So many Baristas on a bikers forum :bow:
I'm no coffee expert but I have tasted coffees from all over the World & know what I personally like & I really like the coffee provided by my Dolce Gusto pods, if they're second rate coffee then so be it, what would people class as first rate coffee?
My mother in law once tried telling me that mellow birds was just as nice as my percolated coffee.
For a real Earthy coffee book a trip to the Dominican, then do the trip round the sugar plantations where you get the hospitality of a Haitian plantation worker :-0)