The top three vote getters were: Green Mountain Breakfast Blend, Green Mountain Nantucket Blend, and Green Mountain Hazelnut.

Green Mountain Hot Cocoa was the #4 finisher.

The top Extra Bold K-Cups were: Newman’s Own Blend, Green Mountain Kona Blend, and Coffee People Donut Shop Blend.

This surprised us: Celestial Seasonings Orange Spice was our voters’ favorite tea in K-Cups.

Other popular K-Cups were: Caribou Blend, Gloria Jean’s Hazelnut & Cappuccino, Timothy’s Colombian La Vereda, and Tully’s Kona Blend

For flavored coffee lovers, Gloria Jean’s Butter Toffee and Green Mountain Carmel Vanilla Crème polled well. In fact, Vanilla Carmel Crème was the 6th most popular K-Cup overall.

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The good news is that you can find Keurig coffee in more and more places across the United States. K-Cups are available from office coffee distributors, internet retailers, and in grocery and retail stores.

The best place to buy K Cups really depends on how many want and how you choose to balance convenience and purchase price.  For home users, the internet is still the most popular place to buy K-Cups, although Keurig coffee can also be found at supermarkets and big box retailers like Target.

For large offices, the best solution is having a local office coffee service (OCS) distributor. The OCS ensures that the office has everything needed to serve Keurig coffee. Small offices and businesses generally find that the internet or warehouse stores like Costco are great places to buy K Cup coffee, tea, and hot chocolate.

KCups are typically sold in 12-, 18-, 24-, or 80-count packages depending on where they are purchased. So, as you compare prices, be sure to consider the number of K Cups in each package. The chart below compares the typical price per K-Cup by package size.

* Some OCS distributors include use of a Keurig brewer as part of their KCup price.
** Stores like Macy’s, Target, or Bed, Bath & Beyond. On their Internet sites, these companies sell K Cups in 18-pack boxes.

Most Internet sites offer free shipping or other discounts when you order 4-6 boxes of K-Cups. The price per KCup will be higher if you don’t order enough boxes to qualify for these discounts.

Buying K-Cups on the Internet
Four popular internet sites that sell Keurig coffee, tea, and hot chocolate are described below. To find other retailers, just Google the search term K-Cups.

GreenMountainCoffee.com—Sign-up for Café Express and save $2.00 on every box of K Cups you order. With Café Express, KCups are automatically shipped to you on your schedule, so you never run out. This program is extremely popular with home users and offers free shipping on orders of four or more boxes of K-Cups.

Keurig.com—With over 200 different gourmet coffees, teas, and hot chocolates available, this site offers the widest variety of K Cups. Join Keurig’s Coffee Club and save 10% on every box of KCups that you buy. Keurig Coffee Club members also receive free shipping on orders of four or more boxes of K-Cups.

If you work in a large office of 25 people or more, you can request a free trial of the Keurig one cup brewing system where you work.

GreatOfficeCoffee.com sells K-Cups to small offices and businesses throughout the United States.Prices start at $12.99 per box and there is an order minimum of six boxes. Order 12 or more boxes of K Cups and receive a bulk rate of $12.99 per box. Free shipping is available for every order and orders of ten or boxes of K-Cups are upgraded to free two-day shipping.

A companion site, GreatCoffee.com sells KCups in smaller order quantities for home use. GreatCoffee.com offers a unique “Fresh for Sure” guarantee which ensures a “Use By” date for each box of K-Cups is displayed on the K cup order page. Free shipping is available on all orders of six or more boxes of K Cups.

Green Mountain Coffee’s K Cups are the most popular brand of K-Cups. In fact, most K-Cups enjoyed in the United States and Canada are produced by this socially responsible Vermont company.

Green Mountain Coffee also produces Celestial Seasonings tea, Caribou Coffee, Dunkin’ Donuts, Newman’s Own Organic coffee, and Starbucks Coffee (coming Fall 2011) in K-Cups under licensing agreements with the owners of those well-known brands.

Located in Irvine, California, Diedrich manufactures K Cups under the brand names Diedrich Coffee, Gloria Jeans Coffee & Tea, and Coffee People Coffee. In May 2010, Green Mountain Coffee purchased Diedrich Coffee and its family of brands.

In February 2011, Dunkin’ Donuts and Green Mountain Coffee reached an agreement allowing Green Mountain Coffee to manufacture Dunkin’ Donuts-branded K-Cups. The Dunkin’ Donuts K Cups are available exclusively at participating Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants.

In March 2011, Starbucks Coffee and Green Mountain Coffee reached an agreement allowing Green Mountain to manufacture of Starbucks- and Tazo-branded K Cups. The Starbucks K-Cups will be available at grocery, big box, and warehouse stores in Fall 2011. In 2012, the Starbucks K Cups will expand to Starbucks coffeehouses and the official online stores of Keurig, Green Mountain Coffee, and Starbucks.

Timothy’s Coffee, based in Toronto, Canada, manufactures KCup coffee and tea under the Timothy’s brand name and has a licensing agreement to produce Emeril’s-branded K-Cups. Green Mountain Coffee bought the KCup side of Timothy’s Coffee in November, 2009. Timothy’s Coffee continues to operate its retail stores throughout Canada.

The Seattle-based Tully’s Coffee Company manufactures K-Cups using the Tully’s name. In September 2008, Green Mountain Coffee purchased the Tully’s K Cup business. Tully’s Coffee continues to operate their retail stores in the Northwest.

Twinings Tea, located in Clifton, New Jersey, makes eight different K-Cup teas for the Keurig one cup brewing system.

Montreal, Canada-based Van Houtte Coffee manufactures KCups under their own brand name and the Wolfgang Puck brand. Van Houtte Coffee also has a licensing agreement to produce K-Cups for Bigelow Teas. Green Mountain Coffee purchased Van Houtte Coffee in September 2010.

Coffees and Hot Chocolates

If you’re looking for favorites, though, we can give you some pointers. At Keurig’s website, you can sort K Cups by both all-time and weekly popularity. Donut Shop Extra Bold and Green Mountain Breakfast Blend lead the all-time list; Newman’s Own Special Blend, Green Mountain Nantucket Blend, and Green Mountain Hot Cocoa are popular KCups as well.

Original Donut Shop Extra Bold

Green Mountain Breakfast Blend K-Cup

Green Mountain Hot Cocoa K-Cup

From time to time, CoffeeReview.com, the world’s leading coffee buying guide, performs blind taste tests of different K-Cup coffees. If you’re interested, take a look at what they say about their favorite K Cups.

One of our favorites is a stylish, two-tier K Cup basket available at that holds about two boxes (40-50) of K cups.

The K-Cup Carousel (holds 27 KCups) and the K-Cup Display Tower (holds 30 K Cups) are also popular KCup accessories.

Available at Green Mountain

Available at GreatCoffee.com

Available at GreatCoffee.com