Taylors of Harrogate Decaffe Ground, 10 Coffee Bags
Decaf has one job in most houses and it is not the job ordinary coffee does: the mug after dinner, the one for the guest who stopped at lunchtime, the one for somebody who has caffeine off the table altogether. Those moments happen with a kettle and whatever is in the cupboard, which is exactly the gap a bag fills. The cup is soft and rounded with a gentle cereal sweetness, noticeably less bright than a caffeinated mug. Give it four minutes rather than three and swirl it, or you will produce the thinnest cup anyone can make by accident.
Taylors of Harrogate Decaffe Ground, in brief.
Taylors of Harrogate Decaffe Ground is the Harrogate firm's decaffeinated coffee in coffee-bag form, ten individually enveloped bags in a 75g carton, picked into the teas.co.uk selection as the after-dinner coffee that needs nothing but a kettle.
One bag per mug, 7.5g of ground coffee behind a filter, and ten mugs from the carton. Water at about 95 degrees, four minutes rather than three, agitate for the first twenty seconds and lift the bag out.
Taylors of Harrogate Decaffe Ground is the decaffeinated entry in the brand's coffee-bag range: ten individually enveloped bags in one carton, 75g of ground coffee in total, which is 7.5g in each bag. You drop a bag into a mug, pour hot water over it, give it a few minutes and lift it out. No machine, no grinder, no filter paper, nothing to wash afterwards but the mug.
Decaf has a particular job in most houses, and it is not the job caffeinated coffee does. It is the mug after dinner, the one made for the guest who stopped at lunchtime, the one somebody drinks because a doctor or a pregnancy has taken the ordinary kind off the table. Those moments happen with a kettle and whatever is in the cupboard, which is the gap a coffee bag fills. A cafetiere of decaf means grinding, brewing and washing up at the end of an evening; this means tearing an envelope.
Curator notes: we set the roast, body, brightness and bitterness scores for these Decaffe bags ourselves, using the current ten bag carton and Taylors' own wording. A carton of Decaffe bags normally goes out to you within one to two working days. The Q and A below covers what a coffee bag is, decaf versus caffeine free, and mug counts.
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The Story Behind The Carton
Taylors is a Harrogate family firm, better known nationally for its tea than for its coffee, and its coffee range is organised around stated roast styles rather than around origins. That is a sensible way to sell coffee from a supermarket shelf: it tells a shopper what the cup will do before they buy it. The coffee-bag cartons follow the same logic, and this is the one with the caffeine taken out.
We are not going to invent a back story for it. The decaffeination process, the origin split, any roast-strength number and any certification marks belong to the carton in your hand, and pack runs change. Better to point you at the carton than to publish guesswork. What we can tell you is what the format does: a fixed 7.5g dose behind a filter, ten times over, with nothing left to get wrong except the water.
Decaffeinated does not mean caffeine-free. What remains is small but it is not nothing, and the residual figure is not published at this pack size. Should medical reasons rule caffeine out entirely, reach for a herbal infusion instead, which is the safer option.
Packaging: The filter bags, their paper envelopes and the carton may go different ways; follow the current UK pack and your council.
Our Commitment To The Planet
- Your carton comes from the regular UK retail stock, not from a parallel import.
- A coffee bag leaves a spent bag and a paper envelope rather than an aluminium shell, and the grounds inside go on the compost heap once the bag is torn open.
Source: teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Taylors of Harrogate Decaffe Ground, 10 Coffee Bags, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Taylors of Harrogate
Packaging: The filter bags, their paper envelopes and the carton may go different ways; follow the current UK pack and your council.
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
A coffee bag fixes the dose and the grind at the factory, which removes the two things most home brewers get wrong. That leaves you three controls: water temperature, contact time and how much you move the bag about. With a decaf, that last one matters more than usual: decaffeinated grounds tend to give themselves up less readily than caffeinated ones, so an unstirred decaf bag is the thinnest cup you can make by accident.
The Mug
The After-Dinner Pot
Made with this tea
The Four Minute Mug
The everyday build, and the one extra minute a decaf needs that a caffeinated bag does not.
- 1 Decaffe coffee bag
- Water at about 95 degrees, 200 to 250ml of it
- A teaspoon
- Tear the envelope over the mug and drop the bag in.
- Pour water thirty seconds off the boil straight onto the bag.
- Stir or swirl for the first twenty to thirty seconds, then leave it four minutes.
- Press the bag gently on the mug wall once, and have it out before five minutes are up.
What you'll end up with: A soft, round mug of real coffee with low bitterness, made in the ten minutes before bed without setting up a single piece of equipment.
