Dunkin’ Donuts offers quite a long list of different coffee beans, blends, and roasts that you can then prepare at home. Which are the best options among these Dunkin’ Donuts coffee beans offerings?
It’s true that among all the popular fast-food joints, Dunkin’ Donuts offers one of the best cups of coffee around. While McDonald’s and Starbucks also enjoy some renown for their coffee, the Dunkin’ Donuts brew is famous for topping them when it comes to blind taste tests.
This is even more surprising when you consider that the Dunkin’ Donuts coffee you get from their drive-thru or in their location is quite affordable. You can get a large coffee for around 3 bucks, which is far less than what you’d pay for the same coffee at a snobbish café.
The good news is that Dunkin’ Donuts offers a long list of coffee bean variants that you can buy from their store, or from groceries and supermarkets. Obviously, you can also order them online.
You’ll have different coffee beans to choose from, with various flavors you can try. They’re available in different bag sizes. You can go with ground coffee, or with whole beans so you can control the quality of the ground (fine or coarse). You can also buy them in light roast, medium roast, or dark roast.
But which ones should you try first? While you can pick whichever tickles your fancy or even just go alphabetically, you may want to first try any of the following excellent Dunkin’ Donuts coffees we recommend.
Dunkin’ Donuts Original Blend
This is basically that same coffee you get straight when you order at Dunkin’ Donuts and they may the coffee for you. It’s a nicely balanced medium roast that’s the signature taste of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee. It’s their most recognizable coffee option, and the noted rival of the Dark Roast brewed coffee from Starbucks.
The taste is reminiscent of dark chocolate, with fruity notes, a slight hint of citrus lemon, and a bit of flowers as well. This is one coffee you can rely on to start your morning right. Buying your own Original Blend means you can enjoy it right when you wake up, and even on weekends too.
Dunkin’ Donuts French Vanilla Roast
Dunkin’ Donuts came out in 1950, but it took until 1995 before they came out with their French vanilla coffee. This offering gives you a flavor that’s quite authentic, without anything that seems fake or artificial. The French vanilla flavor is unmistakable, but it’s not overwhelming. That means you still get to enjoy that bold taste of the coffee itself.
Purists say that coffee should be enjoyed without cream or sugar, and it’s true that the French vanilla here is enough flavor for many. But some fans (including us) don’t mind adding just a tiny bit of French vanilla coffee creamer to a cup. That just enhances the flavor nicely.
Dunkin’ Donuts Dark Roast
If the medium roast isn’t for you as you want a bit more smoke in your coffee, then you’re looking for the Dark Roast. The flavors here are quite savory, with lots of richness and savory smoothness.
Dunkin’ Donuts roasts the beans long enough to make sure to get out the sugars from the beans. That’s why the coffee you get from these beans also come with definitive sweet chocolate flavors. A cup of black coffee from the Dark Roast is agreeably sweet and rich.
Dunkin’ Donuts Pumpkin Spice-Flavored K-Cups
If you have a pod coffee maker that uses K-Cups, and you also have a taste for Pumpkin Spice coffee, then this is right up your alley. Dunkin’ Donuts acknowledges the craze for pumpkin spice with this carefully crafted K-Cups for your home pleasure and convenience.
These K-Cups come with the Goldilocks-level of pumpkin spice flavor, meaning it’s just right. You’ll definitely taste it, and you get enough of it that you won’t need cream or sugar for your coffee (even if you add those to your regular brewed coffee).
But you also taste the regular black coffee as well. It’s not pure pumpkin spice flavor. It’s that mix of pumpkin spice with coffee taste that make this work.
By the way, you can also buy this as ground beans. But the pumpkin spice coffee ground beans option is a seasonal offering, so you may want to stock up while it’s available.
Dunkin’ Donuts Cinnamon Roll Flavor Roast
This is part of the Dunkin’ Donuts Bakery Series, and this a great option for those who really wants their coffee sweet. The cinnamon here makes it presence, and again it doesn’t overpower the black coffee.
Final Words
Of course, you can try the others roasts that Dunkin’ Donuts offers. But the ones on this list are popular because so many people like them, and it’s likely that you’ll enjoy them as well.
