Löfbergs Brazil Coffee Lovers Medium Roast Whole Bean, 400g
Nobody buys this one for surprise. The Brazilian profile is soft, low in acid and chocolate-leaning, and stopping at a medium roast leaves it alone rather than covering it over. Three mugs deep on a Saturday morning nobody has commented on the coffee, which is the job most kitchens actually need doing. Whole bean, so a grinder is not optional here: burr rather than blade, coarse for a plunger and medium for a paper filter. Where it falls short is drama. If you want bright fruit and an argument in the cup, buy something East African instead.
Löfbergs Brazil Coffee Lovers Medium Roast Whole Bean, in brief.
Löfbergs Brazil Coffee Lovers Medium Roast Whole Bean is a Brazilian single origin from the Swedish family roastery, soft and nutty with a milk-chocolate depth and very low acidity, picked into the Teas.co.uk selection as the whole bean bag that almost nobody dislikes.
You will need a grinder: coarse for a cafetiere, medium for a filter, fine for espresso. Grind fresh each time.
Brazilian coffee has a recognisable character and it is the reason this bag is an easy recommendation rather than an adventurous one. Low acidity, a soft nutty sweetness, a chocolate tone through the middle, and very little of the sharp fruit that makes some single origins divisive. Taken to a medium roast rather than pushed dark, all of that stays in the cup: there is enough roast development for body and depth without burning off the sweetness the bean brought with it. It is a coffee almost nobody dislikes, which is exactly what you want from a 400g bag that a household has to finish.
Löfbergs roasts in Sweden, a country that drinks more coffee per head than almost anywhere in Europe and consequently expects a great deal from an ordinary weekday cup. The house style follows from that: clean, even, unfussy roasting aimed at the kitchen rather than the competition bench.
Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We run same-day UK dispatch on every order placed before 2pm Monday to Friday. Grind guidance, dose, water temperature and storage are covered in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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The Story Behind Löfbergs
Löfbergs is a Swedish family roastery, and Sweden is a useful thing to know about a coffee brand. Per head, the country is one of the heaviest coffee drinkers in Europe, and the cup in question is usually a filter brew drunk several times a day rather than an espresso taken standing up. Roasting for that market means aiming at a clean, even, drinkable cup rather than a dramatic one, and this bag is squarely in that tradition.
The origin, the bean species, any certification marks and the roast level number are printed on the bag you receive, and single origin offerings are re-sourced season to season, so read the pack in your hand rather than a figure quoted elsewhere.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; the bag, the valve and any inner liner can require different disposal routes.
Why Whole Bean Is Worth The Grinder
The one-way valve in the side of the bag is not decoration. Freshly roasted coffee gives off carbon dioxide for days, and the valve lets it out without letting oxygen in. That is why a sealed bag of beans can sit in a cupboard for months and still be good, while an opened bag of pre-ground coffee is noticeably duller in two or three weeks.
Grinding is what starts the clock in earnest, because it exposes an enormous amount of surface area to the air all at once. Grinding at the point of brewing is the single largest improvement most people can make to their coffee, ahead of a better machine and well ahead of a more expensive bag. A modest burr grinder does the job. A blade grinder chops rather than grinds and gives you dust and boulders in the same spoonful, which extract at different rates and produce a cup that is bitter and sour at the same time.
Getting The Most Out Of Löfbergs Brazil Coffee Lovers Medium Roast Whole Bean, 400g
- Grinder: required. A burr grinder rather than a blade one, if the choice is available to you.
- Water temperature: 93 to 96°C. Boiling water is still too hot, even for a medium roast.
- Storage: the bag resealed and clipped, in a cool dark cupboard. Not the fridge, where temperature swings pull moisture into the beans.
- Best with: almond pastries, a plain croissant, milk chocolate, or on its own mid-morning.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Löfbergs Brazil Coffee Lovers Medium Roast Whole Bean, 400g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Löfbergs
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; bag, valve and liner can require different disposal routes.
Our commitment to the planet
Sourcing and packaging details are printed on the current UK pack; the brand page carries the fuller story.
The taste profile
How does it compare
Whole beans give you a lever that ground coffee does not: grind size. Coarse for a cafetiere, medium for a filter, fine for a stovetop or an espresso machine. Getting that right matters more than anything else you do, because the grind decides how quickly water can pull flavour out of the coffee.
The Filter Or Cafetiere Cup
Espresso And Cold
Made with this tea
The Everyday Filter Mug
The cup a Swedish roastery has in mind, and the one that shows the nuttiness most clearly.
- 8g beans, ground medium
- 200ml water at 93 to 96 degrees
- A filter cone and paper
- Rinse the paper filter with hot water and tip the water away.
- Grind 8g to the texture of table salt.
- Wet the grounds with a little water, wait thirty seconds, then pour the rest slowly.
- Serve as soon as it has drawn through.
What you'll end up with: A clean, soft, nutty mug with a milk-chocolate depth and almost no sharpness.
