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LCurator note · Taylors of Harrogate
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. A single habit separates a proper mug from a thin one: swirl the bag for its first twenty seconds. There is no plunger and no shower head to do it for you.
Lee Samuel Tucker · Curator · teas.co.uk
4.4/5★★★★½teas.co.uk curator rating · our expert verdict
WaterJust boiled
TimeAdjust to taste
CaffeineCheck the pack
FormatGround / sachet
Label notes
Ingredients & dietaryThe ingredients published for these Flying Start bags steer well clear of the 14 major allergens. Pack runs can bring changes to recipe or allergy advice, so check the Flying Start carton now on sale.
PackagingBag, envelope and carton may each need a different bin, which the current UK carton and your council spell out.
About this product

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 right placement: there is nothing freeze-dried in the bag, only ground coffee behind a filter.

Curator notes: our roast, body, brightness and bitterness dots reflect an editorial reading of the current ten bag Flying Start carton beside Taylors' description. A Flying Start carton usually sets off from us within one to two working days. The Q and A tab below sorts out bag timing, weak cups and how much water to use.

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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: Bag, envelope and carton may each need a different bin, which the current UK carton and your council spell out.

Our Commitment To The Planet

  • We send the UK retail carton on sale today, not a grey import made to some other 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.

Brand

The story behind Taylors of Harrogate

Packaging: Bag, envelope and carton may each need a different bin, which the current UK carton and your council spell out.

FormatGround / sachet
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Sustainability

Our commitment to the planet

Sourcing and packaging details are printed on the current UK pack; the brand page carries the fuller story.

Tasting notes

The taste profile

Roast depth●●●○○ 3/5
A medium breakfast roast. The sweetness is kept, the smoke is kept out.
Body●●●○○ 3/5
Lighter through a bag than the same coffee through a cafetiere, because nothing is pressing the grounds.
Brightness●●●●○ 4/5
The point of a breakfast blend: a brisk lift that gets the mug noticed.
Bitterness●●○○○ 2/5
Low, and it stays low unless the bag sits past five minutes.
4.4/5★★★★½teas.co.uk curator rating · our expert verdict
Side by side

How does it compare

vs Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start Roast Ground Coffee, 200gThe same roast style as a loose ground bag for a cafetiere or filter. Better in the cup, but it needs a brewer and somewhere to tip the grounds. Buy that one for the kitchen and this one for the desk.
vs Taylors of Harrogate Flying Start 5 Roast Coffee Beans, 700gThe whole-bean version for anyone with a grinder, and the freshest of the three. It is also the one that demands the most equipment, which is precisely the thing a coffee bag exists to avoid.
vs Taylors of Harrogate Hot Lava Java Ground, 10 Coffee BagsThe same format, a much louder roast. If Flying Start reads too polite in a mug, that carton is the reason the range has more than one coffee bag in it.

A coffee bag fixes the dose and the grind at the factory, which removes the two things most home brewers get wrong. You are left with water temperature, steeping time and how much you stir the bag. Most disappointing coffee-bag cups are the result of a bag dropped in, ignored and lifted out limp.

Ideal brewing conditions · Hot

The Mug

01
WaterAbout 95 degrees, so thirty seconds off the boil, into a mug of roughly 200 to 250ml.
02
AgitateStir or swirl the bag for the first twenty seconds. A coffee bag has no plunger, so the movement you give it is the only thing circulating water through the grounds.
03
TimeThree minutes is the sweet spot. Two makes a thin cup, five starts pulling out the bitterness the roast was set up to avoid.
04
LiftPress the bag against the side of the mug once, then take it out. Leaving it in is the single most common way to ruin the second half of the mug.
Ideal brewing conditions · Hot

The Travel Flask

01
DoseTwo bags for a 500ml flask, which is the same ratio as one bag in a mug.
02
Brew firstBrew the three minutes in the flask with the lid off, then remove both bags before you seal it.
03
WhyA sealed flask holds near-boiling water against the grounds for hours. Coffee left on a bag keeps extracting and turns harsh by mid-morning.
04
ResultTwo decent mugs at eleven o'clock instead of one good one at eight and something stewed afterwards.
From the recipe library

Made with this tea

The Three Minute Mug

The everyday build, and the two habits that separate it from a weak one.

