Coffee Reviews

Cold mornings change what you want in a mug, and they change how your gear behaves. Here are four currently-buyable bags that actually get reordered in our house between October and March.

Almost every Rwandan coffee is Red Bourbon, so the variety on the label tells you very little. Here is what the Gitesi lot from Cooper’s Cask actually tastes like, how to brew it, and the potato-defect caveat nobody likes mentioning.

Three bags from the last three months that actually earned a reorder: a washed Ethiopian Yirgacheffe, a Guatemala Antigua that overdelivered, and a Costa Rica Tarrazú for low-drama weekday mornings.

We brewed through a bag of organic Sumatra Mandheling to see whether the earthy, zero-acidity reputation holds up. It does. Here is what wet hulling actually does to the cup, and which of three bags is worth your money.

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.

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 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.

Four holiday-flavored coffees ranked on how they’re built rather than how the bag looks — three you can buy today, and one whose Amazon buy box keeps appearing and vanishing. The winner isn’t the one with the famous name on it.

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.

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.