Modcup Coffee

A bag of Modcup coffee can cost $22.50. It can also cost $72. Both figures come from the roaster's most common size, 8.8 ounces, where the median price sits at $30, and that spread of nearly $50 across 15 active coffees is the first thing to understand about the lineup, because the cheap end and the expensive end are not the same kind of purchase.

Just over half the catalog is blends, eight of the 15. The seven single origins come from four countries, with Colombia supplying four of them and Ecuador, Kenya and Peru one apiece. Two coffees are sold without caffeine. Ten of the 15 are roasted light, a strong lean for a roaster that still keeps something at medium-dark and something at dark.

The roaster list places Modcup in the Northeast, and the company sells direct from its own site. No founding year is stated there, so this profile stays with what the catalog reports. What it reports is a small lineup split hard down the middle, light and fruit-driven on one side, darker and blend-based on the other, with very little sitting in between.

Single Origins

Blends

Roast Profile & Flavor Range

Ten of the 15 active coffees are roasted light. One is medium-light and two are medium. The last two go the other direction, one medium-dark and one dark, which gives the catalog a small but real footprint outside its light majority. Acidity and body both average near the middle of a five-point scale, and that middle reading is what happens when a light-roast majority and a dark minority get averaged into one number.

Among the seven single origins, three are washed and three are fermented or anaerobic, with one natural. Colombia accounts for four of the seven. Prices at 8.8 ounces start at $22.50 and reach $72 with a median of $30, and the top of that band is where the rare-lot buying shows up.

What Modcup Coffee Coffees Tend to Taste Like

Lychee is the most repeated note in the catalog, named four times across a 15-coffee lineup. Floral is close behind it, with jasmine called out by name. Together they set the register, perfumed and light, closer to tea than to anything roasty.

Stone fruit fills in underneath, mostly apricot and peach, and mango and strawberry add a riper edge. Lemon supplies the acidity. Chocolate does appear, but as dark chocolate at the heavier end of the lineup rather than as a milk sweetness running through the middle of it, and almond turns up once alongside. Two coffees are described as full-bodied, the only place in the note data where weight rather than flavor is doing the work.

Why Buy Modcup Coffee

• Light roast, stated plainly: Ten of 15 active coffees are roasted light, and only two sit past medium.

• Blends carry half the shelf: Eight of the 15 are blends, so the espresso side is not an afterthought.

• A wide price band: Bags at 8.8 ounces run from $22.50 to $72, and CoffeeByMe shows where a coffee falls in that range before you order rather than after.

• Lychee, over and over: One note leads the catalog. It appears four times in a lineup of 15, the kind of repetition that comes from a buyer chasing a single flavor across origins.

Is Modcup Coffee Right for You?

Light-roast drinkers do best here. Ten of the 15 coffees are roasted light, and the floral, lychee-led character in the note data reads clearest through a pour over.

The price band is worth checking before ordering. The floor is $22.50 for 8.8 ounces, which is ordinary enough, but the ceiling is $72, and a shopper who does not read weights closely can end up with a very small bag at a very large price. Anyone building a milk-drink routine has less to pick from among the single origins, since only two coffees in the whole catalog are roasted past medium, though the blend side of the shelf is deeper.

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