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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