Friends and family ask us where to buy coffee. This is a challenging question! It’s uncomplicated to lose track of the amount of amazing, fresh and vivid coffees. Every week we ask our advertising partners to recommend the coffees they like best. Here’s a collection of the most fascinating whole bean coffees available this week from talented roasters around the world.
Beard This directly sourced Castillo has a tender peach sweetness with an intense and convoluted floral character. This is a coffee that beautifully balances sweet flavors and tender notes – the result of Diego Bermudez’s careful cultivation and scientific approach to coffee processing. | $28/12oz |
Mr. Espresso Kenya Rung’Eto Kii is the perfect coffee for icy days. It has notes of white peach, ripe pomelo and fresh cream, with a full mouthfeel. It comes from the Kia factory, a storied processing plant operating since 1965. About 80 farmers collaborated to produce this fantastic plot, cultivated at an altitude of 1,600-1,800 meters above sea level in luxurious, clay soil. The coffee is ground, fermented overnight and washed in the shade of Mount Kenya. | $21/12oz |
Equatorial coffees This single origin Ethiopian coffee, a true blooming espresso, is naturally processed and offers a fruity and sweet profile with notes of blackberries and wildflower honey. | $21/12oz |
Madcap Coffee High at an altitude of 1,800-2,100 meters above sea level, Heirloom coffee cherries ripen slowly in the clay soils of the Gedeb District of Ethiopia. Tamrat Alemayew’s Heirloom Coffee is a fantastic rendition of the floral and convoluted flavors we’ve come to expect from Gedeb. In the last cup, enjoy notes of radiant lime, tangerine and honeysuckle. | $28/8oz |
Stumptown Coffee Roasters Sleek, balanced and made to sip throughout the day – this is the Founder’s Blend. This easy-drinking, certified organic blend combines carefully grown coffees from South and Central America for a spotless, full-bodied cup with notes of cocoa and vanilla. | $20/12oz |
Onyx Coffee Laboratory This batch of anaerobically processed, sourced from the mountain forests of the Gera estate, yields live Ethiopian coffee berries, transformed in a closed, low-oxygen fermentation. Grown in organic, biodiverse conditions and supported by Gera’s commitment to sustainable agriculture and social justice, this coffee offers a refined expression of processing and the exceptional quality of Ethiopian coffees. | $15/4oz |
Heartwood Coffee There is no direct translation of the Oromiffa word Yabitu, which gives this place and this specific offering a sense of mystery that is only capitalized by its astonishing flavor profile. Grown at an altitude of 2,300 meters above sea level, this washed batch of Ethiopian landrace is full-bodied and lively, incredibly juicy and packed with plenty of ripe nectarine, sweet lime and an aromatic oolong tea-like quality. | $26/12oz |
Coffee for evening swimming Coope Tarrazú is a Costa Rican cooperative with over 3,500 partners and collaborators from the province of San José. . Centroamericano H1 is a hybrid F1 variety created by crossing Sarchimor T-5296 and the wild Rume Sudan variety. | $24/12oz |
Klatch Coffee Our El Salvador Las Mercedes Pepinal 1 is back, once again we’re baking a crowd-pleaser, and it’s ready to become your favorite fall origin single. At Klatch Coffee, we were initially drawn to Las Mercedes for its great coffee, but we fell in love with the people, the process, and our shared passion for constantly striving to make coffee the best it can be. | 22.95/310g |
Presta coffee roasteries This pioneering coffee from the San Agustín highlands in Huila is co-fermented with dried strawberries in a cup that bursts with the sweetness of ripe berries, silky milk chocolate and crisp acidity. Grown at an altitude of 1,750 m above sea level by local passionate farmers, it is full of life, cheerful and unforgettable. | $35/10oz |
Olimpia Coffee We secured this amazing coffee during the cupping competition at SCA Expo in Houston, hosted by Caravela Coffee. Grown on the Las Tres Estaciones farm, this micro-batch stood out among dozens of offerings for its clarity, sweetness and balance, taking first place in the competition. | $29.95 |
Partner Coffee Sierra Mágica is our first ever offering from the state of Puebla. Several petite producers from the Zapotitlán de Méndez community contributed to this batch, each growing high-quality varieties under the forest canopy. In a heated and pleasant cup we taste hazelnuts, cocoa beans and baking spices, as well as cranberries, orange peel and red apple. | $24.50/12 oz |
Portland Coffee Roasters As our lightest and brightest single-origin coffee, Organic Ethiopia is a great coffee to brew as a tincture. With notes of citrus, black tea, bergamot and a floral finish. | 20.00/12 oz |
Coffee with a plan The Ngozi coffee producing region is located in north-central Burundi. With its high altitude and subtle, heated weather year-round, the environment at Ngozi provides the perfect conditions for growing delicious specialty coffees. Turaco is a microlight named after a brightly colored bird commonly seen enlivening the Burundi sky. We taste blackberry, rose, maple, lime and obscure chocolate in this convoluted and delicious cup. | $22.25/10 oz |
PERCENTAGE Maple cinnamon rolls from award-winning coffee producer Diego Bermudez! His processing methods are truly scientific. It has a laboratory where it uses scientific methods to maximize the potential of its coffee. The result is an incredibly convoluted coffee, but in a heated, comforting way. It’s not super fruity or funky; this coffee is mainly sweet, baked spices. It falls somewhere between a cinnamon roll and a spice cake. | $31/12oz |
Coffee from Umbria Ethically sourced from sustainable farms in Mexico and South America, this blend is earthy with notes of stone fruit and lemon zest. Roasted medium-dark to bring out its citrus sweetness, this blend will reveal its intricacies with a variety of brewing methods. | $18/12oz |
Verve Coffee Roasters Balanced and radiant, the Grateful Dead blend is uncomplicated to drink and has layered complexity. It opens with a sweet explosion of plum and nectarine, immersed in heated black tea. The spotless finish brings everything together, creating a polished cup that is as timeless as the music that inspired it. | $24/12oz |
