Café Aurora Italian Style

Great taste – Great coffee which we’ve been using for years! Unfortunately both Woolies and Coles have upped their 1kg price from $19 to $31 (while oddly the price of a 500gram is $11…ie 2x 500grams = $22)

Refreshing nutty taste coldbrew – Gorgeous! Used for coldbrew- filter water drip steadily over ground beans, let resulting mixture + grind sit for 10-12 hours in a cool kitchen- transfer to glass bottle and store in fridge. Superb, refreshing. Never want to taste anything else. Gives a pleasant aroma of “Coffee is being extracted” even with a drip cold-brew technique. Great to… Read more

sip, or drink faster with a straw as refreshment. Bought it to test what a cost-effective coffee would taste like cold- remain faithful because it’s exactly what i want from a cold brew.

No caffeine crashes – I have tried several coffees with the same outcome; high Energy high followed by a sudden energy crash resulting in fatigue, digestive distress, and headaches. However, this coffee- tastes great, strong aroma, provides me with energy, suppresses appetite, allowing me to get through the hours. I finally found my coffee. Show details

I licca my mustacchi – My parents used Aurora for 40 years. I experimented with other brands and eventually felt something was missing. I returned to Aurora, Italian Bland, and I suddently anderstood my parents wisdom. The best coffe in the world I think. Being an experimenter I also tried 25% mountain grown beans in my Napoletana machine. What a cup!! I wonder if Prima Qualita cought on with my impressions of perfection. I will try this next.

This can not be called coffee ! – After making countless cups using a GAGGIA coffee machine which makes awesome coffee with most beans freshly ground, the only place for this is the BIN . Went back to usual beans Fantastic result Never Ever Waste Money on Cafe Aurora Italian beans it appears company when contacted Don’t Care . Go into you local Blender & roaster & Buy something… Read more

you Will Love , not this stuff . I have ground & made coffee for 20 years & this stuff is the Worst I have bought ,hope this helps others ! PS grind this coffee & put around plants Snail hate it with a vengeance & just like Me !

It's OK, but I wouldn't reach for it – Just had my first cup, an espresso made with my Delonghi manual coffee machine. This machine makes superb coffee with Vittorio, Lavazza, or even Aldi's medium roast. The Auroa is drinkable, but I won't buy it again. I can understand that it's probably not very good made with a drip machine. I'll try a few cups later this week, with a coarse grind at first, using a burr grinder. Show details

Wouldn’t extract properly, very sour – When trying to pull a shot the water would go right through, even in the finest grind setting, resulting in an extremely under extracted, sour tasting shot. Tried on another machine just to be sure and the same result. Would not recommend at all. Show details

Prima Qualita is Prima Crappia – I'm referring to the Prima Qualita 1kg of beans. I pretty much agree with all the other bad comments. I couldn't get this rubbish to grind/pour right(under extracted, water ran straight through it) on my recently refurbished grinder with the settings wound right down as fine as it would go!!! I have used this stuff before & looking back I think… Read more

this is why I thought my grinder needed to be serviced. Nothing wrong with it at all, just this terrible coffee. Lucky it was done under warranty!! Bought new beans today(Harris) and all is good again in the world, grinder is working fine. Will be giving away/binning the rest of the bag. Avoid buying unless you have no taste buds as it doesn't taste very good either.

Pretty poor when compared to others – I took a punt on a kg of beans, normally going for Lavazza or Vittorio, and should have stuck to the original plan, this is a bland coffee that lacks any punch Show details

Undrinkable bitter bad quality tasting coffee – It belongs in the bin that’s where it belongs. Don’t bother to pass on any feedback to the company because they don’t care. Bought it once but never again. Save your money cos there’s much better tasting coffee in the shelves at better or same price as Aurora ghastly coffee

It in the bin!!!! – It’s garstly , we tried it with cafertia and plunger and no no no. We have thrower it in the bin. Package looks good , but don’t judge a book by its cover. FYI its the All‘ Italiana we had.

Undrinkable – This is the worst tasting coffee. PLEASE don't waste your money on buying it. All the good reviews must be from the company itself. They should be embarrassed to sell it! Show details

The best Italian style coffee I have in my macchinetta! – This is the only coffee I drink! It looks like they are changing the packaging I still hope it is the same taste. I use the grounded in packs of 250 or a kilo, in my moka. Tastes better than Lavazza oro and rossa IMO. I am from Naples (Italy) where coffee is a ritual and we are very fussy about our espresso. Show details

Brown water – If you are a coffee drinker avoid it. Capsules are half empty and coffee is awful. Needs 2 capsules for a small cup to get something close to coffee. Stick to Swiss made Nespresso. Show details

Horrible stuff – Any style of this brand using a nespresso machine is dreadful. Its a watery style with a shocking taste. The packaging looks terrific, but do not be fooled. Tried using both buttons on my machine to try and make these pods taste better, alas all three styles are heading for my bin, unfortunately. Show details

Sewage – I use a breville dual boiler machine. There is no crema when extracted. It’s worse than any coffee you can get at a servo. I thought I would give it a try while Coles had it on sale and I am waiting for the next batch of coffee in the mail. Do yourself a favour and ditch this one and get something else.  Show details

The best Italian style coffee I have tried for my Italian moka. Thank you aurora, make me feel like Im at home – The best Italian style coffee I have tried for my Italian moka. Thank you aurora, make me feel like Im back at home.

