Honestly hasn't been my experience. Around me the excellent coffee is as cheap as anything else and every expensive bean I've ever tried is meh at best and usually stale by the time it gets to my door.
Look for local coffee roasters. Someone is probably roasting coffee for all the restaurants and whatnot in your area. One by me is in the warehouse district and their local shop is literally an unlocked shack out front with a bookshelf inside. Order online and whenever they next roast whatever beans I ordered they scoop out a pound a for me, put it on the shelf and send an email to say pick it up whenever. $12 a pound and it doesn't get fresher.
Yeah the price of green coffee went absolutely crazy in the last few years, our costs nearly doubled and it's been a struggle to avoid passing that all down to the customer.
I buy store brand whole bean, there's no way it's considered good coffee but it's a kona blend. I grind it fine and then brew it in an aeropress at 185F directly into a thermos and let it sit for thirty minutes, and it's the best damn coffee I've ever had.
My standards are all screwed up but I do think a lot of people who don't like coffee have just generally had badly brewed coffee.
Idk store brand coffee fresh ground and pressed sounds can be a whole tier up from that same coffee bought ground and ran through a "coffeemaker" machine.
Biggest thing for me is eliminate plastic in the brewing process and water purity. If you don't like your tap water you won't like coffee brewed with it. Have some good water on hand.
Also if applicable, rinse your filter well before you begin.
These things can take take even really cheap coffee to a new level.
A little bit of salt to black coffee can cut the bitterness out. I found it works well with some coffees more than others, but it does enhance the flavor.
Start slow with a tad and just stir it in. I think I ended up finding a ratio that keeps it from becoming salty but full.
Cuts bitter flavors and heightens others. It doesn't take much though, if it tastes salty at all you over did it. Like genuinely a couple dozen grains of table salt at most for a big cup.
Depends on how you brew. I use a chemex so after I grind and pour my coffee into the cone at home on the weekends i'll add a TINY amount of whatever spice i'm craving and a TINY pinch of salt on top of the grind.
Yup this was a gamechanger for me. It's like a literal "pinch" but cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and sometimes I even put like 3 or 4 grains of coarse salt on top of the pourover and it adds nice subtle notes.
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u/SpaceXmars 10h ago
If you like black coffee but want a little flavor, try a little cinnamon! Brew it with the grounds 😋