Our mission is to help coffee lovers find and enjoy superior quality coffee.  We’re pleased to help facilitate your holiday shopping and gift-giving by providing convenient links to roasters’ websites where some of the Top 30 coffees of 2023 may be available for purchase.

As of the morning of Thursday, November 21, 2024, the following Top 30 coffees were available for purchase on roasters’ websites:

No. 2 – Review | Shop – Kakalove Cafe, Kenya Washed Yara Estate PB TOP, 97 points – $9.25/4 ounces

No. 4 | Review | Shop – Chuck’s Roast, Yemen Haraaz, 96 points – $24.00/150 grams

No. 7 – Review | Shop – Utopian Coffee, Ethiopia Ayla Bombe – $20.00/12 ounces

No. 8 – Review | Shop – JBC Coffee Roasters, Wilton Benitez Java – $26.00/8 ounces

No. 9 – Review | Shop – Torque Coffee, El Salvador Maria Pacas Bernandina Honey– $47.25/250 grams

No. 10 – Review | Shop – Hula Daddy Kona Coffee, Laura’s Reserve SL34, 97 points – $69.95/8 ounces

No. 11 – Review | Shop – Euphora Coffee, Panama Elida Estate Geisha, 97 points – $95.57/4 ounces

No. 22 – Review | Shop – Side by Each Brewing, Burundi Kayanza Cima Yeast Natural, 93 points – $19.00/16 ounces

No. 23 – Review | Shop – Bonlife Coffee, Colombia Lulo Wonka Wonka, 96 points – $19.99/8 ounces

No. 24 – Review | Shop – Durango Coffee, Costa Rica Las Lajas Perla Negra, 95 points – $18.95/12 ounces

No. 27 – Review | Shop – Old Soul Co., El Salvador Finca Loma La Gloria, 94 points – $20.00/12 ounces

No. 28 – Review | Shop – modcup, Colombia Wilton Benitez Gesha Thermal Shock Wine Yeast, 96 points – $30.00/125 grams

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When you’re reading Coffee Review, you may find yourself wondering who else is in the virtual room with you. Who else is reading a report about the fine points of a processing method or origin, and what are they thinking? And what coffees are they drinking?

These questions are very important to us at Coffee Review, of course. Not only do we want satisfied readers who keep coming back to read us again and again, but we also harbor a basic human curiosity about who might be reading our reports and reviews and why.

We have two main ways we learn about our readers. First is the broad and impersonal data on Google Analytics and our own server logs.  These sources anonymously track who visits CoffeeReview.com and provides aggregate data on where our readers are located, how they found us, which web pages they visit, and so. Second, we periodically conduct surveys of our readers to gather more demographic data about them and their coffee-drinking and coffee-reading expectations, habits and preferences. We completed such a survey in early 2024, and share some of what we learned here, along with some aggregate data from Google.

The Basic Data

In 2023, Coffee Review welcomed more than one million readers from 218 countries and territories. Coffee Review ratings reached more than 100 million consumers through our worldwide network of digital, print, and marketing channels. Our readers will drink over a billion cups of coffee and consume more than 30 million pounds of coffee beans.

Two-thirds of our visitors are from North America. We have readers in all 50 U.S. states and every major metropolitan area in the country. The top ten countries by readership are as follows:

1. United States
2. Taiwan
3. Canada
4. Philippines
5. United Kingdom
6. China
7. Australia
8. India
9. Malaysia
10. Thailand

The Survey Results

Over 400 readers from around the world participated in our 2024 online survey.  The United States is home to 88% of them.

We found that Coffee Review readers overall have high levels of education and income.  Of Coffee Review  readers, 74% report having a college degree, which is roughly double the rate in the overall U.S. population.  Readers’ average annual income is $156,000, which is more than double  the U.S. medium household income of about $75,000 in 2022.

On average, our readers report drinking 2.9 servings of coffee per day, which is in line with norms for U.S. coffee drinkers overall. Coffee Review readers report spending an average of $20.60 per pound for coffee beans.

