Which is the best quality coffee?

It's all preference, but coffee began naturally in Ethiopia, and then was brought to the rest of the world by the Dutch and French, and coffee has adapted and grown wherever it's taken.

A selection of coffee

Have you considered the humble filter coffee from South India?

As a founder and manager of over 15 cafes myself, I can only surmise that the good coffee there was attributed to the following factors:

1. Busy cafe - This means that everything is working at optimal levels. The coffee grind is fresh and has not lost any of its most aromatic elements and the commercial espresso machine is maintaining the water in the lines at the optimal temperatures.
2. Coffee roasted on the premises - This means that the roasted coffee beans are fresh and have been stored properly by the baristas, away from the taste eroders of light, heat and moisture. Bellissimo have also won many awards for the quality of their roasted coffee beans.
3. Passionate well trained staff - No matter when I ordered my coffee there, I seemed to be served by the same baristas who took great pride in ensuring that every coffee was 10/10 perfection. They knew how to extract the god shot and they didn’t boil the milk.
4. The best equipment - They had the top of the range commercial conical grinders and 2 x Italian designed and made 4 group espresso coffee machines.

I love my Davidoff everyday!

One of the highest quality coffees are the beans fo the Geisha varietal cultivated in Boquete, Panama. Its beans are auctioned off per lot (and picking period), so that coffee roasters can pick very specific tastes that they would like to sell to their customers.

While on the subject of Coffee and Chocolate, this relatively new artisanal brand is my recent find: https://www.cntraveller.in/story/kadayiruppu-kerala-chocolate-paul-and-mike-india/

They seem to have some award-winning, exotic flavors!!!

Thandai

The world's finest arabica coffee beans are listed by country in no particular order since the biggest factor is personal preference.

For example, some people might prefer the winey and fruity acidity of a Kenyan coffee over the classic balance of a Colombian coffee. Others might not. So we'll go ahead and disclaim that there's a subjective element and include the most popular coffees, taking all of these factors into account with the highest rated coffees.

Taste is a very, very individual experience. It's affected by:

• your genetics, which impact how your brain perceives certain tastes
• upbringing, which conditions you to prefer certain flavors over others
• taste receptors, which can be altered by medication and diet
• tasting training, which can teach you to better identify flavors (similar to wine tastings)
• life experiences, which can have negative or positive memories associated with a flavor
• foods you've eaten recently, which can also alter your taste receptors
• mood and stress levels, which alter how your brain perceives flavors

That's why when someone says "coffee X is the best", what they really mean is "coffee X is the best to my specific tastes", and this isn't useful for you.

We recommend you don't listen to coffee "connoisseurs", and instead, simply try different coffees.

The best tasting coffee for you is one that you discover for yourself. Avoid sticking with specific brands, which hide the coffee origin from you. We've listed some of the best coffees in the world below for you to look into.

BTW, a fun fact!

The word coffee comes from the Arabic word for wine!

Qahwah later became kahveh in Turkish, and then koffie in Dutch, which is where we get the English word coffee.