Single-origin specialty coffee can cost over $30 per pound, more than five times the average price of 1 pound of ground coffee in the US. “Specialty” is the term for the highest-quality coffee ...

Rather than being all-encompassing with this coffee guide, we're focusing on whole bean, single-origin coffees that are ...

Although single origin beans can come from the same farms supplying coffee for blends, the difference is that they’re grown separately in a smaller area, or a micro-lot.

‘Single origin’ can refer to beans sourced from a single country, region or farm. Which means that – technically – a bag of beans from, say, Brazil (which produces roughly a third of the world’s ...