Oscuro 12oz Coffee

Will Shurtz, Marco Suarez, and David Baker put their heads together to open Methodical Coffee's first cafe in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, in 2015, and have since expanded to open further locations around Greenville and in Columbia. Describing themselves as "coffee nerds, not coffee snobs," the three each play distinct roles — with Will personally overseeing production and roasting beans from Africa, Central America, and South America in small batches, Marco handling brand design, and David managing operations. Everything they do follows what they call their company's Methodista values: being mindful, personal, creative, tenacious, and grateful.

Oscuro is Methodical's darkest blend and their interpretation of Italian roast coffee with Brazilian Catuai and Mundo Novo beans finished in the natural process by drying the bean inside the coffee cherry to absorb its sugars. It's a perfect find for coffee drinkers seeking a dark coffee that still manages to have a rich, nuanced flavor outside the bitterness of other dark blends, delivering notes of dark chocolate in particular. Methodical recommends the pour over and espresso methods for brewing its blends.