s Coffee, it sounded like a pretty good solution for people that love coffee, but who are suffering from heartburn.

Tyler’s Coffee says they use a “Z-Roasting” process that optimizes the time the coffee beans are cooked; that results in high levels of caffeine and free of acid. Their computerized “Z-Roasting” system optimizes roasting time to assure that Tyler’s Coffee is acid free with maximum flavor.

It does sound good, but in the back of my mind I was worried that it might taste like one of those so-called healthy coffees. Acid free is good, but if it doesn’t taste like coffee, what’s the point?

Since Tyler’s Coffee comes only in ground form, I started my research via my drip coffee maker first.

It started off alight with a smokey, nutty aroma. It was a lighter smokey flavor, not exactly a dark roast, but kind of off.

Things went downhill quickly once it came to the taste test. It had a chemical/plastic flavor with a hint of medicine gone bad that lingered on my tongue. It was so bad that I thought there was something wrong with my coffee maker.

It was indeed smooth and easy on my stomach, but I couldn’t get past the taste.

I couldn’t drink a full cup, so it earned a .25 on the Daily Shot Of Coffee scale.

Since it came out so bad in the drip coffee maker, I decided to try it in my French Press just to make sure there wasn’t anything wrong with my coffee maker that was causing the off taste. I hadn’t used my drip coffee maker in a month or two, so I thought there might be something causing an off flavor. Or not…

From the French Press, I detected a smokey, nutty aroma with a hint of chemical. It didn’t exactly raise my hopes.

The taste was better, slightly. There was that smokey, nutty flavor again, however the predominate flavor was chemical/plastic.

I wanted to like Tyler’s Coffee, but I just couldn’t drink it. The French Press version earned a .5 on the Daily Shot Of Coffee scale.

If you do have heartburn or related problems, you can try Tyler’s Coffee for $15.99 for a weekly supply (I’m assuming one bag) or monthly for $60. They also have caffeine free.

I could keep going and talk about how I couldn’t find any information about what the Z-Roasting Process really is or that the decaf promises just that no chemicals was used to make it decaffeinated and no mention of whether they were used to de-acid it, but I’ll leave you with this…

It’s like non-alcoholic beer: If you can’t drink coffee because of acid problems, sure it might allow you to drink coffee, but is it really even coffee and do you really want to drink it? I think if my heartburn problems every got so bad that I couldn’t drink coffee, I would switch to tea.

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