Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start Ground, 10 Coffee Bags 75g
Office drawer, hotel room, caravan, tent, the first week in a flat where the boxes are still taped shut. That is where a coffee bag earns its place, and the argument is better than coffee snobbery usually allows. A cafetiere makes a better mug and nobody should pretend otherwise, but a cafetiere wants a kitchen, four minutes of attention and somewhere to tip wet grounds. This wants a mug and a kettle. There is nothing freeze dried inside either: it is ground coffee sealed behind a filter, seven and a half grams of it, which is the whole distance between this and a jar of instant. Flying Start is the breakfast roast of the range, medium, kept sweet and kept clear of smoke, so it comes out as warm cereal and caramel with a citrus edge and very little bitterness behind it. One habit decides whether you get a proper mug or a thin one: swirl the bag for the first twenty seconds. There is no plunger and no shower head to do it for you.
Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start Ground, in brief.
Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start Ground is the Harrogate firm's breakfast roast in coffee-bag form, ten individually enveloped bags in a 75g carton, picked into the Teas.co.uk selection as the no-equipment way to drink real ground coffee.
One bag per mug, 7.5g of ground coffee behind a filter, ten mugs from the carton. A brisk, bright medium roast with low bitterness. Water at about 95 degrees, three minutes, agitate for the first twenty seconds and lift the bag out rather than leaving it in.
Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start Ground is the brand's breakfast roast packed into coffee bags: 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, wait a few minutes and lift it out. No machine, no grinder, no filter paper, nothing to wash but the mug.
That is the whole argument for the format, and it is a better argument than coffee snobbery usually allows. A cafetiere makes a better cup and nobody should pretend otherwise. But a cafetiere needs a kitchen, somewhere to tip wet grounds and four minutes of attention. A coffee bag needs a mug and a kettle. This is the format for the office drawer, the hotel room, the caravan, the tent, and the first week in a new flat while the boxes are still taped shut. Supermarkets shelve it with ground coffee rather than with instant, which is the honest placement: there is nothing freeze-dried in the bag, only ground coffee behind a filter.
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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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 to a supermarket shelf, because it tells a shopper what the cup will do before they buy it. Flying Start is the wake-up entry in that range: the one built to be drunk first thing, in a hurry, probably standing up.
We are not going to invent an origin story for it. The blend specification, the roast-strength number and any certification marks belong to the carton in your hand, and pack runs change. Where the current UK pack carries a roast number or a buying statement, that pack is the place to read it. What we can say is what the format does: a fixed 7.5g dose behind a filter, ten times, with no variables left for you to get wrong except the water.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our Commitment To The Planet
- The carton that arrives is the current UK retail pack rather than a grey import on a different specification.
- A coffee bag leaves a spent bag and a paper envelope rather than an aluminium shell or a plastic capsule body, and the grounds inside go on the compost heap once the bag is opened out.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start Ground, 10 Coffee Bags 75g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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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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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. What is left is water temperature, contact time and whether you agitate the bag. Most disappointing coffee-bag cups are the result of a bag dropped in, ignored and lifted out limp.
The Mug
The Travel Flask
Made with this tea
The Three Minute Mug
The everyday build, and the two habits that separate it from a weak one.
- 1 Flying Start coffee bag
- 200 to 250ml water at about 95 degrees
- 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 seconds, then leave it three minutes.
- Press the bag once against the side of the mug and lift it out.
What you'll end up with: A bright, brisk mug of real coffee with low bitterness, made without a single piece of equipment.
The Flask That Survives Till Eleven
How to fill a flask without the coffee turning harsh by mid-morning.
- 2 Flying Start coffee bags
- 500ml water at about 95 degrees
- A 500ml vacuum flask
- Warm the flask with hot water first and tip it out.
- Brew both bags in the flask for three minutes with the lid off.
- Remove both bags before you seal it, without fail.
- Seal and it will still taste like coffee three hours later.
What you'll end up with: Two mugs that taste the same at eleven as they did at eight, instead of one good one and something stewed.
Iced Coffee Without The Dilution
Brew short and strong, then let the ice do the diluting.
- 1 Flying Start coffee bag
- 120ml water at about 95 degrees
- A tall glass packed with ice
- A strip of orange peel
- Brew one bag in just 120ml of hot water for three minutes, which is double strength.
- Lift the bag out and let the concentrate cool for five minutes.
- Pour over a glass packed to the top with ice.
- Twist a strip of orange peel over the surface and drop it in.
What you'll end up with: A cold coffee that still tastes of coffee once the ice has melted, rather than of cold brown water.
The Camp Kettle Brew
One mug, one bag, one fire, and no grounds to bury afterwards.
- 1 Flying Start coffee bag
- A camp kettle or billy can
- An enamel mug
- Boil the kettle and take it off the heat for a slow count of thirty.
- Pour onto the bag in the mug and swirl it with a stick or a spoon.
- Wait three minutes, using the time to do something else.
- Lift the bag out and put it in the rubbish bag; nothing to tip out, nothing to rinse.
What you'll end up with: Proper coffee on a campsite with no grinder, no plunger and no wet grounds in the washing-up bowl.
Coffee And Orange Syrup For Ice Cream
What to do with the last two bags in the carton.
- 2 Flying Start coffee bags
- 150ml water
- 150g caster sugar
- Pared zest of one orange
- Brew both bags in 150ml of hot water for four minutes to make a strong concentrate.
- Lift the bags out and stir 150g of caster sugar into the hot liquid until it dissolves.
- Simmer with the pared orange zest for eight minutes until it coats a spoon.
- Cool, strain out the zest, and keep in a jar in the fridge for two weeks.
What you'll end up with: A bright coffee syrup for pouring over vanilla ice cream, which is the best possible end for a carton's last two bags.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Ingredient | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Roast and ground coffee | 100% | The whole of the bag. A medium breakfast roast, brisk and bright, with the bitterness kept deliberately low. |
| Dose per bag | 7.5g | 75g across ten bags. Fixed at the factory, which removes the variable most home brewers get wrong. |
Ingredients and allergens. The published ingredient list for this barcode names none of the 14 major allergens. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.
Ingredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.
Pack: Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start Ground, 10 Coffee Bags 75g; GTIN 0615357123342; ten individually enveloped coffee bags in a carton, 7.5g of ground coffee each, ten mugs per carton. Caffeinated. Best before the date printed on the carton.
Characterising components shown. The ten-mug yield is worked out from the pack weight, not a pack claim.
Sourcing & blend. Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start Ground, 10 Coffee Bags 75g 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. Flying Start is the wake-up entry in that range, and this carton is that roast put behind a filter so it can be brewed in a mug without a machine. The carton you receive is the current UK retail pack.
What is in Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start Ground, 10 Coffee Bags 75g, and what is not:
- In: roast and ground coffee, a medium breakfast roast, 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 an espresso dose: 7.5g behind a filter is a mug of brewed coffee, not a shot.
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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 Ground, 10 Coffee Bags 75g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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