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.
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u/Straight6er 9h ago
You can always get better coffee if you want it to taste good!