Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start 5 Roast Coffee Beans, 700g
Breakfast here is a job description rather than a flavour note. The brief is a bean that has to work at seven in the morning, made in a hurry, drunk alongside toast and marmalade or a cooked plate, and survive being left five minutes while somebody finds a school bag. Full body, toasted nut, soft cocoa, nothing sharp anywhere. Sit down and analyse it properly on a Sunday and it will bore you, because it was never built for that. Where it comes good is the cafetière and the filter jug, in a mug rather than a cup, with something on the side.
Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start 5 Roast Coffee Beans, in brief.
Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start is the Yorkshire house's breakfast coffee, sold here as whole beans in a 700g bag: strong, full bodied and low in sharp acidity, built for a large morning mug rather than a delicate afternoon one. Picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the everyday cafetiere bean.
Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start is the breakfast bean, and it is named for the job it does rather than for a region or a flourish. This is the 700g whole bean bag, the size that sits between the 200g pack most people buy on impulse and the catering kilo, and it is aimed squarely at a household where somebody needs a strong cup before they are prepared to speak to anybody.
The number in the name is Taylors' own roast strength marker, printed on the pack. It is a house scale rather than an industry standard, so it tells you where this sits against other Taylors coffees and nothing more; check the current pack for the figure on your bag. What it signals in practice is that this is at the strong, well-developed end of the Yorkshire range: full bodied, low in sharp acidity, and built to take milk without disappearing into it.
Curator notes: the tasting profile reflects our own editorial review of the current pack format and the brand's published description for this blend. We run same-day UK dispatch on every order placed before 2pm Monday to Friday. Storage notes, grind guidance and brewing temperature ranges are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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The Story Behind Taylors of Harrogate
Taylors has been a Harrogate firm since 1886, when Charles Taylor set up in business in the town, and it is still family owned as part of the Bettys and Taylors Group. Yorkshire Tea is the sibling most people know, and the coffee side has been run with the same instinct: blend for a cup that behaves the same every time rather than chase a fashionable single origin, and sell it in a size a household actually gets through.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Storage, Allergens And Small Print
Storage: Keep the bag sealed and in a cupboard, cool, dark and at room temperature. Not the fridge; condensation does more harm to beans than a warm kitchen does. A 700g bag is around a month of daily brewing for one steady drinker, so decanting a week at a time into a smaller jar keeps the rest of it properly sealed.
Ingredients and dietary suitability: 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.
Certification: Taylors publish their sourcing commitments on pack; check the current pack for the certification marks that apply to the bag in front of you.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start 5 Roast Coffee Beans, 700g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Taylors of Harrogate | Yorkshire Tea
Yorkshire Tea is the family-owned blend out of Harrogate that became Britain's favourite. The Original is the everyday workhorse; Gold steps it up with stronger Assam character; Hard Water powers through limescale areas. Taylors has been in the same family since 1886, sources ethically through the Rainforest Alliance, and famously refuses gimmicks.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
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This is a versatile bean rather than a specialist one, which is a real advantage in a house where one person uses a cafetiere and another uses the machine. Grind it to suit the method and it behaves. The one thing it does not forgive is water straight off the boil.
The Cafetiere Serve
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The Proper Cafetiere Mug
How to make a single large cafetiere mug that is not muddy at the bottom.
- 15g Taylors Flying Start, ground coarse
- 250ml water at 93°C
- A spoon to break the crust
- A warmed mug
- Grind 15g of Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start 5 Roast Coffee Beans, 700g coarse and tip into a warmed one-cup cafetiere.
- Pour 250ml of water at 93°C over the grounds and set a four minute timer.
- Break the crust at four minutes, skim off the foam, then plunge slowly.
- Pour the lot out straight away rather than leaving it standing on the grounds.
What you will end up with: A full, nutty mug with a clean finish. Skimming is the step everyone skips, and it is what stops the last inch tasting like sediment.
Breakfast Jug For Four
How to brew for a table without the last cup being the worst one.
- 60g Taylors Flying Start, ground coarse
- 1 litre water at 93°C
- A warmed jug or thermos
- Milk on the table
- Brew 60g of coarsely ground Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start 5 Roast Coffee Beans, 700g in 1 litre of water at 93°C for four minutes in a large cafetiere.
- Break the crust, skim and plunge slowly.
- Decant the whole litre into a warmed jug or a thermos immediately.
- Put milk and sugar on the table rather than in the jug.
What you will end up with: Four mugs that all taste the same. Decanting is the entire reason: coffee left on its grounds keeps extracting and the fourth cup would otherwise be bitter.
Americano From A Single Basket
How to build an americano that does not taste watered down.
