Poland

This one came in a four-pack with the predecessor. It is definitely the better of the two: the promised flowery notes were noticeable.

A new roaster with a fun twist: it is run by a Guatemalan and roasts only Guatemalan coffee. We discovered it in one of our local cafes. The quality to price ratio is decent, but only if you buy the discounted four-packs. As for the taste, it made a comfortable everyday coffee. Also, Venecia is a varietal we haven’t encountered before.

This one was considerably (~60%) more expensive than the predecessor, and the prominent mention of “funky” in blue on the bag does this coffee justice. It was a true fruity-floral bomb. Probably this is the key characteristic of the thermal shock processing, which so far I’ve encountered only on coffees from Colombia. Drinking this coffee felt almost like eating a bag of sweet-sour gummy bears, with an additional strong and pleasant floral scent. ...

Definitely not as fruity as the bag suggests, but a comfortable, adequately-priced all-rounder nonetheless. Tasted especially well as Aeropress or drip on ice during the summer heatwave of 2026.

Smok (Polish for “dragon”) is a new roaster. I decided to give them a go, even though this coffee is roasted on the darker end of my tolerance (as I prefer light roasts). The bag design seems to combine three things: op art, pixel art (scans don’t do them justice, as they are primarily on the sides and at the bottom of the bag), and swing tags. The latter are an interesting idea, admittedly aesthetically pleasing, but not really functional - they make opening the bag needlessly difficult. ...

Sadly, another Geisha disappointment. You try an incredible coffee at a local coffee fair, and then can’t get the brew quite right to recreate the tasting experience you had from the roaster. Lesson learned: no point paying a premium for a coffee which will probably not taste so good at home.

A typical Lacava all-rounder, perfectly suitable for work.

Normally I steer away from overly fruity coffees like this during winter months, but this one was so good that I emptied the bag in a mere two weeks. It seems that regardless of our seasonal preferences, a good roast will always find its way to the cup very quickly.

Finally, they learned to print actually scannable QR codes [link]. Previously, they were too small with too weak contrast.

A rare occurrence when the flavor description on the label is 100% accurate. The flavor was white tea, which I found particularly pleasant. Normally it takes 3-4 weeks to empty a coffee bag in my place. With this one, it took a mere two weeks.