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Originally Posted by TheJohnNewton
There is no best coffee in the world. It's subjective as you can see by all the prior posts. There is so much variety in beans, processing, and preparation that "coffee" can mean very different drinks to different people. In Italy, for example, you would have a hard time even finding a cup of drip coffee as everyone drinks espresso. In the US drip is the common coffee while espresso for the most part is just an ingredient in big sugary milk drinks. In Nigeria the only coffee I could ever find was Nescafe an instant coffee. Turkish coffee, Vietnamese coffee, etc... all very different. So what's "best" to you probably depends on where you're from, what you grew up with, and your personal taste preferences.
What do I personally prefer? I roast my own beans so I always have fresh coffee. I make hand poured drip coffee using a Chemex but sometimes do french press as it brings out different characteristics of the coffee. I also make espresso, which I drink straight as espresso, with a proper espresso machine.
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Yours is a very good post, I think I can share most of it, although I never had Vietnamese coffee as of now...
If you already had Turkish coffe, than I think the one worth to mention that is missing from your post is the Brasilian one,
strained in the "sock".
A great coffee is what they use in public places in South America, I had it like that in a Peruvian hotel in Lima. They give you a pot with concentrated coffee, obviously fresh by the quality of the aroma, and hot water on the side so that you mix your own brew. I asked and I was told that it is a quite common practice.