Readership by U.S. State

For many years, we’ve analyzed our website traffic data to better understand where interest in gourmet coffee is highest, at least based on Coffee Review per capita readership.

As we have noted in the past, a state’s population is the biggest driver of website traffic.  Not surprisingly, if one just looks at total CoffeeReview.com traffic, the top four states for readership are California, Texas, Florida, and New York, which are also the most populous states.

Of course, one would expect California to have more readers than Hawai’i just based on the large difference in population, nearly 40 million versus 1.5 million, respectively.  So in the following figures, we normalized the traffic data for population to calculate per capita readership, which is a better gauge of the level of interest in coffee.

The top 10 states by per capita readership in 2023-24:

1. Hawai’i
2. Washington
3. Virginia
4. Oregon
5. Minnesota
6. Montana
7. Maine
8. Vermont
9. California
10. Wyoming 

Hawai’i Tops the List Again

Most of the states on the list aren’t surprises. Hawai’i has been #1 or #2 on the list every time we’ve tracked per capita readership.  As we’ve noted in the past, when you consider that Hawai’i is the only state that produces significant quantities of coffee, it stands to reason that a lot of people have an interest in coffee news and reviews.

Washington, Oregon, and California are famous for their strong coffee cultures and long histories of roasting and consuming high quality coffees.  Minnesota, Maine, and Vermont are northern, cold-weather states, which could drive coffee interest and readership, especially in winter.

Montana and Wyoming are also northern states but, in the past, prior to COVID, they tended to appear well down the list.  It’s likely that COVID-era demographic shifts played our role in readership increases.  The local presence of many high quality coffee roasters in Montana (especially Revel Coffee and RamsHead Coffee Roasters) and Wyoming (JackRabbit Java and Mystic Monk Coffee) are likely driving interest in specialty coffees.

It’s not clear why Virginia would be so high on the list but there is no shortage of high quality coffee roasters – Roadmap, Ironclad, Index, Pinup, Merge — that are both serving and creating an enthusiastic specialty coffee scene.

If you are wondering what state is last on the list this year, it is Louisiana. We’re not sure why.

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Every year in December, Coffee Review’s editorial team hustles to choose the topics for the following year’s editorial calendar. This, our January report, shares some thoughts on the topics we chose and how we chose them.  See our full 2024 Editorial Calendar.

In November, as Coffee Review compiles its annual Top 30 Coffees list, we carefully consider the factors that made the coffees we tasted in 2023 so exciting. We contemplate the thousands of samples cupped over the course of the year and the nearly 600 reviews we published. The Top-30 list is primarily designed to recognize and reward the farmers and roasters who produce these fine top-scoring coffees, but it also serves as a buying guide for coffee lovers.

In addition, the process serves to inform and inspire Coffee Review’s choice of report topics for the upcoming year’s editorial calendar. We inevitably discover exciting new coffees and trends, new roasters and roast styles, emerging origins, new varieties and processing methods, as well as old favorites that spur our ideas for exploration in the coming year.

Our list of potential topics always exceeds our ability to cover them. This is even more true in 2024, as we’ve decided to trim the number of scheduled reports from 10 to 5. Normally, we begin our cuppings in January and wrap up the year with our final report in November. In the coming year, to establish a more sustainable pace and better serve our readers, we have decided to publish reports every other month rather than every month. It will give us a little more breathing room, and it will open the door to adding a couple of impromptu reports on exciting topics that pop up during the year.

So, how do we choose topics?

From the point of view of sourcing samples, we strive for a topic that will generate a sweet spot of between 30 and 100 coffees. If we choose too narrow a topic (or a poorly timed one), we may not be able to source enough quality samples for a meaningful cupping and report. If we choose too broad a topic, we will be inundated with samples, and testing too many coffees limits our time for researching and writing the report and reviews.

