[Closed] Another coffee recommendation thread

Most roasts are not bitter, the way it's made gives bitterness.

The opposite of a fruity roast should be dark and dry, not bitter.

In reality, you're better off just trying everything you have access to 🙂 And bean provenance is probably more important to the fruityness I reckon.

Try african coffees to start with.

Most roasts are not bitter, the way it's made gives bitterness

but dark roasts that go beyond first crack are likely to have the burnt charcoal notes the OP doesnt like.
for more modern 3rd wave european/antipodean style roasted coffee try:

hasbean
small batch
roundhill
roasting party
butterworths
extract
climpson and sons
square mile
caravan
alchamey
notes
tate (as in tate gallery)

all roast in the ‘modern’ fruit drivern style and not the dark over roasted oil covered beans you get from supermarkets or starbucks.

for more modern 3rd wave european/antipodean style roasted coffee try:

or if you say whereabouts you are*, people can probably give a local recommendation.

*assuming that it's not Christchurch any more.

Rave coffee are great value (guy who runs it trained out in NZ i believe!), every time I think I'll try another roasters, I just find myself saying 'how much?!'

I think most decent roasters now will have a load of options to suit your palette, personally as an espresso drinker I find anything with 'fruity' in the description makes me want to vom.

I actually don't like the fruity ones much, esp not as espresso. You could try Whittards for a range of single origin beans, good place to start.

Sounds to me like you want a fairly light roast low acidity bean. IME acidity is what gives those bright, fruity flavours (that I'm personally not a massive fan of) and the dark roast have the darker flavours that err towards bitterness.

I tend to find that a lighter roast is more forgiving while you get the brewing process dialled in as well, which is a bonus.

I'm working my way through ground coffee at them moment. Nothing too niches, stronger fruitier ones you find on supermarket shelves.

I think I might have settled on Waitrose's own Sumatra Mandheling.

That Rave site looks very interesting and reasonable. Currently I have a load from Hasbean to get through but will certainly try Rave next time.

Thanks for the advice so far. I'm in Perthshire no (not ChCh any more) so I guess my closest roaster is Glen Lyon. Will see what they have (and will also check out the rave site too, thanks).

Most roasters deliver so I wouldn't limit yourself to just north of the border, there is dear green (sorry can't remember if they are Glasgow or Edinburgh) who are worth a try.

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I prefer dark roast without acidity or bitterness as I only drink "Americano" South East Asian style which is black coffee with two teaspoon of sugar. 😆

I used to drink one litre of Robusta coffee a day from age 6 to 9. My childhood coffee drinking days lasted for nearly 3 years until one day my primary school teacher found out and threw my "water" bottle out from the class. Through the opened window! Not sure what the fuss was all about then ... I was still the tallest boy in the school and top 10 in the class.

I love coffee me.

Edit: I can only recommend dark roast ...