Death Wish Coffee

Death Wish Coffee built its identity on a specific, provocative claim: that it makes the world's strongest coffee. The brand traces back to a Saratoga Springs café in 2012, and while its own site keeps the caffeine numbers behind a dedicated "How Strong Is Death Wish Coffee?" page rather than splashing them across the homepage, the strength positioning runs through everything else — bold, high-caffeine dark roasts marketed to drinkers who find standard coffee underwhelming.

What the company puts front and center instead are its certifications: it bills itself as the "#1 Organic and #1 Fair Trade Coffee," a pairing meant to reassure buyers that the intensity doesn't come at the expense of how the beans were grown or traded. Power Surge Coffee is the current best-seller, sitting alongside a broader dark-roast lineup and a subscription program called the Society of Strong Coffee that offers new members a discount on their first order.

The brand has expanded from that original Saratoga Springs café into nationwide shipping out of a Round Lake roastery, turning a single strong-coffee gimmick into sustained mail-order business — one customer testimonial even credits the blend with sidestepping the stomach acidity issues other coffee gave them, an unusual claim for a coffee marketed primarily on intensity rather than gentleness.