Remember that Coffee Review also accepts both roasted and green samples for blind review throughout the year as part of our fee-based services. Not surprisingly, roasters and farmers usually try to put their best foot forward, which means we typically receive high-end coffees from popular origins that often earn deservedly high scores. That’s fine with Coffee Review, as our mission is to help consumers find superior quality coffees. However, because we already receive many coffees from such high-profile origins, we tend not to feature those popular origins as report topics. We try to choose topics that will tease out exciting coffees that we might not otherwise have an opportunity to review.

Roasters often don’t submit many decafs, dark roasts, or coffees from lesser-known origins for standalone review because they may not garner attention-grabbing high scores. And because our mission is to help consumers find and enjoy superior quality coffees — not “out” coffees, roasters or farmers that don’t earn a high score — one tends to see only the cream of the crop reviewed on our website. We cup a lot of unremarkable coffees over the course of the year to uncover the 500-plus coffees that merit 90 points or higher. If one casually reads Coffee Review, one might incorrectly think every coffee gets a 90-plus score, when in fact, only 10 to 15 percent of coffees we cup earn a score of 90 points or higher.

For each report, we test anywhere from 30 to more than 100 coffees that relate to the report topic. Based on our tasting, descriptions and ratings, we choose 10 or more coffees that we review in detail, and that provide the descriptive backbone for each report.

These are the report topics we have chosen for 2024, based in large part on what we are excited to explore in the coming year.

FEBRUARY/MARCH 2024: COFFEES ROASTED IN HAWAII

We often start the year with a regional report, exploring what local roasters are up to in a particular area of the United States. Last year, the topic was “10 Ski Country Coffees.” This year, in sharp contrast, we will report on coffees roasted in Hawaii.

Hawaii, in general, and the renowned growing region of Kona, in particular, are famous for growing excellent coffees. Many of the farmers who grow coffees in Hawaii also roast their own coffees for sale at their local tasting rooms and online. Many of these producers are well known to Coffee Review readers, as several have regularly appeared on our Top 30 Coffees list each year. However, not all coffee roasted in Hawaii is grown in Hawaii. There are many quality roasters on the islands who put out fantastic coffees from other great origins, as well.

Coffee Review cups and scores coffees on a blind basis. We evaluate coffees. We don’t endorse companies. We don’t play favorites. However, it would be disingenuous to suggest that we don’t have friends in the coffee industry. After the tragic wildfires on the island of Maui in August 2023, we’ve heard directly from our friends that it has been tougher than usual to operate a business in Hawaii, both emotionally and financially.

So Hawaii is a great topic any time, but it is a particularly timely topic now. We’re excited to evaluate the coffees that roasters in Hawaii are currently producing for locals, tourists and coffee lovers on the mainland and around the world.

APRIL/MAY 2024: SINGLE-ORIGIN COFFEES DESIGNED FOR ESPRESSO BREWING

Coffee Review regularly evaluates espressos for standalone review that do not appear in our tasting reports. Roughly 20 percent of the reviews we’ve published over the years have been for coffees designed for espresso brewing. Of late, however, it seems like we receive fewer requests for espresso reviews. This decrease may go back to changes in the coffee marketplace during the peak of Covid. Competitions and events that featured espresso brewing were canceled, and there was a dramatic drop in espresso consumption at cafes and coffee shops. Consumers drank more coffee at home, where fewer people have espresso machines.

For our part, as a possible indicator of excitement levels, half as many espressos appeared on our Top 30 Coffees lists over the past four years compared to previous years. From 2020 to 2023, the average number of espressos on the list was just 2.25, down from 5 in 2019 and 4 in 2018, an average of 4.5.

Evaluating espressos at Coffee Review is more complex and time-consuming than evaluating non-espressos, so we have to gear up physically and mentally for tasting reports that require espresso brewing. One of the benefits of Coffee Review’s revised editorial calendar is that we have more time to conduct an espresso-focused cupping and publish a report on coffees designed for espresso brewing.