Coarse Ground Cafetiere
The most forgiving brewer in the house, provided you get the grind right.
- 8g beans, ground coarse
- 200ml water at 93 to 96 degrees
- A cafetiere
- Grind to the texture of sea salt, not finer.
- Pour and put the lid on with the plunger up.
- Stir the crust down at one minute.
- Plunge slowly at four minutes and pour the whole jug out.
What you'll end up with: A fuller-bodied version of the same cup, with more texture from the oils a paper filter would hold back.
Brazilian Double Espresso
Low acidity is what makes a Brazilian bean comfortable at espresso strength.
- 18g beans, ground fine
- Filtered water in the tank
- A warmed double cup
- Grind 18g fine and level it in the basket before tamping.
- Pull around 36ml over roughly 25 to 30 seconds.
- Adjust the grind finer if it runs fast, coarser if it chokes.
What you'll end up with: A thick, sweet, nut-forward shot that genuinely does not need sugar.
Twelve Hour Cold Brew
The build low acidity rewards most, and the easiest thing in this list to get right.
- 48g beans, ground coarse
- 600ml cold water
- Ice to serve
- A jug and a paper filter
- Grind coarse and stir into the cold water.
- Refrigerate for twelve hours.
- Strain through a paper filter in a sieve.
- Serve over ice, neat or cut with water.
What you'll end up with: A markedly sweeter, almost un-bitter coffee. Keeps three days in the fridge.
Swedish Filter Pot For Four
Coffee as a Swedish kitchen actually makes it, by the jug rather than the cup.
- 48g beans, ground medium
- 800ml cold water in the machine
- A filter machine
- Grind 48g medium, which is sixty grams per litre.
- Rinse the paper filter before you fill it.
- Brew and take the jug off the hotplate as soon as it finishes.
What you'll end up with: Four even mugs. Leaving the jug on a hotplate is what makes filter coffee taste stewed, so decant it.
Coffee And Hazelnut Tray Bake
Using the nutty side of a Brazilian bean in the oven rather than the mug.
- 100ml strong brewed coffee, cooled
- 100g chopped hazelnuts
- 200g soft brown sugar
- 200g self raising flour
- Brew 100ml at double strength, 16g in 100ml, and cool it.
- Beat it into the sugar, flour, 2 eggs and 150g of softened butter.
- Fold in the hazelnuts and spread into a lined tin.
- Bake at 180°C for 30 to 35 minutes.
What you'll end up with: A soft tray bake where the coffee and the hazelnuts read as one flavour. Keeps four days in a tin.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Ingredient | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Roasted coffee beans | 400g, the whole of the pack | Everything you taste. Whole rather than ground, which is why the aromatic compounds are still locked inside the bean instead of leaving into the air. |
| Origin | Brazil, per the brand's own naming | The classic low-acidity origin: soft nutty sweetness and a milk-chocolate tone rather than sharp fruit. The exact region and the bean species are stated on the bag. |
| Roast level | Medium | Enough roast development for body and depth without burning off the natural sweetness the bean arrived with. The roast number, where the brand prints one, is on the pack. |
| Water (added by you) | The bulk of the finished cup | Eight grams per 200ml mug, or sixty grams per litre in a filter machine, at 93 to 96 degrees rather than straight off the boil. |
Pack: Caffeinated. Best before date printed on the pack.
Percentages are not published for this coffee and we have not invented any. Black coffee carries almost no calories; anything added at the cup, milk or sugar, changes that entirely, and the nutrition panel on the pack is the figure to work from.
Sourcing & blend. Löfbergs Brazil Coffee Lovers Medium Roast Whole Bean, 400g comes from a Swedish family roastery, and Sweden is a useful thing to know about a coffee brand. Per head the country is one of the heaviest coffee drinkers in Europe, and the cup in question is usually a filter brew taken several times a day rather than an espresso drunk standing up. Roasting for that market means aiming at a clean, even, drinkable result rather than a dramatic one. Brazil is the origin that suits that brief best: low acidity, soft nutty sweetness and a chocolate tone, without the sharp fruit that divides opinion. The medium roast keeps all of it, because pushing further into the roast would break down the acids and sugars the bean arrived with and replace them with bitterness. The one-way valve in the bag lets the carbon dioxide from roasting escape without letting oxygen in, which is what keeps whole beans good for months. For the origin detail, the bean species, the certification marks and the recycling route carried by the bag in your hand, read the current pack.
What is in Löfbergs Brazil Coffee Lovers Medium Roast Whole Bean, 400g, and what is not:
- In: roasted coffee beans, and nothing else.
- No added flavourings, sugar or sweeteners: the nuttiness and the chocolate tone are the bean and the roast, not an added ingredient.
- No dairy in the bag: brewed black it is a plant based drink; milk is something you add.
- Grinder note: whole beans need grinding at the point of brewing. Coarse for a cafetiere, medium for a filter, fine for a stovetop pot or an espresso machine.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Löfbergs Brazil Coffee Lovers Medium Roast Whole Bean, 400g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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