Goes for $800 a pound.
It has a unique, ah, "nutty" flavor.....
Heh, heh
Posted on 06/14/2008 3:49:27 PM PDT by Perdogg
A coffee shop in Washington is offering a cup of coffee for $15. That’s right, $15.
The cup of coffee is brewed from the rare Panama Ezmarelda coffee bean. It’s called the best bean in the world. A roaster in Vancouver paid big bucks to buy 50 pounds of the bean. The coffee shop paid $100 for a half-pound bag that makes only 8 cups of the coffee.
Gail Rothrock joined the $15 coffee club. She says the coffee has a tropical fruit type flavor coming out of it.
You might want to try these folks: http://www.deansbeans.com/coffee/index.html
We order from them, receive the beans in about 4-5 days. The prices are not too bad for organic coffee. After drinking it for the past several years nothing else even compares to it. When we travel we take our grinder and a supply of beans with us. Good water is also a requirement so we take a supply of our filtered water.
PS to my #61. You have to overlook their political affiliations.
I agree with you on the steak! Why waste the taste of a great steak (or any steak) and its natural juices with some kind of sauce?
Yes, to the grinder and beans when traveling.
No Bokar at Dean’s that I know of. We usually just opt for a good French Roast or might try something else for a change. We have sampled just about all they have to offer in Dark Roast. Also use some of their decaf as age has caught up with me and caffeine after about 1:00 PM means sleep problems.
A guy I knew years ago always bought the most expensive cut of beef when he was entertaining guests. He told me that anyone who asked for steak sauce would never be invited back for dinner.
Bokar - smokar what the heck is all that about? A good blue specked enamel pot on a camp fire, some water from the horse trough, some grounds tossed in and bring it all to a boil. Now that is the real man’s drink, not any of this filtered water and grinding your own crap.
Make mine Jim Beam and it can be at anytime, morning, noon or night.
Who invited you to this party? Sounds like you need to saddle up and ride out of here.
I started roasting my own at home, getting my beans from Sweet Maria’s ( http://www.sweetmarias.com/ ). I’ll never go back to store bought crap again.
ALL coffee in the store is stale. Coffee begins to stale after 48 hours when the CO2 off-gasses and the beans begin to take on oxygen (making my hobby a fantastic “global warming” contributor). Buying coffee green, I can get it from all over the world for as low as $3.50/lb. - less than the bogus Brazilian el-cheapo types that you get in the major grocery brands.
By the way, thinking about $15.00 a cup coffee, check out the “Avian Selected” coffee on Sweet Maria’s site. You pay a little extra - but it was “chosen” by a bird (read the description to find out how).
They should advertise this coffee as “Do Your Civet Duty!”
I have no problem with people paying $15 for a cup o joe, if that floats their boat. But I wonder what the MSM will make of this, considering the hyped hysteria on gas prices.
(I'll sit here and sip on my cup of Ethiopian Idido Misty Valley, roasted just into the second crack, while you think about it.)
This may be a new goal for me.
I really like the Hot Top Drum Roaster. It's a high quality machine that served me well for over two years now. Make sure you order extra circuit breakers and filters when you order it so you always have some on hand. I popped a circuit (didn't let it cool sufficiently and the breaker saved my machine) and had a replacement in the mail in less than 5 days, but that could be too long for some. They had great, just great service, though.
The machine is no longer available as an analog machine. I think they have two new versions that allow you more variable roasting cycles. I'm happy with mine, though. I go by when I hear the "cracks". Most of the styles I enjoy have a full flavor with a city roast which is around first crack. The nice thing about this drum roaster is the big piece of glass in the front where you can see the beans clearly and the roasting stage they are at.
You can also control the roast by the qty of beans. Want a Spanish roast? Keep 911 on your speed dial and use about 6.5 oz beans per roast. Light city? You can go about 9.5 oz beans and keep an eye on them. The machine also allows you something like 2.5 minutes to extend a current roast in 30 second increments if you need them "just a little darker". Nice feature. I usually run the machine on the patio, set the timer for 15 minutes when the beeper goes off and I can add the beans (following pre-heat) and at the end of 15 minutes I can decide what roast I want. Usually at 8 oz beans I'm at first crack depending on the bean.
Oh, you need to let the machine cool down before you use it two times in a row. I mean, to "touch" where it's not hot at all. Otherwise you'll blow a circuit. That sucker's hot, but all that means is it does the job it was designed to do. Me? I just got greedy - lol!
It's worth the investment. I started with the I-Roast I which was a good machine, but I burned it out in a year. This one's much hardier and far better quality. I think it's a very pretty design as well (that's the caffeine addict in me writing now. See the bean - the sweet brown bean. It calls to me...) OK, maybe it's the moonshine. Heck...
Anyway, two thumbs up (on one hand) for this machine.
Cheers Pablo64 - Hey, let me know what you're roasting and what's turning out good for you and I'll order some.
I'm using "Sweet Maria's" and "Burman's Coffee" right now. Sweet Maria's shipping has gotten out of hand and way too expensive so I'm looking for alternatives. My last order was from Burmans for close to 25 lbs.
Happy roasting, sir!
This week, I am roasting Ethiopian (some of my favorite beans), but I just finished a bag of Columbian that was very nice at a variety of roasts.
Like you, I pretty much listen to the roast rather than rely completely on color or a timer. Too much variation between varieties and bean type (peaberry, long bean, etc.) to not pay attention to what stage the roast is, and I find that listening for the first and second crack seems to be the most reliable.
Hopefully, all of us who are home roasters here at FR can get many others to join us and find out what a truly fresh cup of coffee tastes like (although...if more of them start roasting their own, then there might be less for me....on second thought, scratch that idea!).
Enjoy your festivities and happy roasting.
Hey, one last question, you use a French press for your coffee, yes? I won't go further unless you don't use one. Very few people realize how great a cup you can produce using a press over one of those drip machines or percolators.
I use a French press sometimes, usually when I have extra time in the morning or when I want to really see what a certain coffee is like at a particular roast. I agree with you that you can really make a great cup of coffee with one. You can even make mediocre beans taste pretty good.
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