We haven’t published an espresso report since Darker-Roasted Espresso Blends in August 2021, so we’re looking forward to evaluating the current offerings from roasters who are producing single-origin espressos in 2024.

JUNE/JULY 2024: READY-TO-DRINK PURE BLACK COFFEES IN CANS OR BOTTLES

When the heat of summer starts to kick in, overall coffee consumption tends to wane. This is when refreshing iced coffees and chilled ready-to-drink (RTD) canned and bottled black coffees take off. So, summer is the perfect time to test RTD coffees.

The availability and popularity of RTD coffees has exploded since Coffee Review first reviewed them in our July 2014 report titled Bottled Iced Coffees. Almost all the submissions for that first report were not only blends, but blends of mostly unnamed components and, frankly, generic in profile.

At the time, Coffee Review Editor-in-Chief Kenneth Davids observed:

“The best of these bottled cold coffees seemed to us to deliver a product worthy of the North American specialty industry: less distinctive and less pronounced in character than analogous hot-brewed coffees, but smoother, more refreshing, yet still distinctive enough to surprise and engage.”

Indeed, five RTD coffees earned scores of 90 points or higher, including the 94-point Cold Brew by Slingshot Coffee in Raleigh, North Carolina.

In our 2018 report — Cold-Brewed Black Coffees: Quality in a Can? — we were impressed by the complexity of the handful of top-scoring cold-brewed coffees we tested, but were left wondering if the RTD trend was just a passing fancy.

At the time, we noted:

“Specialty coffee companies small and large are intensely at work trying to bring some of the sensory refinement and differentiation available in whole-bean coffee to the arena of ready-to-drink cold black coffee in cans and bottles.”

The 24 RTD coffees we tested for that 2018 report averaged 89 points, from a low of 75 to a high of 94, and for the first time, an RTD coffee — the 94-point Reserve Cold Brew from States Coffee & Mercantile — appeared on our Top 30 Coffees list, appearing at #21.

So, why did we dip into this category again in 2020, despite a lack of overall enthusiasm about the genre in 2018? Well, it wasn’t lost on us that the growth of the cold brew segment is much more than a passing fancy. RTD black coffee is here to stay, and quality 1s on the rise. Of the 37 RTDs we tested in July 2020’s RTD Rising: Single-Origin Cold Coffees Elevate the Game, 11 scored 92 points or higher, including Corvus Coffee ‘s 94-point Guji Uraga Nitro Cold Brew, which earned the #21 spot on our list of the Top 30 Coffees of 2020.

With Cold Black Coffee: Simplicity Rules the Post-Pandemic RTD Landscape in July 2021, we revisited cold-brewed bottled coffees in the context of a changing, post-Covid marketplace. The pandemic brought into focus what is basic and fundamental, and the 10 RTD cold-brewed coffees we reviewed in that report, rated 92 to 94, displayed the common denominator of simplicity, in the best sense of that word: classic and direct.

In our June/July 2024 report, we will once again test the variety and quality of RTD coffees as they march on into the summertime coffee mainstream.

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2024: DECAFFEINATED COFFEES FOR BREWED APPLICATIONS

The rule of thumb is that about 10 percent of consumers drink decaffeinated coffee. So, why are only 2 percent of reviews on coffeereview.com decafs?

Part of the reason is obvious. Ninety percent of coffee drinkers don’t drink decaffeinated coffee, so they tend to be overlooked by the vast majority of coffee drinkers. Furthermore, because decaffeinated coffees generally don’t match the quality of their caffeinated counterparts, many roasters consider them only as a necessary evil generated for a small fraction of their customer base. In relationship to Coffee Review, most roasters don’t submit decaffeinated coffees for review because they generally don’t earn eye-popping scores that might help drive sales.

Coffee Review certainly isn’t biased against decaffeinated coffees. We simply evaluate what we find in the cup. Unfortunately, when decaf is in the cup, it often just doesn’t excel. That said, Coffee Review certainly appreciates a quality decaf. In fact, decafs have appeared on our annual Top 30 Coffees list five times since 2013.

