You can choose from hundreds of different kinds of beans and roast them to a degree that suits your taste and caffeine level. Once you get hooked on doing it yourself, all commercial coffee tastes burnt and oxidized. (yuck)
Check out "sweetMarias.com" they have a great selection of roasters and green beans. You will never go back.
Stay away from Caribou, they are owned by the National bank of Bahrain and support Islamic causes......
Well, if that's true, that's the best piece of information of all the responses her for me. Thanks for the post...will have to look into that one.
"I roast my own beans at home."
Me, too. In fact, I'm roasting a couple pounds of Columbia "Dos Payasos de Tolima" right now as I type.
Sweet Maria's are definitely the best. I've bought my green coffee from them for years, as well as my Hot Top roaster. Wouldn't deal with anyone else. Tom's a little self-righteous sometimes in his postings, but I guess he has a right to be as he knows what he's talking about.
Anyone who buys one of these single cup machines is a chump, or at least likes to waste huge coin on crappy coffee. Roasting your own can get as low as $5.00 a pound for real quality coffee, even less if you order in heavy bulk. You can't hardly buy Maxwell House for that much, let alone $14.00 for 24 measly cups with those single cup machines. Roasting takes less than 15 minutes and aside from watching the machine and pushing a couple of buttons, not very complicated. A few minutes a week will get you a week's worth of roasted coffee.
I've wasted a lot of money in my time on stupid hobbies, but this is one I'm VERY happy I've moved into. I've even put together a coffee kit to take my roasted beans with me when I travel for business. As bad as these single cup machines are, the hotel room machines are disgusting.