Paramount Coffee Flavored Sweetie Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Ground, 12 Ounce

Each year, I wait for this to be available in my stores. This year it never showed up so I turned to Amazon and found it. What I like about this is that it has a light taste of pumpkin, not overpowering and thankfully, not “pumpkin spice” which isn’t pumpkin flavored at all, but a combination of cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg and allspice. I drink this from the beginning of September through Thanksgiving and my fall isn’t complete without it.

I got coffee from this company in two flavors -- Pumpkin Spice, Pumpkin Pie. I wanted to compare the two flavors, side by side, and see if they were actually two different blends of coffee, or the same coffee repackaged. Pumpkin Spice = your standard pumpkin spice coffee. This means that it tastes like the spices found in a pumpkin pie, but does not taste like the pie itself, with pumpkin flavor. I get why people like this, even though, in my opinion, it's basically chai tea spices but in coffee. Whatever. It's tasty, and what you get is pumpkin spice flavors. Pumpkin Pie = the pumpkin pie flavored coffee people who love pumpkin have been waiting for. This is the Prince that was Promised. This is our Muad'Dib -- ironic given that the pumpkin spice must NOT flow for this coffee to be a success. This coffee is not as spicy as the sands of Arrakis. No, it's a pumpkin pie flavored coffee, so pumpkin is the primary flavor. I swore I could taste vanilla and crust, but it was likely but a fever dreamed fueled by absinthe (what, you don't use absinthe as creamer?). There is a mild spice flavor, but pumpkin is the star of the coffee. If you want to be a mad scientist, I suppose you could blend both coffees into an eldritch amalgamation of autumnal joy.

This is good coffee. As one of the other reviewers that went into detail about the difference between pumpkin pie versus pumpkin spice I will just say that since I am allergic to cinnamon this coffee seems to be okay. Which means it does not have real cinnamon in it. The pumpkin spice coffee may not be so friendly. Is this the best I've ever had? Not sure. It's actually not my favorite flavor of coffee but since the trees are turning orange here I figured I'd get a 12 oz bag. Kind of a tradition more than anything else.

This review is for the Pumpkin Pie flavored coffee. To be clear, I enjoyed this coffee. Having said that, I purchased the "pie" as opposed to the "spice" because I was looking for the pumpkin flavor with a little less of the spicy bite. Unfortunately, this didn't quite deliver on that. It is basically similar to every other pumpkin spice coffee I've ever had...which isn't a bad thing...it just wasn't quite what I was hoping for.

This coffee has a strong scent of pumpkin and the coffee itself has a really nice rich smooth flavor. The reason I gave it only 3 stars is because it has absolutely no hint of pumpkin flavor, which was the whole purpose for purchasing it.