In our most recent report about decafs, in 2015, Kenneth Davids made two broad observations that may still fairly describe the reputation and trends regarding decafs in 2024:

“Observation one: Most decaffeinated coffees continue to be bad, in some cases close to foul.”

“Observation two: On the other hand, great coffees clearly can survive and transcend the rigors of decaffeination. Four decafs from this [report’s] cupping attracted ratings ranging from 89 to an impressive 93.”

With our August/September 2024 report, we will revisit these observations as we seek to help decaf drinkers find and enjoy superior-quality decaffeinated coffees.

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER: GUATEMALA-GROWN COFFEES

People walking in the main street of Antigua with the Agua volcano in the background.

In 1997, when Coffee Review was founded, Guatemala was a coffee heavyweight. In our first large-group “calibration cupping” in July 1997, we selected Guatemala Coffees for the topic. It was just our fifth tasting report and our first ever report dedicated to a single country of origin. It was sandwiched between Supermarket Coffees in June and Decaffeinated Coffees in August. Davids described Guatemala as “one of the world’s classic coffee origins.”

Two years later, in our July 1999 report — New Crop Guatemalas — he opened with:

“Guatemala is rivaled only by Kenya as coffee insiders’ favorite origin.”

Guatemala is still a classic origin and an insiders’ favorite, but not to the extent it was 25 years ago. We still cup coffees from Guatemala regularly, and they generally score well to very well. Since 1997, we’ve published more than 600 reviews of coffees that were solely from Guatemala or featured Guatemala as a named component in blends. As such, Guatemala coffees have been involved in 8 percent of all the coffees we have ever reviewed.

Why choose Guatemala as a report topic in 2024? In short, it’s overdue. We haven’t featured Guatemala coffees as the topic of a tasting report since Suave and Idiosyncratic: Coffee of Guatemala in September 2013.

AN EVENTFUL YEAR AHEAD FOR COFFEE

We’re looking forward to an exciting year of tasting and reporting.  See our full 2024 Editorial Calendar.

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Resolve to Drink Better Coffee in 2024

If you’re looking to drink better coffee in 2024, we’re pleased to help facilitate your shopping by providing links to roasters’ websites where some of the Top 30 coffees of 2023 may be available for purchase. As of the morning of Monday, January 1st, 2024, the Top 30 coffees below were available for purchase on roasters’ websites:

No. 2 | Review | Shop |Hula Daddy Kona Coffee, Kona Pointu, 97 points – $69.95/8 ounces

No. 3 | Review | Shop | GK Coffee, 2023 BOP GW-03 Princessa Carmen Geisha Washed, 98 points – $79.00/20 grams

No. 4 | Review | Shop | modcup coffee, Colombia Wilton Benitez Sidra, 96 points – $60.00/250 grams

No. 6 | Review | Shop | GK Coffee, Kenya AA TOP Gicherori, 97 points ~ $17.50/200 grams

No. 7 | Review | Shop | Red Rooster Coffee Roaster, Ethiopia Shantawene Washed, 96 points – $22.00/12 ounces

No. 11 | Review | Shop | Revel Coffee, Colombia Calderon Honey, 96 points – $32.25/12 ounces

No. 19 | Review | Shop | Magnolia Coffee, Costa Rica Las Lajas SL28 Natural, 95 points – $30.00/12 ounces

No. 21 | Review | Shop | Hula Daddy, Laura’s Reserve SL34, 96 points – $69.95/8 ounces

No. 22 | Review | Shop | Roadmap CoffeeWorks, Peru Gilmer Cordova #13, 95 points – $29.00/12 ounces

No. 28 | Review | Shop | SkyTop Coffee, Mexico Los Aguacates, 95 points – $42.00/12 ounces

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Since 2013, Coffee Review has published an annual list of the year’s Top 30 Coffees, ranking the most exciting coffees from the thousands we cupped over the course of the year.  Each year, we rank the 30 most exciting coffees  based on quality (represented by overall Coffee Review rating); value (affordability relative to other similar quality coffees); and other factors that include distinctiveness of style, uniqueness of origin, tree variety, processing method, certification, and general rarity.

