86	Has Beans Mt. Shasta, California Organic House Blend Roast: Dark Review Date: December 2002 Origin: Not disclosed. Price: NA

Blind Assessment: For a coffee from northern California, the home of ultimate and often bitter dark roasts, this one is quite delicate, subtly roasty but gently dry, unobtrusively sweet, with echoes of dry, high-toned fruit. "I have been coming to this shop for 10 years now," the nominating reader writes, "and they definitely have the best coffee in the world."

Notes: Has Beans is a retail and wholesale roaster founded in San Francisco in 1976. The company moved to Mt. Shasta, a town at the foot of the mountain of the same name, in the mid- 90s, and now distributes its coffees throughout northern California. Visit www.hasbeans.com or call 800-has-beans for more info.

Who Should Drink It: Refined mountaineers and dark-roast drinkers.

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