- 18g Taylors Flying Start, ground fine
- 150ml hot water at 92°C
- A warmed mug
- A splash of milk, optional
- Pour 150ml of hot water into the mug first.
- Pull a 36g double of Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start 5 Roast Coffee Beans, 700g directly on top of it.
- Putting the water in first preserves the crema instead of blasting it apart.
- Add a splash of milk if you want, but taste it black first.
What you will end up with: A long black mug with a tan head still on it. The rounder Taylors roast makes a gentler americano than a hard espresso blend would.
Overnight Cold Brew
How to keep a jug of cold coffee in the fridge for the week.
- 80g Taylors Flying Start, ground coarse
- 1 litre cold filtered water
- A lidded jar
- Ice to serve
- Stir 80g of coarsely ground Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start 5 Roast Coffee Beans, 700g into 1 litre of cold filtered water until every ground is wet.
- Refrigerate covered for 16 hours.
- Strain through a paper-lined sieve and do not press the bed.
- Serve over ice, neat or half and half with milk.
What you will end up with: A litre that keeps about five days covered in the fridge, sweeter and rounder than the hot cup because cold water leaves the bitter compounds behind.
Coffee Parkin
How to put a Yorkshire coffee into a Yorkshire cake.
- 20g Taylors Flying Start, for 80ml strong brew
- 200g medium oatmeal and 100g plain flour
- 200g black treacle and 100g golden syrup
- 200g butter, 100g soft brown sugar, 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- Brew 20g of Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start 5 Roast Coffee Beans, 700g in 80ml of water for a strong concentrate and cool it.
- Melt the butter, treacle, syrup and sugar together over a low heat, then cool slightly.
- Mix into the oatmeal, flour and ginger with the egg and the cooled coffee.
- Bake in a lined 20cm square tin at 160°C for 55 to 60 minutes, then wrap and leave two days before cutting.
What you will end up with: A dark, sticky parkin that improves for two days in the tin. The coffee deepens the treacle rather than announcing itself.
Flask Coffee That Survives The Morning
How to fill a flask without it tasting stewed by ten o clock.
- 35g Taylors Flying Start, ground coarse
- 550ml water at 93°C
- A vacuum flask, pre-warmed
- A fine sieve
- Rinse the flask out with boiling water first and pour it away, so the coffee is not chilled on contact.
- Brew 35g of Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start 5 Roast Coffee Beans, 700g in 550ml of water at 93°C for four minutes.
- Strain through a fine sieve into the warmed flask so no grounds travel with it.
- Leave the milk out until you pour; milk in a flask turns unpleasant within an hour.
What you will end up with: A flask that still tastes like coffee three hours later. Straining out every ground is what stops it stewing on the way.
Brewing the perfect cup
Inside the pack
| Ingredient | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Roasted coffee beans | 100% | The only ingredient. Whole bean coffee is a single-ingredient product: no flavouring, no carrier, no bulking agent. |
| Roast development | Marked on pack by strength number | Taylors set this blend at the strong end of their house scale. That is where the full body, the nutty depth and the low acidity come from, rather than from any one origin. |
| Blend components by origin | Not published | Taylors publish sourcing commitments on pack, but not a split we can verify per batch, so we do not restate one. Check the current pack for the origin and certification detail printed on it. |
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.
Ingredient and nutrition information for this product, as published on the manufacturer's label. The pack in your hands is the final word.
Pack: Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start 5 Roast Coffee Beans, 700g; whole roasted beans, caffeinated. Roughly 46 large cafetiere mugs at 60g per litre, or around 38 double espressos at an 18g dose.
Proportions shown are the ones we can stand behind. Black coffee carries no meaningful calorie load; anything added in the cup is yours, not ours.
Sourcing & blend. Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start 5 Roast Coffee Beans, 700g is blended and roasted by Taylors of Harrogate, a Yorkshire firm trading in the town since 1886 and still family owned as part of the Bettys and Taylors Group. The coffee side is run on the same principle as the tea side: buy green coffee to a fixed specification, roast to a set profile, and taste the result against the standard so the bag opened in November behaves like the one opened in June. Taylors publish their sourcing commitments on pack, and the certification marks that apply to any given batch are printed there rather than here.
What is in Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start 5 Roast Coffee Beans, 700g, and what is not:
- In: roasted coffee beans, whole, and nothing else in the bag.
- No artificial flavourings, colours, preservatives or added sugar: the sweetness in the cup is caramelisation from the roast, not an ingredient.
- Not decaffeinated: a fully caffeinated coffee. Taylors make a decaffeinated bean in the same range if you want the house style without it.
- Packaging: follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; the bag, its one-way valve and the label can require different disposal routes.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start 5 Roast Coffee Beans, 700g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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