Review: Found Familiar Coffee, Goodberry.

Ok! Here's my first coffee review.

For those who've followed my work for a while, you know coffee is really important to me.

Found Familiar coffee intrigued me, because it's a coffee company by and for gamers!

So, since “I drink coffee and I know things.” let's get into it.

The flavor I'm trying first is Goodberry, a light roast coffee from Ethiopia, noted to have, and I quote, “Notes of mixed berries, wildflowers, and sangria.”

I brewed my cup as I always do, in the same proportions, as a full pot. I might make mine stronger than yours, but that shouldn't impact the results.

I was not given this coffee, I bought the sample pack myself. I have no connection to Found Familiar Coffee, so you should be able to expect an unbiased review.

That said, the coffee, on first tasting, I would describe as bright and vibrant. You can tell the caffeine content is high, like most light roast, just what I wanted. I'm not sure I can identify what they call notes of sangria...but I definitely can taste, and smell, the hints of wildflowers and berries. This coffee screams druid spell, which it kind of has to, given the name. So that's a hit. I only add half and half, no sugar or sweetener, but I imagine with a sweetener the fruit flavors kick up even more.

Unmodified, black, the smell of flowers and fruit is even more obvious. The taste is again, clean and bright. There's no bitterness to it, making the use of creamer almost redundant. This is a fantastic morning coffee...or a great coffee for a long session of tabletop roleplaying or LARP.

Trying my partner’s, sweetened with a nondairy creamer that is brown sugar flavored, I find I am correct, and the fruity notes are magnified, which is interesting.

Overall, I have to say it's a damn good brew. The average price of roasted, ground, single origin specialty coffee in the US is a little over 30 dollars right about now, so the price of 21 dollars for 12 oz is actually $1.75 dollars an ounce vs 1.85 dollars an ounce for the average (not counting shipping on either), so this is actually a good deal for coffee fiends like myself. When you take into account the cool branding, this is a buy, and I'll get more when I can afford to, as well as try their other flavors, especially if I can find more light roast.

get some here: https://foundfamiliar.com/