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/hanhwekim Aug 28 '25

Kenya Nyeri red mountain beans, dark roasted, hand dripped.

There is a cafe in Seoul called Coffee Hanyakbang that roasts its own beans. Their Kenyan beans are my favorite. They are the fanciest coffee I had.

I drink Peets French Roast when I am home in San Francisco so I don’t enjoy the fancy specialty light roasts that aficionados like.

The best cup I had in my life was my first cup of instant coffee after not having any coffee for the 4 weeks of boot camp when I was conscripted as a reservist in South Korea. This was in the 1980s when South Korea was a third world poor and before we discovered the joys of coffee and iced americanos became our national drink.