A ground roast coffee tablet which is capable of being brewed in aconventional automatic drip coffee maker, andwhich exhibits sufficient strength to withstand all aspects of manufacture,handling, packaging, transport without breakage butalso readily disintegrates when contacted with hot water during brewing, ismade by subjecting conventional ground, roasted coffeeto a multi-step compaction process in which at least two compression steps arecarried out in the same compaction die.
