Seattle's Best Coffee Breakfast Blend Ground Coffee

Seattle's Best Coffee Breakfast Blend is a medium roast ground coffee sold as a six pack, and this page explains how it tastes, how much coffee the bags hold, and where the price lands per cup.

What Seattle's Best Breakfast Blend tastes like

A medium roast built on smooth roasted Arabica beans gives this Breakfast Blend ground coffee a bright, crisp cup with light citrus notes. The roast stays in the middle of the range, so the flavor reads fresh instead of sharp. Nothing in the profile pushes toward smoke or char, which suits drinkers who find dark roasts harsh. A 12 ounce bag opens to an even grind that suits most home brewers, and the citrus edge keeps later cups from tasting dull.

The brew ratio the bag recommends

The package suggests 1 tablespoon of grounds for every 6 ounces of water, and that mild ratio is a sensible place to begin. A drip machine handles the measurement for you and holds water near 93 to 96 deg C, the specialty window for drip extraction. Pour-over gives more control over the pour and lets you slow the stream when the cup tastes weak. French press keeps more oils in the brew, so the same spoonful reads rounder and heavier. Start at the listed ratio, then add a second spoonful when the morning calls for more strength.

How many cups a six pack yields

Each bag weighs 12 ounces, about 340 g or 0.75 lb, and the six pack totals 72 ounces of ground coffee, near 2040 g or 4.5 lb. At 1 tablespoon, about 5 g, per 6 ounce cup, one bag pours roughly 68 cups and the full pack reaches near 408 cups. A stronger cup changes that math. Two tablespoons, about 10 g, doubles the dose and halves the count to about 204 cups, so the same 72 ounces lasts longer when you brew mild and runs out sooner when you brew strong.

Water and the grind

Water makes up most of the cup, so fresh, cold water gives the roast a cleaner base than a stale kettle. A 12 cup pot uses about 60 g of grounds, and each 6 ounce cup uses about 177 g of water. The grind in a Seattle's Best Breakfast Blend bag sits between a fine espresso powder and a coarse French press grind, and that middle setting suits paper filters well. A finer grind would clog a paper filter and slow the drawdown, while a coarser one would let the water pass before it picks up much flavor. Since the Breakfast Blend ground coffee arrives ground, treat the bag as a filter-method grind and leave espresso to a separate bag.

Getting the most from the first cup

Grind size is fixed once the bag is ground, so the dose and the water do the adjusting. Warm the brewer, use the full 6 ounces the ratio assumes, and taste before adding milk. A cup that tastes weak needs a second spoonful of grounds rather than a longer brew, and a cup that tastes harsh needs cooler water or a shorter contact time. Keeping those two levers apart makes the next bag easier to dial in.

Price per cup

Seattle's Best Breakfast Blend at two cups a day

The six pack lists at 55.68 dollars, which works out near 9.28 dollars for each 12 ounce bag. At the mild one tablespoon ratio the cost settles near 14 cents a cup. A two tablespoon cup raises that to about 27 cents. Those per-cup figures come from dividing the pack price by the cup count above, and a typical cafe drip coffee costs more than either. A household that drinks two cups each morning works through one 12 ounce bag in about five weeks, and the six pack runs near twenty-nine weeks at that pace.

Opening and storing the grounds

Ground coffee releases aroma faster than whole bean, so the sealed bags protect flavor until you tear one open. Fold and clip the open bag, keep it away from the stove and direct sun, and plan to finish it within about five weeks: at two cups a day, one 12 ounce bag of Seattle's Best Breakfast Blend pours roughly 68 cups and empties inside that window. The bag rarely sits long enough to fade for most regular drinkers, which is one reason the six pack fits daily use better than a single large canister.

Drip, pour-over, and French press

Brewing Seattle's Best Breakfast Blend in a drip machine, pour-over, or French press

The even medium grind works across the three common home methods. A drip brewer does the least work and holds the 93 to 96 deg C window on its own. A pour-over rewards a steady hand and a slow bloom. A French press needs a coarser setting than a pre-ground bag provides, so expect a slightly cloudy cup and a heavier body. A single 6 ounce cup finishes in about three to four minutes for a pour-over or a French press steep, and a full 12 cup pot can run 8 to 10 minutes, which keeps a weekday morning on schedule. The Portside pack in the photo is another Seattle's Best blend, shown so the packaging style reads clearly; everything here still covers the Breakfast Blend.

Serving it hot or iced

The blend holds up over ice, and the citrus note stays readable when the coffee cools. Brew a stronger batch at two tablespoons, chill it fast, and pour it over a full glass so the ice does not water it down. Milk and cream both work, and the medium roast carries either without turning flat. For a hot cup, warm the mug first so the first sip stays near the brew temperature.

Reading the numbers on the bag

The Breakfast Blend ground coffee label states the roast, the bean, and the pack size, and each line points to a different decision. Medium roast and citrus notes tell you the flavor, six 12 ounce bags tell you the volume, and the brew recommendation tells you the starting dose. Nothing on the bag names a water temperature, so the 93 to 96 deg C figure comes from general drip guidance rather than the package. Read those three parts apart and the bag stops being a vague promise.

Who the six pack suits

A household that brews two cups every morning works through 408 cups in about 29 weeks, and the sealed bags keep each unopened 12 ounce pack fresh across that stretch. A single occasional drinker may find six bags more than they can finish before an opened bag fades, and a smaller pack usually makes more sense. The medium roast and citrus notes aim at drinkers who want a bright, easy cup without the bitterness of a dark roast. If that matches your routine, the six pack keeps the counter stocked and the cost per cup low.

Matching the dose to your pace

Each 12 ounce bag holds about 68 cups at the listed 1 tablespoon ratio, so a slower drinker clears fewer cups per week and gets more weeks out of each bag. Ground coffee fades after opening, so the number of bags you keep on the counter should match your weekly cup count; fewer bags means less coffee past its flavor window. The per-cup cost follows the same division: at the mild ratio one bag covers roughly 68 cups for about 9.28 dollars, and the two tablespoon dose cuts that count in half.