After trying many coffee brands looking for a strong Italian coffee blend I finally found the best – The best Italian style coffee I have tried for my Italian coffee maker Show details

Does coffee really taste like this in Italy? – I used to be a regular drinker of CAFFE AURORA Medaglia Doro All Italiana Italian Style ground coffee over a number of years. At the time I thought it tasted ok for the price. It was not until I eventually switched from the filter method to a stovetop espresso maker and then started comparing other coffee brands, that I suddenly took a dislike… Read more

to Caffe Aurora. By comparison with Harris, Vittoria etc. it now tastes to me like dank mud. I suspect that it contains a proportion of Robusta beans as does an Aldi variety that I recently tried out of curiosity and found to have a similarly stale, earthy flavour and a distinctly bitter aftertaste. Perhaps that's the flavour profile that another reviewer enjoys who wrote: "Trust me it's really good."

Horrible taste – Bought the instant version of this. It's gross. One cup was too much, couldn't finish it. Too embarrassed even to give the remains away and inflict on anyone else. Sort of instant coffee you might have expected 50 years ago. Show details

Worst coffee I've ever had – I bought this Aurora ground coffee from Woolworths. I've brewed with cafeteria Moka pot. Taste is terrible.. I couldn't finish the mug. Don't even try and torture yourself. Show details

Is this real coffee? – I've travelled the world. Drank coffee filtered through socks. This coffee is bitter and a total waste of money, even when blended with good coffee they turn horrendous. Never again. Show details

Change for the worse – Mi local coffeeshop, Rockdale, Bar Fresko, changed from vittoria Nero to this poison called aurora. I was unpleasantly blasted to a bitter, tasteless brew. Unsinkable, Shame how coffee shops are bought by people from non coffee culture and do not bother to learn about the products and services they commit to provide Little do they understand how… Read more

much it is linked to the success of the business they paid good money for. I’m sure they changed coffee based on price, looking to save $5 or kilo or about 3cents per cup, ignoring how good coffee get additional consumption. Namaste and good luck! Since that’s all you have going for you.

Undrinkable – Bought this at Coles because we were in a pinch. It was undrinkable, awful in flavour, tasted burnt and watery and the beans smelt odd. Doesn't mirror Italian coffee in the slightest, wouldn't recommend. Show details

Cheap - and you get what you pay for – Bean variety and product information/origin lacking. A caution to start with. Muddy taste and low price doesn't compensate for a poor product. Roast is not enough and longer roasting would probably not have enhanced the flavour of poor beans. If you like coffee this isn't it. Show details

Surprisingly good for the price – We have a Breville Oracle coffee machine which is really great and allows us to make a great coffee with little barista skill. Normally we buy freshly roasted beans from the likes of Lonsdale street roasters but every so often you run out and living in regional Australia find you have to try the supermarkets coffee bean blends. Which generally are… Read more

awful because not freshly roast, months old and generally have a strong bitterness after taste like “Vittoria”. They generally don’t grind finely enough due to stale beans so produce a poor shot of espresso.

We noticed after opening a pack of beans you have to increase the grinder size from fine to courser setting as the beans become staler to still achieve the shot recommended 8 sec. What surprised us was the Café Aurora Italian Style they weren’t bitter, actually were quiet fresh if considered how fine we could set the grinder, fine (10) and actually finer then the Lonsdale beans (30). supposedly freshly roasted.

We also have tried many different blends of beans and the body was quiet good for our taste. We tend to like Columbia or Brazil blends so milder. So we can highly recommend them as our go to beans for now and the price is quite good to. Their website say the beans are roasted and packed in Australia. They don’t have roasted on date like freshly roasted beans. But I suppose some of the “freshly” roasted places aren’t really that fresher. Reading other people’s reviews it could be hit and miss. Maybe we picked up a bag just delivered from the wholesaler to the store and hadn’t been sitting on the shelf for long and so was fresher.

These are definitely better than “Vittoria” which have a disgustingly bitter after taste and smell burnt when opening a pack. I don’t believe the reviews that say those beans are better or good.

We will see when we get second pack if still feel the same way and well, hope so.