This critique is special because I try Cutters Point Original coffee. Up front, I absolutely enjoy this coffee. Don’t let its plain brown bag appearance fool you. Its package is almost over engineered for resealing this product’s freshness. And that said, its smell is the freshest. It smells like fresh ground coffee in the northwest mountains. This coffee comes from Gig Harbor, Washington. While many of the popular coffees out now are from the Seattle area, Cutters is different for its medium roasted blend of stable flavors. There is no salient pop-culture flavor screaming for attention here. It is just the smoothest, richest, dark coffee a connoisseur can wake up too. The package describes its flavor, “notes of raisins, are balanced with an excellent caramel-like sweetness, finished with buttery undertones.” This seems complex, but my taste started with a black, unsweetened cup that had rich coffee flavor with possibly a raisin tarnish to calm acidity. My second cup had sweetener add...

Black coffee, from my perspective, is a natural go-to for comfort.  Some people just  desire  a cup of black coffee; they do not want some fancy, complex,  extravagant  beverage that  receives  more attention than some children get in the morning before school.  With this  said,   I  decided  to try   a basic ,  black, gourmet coffee.  Beyond Black from the Black Rifle Coffee Company comes in an impressiv e package with a soldier wearing night optics pictured.  It  doesn’t  list flavors or holidays on the front and  just reads, “beyond black . ”   Upon  filling my  cup, after a simple pour-through  brew ,  I am pleased with the taste of dark, adequately roasted, coffee beans.  I get a broad swath of  black organic, caff e inated  brew across my tongue.  I get a pleasurable tinge of flavor that is not acidic. This is a smooth black coffee.   The...