Discover the Top 30 Coffees from past years:

Top 30 Coffees of 2022

Top 30 Coffees of 2021

Top 30 Coffees of 2020

Top 30 Coffees of 2019

Top 30 Coffees of 2018

Top 30 Coffees of 2017

Top 30 Coffees of 2016

Top 30 Coffees of 2015

Top 30 Coffees of 2014

Top 30 Coffees of 2013

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The window during which we accept coffees for these review articles is usually the 1st day through the 10th day of the month prior to publication. For example, we plan to accept coffee samples for the May report during the period from April 1st through April 10th.

However, professional travel or other distractions may lead to modifications of the 3rd through 10th schedule, so we ask that all roasters submitting coffees for a given report first query Kim Westerman at Kim @ CoffeeReview.com before sending their coffees.

For more information about Coffee Review’s full range of review services, visit our Review Services page.

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We’re pleased to help facilitate your shopping and gift-giving by providing links to roasters’ websites where Top 30 coffees may be available for purchase. As of the morning of Thursday, December 22, 2022, the Top 30 coffees below were available for purchase on roasters’ websites.

Orders placed today may not arrive in time for Christmas. Please check individual roasters’ websites for delivery terms.  

No. 3 | Review | Shop |Simon Hsieh (Taiwan), Ethiopia Aphrodite Washed Espresso, 96 points – $27.80/227 grams

No. 6 | Review | Shop | Hula Daddy Kona Coffee, Kahiko, 96 points – $47.95/8 ounces

No. 8 | Review | Shop | GK Coffee (Taiwan), Ecuador COE 1st Arashi Typica Majorado Washed, 96 points – NT $800/2o grams

No. 16 | Review | Shop | SOT Coffee Roaster (Japan), Colombia Wush Wush Dynamic Natural, 95 points – $33.00/200 grams

No. 17 | Review | Shop | Hula Daddy Kona Coffee, Karen J Kona Red Bourbon, 96 points – $54.95/8 ounces

No. 18 | Review | Shop | Roadmap CoffeeWorks, Tanzania Mbeya Mimba, 95 points – $18.75/12 ounces

No. 20 | Review | Shop | Magnolia Coffee, Rwanda Cyesha Natural, 94 points – $26.00/12 ounces

No. 21 | Review | Shop | Bird Rock Coffee Roasters, Sumatra Boru Batak, 95 points – $17.50/1o ounces

No. 22 | Review | Shop | El Gran Cafe (Guatemala), Espresso No. 3, 94 points – Aprox. $20.00/12 ounces

No. 23 | Review | Shop | Joe Bean Roasters, Don Roger & Isabel’s Natural Fruit Symphony, 95 points – $19.00/175 grams

No. 24 | Review | Shop | Mostra Coffee, Philippine Heritage Microlot, 93 points – $27.50/12 ounces

No. 25 | Review | Shop | Regent Coffee, Burundi Kibingo Intenso, 94 points – $21.00/12 ounces

No. 26 | Review | Shop | Rusty’s Hawaiian, Ka’u Classic Dark, 94 points – $19.95/7 ounces

No. 27 | Review | Shop | Old Soul Co., Whiskey Dreams Moka Java, 94 points – $20.00/12 ounces

No. 28 | Review | Shop | Jackrabbit Java, Mexico Altura Decaf, 91 points – $14.00/12 ounces

No. 29 | Review | Shop | RamsHead Coffee Roasters, Costa Rica Cerro Dragon Geisha Honey, 94 points – $30.00/12 ounces

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Since 2013, Coffee Review editors have published an annual list of the year’s Top 30 Coffees, ranking the most exciting coffees from the thousands we cupped over the course of the year.  Each year, we rank the 30 most exciting coffees and espressos based on quality (represented by overall Coffee Review rating); value (affordability relative to other similar quality coffees); and other factors that include distinctiveness of style, uniqueness of origin, tree variety, processing method, certification, and general rarity.

