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Re coffee - there’s literally hundreds of online coffee sellers available and you’ll get what you pay for. Nice coffee from roasters promoting sustainability are worth it IMO. I have been enjoying Onyx coffee recently. They break down all pricing for each coffee on their site.
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Santa brought coffee.
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Though I’ve only had it at the shop, Karma coffee out in Sudbury also ships I think. One other option — a friend got me a coffee subscription for a present once, was a good way to try a bunch of different things. There are a few that consistently get good reviews if you search the net. |
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Also quasi-local, or at least sorta-kinda local, is Custom House Coffee in Middletown, RI. Quite a few types of beans and blends. We use the one they call Black Magic pretty much exclusively. Can be pricey, esp. if you add in shipping but it's really good for espresso and cappuccino in our 1987 and 2017 Olympia Creminas, ground via our Olympia grinders. No commercial relationship.
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Heck, you could have bought a cheap Hario ceramic V60 pour-over maker and got far better coffee than what a Keurig or a Nespresso would make, and saved some money on top of it. You will need to buy cone filters but those are cheap to buy. The V60 works best with a medium-fine grind. Just watch videos on how to do it, it's as easy as it gets to make coffee, and it's pretty good coffee, better than from a drip machine, far better than those machines you tried. They also make the V60 in copper, copper won't break or chip like the ceramic one could, and copper does retain heat well. I got the ceramic one even though I have tile floors in the kitchen, so far I haven't broken it. I have several ways to make coffee, but my favorite method is the Bialetti Brikka Moka pot, the Brikka model has a pressure valve that holds back the coffee till the pressure builds up more, this unit makes perfect coffee every time, the original style moka pots the flavor was everywhere with hits and misses. But keep in mind, the Moka pot method makes a very strong cup of coffee, it's darn close to espresso, I doubt many could tell the difference except the crema isn't as much, but crema does nothing for the flavor anyway, so crema is overrated. With the Bialetti Brikka Moka pots, they go by 2 cup and 4 cup, not sure if they make one bigger than the 4 cup, but a 2 cup is not 2 cups, it's about a third of a cup, so if you want almost a full cup you'll want the 4 cup. |
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Trader Joe’s Sumatra Beans are reasonably priced great tasting choice. They are part of our regular rotation in our house. We’re using a Moccamaster coffee maker and grinder.
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I haven’t seen this coffee vendor mentioned (though I haven’t read through all 96 pp of this thread) but I’ve been ordering my beans from Hood River Coffee Roasters in Hood River OR for about 10 yrs now. I have tried many of their roasts and my favorite remains the Abruzzo Blend. I get a 5lb bag of beans every 3 months or so (free shipping to me in VA with a 5 lb order) and use a Capresso burr grinder on a medium/coarse setting to make a cup at a time with my Aeropress. I haven’t found anything to beat this cup of coffee for me each morning. I typically only have the one cup a day though sometimes I make a “flat white” as a second cup as best I can without a machine. I found out about Hood River because I used to be an avid reader of the Supertopo rock climbing forum and Mark Hudon, a legendary big wall climber and founder of Hood River Roasters, always devised his own blend for use on the wall of El Cap. I loved to read his trip reports and always the coffee was mentioned so I figured I’d give it a try. I’ve never turned back! BTW I am not a climber, just enjoy reading about and watching those who do.
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If you want to lower your carbon footprint, you have some good roasters right in virginia or nearby states. Have you tried Red Rooster? - https://www.redroostercoffee.com/ its very solid. or right next door, in North Carolina is one of my favorites rosters that I order from called Black and White coffee - https://www.blackwhiteroasters.com/ I am sure there are money but these 2 I have ordered from multiple times and Black and White I just got a batch of 3 different coffees, its top 2 places I get my beans from, they have excellent choices, excellent story, decently priced. |
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I've really really really been enjoying everything I've had from Brandywine Roasters. https://www.brandywinecoffeeroasters.com/
The artwork on their bags is great too. Coffee, incredible. Honorable mentions to other recents: Detour (canada), Cat and Cloud and some seasonal offerings from Rothrock |
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5# of coffee at one cup a day is quite a bit of coffee. Just curious: how do you store the beans and do you notice any difference, would you say, between cup one and the last cup of an order?
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Tim…I had to Google those machines…pretty impressive and now my “new espresso machine” list just grew.
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I just looked this coffee up. It’s going to be roasted way too dark and taste way too burnt for freshness to matter in all honesty.
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I have 5 or 6 vacu-seal canisters that I put the beans in when they arrive and I go through each canister till it’s time to reorder. I haven’t noticed the flavor change as the weeks wear on but a more discerning aficionado certainly might. I appreciate the recommendations for VA and NC online vendors as well, might give them a try next time.
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