Picture this: you’re walking down the aisle of your local grocery store (or perusing online) and your eyes are immediately drawn to a bright yellow package sitting neatly at eye-level. On closer inspection, you see the name “Gevalia”. Not being one to judge a book by its cover, you begin to wonder. The packaging might look nice with its bright-colored branding and fancy font but with the listed price tag, are the contents actually any good? Does it live up to the hype of its attractive exterior or is it just all in the marketing. Do you bite the bullet and hope for the best?

It’s best not to leave these kinds of decisions up to chance when your money is on the line and that’s why we’ve scoured the internet, sought advice from the experts, and put it through our own rigorous taste test to bring you the ULTIMATE Gevalia coffee review.

Gevalia Coffee Reviewed – Most Popular Ground and Whole Bean Offerings

Over the past 150 years, Gevalia has created a lot of different products, some of which you can only find online or during certain times of the year. Even with them branching out to offer more specialty products, their standard coffee still makes the bulk of their sales and really is what they’re better known for.

With that being said, here is a list of their most popular roasts along with our rating.

Note: Many of these can be found in either whole bean form or in various grinds.

K-Cup Review Coffee Pods

Gevalia also offers their coffee in K-cup pods in large counts of 32, 72, 84, and even 100. Here is a snippet of their current lineup:

Signature Blend is their highest rated k cup coffee.

Espresso K-Cup Coffee Pods & Froth Packets

Gevalia advertises this product as “be your own barista”. It comes with espresso coffee in a K-cup pod along with a creamer or “froth” packet that has been artificially flavored but contains real milk. It is foolishly easy to make using their two-step brewing process. All you do is empty the froth packet into your cup, load up the K-cup into the machine, and press brew. The froth will self-hydrate and mix with the coffee as it brews.

Here are the flavors Gevalia currently offers year-round:

Instant Coffee Kits - Gevalia Cafe at Home

Lastly, we finish with their cold and hot instant coffee mixes for those who just want something quick on-the-go or don’t have access to a coffee machine. With the frappé, add water, ice, and blend. For the latté mix, just add warm water to enjoy. It’s your pick – these are great-to-have flavor options for those busy cold or hot days where instant gratification is your number one priority.

Who owns Gevalia?

After 120 years as a family company, it was sold in 1971 to Mondelēz International predecessor company, General Foods. It was then merged in 2015 with Jacobs Douwe Egberts – a company that also owns many other large international beverage brands such as Tassimo and Kanis & Gunnink.

In 2011 Gevalia was sold as an owned subsidiary to the massive company Kraft Heinz to handle sales in North America.

What does Gevalia mean?

It’s believed that Gevalia is taken from the city where the company first originated – Gävle. The city name is derived from the word gavel, meaning river banks in Old Swedish and referring to the Gavleån (Gävle River).

Gevalia: Interesting Fact

Gevalia holds the royal warrant of appointment for coffee roasters from the King of Sweden. This enables them to advertise the fact that they supply to the issuer of the royal warrant; thus, lending prestige to the supplier.

Is Gevalia coffee good?

Gevalia is marketed as a premium brand in North America. It seems to live up to the hype as many self-proclaimed coffee snobs enjoy Gevalia coffee. It’s clearly a whole other level above some of the more mainstream brands like Dunkin Donuts or Folgers. Some even prefer it to more premium brands such as Starbucks.  

How is Gevalia coffee processed?

We had a hard time finding this answer online so we resorted to reaching out to them directly via email. We got a reply within three days and were told they use the modern and more common wet processing. This type of harvesting consists of washing and fermentation. During this process, the pulp that is left on the beans becomes soft and is then rinsed off, thus preventing damage to the beans.

According to their official Twitter account (link https://twitter.com/Gevalia), their decaffeinated coffee is processed via a method called Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Decaffeination. It’s a special process that uses natural CO2, like in soda water.

Is Gevalia coffee organic?

From what we could tell, Gevalia does not currently have any certified organic products.

Is Gevalia coffee shade grown?

As of this writing, it appears that they did at one time offer a shade-grown, Costa Rican, medium roast ground coffee but it is currently listed on several online retailers as unavailable. It’s also no longer listed on their official site. It seems that this was only offered as a limited batch and has since been discontinued. There in no indications of them coming out with another shade-grown product in the near future.

Does Gevalia also come in K cups?

Yes, it is sold for the Tassimo and K-Cup systems.

Where can you buy Gevalia coffee?

In Northern Europe, you can find it in most grocery stores but in North America, it’s harder to find. The main places their products may be found are in Wal-Mart, through Amazon, or directly through Gevalia’s official site.

Does Gevalia still give free coffee makers?

Gevalia is well known for giving incentives to join their subscription service (auto delivery) program, one such incentive being a free coffee maker. These offers date back to the early 80’s and were plastered everywhere including magazines, TV commercials, and more recently, online. As of late 2020, it does not appear they are offering the free coffee maker incentive program.

We hope you enjoyed our review of Gevalia coffee and that your questions were answered in our research. We, here, at JoePicksJoe.com are Gevalia fans and hope you’ve been inspired to give it a taste yourself.

Do you have any experience with Gevalia coffee? What did you think or it? Did we miss anything? Leave your comment below!

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