What are the best coffee brands? Tips on choosing great coffee.

Wondering what are the best coffee brands? There are so many types of coffee now available, some are well known ones, while others are virtually unknown. Choosing a great product can help make things easier for you, as long as you trust your taste buds more than the advertising!

We'll take a look at the different brands, we'll break them down into several manageable categories, then we'll offer some tips on choosing coffee for your home, office or wherever.

Popular Brands

Many individual brands are available in larger stores, markets and online. So choosing a popular brand can be as simple as going to your favorite store and adding a bag of coffee beans to your shopping cart.

• Millstone Coffee
• Dunkin Donuts Coffee
• Kirkland Coffee
• Starbucks Coffee

We'll also be looking at Folgers coffee, Maxwell House, and many of the other popular consumer brands, so why not subscribe to our feed if you can't find your coffee beans right now!

So why would you consider the popular brands? Familiarity, ease of purchase, and competitive pricing are the hallmarks of the popular brands. While you won't necessarily get the absolute best quality, you will find a standard quality that means, from cup to cup, you can rely on getting a drink that you will enjoy.

Imported Brands

The imported brands are well-known, though they have less of a market share than the majors. Amongst these, we find many european coffee brands, and even some household names, too.

• illy coffee
• Lavazza Coffee
• Melitta Coffee
• Douwe Egberts Coffee

Most notably, are the Italian Coffees, the German Coffees, and a few others that you may also see occasionally in the local supermarket or whole food stores.

Many of these coffees are regarded as the best brands in Europe, but many are available in stores all over the world, especially better quality stores, supermarkets and specialist stores. Though many are among the best ground coffee brands, you may find that you can buy real coffee beans for personal grinding.

Specialist Brands

The last group of coffee brands are perhaps the least obvious, on TV. Yet if you are a coffee drinker of any regularity, you may still know these brands.

• BocaJava
• Kona Coffee
• Nespresso
• Gevalia Coffee
• Seattles Best Coffee

The specialist brands are typically available in smaller markets, smaller coffeeshops or chainstores, via direct mail or online. Some may even be available through gourmet coffee clubs only.

Part of the allure of the specialist coffee brands are their access to smaller crops of coffee beans that larger coffee companies would not be able to use. So you may find that you can try some really good brands that are not generally available.

Coffee Overviews: Keep updated

I'll be doing overviews of as many coffee brands as I can reasonably consume without caffeine poisoning! And I'll be scouring the local marketplaces to find brands that could be on this list but aren't.

These 'overviews' aren't reviews as such, more just suggestions, experiences, insights, and tips on which coffees seem better (or worse) ... and how to make the most of your bag of beans! Do bookmark this page, and check back regularly to see what I've updated. You can also take a look at my coffee guide which will help you with some basic questions.

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