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  • Who roast the best coffee?
  • ade9933
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    You guys are bang on with the Ethiopians. I had a lovely one from Workshop a week or so back but they have run out now.

    Duromina I think it was.

    bob_summers
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    Are you sure it was a Monmouth blend?

    Aye definitely, but this would be 10 years or more ago, whenever they first opened. You could buy the beans from the cafe too.

    holmes81
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    Surprised nobody has mention

    Algerian Coffee Shop

    In particular Velluto Nero

    MrSmith
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    I’m not surprised, for the same reasons stated above.
    I looked at their Kenyan AA and they don’t say where it’s from, it may be AA grade but that’s not always an arbiter of quality.
    I used to buy coffee from there when it was about the best in London, about 20 years ago.
    Coffee is a seasonal product that while it will keep as green beans the good stuff is cupped and graded and then snapped up by the roasters as soon as it is available from specialist importers like Mercanta and Cafe Imports. If is see out of season coffee on a website it’s probably a year old.
    That’s why you often see the same single origins available from different roasters as there are only a few importers though roasters are increasingly going the direct trade route which is far better for the growers than fairtrade.

    johndoh
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    Whitttards for their Guatamalan Elephant beans. Nothing comes close.

    WEJ
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    Whitttards for their Guatamalan Elephant beans. Nothing comes close.

    Do they quote the rosting date now? Last time I was at a Whittards, they had no idea when any of their coffees were roasted.

    MrSmith
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    I like some of the reviews on their website 😆

    * – – – – Horrid
    by Alice on 14th October 2015
    These beans have been roasted to within an inch of their life resulting in a very bland, uncomplicated and uniform “strong coffee” flavour. If you’re a smoker and your taste buds are shot then this is the coffee for you.

    sambob
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    Currently on a Crosby Coffee blend and it’s one of the nicest I’ve ever had, I won’t describe the grinding method I used though for fear of having the coffee beans forced into my ears.

    prawny
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    My favourite hipster coffee shop in Brum has been using Caravan stuff since opening, but have got their own roaster in the shop now for extra hipster points. Don’t think they’re perfected yet though, don’t go in there much any more due to not catching the train and spending all my money on bikes.

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