BECK ON BEANS: Forget Pumpkin Spice! Harry and David Maple Walnut Moose Munch Gourmet Coffee

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A coffee from the company that makes one of my favorite popcorn snacks AND the most delicious individually wrapped pears ever?? Sign me up.


Just a caveat: Maple Walnut flavored things can go very VERY wrong. So I approached this cup with excitement and apprehension. 


Fragrance: Throw out your Yankee Candles. You can brew this stuff and your whole house will smell like a comfy, Canadian ski lodge with a fire and fluffy socks. Wait... the sock reference was illustrative of the FEEL,  not the SMELL. It doesn’t smell like socks. Unless they were maple walnut socks. That aren’t actually socks. Sock-adjacent maple walnut thingees. That. 


Flavor: Holy cannoli! This is flipping delicious! The coffee itself is actually kinda bitter and acidic, but it needs to be in order to balance out the syrupy sweet maple walnut flavor. I don’t tend to like heavily flavored coffees, but with a little milk foam and some cinnamon... I’d die and go to Home Barista Heaven. 


Recommended for:

  1. Sipping and savoring. This coffee is meant to be a treat, not fuel. 
  2. Afternoon cups. The roast is very dark to make up for the heavy flavoring. That means less caffeine. It’s a two (or 5) cup kinda day. 
  3. Icing. This would probably rule as a frosty bevvy while watching a football game. 


Not recommended for: 

  1. Picky palettes. If you’re sensitive to heavy flavoring or you just want a straight coffee experience, this isn’t your brew. This is queer coffee. Rainbow crop tops and glitter eyelashes at the Pride parade queer. (It’s sweet and beautiful like you, queens.) 
  2. Additives. Don’t add flavor to this unless you’re that weird guy all the other baristas paid $5 to do shots of flavor syrup. 


Would I buy again? 

Heck yes. I hate pumpkin spice flavor, so I feel like I have my fall bev replacement. Pumpkin spice is so five minutes ago. Bring on the Moose Munch Maple Walnut. 

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