Tassimo Kenco Colombian Coffee, 16 Pods 136g
Colombia is the origin people name when they do not want an argument about coffee. Nutty, mildly sweet, low in acid, more good manners than drama, and that is a fair description of what turns up in the mug here. It is the safe named origin rather than an adventurous one, which is exactly why it suits a house where the coffee has to please several people at once. What it will not do is behave like a single-estate filter cup. The front of the box names a country and nothing finer, so neither do we: no region, no farm, no altitude, and anyone shopping at that level of detail is in the wrong aisle. These are T DISCs, so a Tassimo machine and nothing else; a Dolce Gusto or a Nespresso will not take them. There is no milk portion in the disc either, which makes it one a dairy-free house can use.
Tassimo Kenco Colombian Coffee, in brief.
Tassimo Kenco Colombian is the named-origin black coffee T DISC for Tassimo machines, sixteen discs and 136g on a Kenco recipe, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the box in the range that tastes of somewhere rather than of a blend built for consistency.
Sixteen discs, sixteen mugs, one disc to a mug. Nut and caramel rather than sharp fruit, low in bitterness with a gentle sweetness underneath, and best drunk black in a medium warmed mug. The pack names a growing country and nothing finer, so we name nothing finer either. Machine specific to Tassimo.
Tassimo Kenco Colombian is the origin box. Sixteen black coffee T DISCs for Tassimo machines on a Kenco recipe, 136g in the box, and the difference between this and the rest of the Kenco Tassimo range is written on the front in one word: a country. Everything else in that range is a blend built to taste the same every time. This one names where the coffee grew and lets that show.
There is a quiet irony in a single-origin pod, because pods have a reputation for being the least particular way to make coffee. In one respect the format is genuinely well suited to it. Origin character lives in the aromatic compounds, and those are the first things a bag of ground coffee loses to the air. A sealed disc holds them until the machine punctures the foil, so the sixteenth disc in the box gives you much the same cup as the first. What a pod cannot do is let you adjust anything, so the recipe has to be right in the box. Here it is built around the balance Colombia is known for rather than around any sharp or unusual note.
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. Common questions are answered in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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4.7 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk
The Story Behind Tassimo and Kenco
Tassimo is the disc system rather than the coffee brand, which is why the box carries two names. Each T DISC has a barcode printed on it, and the machine reads that code to set the water volume and the brew for that particular drink rather than running every disc the same way. Kenco is the long-standing British coffee brand that supplies the recipe. Colombia has been a byword for approachable, well-balanced coffee in Britain for decades, which is why a named-origin box from a mainstream brand is almost always a Colombian one: it is the origin most likely to please a household that has never thought about origins at all.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our Commitment To The Planet
- Disc disposal is a scheme, not a bin rule: whether T DISCs belong in a household recycling bin, a collection scheme or the general waste depends on the current pack and your council. Read both before you decide.
- One disc, one mug: a black coffee disc makes a single drink with nothing left over, which is the least wasteful way a pod machine can be run.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Tassimo Kenco Colombian Coffee, 16 Pods 136g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Tassimo
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components 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
To get the best out of Tassimo Kenco Colombian, treat it a little more carefully than you would an everyday blend. There is character in the cup worth protecting, and it is the aromatics that go first.
The Machine Build
The Tasting Mug Build
Made with this tea
The Tasting Mug
How to make The Tasting Mug with Tassimo Kenco Colombian.
- 1 Tassimo Kenco Colombian disc
- Fresh cold water, filtered if your area is hard
- A medium mug, warmed
- Warm a medium mug, not the largest one you own.
- Load one disc with the barcode facing the reader as the manual shows.
- Brew and drink it black while it is properly hot.
- Leave the sugar alone; there is a natural sweetness under the low bitterness.
What you'll end up with: A mug that tastes of somewhere, made in forty seconds. This is the build the box is for and everything else is a compromise with it.
The Side-By-Side
How to make The Side-By-Side with Tassimo Kenco Colombian.
- 1 Tassimo Kenco Colombian disc
- 1 everyday blend Tassimo disc
- Two matching cups
- A glass of plain water
- Brew each disc into a matching cup, one after the other.
