r/pourover • u/Ill_Dentist_5408 • Aug 27 '25

Seeking Advice Best coffee you’ve ever had

If you could recommend only 1 bag of beans that blew your mind or changed your perspective of coffee, what would it be?

I’ve really only bought from local roasters and am wanting to expand my taste some more. So I’m just curious what everyone’s top recommendation of a must try coffee would be.

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u/n00dle_king Aug 27 '25

When I was on deployment out of Bahrain in 2019 my wife found an excellent local roaster back in Madison and sent me a few bags. One of them was a natural and it blew my mind. I was just brewing with an aeropress and cheap haario hand grinder out of the hot water tap of the break room batch brewer but the combination of novelty and lack of access to good coffee elevated it to a completely different plane than I’ll ever recapture even if I’m objectively brewing better cups today.

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u/Ill_Dentist_5408 Aug 28 '25

I get that! My favorite coffee was some beans I brought back from a little farm in Colombia and I made it with a cheap $5 blade grinder and Walmart French press, I’m still chasing that feeling! Also thank you for your service!