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Which Coffee Bean Brand is the Best? What Are the Best-Tasting Specialty Coffee Bean Brands in China?

Published: 2026-01-27 Author: FrontStreet Coffee
Last Updated: 2026/01/27, Professional coffee knowledge exchange For more coffee bean information please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat public account cafe_style) What brand of coffee beans should you choose? First of all whether specialty coffee beans taste good or not is a matter of personal opinion after all everyone's taste is different Secondly how to choose coffee bean brands sorry this requires starting from the basics one article can't explain it all
Professional coffee knowledge exchange and more coffee bean information, please follow Coffee Workshop (WeChat official account: cafe_style)

What Brand of Coffee Beans Should You Choose?

First of all, the question of whether specialty coffee beans taste good is subjective - after all, everyone has different tastes.

Secondly, how to choose coffee bean brands - well, this requires learning from the beginning. One article cannot explain it clearly. If we make casual evaluations, it would not be objective enough and would be disrespectful to everyone in the specialty coffee industry.

Because brand itself is not the standard for distinguishing the quality of specialty coffee.

The current specialty coffee market is more competitive than ever before. The market's potential is attracting strong interest from capital. China has already become a major battleground in the world coffee market.

Excluding green bean quality, there are many famous domestic brands - let me list a few: Fisher, Mingqian, Uncle Bean, and many more. Among them, many good brands like seesaw, fisher, M2M, Uncle Bean, Rose, FrontStreet Coffee, Minority, etc., all do fresh roasting. When you buy their beans, you'll encounter situations where sometimes they taste good and sometimes they don't. This is related to the quality of green beans and many factors in the roasting process. You can try them gradually and choose what you like.

The market popularity of specialty coffee in China continues to rise. Taking Shanghai as an example, besides Peet's Coffee, which opened its first store in August 2017, Blue Bottle is also reportedly planning to open its first store in China in 2018.

%Arabica, the popular internet-famous café from Kyoto, Japan, couldn't wait to open in Shanghai before the 2018 Spring Festival even without obtaining a food and beverage license, becoming a hot topic in the coffee circle for a time.

The competition among domestic coffee brands is also quite lively, all under the banner of specialty coffee.

Luckin Coffee, which originated in Beijing, after opening its first store in October 2017, has now expanded to 11 cities and rapidly opened nearly a hundred stores.

Additionally, Seesaw, GREYBOX, which has already received tens of millions or even hundreds of millions in investment, Youxin Coffee, which focuses on serving office buildings, as well as influential brands in Shanghai like麦隆, 质馆, Eagle Coffee, and 芦田家, are all gradually emerging from independent café brands to break out of their niche markets.

Behind all of this is the support of smart capital. No large business makes decisions without rigorous and rational business analysis. This can only explain one thing: market demand is huge, and consumers are waiting for you to open stores.

According to statistics, China's coffee consumption is growing at 20% annually, about 10 times the global coffee consumption growth rate. Asia, with half the world's population and one-third of coffee production, has become a new engine driving the development of the global coffee industry and coffee consumption market.

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