Australian supermarket ground coffee taste test: we tried 41 varieties, two ways

Nicholas Jordan and a cohort of experts sampled 41 different coffees, done two ways. ‘I’ve never been more anxious and stressed about a taste test.’ Photograph: Rémi Chauvin/The Guardian

A few weeks ago my mum called me three times in one day, not for our usual chat but for an update on my health. I had told her, some days earlier, I was going to do a coffee taste test for work.

“How many will you be trying?”