Beautiful Coffee To The People
Medium-Dark★ 5.0 (1)Northscore 69
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- Weight
- 283g
- Price / oz
- $1.90/oz
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As cupped
juicy fruit notes · dark chocolate · rich full-bodied finish
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Roasts daily
Roasts most weekdays, so most orders ship within a day or two of the roast date.
“We roast coffee daily at our Public Roastery in East Oakland.” source ↗
Northscore
Quality score with explicit source coverage. Methodology
69
Limited signal
Confidence45% coverage / 2 of 4 signals
Treat this as a directional read until more source families land. Coverage is signal availability, not cup quality; missing sources are dropped and the remaining weights are renormalized.
Missing: SCA grade, Coffee Review
- 75/ 44% weightCommunity sentimentSentiment across specialty-coffee discussion
- 65/ 56% weightSensory averageMean of acidity, body, sweetness, balance, cleanliness
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Taste this against three others Cherry picks.
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About Red Bay Coffee
Community reputation · Reddit
Well-regarded· sentiment 75/100
Red Bay Coffee is recognized as a prominent local roaster in the Oakland/SF Bay Area. Community members identify them as a go-to roaster in the region, though specific feedback on their coffee is limited. One user noted that their beans required significant adjustments to dose and extraction technique to achieve a balanced espresso shot, moving away from a thin, acidic profile to one with a thicker body and dark sugar notes.
Oakland stapleBay Area favoriterequires dialing in for espressolocal roaster recommendation
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On YouTube · Reviewers discussing Red Bay Coffee
YouTube reviewers have published 2 popular videos about Red Bay Coffee (3,084 combined views). Channels include CBS News, Visit Oakland.