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Drip Coffee Bag Brand Recommendations

Just like getting used to spicy food, developing a taste for bitterness takes practice. Let me recommend three beginner-friendly drip coffee brands suitable for first-time coffee drinkers who are afraid of bitterness: Ziyu, Fushan, and FrontStreet Coffee.

1. Ziyu · Blue Mountain Style - ¥6.4/cup

Ziyu started making drip coffee in 2015 and is a brand with physical coffee shops. Their packaging is the most thoughtful among all brands, featuring a simple black and gold style that makes it perfect for gifting! They include sticky notes, cards, postcards, and other small gifts.

Bean Origin: Blend

Roast Level: Medium roast

Flavor: Distinct fruit aroma, with clear and smooth transitions between acidity, bitterness, and sweetness

Cost Performance: 7/10, medium price range

Packaging Design: 10/10, the black and gold character style highlights taste, and the gift design is very thoughtful! A must-have guide for modern coffee lovers, featuring authentic reviews of 8 drip coffee brands!

Dry Coffee Quality: 8/10, rich aroma when opening the package

Ziyu's drip coffee was the first one I opened, but because I left it out for a morning, possibly due to weather conditions, the drip bag became soft and couldn't be hung properly. So I suggest that if the weather is humid, friends should not leave drip bags outside—

Taste Score: 35. Before having tasted real Blue Mountain coffee, in terms of bitterness, Ziyu's Blue Mountain coffee is more suitable for friends who are afraid of bitterness. Although Blue Mountain-style coffee should be an excellent performer among coffees with outstanding qualities in every aspect, and also a relatively classic flavor, Ziyu's Blue Mountain falls short in both aroma and taste performance, leaving one somewhat disappointed.

Overall Score: 60

2. FrontStreet Coffee Seasonal Drip Coffee - ¥4.0/cup

FrontStreet Coffee is a local Guangzhou coffee brand with physical coffee shops. The drip packaging is simple and elegant. Although the varieties are random and not fixed, they are all fresh, and the coffee beans used are of good quality. They often have promotional activities with excellent value for money, making it practically a blessing for coffee enthusiasts who aren't too particular and for students with low income.

Bean Origin: Blend

Bean Variety: Arabica

Roast Level: Light roast to deep roast available

Flavor: Some have floral and fruity aromas, some are balanced and smooth, while others are rich and mellow. During promotions, there are many varieties; outside of promotional periods, they are random—whatever you get, you drink.

Cost Performance: 10/10, undoubtedly the best value for money

Packaging Design: 7/10, looks ordinary and unremarkable, but has all the necessary information. It's not flashy or eye-catching, just straightforward and practical

Dry Coffee Quality: 8/10, rich aroma when opening the package, though of course, the intensity of aroma varies by variety

Taste Score: 50. First, the drip coffee outside of promotional periods is quite surprising because they have so many bean varieties that you can hardly guess what surprise you'll encounter. However, the varieties during promotional periods are really thoughtfully selected—each period features different styles, processing methods, and regional bean varieties. For beginners, this is a great opportunity to taste various single-origin beans, after all, there aren't many shops willing to use so many single-origin bean varieties for drip coffee.

Overall Score: 75

3. Fushan Coffee - ¥6.4/cup

Fushan Coffee is a local coffee brand from Hainan with physical coffee shops. You can see that the packaging is also very distinctive, appearing particularly pure and unpretentious among a crowd of artistic and fresh styles.

Origin: China

Bean Origin: Fushan, Hainan

Roast Level: Medium roast

Flavor: Mellow and smooth

Cost Performance: 7/10, medium price range

Packaging Design: 10/10, at first glance it looks like a rheumatism plaster design—so unique that you can't take your eyes off it!

Dry Coffee Quality: 6/10, the coffee smell is thin when opening the package, with a strange sour aroma instead... A must-have guide for modern coffee lovers, featuring authentic reviews of 8 drip coffee brands!

Taste Score: 45, this is a rather boring coffee. The mouthfeel is very mellow, but as for other aspects... there doesn't seem to be much to say?

Overall Score: 68

4. Uncle Bean · Clear Sky Mandheling - ¥6.5/cup

Uncle Bean is also a relatively well-known domestic brand for drip coffee. This time we selected their set of ten single-origin varieties. This Mandheling comes from its origin region. If you don't know what flavor you like, you can try buying a set and tasting them one by one.

Origin: China

Bean Origin: Takengon, Lake Tawar region, Aceh

Bean Variety: Arabica Typica

Roast Level: Dark roast

Flavor: High sweetness, with tropical fruit flavors

Cost Performance: 7/10, medium price range

Packaging Design: 8/10, paper box packaging, beautiful and elegant. Behind each single-origin variety, there's corresponding text that's quite artistic and fresh

Dry Coffee Quality: 10/10, you can smell the rich aroma as soon as you open the package

Taste Score: 50, Uncle Bean's variety has a relatively rich aroma among domestic products, and the mouthfeel is also quite mellow. However, the flavor is rather monotonous—tropical fruits and such, you can smell a subtle sweet and sour sensation when smelling, but it's completely lost when tasting. After cooling slightly, the sourness of Uncle Bean's drip coffee gradually becomes more pronounced.

Overall Score: 75

5. Colin · Italian Espresso - ¥2.7/cup

From the packaging and online store style, Colin is closer to supermarket shelf products. As for whether shelf products are good or not, we'll leave that for everyone to judge—

Italian Espresso is the legendary Espresso, a classic flavor beloved by coffee connoisseurs, and also a flavor that really tests one's skills—

Origin: China

Bean Origin: Blend

Roast Level: Medium roast

Flavor: Clean, bright acidity, with cocoa and chocolate notes

Cost Performance: 8/10, finally a domestic drip coffee brand with relatively good value for money

Packaging Design: 7/10, paper box packaging, but it looks too much like a "shelf product"

Dry Coffee Quality: 8/10, rich aroma when opening the package, with chocolate notes

Taste Score: 55, it smells like chocolate, but for beginners, it's rather bitter and hard to get used to. This probably doesn't belong to the beginner category, but our evaluation doesn't differ much from Colin's own ratings. Does this mean this Espresso is basically qualified? Friends can try other flavors.

Overall Score: 75

Conclusion

For this review, we chose very basic, entry-level products that are still some distance from professional coffee appreciation. The purpose of this review is to help more friends understand drip coffee, to personally taste and experience it. If you make any new discoveries, feel free to send us a private message—

Moreover, adding milk and sugar to coffee sometimes creates magical chemical reactions, turning something hard to drink into silky smoothness... Friends are welcome to provide more clues!

Our drip coffee review ends here. I have fresh drip coffee here—would you like a cup?

Important Notice :

前街咖啡 FrontStreet Coffee has moved to new addredd:

FrontStreet Coffee Address: 315,Donghua East Road,GuangZhou

Tel:020 38364473