What’s the best tasting coffee?
Hi everyone quite honestly I’ve always found coffee absolutely disgusting and it having a very woody taste to it I’ve tried the typical coffees like Cappuccinos espresso (and others) and all that jazz and all of them were absolutely awful.
Are there any specific coffees that actually taste good? And also where you get them from? Like what are the best coffees for taste?
Also What’s your order and where from?
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Taste is a subjective thing, there is no universal “best tasting coffee”. I think regular coffee tastes the best, personally.
If you don’t like the way coffee taste don’t drink it. Or you can add all kinds sugary and creamy things to it. But all coffee tastes bitter, just different kinds of intensity.
The flavor you were describing was likely due to the way in which it was processed.
Try to find a honey processed (pulped natural) blond roast. That’s going to be your best bet if you want a lightness, smoothness, and fruitiness to it with very little bitterness
I mix one pound of kicking horse coffee (grizzly claw blend) and Van Houtte chocolate and it’s el magnifico
If you find coffee absolutely disgusting, don’t drink it. You don’t have to like coffee. Personally, I like Black Rifle Coffee Company’s Black Beard’s Delight.
Free coffee is best coffee. It can taste like rubber shoes but if you didn’t paid for it, it’s fucking delicious
Maybe you just don’t like coffee.
I like the beans that you have to pay a little more for at the grocery store. The beans that have different flavor options, not the folgers shit. Brew the good beans at home in a coffee pot and add some flavored creamer and it’s good to go. I’m using gingerbread cookie dough creamer right now and I have sugar cookie creamer in the freezer to be used next.
Industrial coffee is dishwater, regardless of what or where you get it. “Starbucks” cynically over roasts its coffee in a cheap attempt to make it appear “Rich and “Full bodied” and Dunkin’ is just crap.
Get yourself a drip maker that gets the water to 190+F, a burr grinder, and a pound of small batch roasted Costa Rican coffee and see what you’ve been missing.
Medium roast, black, in a big beautiful mug, preferably early in the morning.
Black coffee from any gas station has never done me wrong! If I want something a bit “nicer” a flat white from any coffee shop is good too.
I’m somewhat limited because of the recommendations for my Jura super automatic machine. It prefers non oily beans. Lavasa super creme is my go-to. Relatively inexpensive and always delicious.
Try cold brew. None of the bitterness.
I throw a shot of liquor in mine, whether it be rum or whiskey. Maybe even some Baileys or Kahula as well to give it a little more flavor. If it’s the weekend tho, I throw all 3 into my coffee and call it a morning😂
I get this stuff called “cafe caribe” from HEB. I’m sure they sell it elsewhere. It’s meant to use as espresso (which I do when I make myself an espresso) but it also works well as drip coffee. It has great flavor, so you can drink it black. I prefer it with a dash of nutmeg, cinnamon, sugar, and a splash of heavy cream.
Kopi Luwak
Freshly ground, brewed cold. Cold brew has significantly less acidity and tastes smooth AF.
I make mine at home. Folgers Black Silk, Topeca, or BRCC.
PRO TIP: Add a pinch (¼ tsp) of salt to the grounds. It’ll taste smooth as butter. Kills all the bitterness.
Man, that’s like asking what’s the best wine or beer. So many variables, and so much subjectivity.
A good bet is to go to quality local coffee shop, if your town/city has one, and try a few different things to learn what you do or don’t like.
Brazilian
It’s not really so much a particular kind or brand of coffee. It’s more about a) how you make it, and b) how fresh it is.
I think just about any bean that’s fresh ground and made in a french press to retain the oils (and some of the fine particles) is good.
That said, you have to appreciate bitter flavors to begin with. Or you’re never really going to like coffee.
Freshly roasted coffee is best, I roasted some Kona beans from Hawaii… after moving to fresh, going back to stale store coffee is hard.
Fresh ground organic Sumatran. (I sound like a pretentious asshole. 😄) Will drink just about any, as long as I can put sugar and milk or creamer in it. From a coffe shop: double hazelnut latte.
Strava coffee CBD blend. Light cream and 3 packets of raw sugar. The CBD chills my tummy out while I gets my buzz on.
I use Maxwell House dark roast and make it myself. For good coffee you have to Tailor it to your own personal tastes.