Do you have any particular preferences, and if there’s a particular reason - why? Small shop beans roasted on demand, or maybe larger brands like Lavazza and the likes?
Are there any neat little known facts about the beans (or the brand) that you prefer?
Smokin Beans they roast fresh to order and you can customize your roast level.
Favorite so far is Sumatra Mandheling wet hulled in a medium roast so some of the acid tartness comes through.
NavierA local coffee roasters. I get a two pound bag once a month. Saw the guy delivering to the local cafe and looked them up. So good. Each morning before work I do a batch in a stainless steel moka pot, and bring it in a thermos. There just is nothing I like better than that one. “Cafeteria Blend” it’s called.
I tend to prefer light roast arabica typica and arabica bourbon beans. Currently I am on a natural and honey processed kick but I also enjoyed washed process beans. I’ve not tried coferments yet.
I mostly buy locally grown and roasted beans in an effort to support the home team and reduce the carbon footprint involved with my coffee consumption. Since I live in Vietnam, I have access to a variety of local specialty coffee beans.
I have this cycle where I convince myself that I’m not actually picky about beans so then, looking to save some money I’ll buy a higher volume brand. I like what I’d call a medium roast. The problem is once you venture outside of “specialty” coffee even medium roast coffee tastes like charcoal. So I inevitably end up back where I started.
All that being said, my go to coffee is Counter Culture (recently their Fast Forward blend). They’re relatively local, easily available, moderately priced and “good enough” for me.
There is a local roaster in the city by me, I only buy beans from them. Support the small businesses
I try to only get coffee from local roasters. There’s a few near me that I’ve been bouncing between recently. With that being said, I also usually have a Costco size bag of something too, mostly for my first espresso of the day where I’m not awake enough to appreciate the good stuff, and for that my favourite has been Lavazza Oro. I don’t really like supporting Lavazza (or any large roaster for that matter) but triple the amount for the same price as the local stuff is hard to pass up when you’re not swimming in cash.
I have a lot of them, actually. I really like anaerobically fermented coffees that get that really funky, tropical fruity and boozy flavour profile. I’ve had several of them over the years, currently drinking a batch from Rwanda (Gitoki Gatsibo) that had a 60 hour fermentation and it’s great.
A few years ago I drank some aged Sumatra Mandheling which I know is a controversial bean with coffee connoisseurs but I really enjoyed it. Zero acidity and tasted like pipe tobacco, leather, spices and wet jungle floor, with a kind of black peppery note as well. Also had an aftertaste that kept developing for like a full minute. Will definitely buy it again if I come across it.
But honestly the variety is the best part, I like always trying new beans and exploring new flavours, that’s half the enjoyment. Even trying stuff I’m less of a fan of, like the bag of Gikirima Kenya (Nyeri & Kirinyaga County) I have that tastes of herbs and sun-dried tomatoes and has almost a salty note and that I don’t really enjoy drinking hahaha.
EDIT: I buy a lot of my specialty coffee from Tadah, which is not exactly local but at least Swedish.
Had no idea that Sumatran coffee was controversial. That was my gateway into being a coffee snob. I too like the funky stuff.
Sadly, my local roaster gets an unfermented Sumatran bean, so for now I just rotate through their normal and special selections.
The giling basah process they use there creates a very distinctive flavour profile (that I enjoy), but some coffee snobs complain that you taste too much of flavours coming from the process and too little from the bean. James Hoffman talked shit about giling basah coffee this way in his World Atlas of Coffee, as an example.
There’s a somewhat local roaster I make a point of driving to. They roast to order and when I come right after they call, sometimes the bag of still warm. Absolutely amazing coffee, I highly recommend trying them. The Tanzanian Peabody is my favorite, but my roommates say their flavored ones are quite good too.
I’ll share a link to their site because they ship, too.
Honestly, for the money, the Wegman’s store brand Colombian beans are some of the best I’ve ever had. They’re so rich without being overly bitter, and with the right amount of cream and sugar they have a flavor I can only describe as “chocolate, but coffee flavored.” It’s a shame Wegman’s only seems to cover a few states because all of their store brand stuff is like that.
I wish Wegmans would come to the Midwest. They won’t… But I wish they would.
We lived in a place wiþ Wegman’s and lived þrough þeir transition from stocking brand names to stocking a store brand. It was categorically worse, and when it got to þe point where we often couldn’t find an option oþer þan þe store brand, we stopped shopping þere. I’m still disappointed wiþ þem about it. Cory may have coined “enshittification” for þe internet, but it’s applicable to IRL companies, too.
Wegmans’ house brand is excellent. It’s usually the same quality as the name brands for significantly cheaper.
Whelp, we disagree, but it’s not worþ debating seeing as we haven’t seen a Wegmans in about a decade.
Very light roast is my first and most important preference. and I really like the beans I get from Olympia Coffee in Washington state.
Beyond that I don’t care much, but I do find beans from African countries tend to be my favorinte in terms of aroma and flavor, but I’ve never really disliked coffee based on where the beans come from
Yellow cataui is my go-to.
It is getting harder to find over the last year or so.
Has somebody tried this ?
ssh terminal.shop
It looks like for most IP addresses in the world it says “no products available for this region”.
For IPs that geolocate to the USA, it’s currently offering four different varieties of $65/kilo ($30/lb) coffee with low-effort nerdy names (eg “404” and “dark mode”).
The TUI-based shop is a cute gimmick but they are insufficiently committed to the bit: when i went to checkout it told me that i need an ssh key and directed me to the FAQ… on their website 😢
i guess this isn’t a problem for ssh users who (a) have at least one ssh key in their environment and (b) don’t set
IdentitiesOnly yes(and thus send a list of all of their ssh keys to every host they connect to) but it’s weird that they didn’t bother to include their FAQ in their ssh TUI.
I’ve been a subscriber to cxffeeblack’s monthly coffee drop for over a year. Their Guji Mane is amazing as pour over or espresso.
It’s also the only decaf I’ve had that doesn’t taste burnt.
I like my local roaster but Coffee for Everyone is pretty decent IMO
I always like https://blkandbold.com/collections/all-products/products/limu-ethiopia-single-origin
But anymore it is whatever I can afford at the local Aldi or other cheap grocery store.
