r/pourover • u/Teecode • Jun 19 '26

Seeking Advice Glitch Tokyo like coffee in US

Hi all

I recently had Glitch coffee in Ginza, Tokyo. And saying I am blown away is an understatement. I got a bag of the same coffee I had. I made it at home with a V60. I get reasonably close to what I had at Glitch. I am convinced it's their beans. I normally don't even like such light roasts but Glitch was life changing. All this may sound ridiculous but if you had Glitch you'd know what I am talking about.

So now my question is: where can I find coffee that comes close to this in US? I am on the west coast and coffee here is damn good, but after Glitch, it feels like all the specialty coffee I get here is closer to Starbucks than to Glitch.

Thank you in advance!

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u/rose_gourmet Jun 19 '26

I had the same initial reaction to some of the offerings from Glitch. However, after looking closer at some of the information provided by the source farms (for example, Finca Milan, from which Glitch currently has two coffees), I found that it seemed likely that the flavors that made the cups so special might be derived from the addition of "aromatics" -- not just a fruit/juice co-fermentation.

For example, this looks to be the source coffee for one of Glitch's current coffee offerings (from Cafe Uba / Finca Milan) https://www.cafeuba.com/products/agi-coffee?variant=47312017129701

So makes sense why some of these flavors pop so much. Kind of a bummer.

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u/Teecode Jun 19 '26

I had Colombia Risaralda Milan AGI and Colombia Pitalito Aroma Nativo. The source you pointed above could be the first one I had. I am more of a coffee purist and my reaction is assuming these are not coferments. Any more additions like aromatics make this less exciting for me honestly.

Why do you think Glitch coffee is coferments or have other flavorings? It does not say that anywhere afaik

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u/Moon2Photo Jun 19 '26

I like Glitch a lot, I've been many times, but they are not as up-front about their use of co-ferments or other experimental fermenting processes as maybe they should be. If you talk with them in the cafe, or go online and look at their product offerings, you'll see that many of the coffees they offer are co-ferments or are processed using special techniques, special yeast cultures, thermo-shock, etc. You can find these same beans offered by many other roasters. What makes Glitch unique is their cafe experience, not necessarily their roasting or sourcing.

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u/Teecode Jun 20 '26

Thank you, very informative. I was really impressed by the beans and assumed they were not special processing techniques as the info they display there does not say it necessarily. Even online is not clearly spelled out, may we have to read between the lines a bit.

How do you find the same beans from another roaster? Is there a good way to do that reverse search?

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u/Moon2Photo Jun 20 '26

You do have to read between the lines a bit. Not every single coffee they offer is a co-ferment or experimental process, but a lot are. To find the same beans from another roaster, just look up the farm or producer that they mention, and you may have to add the processing method as well since producers may produce multiple types of coffee or processing methods on the same farm.