- Smell both before you taste either.
- Taste the blend first, then the Colombian, with a sip of water between.
- Repeat once in the other order to check you were not just tasting the order.
What you'll end up with: A clear answer to whether a named origin is worth it to you. Differences that are obvious in parallel are invisible from memory.
Iced Colombian
How to make Iced Colombian with Tassimo Kenco Colombian.
- 1 Tassimo Kenco Colombian disc
- A tall glass filled to the top with ice
- A splash of cold water
- Fill the glass to the top with ice; a half-filled glass melts into a weak drink.
- Brew one disc straight over the ice.
- Lengthen with a splash of cold water rather than hot.
- Drink it plain. Syrup covers exactly the notes you are chilling to preserve.
What you'll end up with: A clean iced black coffee. Nut and caramel notes survive chilling better than a sharp roast does, which makes this origin a good candidate for it.
Salted Caramel Cup
How to make Salted Caramel Cup with Tassimo Kenco Colombian.
- 1 Tassimo Kenco Colombian disc
- 1 teaspoon caramel sauce
- A pinch of flaky salt
- A splash of hot milk
- Put the caramel sauce in the empty warmed cup.
- Brew one disc straight over it so the coffee dissolves the caramel.
- Stir once, add a splash of hot milk and a pinch of flaky salt.
- Keep the caramel to a teaspoon; more buries the coffee entirely.
What you'll end up with: A caramel coffee that works because it is following the coffee rather than covering it. The origin already leans this way.
Coffee Sauce For Ice Cream
How to make Coffee Sauce For Ice Cream with Tassimo Kenco Colombian.
- 1 Tassimo Kenco Colombian disc
- 4 tablespoons dark brown sugar
- 20g butter
- Vanilla ice cream, to serve
- Brew one disc into a small pan.
- Add the sugar and simmer gently until it thickens to a pouring syrup.
- Whisk in the butter off the heat until glossy.
- Pour warm over vanilla ice cream and serve immediately.
What you'll end up with: A dark, glossy coffee caramel sauce. The nut and caramel character of the origin is what makes this work better than a sharper coffee would.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Ingredient | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Roasted coffee from one named growing country, sealed in the T DISC | 136g across 16 discs | All of the drink, at about eight and a half grams a disc. One origin rather than a blend, which is why the cup has a character to notice rather than a flavour target to hit. |
| Milk, sweetener or flavouring | None | Deliberately absent. This is a black coffee disc, so anything in the mug beyond coffee and water is something you added. |
| Water from your machine | Most of the mug | Fresh cold water matters more here than on an everyday blend, because hard or stale water flattens the sweetness this recipe is built around. |
Ingredients and allergens. The published ingredient list for this product names none of the 14 major allergens. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.
Ingredients, as published for this product: 100% Colombian Ground Coffee.
Ingredient and nutrition information for this product, as published on the manufacturer's label. The pack in your hands is the final word.
Pack: Tassimo Kenco Colombian Coffee, 16 Pods 136g; black coffee discs for Tassimo machines, one disc per mug, sixteen mugs to a box. Use by the date printed on the pack.
Characterising components shown. The eight and a half grams a disc figure is our own calculation from the stated 136g pack weight.
Sourcing & blend. Tassimo Kenco Colombian Coffee, 16 Pods 136g pairs a Kenco recipe with the Tassimo disc system, which is why two names appear on one box: Kenco supplies the coffee, Tassimo is the machine platform and the barcode-read disc that goes in it. The pack names Colombia as the growing country, which makes this a single-origin coffee rather than a multi-country blend. It names no region, estate or altitude, so neither do we, and naming a country is not the same as carrying a certification, which we also do not claim.
What's in Tassimo Kenco Colombian Coffee, 16 Pods 136g, and what isn't:
- In: roasted coffee from one named origin, sealed in discs for one machine system, and nothing else.
- No milk, no sugar, no flavouring: it is a black coffee, so the mug is yours to build, though this is one worth drinking as it comes.
- A country, not a farm: the origin claim stops at the border, and so does ours.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Tassimo Kenco Colombian Coffee, 16 Pods 136g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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