I’m doing a blend of Kona from a local store and whole food Kenya. It’s a 70/30 of Kenya to Kona and taste great. The Kona alone I got taste and looks like really dark soil after a brew, so I picked a lite roast to see how it would go and I’m happy.

I haven’t had too many Kenya coffees, but if you have a whole foods nearby this one tastes good to me.

Single Origin Kenya

  • PrecisePangolinEnglish
    6·
    4 months ago

    Rio Grande Roasters vanilla hazelnut. I love these beans so much. The piñon is also really good! Very chocolatey and smooth.

    • Pronell@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 months ago

      Someone else on here - might’ve been you - turned me on to them and now I’ve been alternating between Pinon and Chocolate Pinon. So tasty!

      • PrecisePangolinEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        I discovered them from Lemmy as well! I bet we saw the same post!

    • specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      4 months ago

      I lived on the big island and my boss owned a coffee farm in Kona. He brought us a couple bags on roasting day. Still the best coffee I’ve had by miles and miles.

    • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      4 months ago

      It used to be $6.99 a pound ten years ago. That was wonderful. While it’s still my favorite light roast, it’s expense means I drink it maybe once a year when I get a bag as a gift or a treat for myself.

    • CCMan1701A@startrek.website
      OP
      1·
      4 months ago

      Yeah, I’m not sure I want to get another bag for a while. It tastes like I’m drinking burnt dirt runoff lol I think my garden likes it however. It’s fine, I’m mixing it in and making something that tastes good.

      • Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 months ago

        I was just gifted a bag of Domain Kona and thought it was excellent. Admittedly I’m new to better coffee so my palette may not be as refined as other people’s, but I haven’t had anything better yet. This stuff is very pricey so I’m searching for some middle ground, but I would treat myself to this again.

        • CCMan1701A@startrek.website
          OP
          2·
          4 months ago

          Nice. Yeah Kona is nice once a year. Lol too pricey to be all the time. I’m exploring the beans available at my local food stores for now after trying a few other mail order options.

  • fritobugger2017@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 months ago

    Ethiopian Yirgacheffe G1 beans. Very nice. A little funky from the natural process but otherwise very tasty. Light roast. Ground using Fellow Opus and brewed with Hario V60.

  • seaQueue@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 months ago

    Just finished the last of a bag of Counter Culture natural sundried Mpemba and I’m back to my standby inoffensive daily blend. The Mpemba was the best bag I’ve had in the last few years, I was put off at first by the figgy/fermented funk when I opened it but damn did it smell good after it was ground. The last creamy berry bomb I had that was this good was a natural process Yirgacheffe but that was more blueberry/blackberry than the strawberry/fig the Mpemba offered. Anyway, it was good stuff and I’m bummed it’s out of stock when I’m looking to order more.

  • KammicRelief@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    I’ve been roasting my own lately, in a popcorn popper. It’s cheap, quick, fun, actually decent if I don’t completely mess it up, and occasionally even surprisingly good (as in, “I’d pay $20 for a bag of this”). Because of the size of the popcorn popper, I only roast ~100g at a time, so lots of experimentation with roast times, etc. I definitely go on the lighter side.

  • Evkob@lemmy.ca
    3·
    4 months ago

    I work in a café, so I usually drink what we have for espresso which is a medium-dark roast from Barista in Montréal

    At home, I currently have a bag of medium roast blend from a local roaster, nothing fancy. I’ve been on a French press kick recently, and it does the job.

  • BuckWylde@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 months ago

    I’ve been drinking a Colombia I roasted at work on our Bullet roaster. Being able to roast green that I purchased for myself on that little machine brings me back to my early home roasting days. Otherwise I drink whatever’s brewed at work that I roasted on our two Loring machines.

  • emmanuel_car@kbin.social
    2·
    4 months ago

    Moccona… I recently, temporarily moved in with some friends who aren’t coffee people, and I let my old flatmate take the coffee machine because I’m about to move overseas. I’m counting down the days until I’m in my new permanent place and can finally have real coffee at home again!

  • ari_verse@lemm.ee
    1·
    4 months ago

    I.V. Drip blend from darkcity cofee in Toronto. Roasted a few days ago. Looking forward to my morning cortado!