This year, our countdown of the Top 30 Coffees of 2022 began on Friday, November 18, when we revealed coffees No. 30 through No. 11. On Saturday, we will announce coffees No. 9 and No. 10.  On Sunday, it will be No. 7 and No. 8; followed by No. 5 and No. 6 on Monday; and No. 3 and No. 4 on Tuesday. We will complete the countdown on Wednesday, November 23, when we will announce our No. 1 and No. 2 coffees of 2022. 

You can now see the Top 30 countdown for 2022:

Top 30 Coffees of 2022

Top 30 Coffees from past years are also available:

Top 30 Coffees of 2021

Top 30 Coffees of 2020

Top 30 Coffees of 2019

Top 30 Coffees of 2018

Top 30 Coffees of 2017

Top 30 Coffees of 2016

Top 30 Coffees of 2015

Top 30 Coffees of 2014

Top 30 Coffees of 2013

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Many of our readers seek out highly rated coffees for their own enjoyment or as thoughtful gifts for coffee lovers.  Coffees that appear in Coffee Review’s Top 30 are particularly popular.  They often sell out quickly.

We’re pleased to help facilitate your shopping and gift-giving by providing links to roasters’ websites where Top 30 coffees may be available for purchase. As of the morning of Saturday, December 11, 2021, the Top 30 coffees below were available for purchase, allocation, or notifications at roasters’ websites.

No. 1 | Paradise Roasters, Mama Cata Mokkita, 97 points – $150.00/4 ounces

No. 3 | SOT Coffee Roaster (Japan), Colombia Wush Wush Dynamic Natural, 96 points – ¥1680/100 grams

No. 5 | Hula Daddy Kona Coffee, Kona Mocca®, 96 points – $87.50/8 ounces (ALLOCATION LIST)

No. 7 | Simon Hsieh Aroma Roast Coffees (Taiwan), Bull Demon King, 96 points – NT $550/8 ounces

No. 9 | GK Coffee (Taiwan), Indonesia Golden Sumatra TP Espresso, 96 points – NT $450/200 grams

No. 11 | Genesis Coffee Lab, Ethiopia Tamiru Tadesse Anaerobic, 96 points – $145.00/4 ounces

No. 12 | Desolate Cafe (Taiwan), Love of Desolate, 96 points – NT $500/227 grams

No. 16 | Paradise Roasters, Kona Geisha Champagne Natural, 95 points – $75.00/4 ounces

No. 20 | Hula Daddy Kona Coffee, Laura’s Reserve SL34, 96 points – $65.95/8 ounces

No. 22 | Euphora Coffee (Taiwan), Yemen Sheba Lot 1 Wadi Al Mahir, 95 points – NT $620/4 ounces

No. 27 | Cafe Kreyol, Haitian Blue Zombie Desert, 92 points – $14.99/12 ounces

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Coffee Review’s countdown of the Top 30 Coffees of 2021 begins on Friday, November 26 and ends with the announcement of the Top 5 coffees of 2021 on Wednesday, December 1.  In the meantime, you can view the Top 30 coffees from past years using the links below.

Since 2013, our editors have published an annual list of the year’s Top 30 Coffees, ranking the most exciting coffees from the thousands we cupped over the course of the year.  Each year, we rank the 30 most exciting coffees and espressos based on quality (represented by overall Coffee Review rating); value (affordability relative to other similar quality coffees); and other factors that include distinctiveness of style, uniqueness of origin, tree variety, processing method, certification, and general rarity.

Top 30 Coffees from past years:

Top 30 Coffees of 2020

Top 30 Coffees of 2019

Top 30 Coffees of 2018

Top 30 Coffees of 2017

Top 30 Coffees of 2016

Top 30 Coffees of 2015

Top 30 Coffees of 2014

Top 30 Coffees of 2013

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