20 Best Coffee Subscriptions of 2024 (with Tasting Notes Galore)

If you exclusively drink iced coffee year-round (or, like me, switch to cold brew for the summer), Blue Bottle’s Cold Brew Assortment subscription is for you. With locations in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Japan, Blue Bottle is widely considered a herald of the third-wave coffee movement (it even sells its craft instant espresso with a cupping spoon), and in 2017, it was acquired by Nestlé. All the coffee is downright sublime, but the chicory-infused New Orleans–style cold brew has a special place in our heart. We used to spend an embarrassing amount of money on iced NOLAs at its New York location, but thanks to Blue Bottle’s subscription, we now make our own at home. The whole beans come with a pouch of ground chicory and a convenient recipe card. You don’t have to go the cold-brew route: The brand offers a slew of whole bean subscriptions as well as an instant coffee subscription.

Blue Bottle offers half-bag or full-bag shipments in most flavors (but not the NOLA-style, which only comes in a full bag. We’ll breeze through it all anyways).

• Price: $46/two 8.8-oz. bags or $69/two 17.6-oz bags, includes shipping
• Delivery frequency: monthly
• Our go-to order: Let Perry and Welland surprise and delight you

If you’re counting down till Fat Gold’s November olive harvest, can rattle off where Diaspora’s spices are sourced from, and are a card-carrying member of Rancho Gordo’s bean club, you’ll love the Luna approach. The duo behind this tiny roaster (Laura Perry and Nate Welland) is known for their light, fruity blends and meticulously thoughtful sourcing. Our own resident coffee nerd, Chris Morocco, introduced me to Luna; he travels with a bag of its Techno Peach blend. Subscribe to Luna’s two bags a month program and you might very well end up spending an afternoon reading the included zine about the differences between Ethiopian and Guatemalan beans, all while sipping a subscriber exclusive blend. It is very much, as Perry puts it, “the weird and wonderful world of coffee nerddom,” but any ingredient-obsessive can hop on board.

The beans are roasted fresh each week, and subscriptions are shipped out directly after roasting. Subscribers can expect a mid-month shipment of two bags, along with the zine.

• Price: starting at $16/12-oz. bag, with free shipping
• Delivery frequency: every 1–4 weeks, or every 2 months
• Our go-to order: Passion, a medium-dark, smooth single-origin, or the bright, extra-fruity Honey Process

Bags of beans from Alma, a crop-to-cup coffee producer, can be purchased on both Trade and MistoBox. But if you’ve dated around and decided it’s time to go steady, Alma operates its own subscription service. Alma is certified USDA organic, cofounded by a disabled army veteran and a fifth-generation coffee farmer, and is solely responsible for every part of the glorious coffee process. Alma own its own farms in Honduras, where all their beans are grown before being sent to its roasting facility, HQ, and coffee shop in Canton, Georgia. Select from eight different types of coffee, including Alma’s classic blends, seasonally changing honey- and natural-process bags, a cold-brew option, and decaf. Bags are roasted to order, can be shipped whole or in one of three grind settings (Keurig, pour-over, French press). If you’re looking for a larger subscription, say, for your office, expect discounts up to 15% as you increase the number of bags sent per week.