4 min 1 mug Easy
You'll need
  • 1 Flying Start coffee bag
  • Between 200 and 250ml of water, about 95 degrees
  • A teaspoon
Method
  1. Tear the envelope over the mug and drop the bag in.
  2. Pour water thirty seconds off the boil straight onto the bag.
  3. Stir or swirl for the first twenty seconds, then leave it three minutes.
  4. Press the bag lightly against the mug's side just once, then remove it.

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.

5 min 2 mugs Easy
You'll need
  • 2 Flying Start coffee bags
  • 500ml water at about 95 degrees
  • A 500ml vacuum flask
Method
  1. Warm the flask: slosh some hot water round inside and tip it out.
  2. Brew both bags in the flask for three minutes with the lid off.
  3. Remove both bags before you seal it, without fail.
  4. 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.

4 min + chill 1 glass Easy
You'll need
  • 1 Flying Start coffee bag
  • 120ml water at about 95 degrees
  • A tall glass packed with ice
  • A strip of orange peel
Method
  1. Brew one bag in just 120ml of hot water for three minutes, which is double strength.
  2. Lift the bag out and let the concentrate cool for five minutes.
  3. Pour the cooled concentrate into a glass jammed full of ice.
  4. Twist the peel above the glass, then let it sink into the iced coffee.

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.

4 min 1 mug Easy
You'll need
  • 1 Flying Start coffee bag
  • A camp kettle or billy can
  • An enamel mug
Method
  1. Boil the kettle and take it off the heat for a slow count of thirty.
  2. Pour onto the bag in the mug and swirl it with a stick or a spoon.
  3. Wait three minutes, using the time to do something else.
  4. 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.

15 min 6 servings Medium
You'll need
  • 2 Flying Start coffee bags
  • 150ml water
  • 150g caster sugar
  • Pared zest of one orange
Method
  1. Brew both bags in 150ml of hot water for four minutes to make a strong concentrate.
  2. Lift the bags out and stir 150g of caster sugar into the hot liquid until it dissolves.
  3. Simmer with the pared orange zest for eight minutes until it coats a spoon.
  4. 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

Brewing the perfect cup

Water temperatureAbout 95 degrees. Straight off a rolling boil scorches the surface of the grounds inside the bag.
MeasureOne bag per mug, 7.5g of coffee, ten mugs from the carton.
Contact timeThree minutes, agitated for the first twenty seconds, then lift the bag out.
ServiceBlack shows the brightness best. It takes milk without collapsing, which is more than a light roast usually manages.
IcedOne bag in 120ml of hot water for three minutes, then pour the concentrate over a full glass of ice.
Best withToast, a bacon sandwich, or the fifteen minutes before anyone else in the house is awake.
Safety and purity

What’s in it, what to know

Ingredients and dietary suitabilityThe ingredients published for these Flying Start bags steer well clear of the 14 major allergens. Pack runs can bring changes to recipe or allergy advice, so check the Flying Start carton now on sale.
Freshness after openingEach bag is individually enveloped, which is the format's quiet advantage: the tenth bag is as fresh as the first because the other nine were never opened. Keep the carton sealed and dry.
Bag materialThe filter bag and its envelope are not the same material and may not share a disposal route. The carton is where that is stated; we have not assumed it.
Hot LiquidA wet coffee bag pulled from a brimming mug drips almost boiling coffee as it comes. Use a spoon and keep the mug away from the edge of the desk.
Formulations change; the current UK pack is always the final word on ingredients and allergens.
Ingredients & nutrition

Inside the pack

IngredientProportionWhat it brings
Roast and ground coffee100%The whole of the bag. A medium breakfast roast, brisk and bright, with the bitterness kept deliberately low.
Dose per bag7.5g75g across ten bags. Fixed at the factory, which removes the variable most home brewers get wrong.

Ingredients and allergens. The ingredients published for these Flying Start bags steer well clear of the 14 major allergens. Pack runs can bring changes to recipe or allergy advice, so check the Flying Start carton now on sale.

Ingredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. Your own Flying Start carton beats that database whenever the two differ.

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. The best before date is on the Flying Start 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. Expect the standard UK retail carton as currently sold.

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.
Product questions

Asked about this product

Ground coffee sealed inside a filter bag, brewed in a mug like tea. It is not instant and there is no freeze-dried powder involved. Supermarkets shelve these with ground coffee for that reason. Each bag here holds 7.5g, which is a standard single-mug dose.
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