The Pot For The Table
How to give four people decaf after a meal without anyone standing at a machine.
- 3 Decaffe coffee bags
- 750ml water at about 95 degrees
- A teapot or an empty cafetiere jug
- Warm the teapot or jug with some hot water, then empty it.
- Add three bags and pour 750ml of water thirty seconds off the boil over them.
- Stir once, put the lid on and leave it four minutes.
- Remove all three bags before the pot goes to the table.
What you'll end up with: A pot that holds its strength across three or four cups, because the bags came out instead of sitting in it stewing.
Late Iced Coffee
Concentrate over ice, so the melt does not turn it into brown water.
- 1 Decaffe coffee bag
- 120ml water at about 95 degrees
- A full glass of ice
- Milk, optional
- Brew one bag in only 120ml of water for four minutes, stirring at the start.
- Lift the bag out and let the concentrate stand for a minute.
- Pour the concentrate into a glass already crowded with ice.
- Top up with cold milk if you would like a longer drink.
What you'll end up with: An iced coffee that still tastes of coffee once the ice has done its work, and one you can drink after nine without regretting it.
Decaf Affogato
Pudding and coffee in one bowl, with no machine and no consequences.
- 1 Decaffe coffee bag
- 80ml water at about 95 degrees
- 2 scoops vanilla ice cream
- Brew one bag in 80ml of water for four minutes, stirring hard at the start.
- Lift the bag out and press it once against the side of the cup.
- Put two scoops of vanilla ice cream, nicely rounded, into a cold bowl.
- Pour the concentrate on while it is still hot, at the table, and eat it at once.
What you'll end up with: The one pudding that improves on being made with decaf, because nobody has to refuse it at half past nine.
Decaf Coffee Syrup
Two bags into something that keeps in the fridge for a week and goes on everything.
- 2 Decaffe coffee bags
- 150ml water at about 95 degrees
- 100g caster sugar
- A pinch of salt
- Brew two bags in 150ml of water for five minutes, stirring at the start, then lift both out.
- Stir in the sugar while the coffee is still hot until it has completely dissolved.
- Add a pinch of salt, which sharpens the coffee rather than making it salty.
- Cool and keep it in a sealed jar in the fridge for up to a week.
What you'll end up with: A coffee syrup for ice cream, porridge, cold milk or a late glass of something, with no caffeine question attached to any of it.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100g, as published | Per 100g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 1 kcal |
| Fat | 0g |
| of which saturates | 0g |
| Carbohydrate | 0.3g |
| of which sugars | 0g |
| Protein | 0.2g |
| Salt | 0g |
Ingredients and allergens. Going through the published list for these Decaffe bags, you will find nothing from the 14 major allergens. Taylors can update the bags and their allergen wording; read the current UK carton before buying.
Ingredients, as published for this barcode: decaffeinated arabica coffee.
Ingredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. Treat the Decaffe carton itself as the authority over this summary.
| Ingredient | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Decaffeinated roast and ground coffee | 100% | The whole of the bag. A middling roast built for drinkability, softer through the middle than the caffeinated bags in the same range, with bitterness kept low. |
| Dose per bag | 7.5g | 75g across ten bags. Fixed at the factory, which removes the variable most home brewers get wrong. |
Pack: Taylors of Harrogate Decaffe Ground, 10 Coffee Bags; GTIN 0615357122482; ten individually enveloped coffee bags in a 75g carton, 7.5g of ground coffee each, ten mugs per carton. Decaffeinated. Each carton of bags is stamped with its best before date.
Characterising components shown. The ten-mug yield is worked out from the pack weight, not a pack claim.
Sourcing & blend. Taylors of Harrogate Decaffe Ground, 10 Coffee Bags comes from Taylors of Harrogate, the Yorkshire family firm better known nationally for its tea, whose coffee range is organised around stated roast styles rather than around origins. This carton is the decaffeinated entry in that range put behind a filter so it can be brewed in a mug without a machine, which is the format that suits decaf best because decaf is most often wanted at the end of the day. Every order ships in the present UK retail packaging.
What is in Taylors of Harrogate Decaffe Ground, 10 Coffee Bags, and what is not:
- In: decaffeinated roast and ground coffee, sealed inside a filter bag, and nothing else.
- No artificial colours, preservatives or added sugar: this is a plain ground coffee, not a flavoured one, and not an instant.
- Not instant: nothing here dissolves. The bag filters; the grounds stay behind.
- Not caffeine-free: decaffeinated means most of the caffeine has been taken out, not all of it. For a drink with none at all, choose a herbal infusion.
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Source: teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Taylors of Harrogate Decaffe Ground, 10 Coffee Bags, please cite teas.co.uk.
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