I insist on Chase & Sanborn.
Posted on 03/07/2010 7:16:48 PM PST by Moe Tzadik
GUATEMALA CITY — Some 450,000 pounds of organic coffee sit in a warehouse here, stacked neatly in 132-pound bags. It's some of the world's best coffee, but Gerardo De Leon can't sell it.
"This is very high quality and it's organic. But ... the roasters don't want to pay extra these days," says the manager of FEDECOCAGUA, Guatemala's largest growers' cooperative, which represents 20,000 farmers.
De Leon is asking $2 per pound for the unroasted coffee, about 50 cents more than the going price. But he says he'll soon have to sell it as conventionally grown coffee, which sells for less.
That's why many Mesoamerican farmers here are starting to give up on organic coffee: The premium price that it used to fetch is disappearing.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
I tend to like east African coffees myself. The absolute best coffee (in my opinion) is what I get when I eat Ethiopian food. They actually roast the beans to order for coffee! Rich, strong, not bitter and a completely different mouth feel. If you enjoy coffee for more than just go juice, I recommend that you try it.
Problem is that the 25% premium at the wholesale level becomes more like 100% at the retail level. Too many overly greedy middle-men.
I prefer organic coffee.
So would I. Can get a bucket of it for $5. And it stores longer.
Unfortunately my wife insists on getting the expensive stuff at $7 to $9 a lb, when it’s on sale.
I insist on Chase & Sanborn.
Ja, shore...Mrs. Olsen.
that’s too bad, organic coffee is delicious.
Rich, strong, not bitter and a completely different mouth feel. If you enjoy coffee for more than just go juice, I recommend that you try it.
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Exactly. I cannot stand it when people claim burned beans equals strong coffee. All the caffeine and coffee oils are roasted out of them.
No but im not going to buy anything fertilized with shit and not raised utilizing pesticides!
Is that your flag or philosophy?
>>The demand for it is going up, but the price is going down?<<
As usual, the writers of the article don’t know even Econ 101. If there is “demand” but “not at the price” then that isn’t “demand.” It is “quantity demanded.”
Any child of 12 should know the difference (although, sadly few do). Any college grad and every politician should also know 9and sadly, few do).
Folgers Black Silk. Good.
Didn’t she marry Juan Valdez?
THIS, ma'am, is a stone cold caffeine addict:
>>Exactly. I cannot stand it when people claim burned beans equals strong coffee. All the caffeine and coffee oils are roasted out of them.
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There is a reason people who actually TASTE the coffee 9as opposed to being impressed by the branding) call it “charbucks.”
No.
This is:
Now THAT is a coffee I can get behind!
I can quit any time I want to. I just haven't happened to want to, for the past few decades.
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