Panamanian Coffees…which is really the best Panama Coffee?

I don’t know the answer to which one is the best yet. However, I can tell you which one is the worst. Café Don Pepe is without a doubt the worst coffee I’ve ever had. It’s even worse than Starbucks. I’m glad it was the first one I tried so that I had no where to go but up. Café Don Pepe smelled like smoke. Now, I do enjoy a nice smokey wine from time to time, but smokey coffee? Yuck. But, I thought that I should still taste a cup. I can’t judge based only on smell. After all, if we all did that, no one would ever eat a passion fruit. (Have you ever smelled one of those? They reek, but they taste soooo good.)

Anyway, I tasted my first sip of Don Pepe and thought, well, milk and a bit of sugar will help. No. I wasted a perfectly good dollup of milk in this nastiness that they pass off as coffee. Not only did it smell like cigarette smoke, but it tasted like it too. I don’t think there’s anything I could have added to make it taste good. I tried another couple of sips, and finally poured the remaining out when my mouth tasted like I’d smoked a cigarette. I had to brush my teeth to try to get rid of it, and even that didn’t work completely. Yuck. Café Don Pepe should be renamed to Café Don’t Partake.

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