What's the worst coffee worldwide?

[Trenchfriend]

It seems, that I actually more or less solved the problem with the metal taste on the classic aluminium moka pot. Medium degree of grinding or even a little more coarse seem to do right. I actually grind on 8 of 15. The coffee runs through a lot faster and I think, the contact with the metal is now seemingly short enough to avoid "distinct" metal taste. So far so good, we will see.

 

[Trenchfriend]

But just as sidenote.
When I would have to decide, what to prefer, filtered or turkish. Turkish still tastes somewhat better to me, let's say more "balanced". Filtered coffee has usually this thing, reminding me on a Amaretto note.

 

[Trenchfriend]

I currently got a bag of supermarket Arabica with only Tansania beans. It's nearly empty, but it tasted really good and that's no wonder to me. Tansania is always rated on the top level of coffee beans
Funnily, now I got a bag of the new "2025's selection" with Arabica from 100% Nicaragua.

Right now, I already tested it, from the moka pot. No match for Tansania. Tansania highlands coffee is just a league of its own, EVEN around supermarket coffee, I would say. Special, fruity, jummy!!

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^^^
What are you paying for that Tanzanian coffee?

 

[Jon Crow]

Jamaican Blue Mountain lovely coffee but uber expensive, I stick with a decent Colombia or Guatemala here in Spain normally

 

[Trenchfriend]

^^^^^^^
What are you paying for that Tanzanian coffee?

Probably doesn't count, because it was just the Melitta BellaCrema 2024 selection of the year with 100% Tanzania Arabica beans, so the usual supermarket price for 1 kilogram, 15 or 16 €.
But the fruity taste was really good!

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^^
That’s a lower price than what we see for whole bean arabica at the “regular” supermarkets here. But the Costco price still beats it.

 

[Trenchfriend]

You know, the Melitta beans are surely nothing, a real coffee afficionado here would put his hands on, but I'm a pragmatic to the core and not all supermarket stuff is that worse.

I learned about Tanzania coffee, some years ago, when our local REWE store had the storebrand fairtrade/bio instant coffee in the 100% Tanzania version and this stuff was so outstanding!
The actual version of this instant coffee is Papua-Neuguinea, Uganda und Tansania mixture. But the mixture is changing from time to time.
But I anyways grind my coffee fresh since a while.

I think, I should also try Peru fairtrade coffee on occasion. We got some stuff here in grocery stores.

 

[DogFacePonySoldier]

I am a big fan of Red Rooster VA coffee brand. I usually end uo buying 5 lb increment during a sale and store it in a freezer into smaller weekly portions about 120grams.

I grind 30 grams of beans per serving using an aeropress and prefer the ice flash method of pressing over ice, for ice coffee.

As for worst coffee.

It’s funny I went to a new French bakery and they had great baked goods but terrible ice coffee as oppose to Wawa which has a really good cold brew and their hot coffee also beats many other smaller shops.