Best way to get into coffee for a beginner?

Moka pot, certainly. Easy to manage, cheap (compared to a espresso machine), and does great coffee if done right.

Here's a good tutorial that served me well: https://youtu.be/BfDLoIvb0w4

Order an Aeropress and/or pour-over equipment (Hario V60 and a kettle with a gooseneck) and some good beans. Go with light roast first. Make sure they weren't roasted too long ago. 4 weeks is good. Then grind them manually or with an electric grinder and you're good to go. No need to spend copious amounts of money.

Mokka pot, French press are really friendly ways. Honestly the first time I had French press I used the same normal coffee we put in the drip everyday and the different was so noticeable it sent me down the rabbit hole. Then ya get the mokka pot or pour over, the coffee gets stronger, the methods more complex, finally you buy the Gaggia evo Pro, a normcore tamp, some screens some puro, a grinder, a lil spray bottle to pre moisten and you're hooked

After starting on a thrift store Keurig with a refillable cup one that thankfully came with a tablespoon measure with a bag clip

I really got started semi-seriously on a french press, but I really started to pay attention to brew time when I accidentally bought a bag of medium roast.

Dark roasts are very forgiving as far as brew time, but medium roasts are a lot more finicky to brew without over extracting and getting astringent coffee.

From there, I've accumulated an Aeropress, a cucumella, and a moka pot, and they all brew different tastes and textures with the same bag.

A kitchen scale that read to 0.1g, a decent $50 hand grinder from Kingrind or Timemore or if you are rich get one from 1zpresso, and a Clever Dripper or Hario Switch plus a normal electric kettle. Now find some good beans.

Go buy some quality coffee beans, a grinder, and turn it into coffee.

I'd recommend keeping it simple at first. Drip coffee, pour over, or an aeropress are all easy to use and make it well.

Keep track of the water to coffee ratio (ideally with a scale, but a little measuring scoop works too). Tweak it over time to your taste.

If you really want to go deep, there are countless hours of people talking about coffee on YouTube. The fun part for me is just experimenting and drinking it. The caffeine is fun too.

Coffee press like Bodum or Aero Press. Buy a decent whole bean coffee, doesn’t have to be fancy, even starbucks coffee will do. One of those inexpensive blade mills is fine. These also take up very little room. Watch a youtube video on basic how-to.

Yeah, people get wrapped up in roasts, burr mills, grind sizes, types of coffee/espresso machines…don’t bother unless you really want to get into coffee. We used the aforementioned for years before settling on how much we wanted to invest in the coffee making routine. If you’re just starting out my suggestions are fine, relatively inexpensive, and make a decent cup of coffee.

Do you mean specialty coffee or you just haven't really drank much coffee and you want to start drinking it more?

Honestly? Use a french press. It's just so much more forgiving than a lot of other coffee methods. Pretty hard to badly over or under extract in a french press without getting the grounds to water ratio heinously wrong. Some people don't like the clean up but I really don't think it's all that bad, it might throw you off with a bit of superfine grounds at the bottom or something but honestly it's not gonna hurt you.

It depends where you are currently; coffee will meet you where you are. This advice below is for if you don't drink coffee at all yet.

What you want to go for is a cup of coffee from a diner or drip coffee from a cafe. Leave the fancy coffee for later. Also leave instant coffees, gas station coffees, cold coffees, and home preparation alone until you have more of a taste for it.

Make sure you leave room for mixing in some kind of cream. I think half and half (a mix of milk and cream) is the best. Some people like other creamers or additions, like milk, or sugar. While the coffee may be an acquired taste, the half and half is almost guaranteed to be tasty right off the bat.

A V60 is super cheap, you can buy decent filters online for reasonably cheap too and there are many videos on brewing technique. You should be able to find a decent hand grinder for coffee beans for a very reasonable amount of money as well. All in all that's a budget friendly setup that will let you make coffee of a very high standard.

When sourcing beans, you want to look for single origin specialty coffee, preferably sourced from a single small region like an individual farm or collective. Don't buy darker roasts than medium as the characteristics of the coffee bean will be overwhelmed by the roast. Buy small bags from a wide variety of regions and a wide variety of described taste notes to start getting a feel for what you like. Try some fermented coffee, try some Ethiopian light roasts, try some Sumatra Mandheling.

My go-to is a level teaspoon of honey mixed into the kind of coffee that looks like black tar, for a beginner I'd suggest buying some of those paper coffee filters and a holder that sits on top of your cup, and a small bag of a '3' strength (most supermarkets do a 2, 3, 4, and 5 roast)

See how the flavour suits you, and experiment with different roasts

If you want to get instant coffee go for Dowe Egberts (the glass jar with the gold label) because it's one of the nicer options (for now, until keurig/dr pepper turn it into just another mass produced coffee)

The Hario V60 switch pourover, with a little YouTube/googling for method, will likely make anything taste better. It made a huge difference on a bag of pre-ground grocery store Peet’s I had, and other than getting a kettle to dial in a specific temp on the water, I haven’t felt the need to do much else than try new coffees that sound good. If there’s a World Market/Cost Plus near you, they have some interesting coffees.

Cheap drip machine from a big box store, bag of ground whatever. That's the cheapest and most cleanable setup.

Next step up in economy and flavor is buy a (again, cheap) blade grinder and switch to buying whole beans - they stay fresh longer and cost a bit less. Then you can get an electric or rangetop kettle and really start branching out to different brews and techniques.

Caveat the first, through all this, research by exploring Coffee YouTube and asking baristas and hanging out with that one coffee snob who actually will likely be entirely willing to help you out.

Caveat the second, beware equipment creep. Your collection of filters, kettles, cups, cones, scales, grinders, thermometers, and weird glassware will tend to expand to overfill whatever shelf you set aside for it. And that's without getting into espresso at all.

In the morning: Half a teaspoon of instant coffee and two teaspoons of your favourite hot chocolate powder. 4/5 parts hot water, 1/5 parts milk or substitute (I like oat milk) or just use pot boiled milk and no water if you are willing to put in the effort.

After a week increase to 1 teaspoon instant coffee.

Just start. Its food and you should experiment with different styles and see what you like.

When I'm feeling cheap and in a hurry I like to use instant coffee, but use real cream and flavorings to step it up. It tastes pretty good.

I also really like the aroma and enjoy the prep work of being snobby with a hand grinder to fine grind for my moka pot. That takes quite a bit of time that I don't often have so I don't do it often. I also have a Turkish Coffee pot and can never get it quite right.

Just buy some basic coffee, cream and sweetners to see what you like and what intensity you enjoy of your coffee and how much cream you add. I often like to replace the sugar with honey. If you want to be a bit fancy try some roasts that have some spice or nuts into them.

Under rated, but I like a good cold brew during the summer. All cold brew comes out about the same so its good for coffee that is cheap or going kinda stale.

Binge watch Lance Hedrick and James Hoffman. Join Specialty Coffee Enthusiasts Discord group.