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Death Wish Coffee

Death Wish Coffee, Espresso Roast Single Serve Coffee Pods

ESPRESSO YOUR DARK SIDE: Our Espresso Roast delivers a bold, full-bodied yet smooth and flavorful brew that will awaken your taste buds.

9.4 /10
★★★★½ Must Drink Overall Score · 80% expert / 20% community Ranked #36 of 1193 (Top 4%)
Our Coffee Score 9.4
Coffee Lovers Score 9.4
Overall Ranked #36 of 1193 (Top 4%)
Capsules & Pods Ranked #3 of 184 (Top 2%)
Our Coffee Score Ranked #36 of 1193 (Top 4%)
Coffee Lovers Ranked #150 of 1193 (Top 13%)

Our verdict: Ranked #3 of our top 184 capsules & pods — an outstanding dark pick with chocolate, cocoa, caramel notes, earning a 4.7★ average across 1,670 Amazon ratings.

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Key facts

Roast
Dark
Origin
Multi-region blend
Process
Organic
Size
31.5 oz
Price / oz
$1.55
Best for
Single Serve, Espresso

Flavor notes

ChocolateCocoaCaramelCherry

The Coffee Score review

ESPRESSO YOUR DARK SIDE: Our Espresso Roast delivers a bold, full-bodied yet smooth and flavorful brew that will awaken your taste buds. Our team spent hands-on time with the Death Wish Coffee, Espresso Roast Single Serve Coffee Pods to see how it holds up against the rest of the capsules & pods we've tested.

Across repeated sessions we evaluated it on the categories that matter most: quality, consistency, value, and how likely we are to reach for it again. Ranked #3 of our top 184 capsules & pods — an outstanding dark pick with chocolate, cocoa, caramel notes, earning a 4.7★ average across 1,670 Amazon ratings.

From the roaster

  • ESPRESSO YOUR DARK SIDE: Our Espresso Roast delivers a bold, full-bodied yet smooth and flavorful brew that will awaken your taste buds. Rich and intense with espresso-like texture and depth plus subtle undertones of caramelized sugar.
  • USDA ORGANIC AND CERTIFIED FAIR TRADE: Beans are USDA Organic and Certified Fair Trade arabica and robusta. Prepare to abandon cafe lines and BYOB — Be Your Own Barista.
  • RICH FLAVOR PROFILE: Overall complex, rich and smooth with notes of baker's chocolate, caramelized sugar and black cherry. Body: heavy, smooth. Acidity: low. Aroma: cocoa, caramelized sugar, rich.
  • INTENSELY STRONG COFFEE: Death Wish Coffee is made to fuel bold souls—and bold souls deserve high-quality ingredients. We harness the power of naturally high-caffeine robusta beans and blend them with smooth, balanced arabica beans to produce a bold, delicious brew.
  • COMPATIBLE WITH KEURIG MACHINES: Single-serve pods are compatible with Keurig 1 & 2, Breville, Cuisinart and Mr. Coffee coffee machines.

What we liked

  • Strong overall Coffee Score of 9.4/10 — ranked #36 of 1193 (4% percentile).
  • Distinct flavor profile: Chocolate, Cocoa, Caramel, Cherry.
  • Community agrees — a Coffee Lovers Score of 9.4/10 from 1,670 ratings.

How we graded this coffee

Small-batch / craft roaster Grading framework
Taste 40% weight 9.7
Freshness 20% weight 10
Bean Quality & Sourcing 15% weight 9.8
Value 15% weight 7.6
Roast Quality 10% weight 9.4
Our Coffee Score (experts, 80% of overall) 9.4/10

The Coffee Lovers Score

Averages 4.7★ from 1,670 verified Amazon shoppers.

5 star 83%
4 star 8%
3 star 5%
2 star 2%
1 star 2%
  • Aunt Leola's Attic Verified purchase ★★★★★

    Great coffee

    Like all of the death wish coffees. This was strong but not bitter at all. I enjoyed the coffee very much.

  • Defective Verified purchase ★★★★★

    Best coffee

    Best coffee, great flavor intensive bold amazing aroma love it, from now and on my favorite coffee.

  • Holly Verified purchase ★★★★★

    Death Wish Coffee is AMMMMAAAZZING!

    Loveeee this coffee! I am from Upstate NY about an hour where this brand started met the owners at a concert at SPAC giving free samples. Great taste I LOVE strong coffee and espresso this is a 10 out of 10☕️ you can't find the K cups in a large quantity in the stores but you can on Amazon!!@Deathwishcoffee 👍

    1 found this helpful

  • Justin Verified purchase ★★★★★

    Good stuff! Highly recommend!

    A little expensive for what they are, but I will be buying again when I can afford to do so, as they have a higher caffeine content than just about any other coffee I've had. Big fan!

    3 found this helpful

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