Fall Pumpkin Spice Ground Coffees, Tasted and Ranked
We bought four of the most popular pumpkin spice ground coffees on Amazon, brewed them all the same way, and ranked them. The winner is not the one we expected.
Coffee Reviews
Honest reviews of specific coffee brands, blends, and single-origin bags we have actually brewed.
5 Coffees to Restock Your Pantry With Before Fall
Five reliable, widely available blends worth stocking before the gray mornings set in: Stumptown Holler Mountain, Counter Culture Big Trouble, Peet’s Major Dickason’s, Kicking Horse Kick Ass, and Intelligentsia Black Cat.
A Panama Geisha, Reviewed (and Why It Costs What It Costs)
A record Geisha lot sold for $13,700 a pound this year. I brewed a $40 bag from the Janson estate in Chiriquí to find out what the accessible end of the variety actually delivers — and whether it belongs in your rotation or just your bucket list.
Peppermint and Gingerbread Coffees, Ranked
Four holiday-flavored coffees you can actually buy right now, ranked on how they’re built rather than how the bag looks. The winner isn’t the one with the famous name on it.
Our Go-To Coffees for Cold Brew Season
Cold brew throws away everything that makes a fancy light roast worth buying, so stop steeping your pour-over beans. These are the three bags actually living in our fridge rotation this summer.
What Yemeni Mocha Coffee Actually Tastes Like — Reviewing a Bag From Al Mokha
Yemen invented the coffee trade and then fell off the map. We brewed a bag of Al Mokha’s Yemen medium roast to find out what the oldest coffee origin on earth actually tastes like in 2026 — and whether the price is defensible.
The Best Christmas Blends You Can Actually Order on Amazon
Most holiday coffees are a house blend in a red bag, roasted dark enough to hide it. Here are the Christmas blends on Amazon that hold up under a pour-over cone — and what to brew in the light-roast slot now that the seasonal blonde has sold out.
5 Coffees We’re Actually Brewing This Month
Five bags that were actually open in our kitchen this July — an Ethiopian Yirgacheffe for iced pour-over, a cheap Brazilian for the cold brew jar, and three more, each matched to a specific job. Including where two of them fall short.
A Kenyan Peaberry From Volcanica, Reviewed
Volcanica’s Kenya Peaberry is a lighter-medium single origin that leans hard into blackcurrant brightness. Here’s what peaberry actually means, why Kenyan coffee tastes the way it does, and who should buy this bag.
Coava Coffee Roasters’ S.O. Blend Is About as Close to a Sure Thing as Coffee Gets
Coava Coffee’s S.O. Blend is the bag that explains why Portland takes coffee seriously — chocolate, apple, and dark caramel from a roaster that’s been sourcing with real intention since 2008.