[Closed] Coffee subscriptions

I have one with Pact coffee. They had an introductory offer of your first bag for a pound (after that it's 6.95 a bag). I've tried a few of their coffees now and I'm not particularly impressed with them so I'm about to cancel.

Obviously you should ditch niche artisan coffee machine and get a Nespresso.
For £9 you could try a different coffee every day of the month without repetition (maybe).
Obviously.

Actually how many coffees does 250gm make?

I subscribe to Hasbean's In My Mug weekly coffee (you get 250g a week for £6.50). Coffee is excellent, you get a different single origin each week and taste varies week on week so some weeks I get one that I really like whilst others I get some that are not to my taste but still quality coffee. 250g usually lasts me a week (2 cups a day during week 3 cups a day w/e) Overall I love it.

Nespresso

you corporate slut, sharkbait. Away with you and your Mellow Birds.
This thread is for serious snobs.

As an aspiring hipster, coiffured, artisanal douchebag I like the idea of a similarly coiffured, hipsterish douchebag posting artisanal coffee to me every month.

I could post you a jar of Nescafe every month? Only £69.99 + VAT and delivery.

I'd recommend [url= http://smallbatchcoffee.co.uk/ ]Small Batch Coffee[/url].

Deliveries every 2 weeks (250g), always something nice and well presented.
It is a great way to try lots of new coffee.

Occasionally tempted but it would be a pain to tune my setup to different beans all the time. Sticking to the same one usually just means a bit of tweaking from bag to bag.

i like oiseaux moelleux comes from a small deli in paris.

£15/ month not the cheapest but well worth it.

Is £6-9 for 250g not rather expensive?

Isn't it more like £3.50 in shops?

I've tried most of them but i still return to my Local deli who get a fresh supply of Beans from Brodies in Edinburgh each week, i prefer a dark, chocolaty roast so i go for their Mount Etna variety of beans.

At £1.80 for 100g of nice oily beans it's a damn site cheaper than paying some of the subscription rates as i usually get through 350-400g of beans a week.

£2 in Aldi. Wot's not to like?

😉

Any other clubs?

(Disclosure) My friends runs this - I've had a few bags off them and they were pretty damn lovely, especially if they're brewing up (my cheapo french press doesn't really do it justice - or maybe I'm not doing it right?!) Anyway I don't drink enough coffee to justify a fancy gaggia or a subscription though.

Monmouth coffee sell online/over the phone I think. Definitely some of the best coffee available in London so high scoring on the hipster scale - though square mile or all press might be trendier. No subscription but v.high quality.

I'm getting my beans from [url= http://www.afreshbagofcoffee.co.uk ]A Fresh Bag Of Coffee[/url] at the moment, chap who runs it is very helpful and as I'm in Nottingham delivery is free.... and by bike 😆 Last lot of beans I had was ordered at 2pm, then roast and delivered by the time I got home from work the same day 😯 Hard to get fresher than that!

but it would be a pain to tune my setup to different beans all the time.

😯

MrBlobby you really need to play outside more 😉

£2 in Aldi. Wot's not to like?

Stoner, you do know you can get this stuff in supermarkets, right?

Actually you could combine the Manly thread and the prejudice thread by driving to the rainforest in that jeep you built making your own beans and bringing them home while hating people who don't do the same

so,

Is coffee the new HiFi?

[i]Is coffee the new HiFi?[/i]

I wouldn't say new; there've been coffee 'afficionados' on here for years. In fact this very chat forum used to be hidden and used only by those afficionados*.

*generally the same people who prefer to shave with instruments popular in 1873, and ride bikes with only one gear. And generally a fixed one at that. I think we all know the type...

We've recently gone down the coffee club route too. So far we've only tried Pact. Agree it's expensive though. Although I definitely notice a difference in taste and quality of fresh whole beans compared to the pre-packed stuff in supermarkets.

Can anyone remember the name of the coffee they used to use in the Hub at Glentress? They used to sell the beans in big bags too, but we weren't (wannabe) snobs back then. I really miss their coffee!

Actually you could combine the Manly thread and the prejudice thread by driving to the rainforest in that [b]jeep[/b] you built making your own beans and bringing them home while hating people who don't do the same

jeep? JEEP?[b] JEEP[/b] ??

Go and think about what you've just said! 😈

MrBlobby you really need to play outside more

Well if I kept changing my beans I'd never have time to play outside 🙂

Also it can easily take half a bag of beans to get the grind right, probably not a great thing if you are getting lots of different beans in small quantities.

right, so it's 50:50 stick to morrisons anytime beans (which I do rather like) and go for the full bearded postal delivery.

might try a starter set to see what the fuss is about, but dont think Im ready to commit to a 12m sub.

[i]stick to morrisons [/i]

Good lord man, don't they have a Waitrose in Malvern? Or is the spreadsheet jockeying business not what it once was? 😉

I got my dad a hasbean sub one year for his birthday, he loved it, but mainly as he likes nice coffee and this took the thinking about it out the question, it just ensured there was always nice coffee in the house and it changed occasionally.

Whatever the coffee of the month is from brian wogan is normally pretty good:

http://www.wogancoffee.co.uk/

I tried Pact but gave up. Coffee was ok but exploring deals on different stuff in supermarkets is soooo much cheaper

Timely thread, we were only discussing doing something similar a few days ago.

We've been placing random orders with http://exchangecoffee.co.uk/ - they're a local company and their coffee is bloody good. Nice to have other recommendations though.

Good lord man, don't they have a Waitrose in Malvern? Or is the spreadsheet jockeying business not what it once was?

I've heard he's been seen in Aldi of all places, so the bottom must have fallen out of the VLOOKUP industry....

Non local coffee, for non local people

http://ravecoffee.co.uk/shop/subscription-coffee

but local to me.

I use Hasbean for my filter coffee (they don't do an Espresso sub) and either Squaremile Roast or Climpson & Sons for Espresso subscription.
All of them are excellent.

Filter? Espresso? Aren't we snobs all supposed to be drinking cold brew this year?

Am i missing somthing here. I go to my local coffe shop (Farrers, Kendal) and say 250 grams of .....( whatever i feel like), they say do i want it ground, i say no. Thats £3 please.
Why would i pay £8 for a subscription???

Could ou explain please?

Stoner- get yourself down to James Gourmet Coffee in Ross and go speak to the man. He's a top fella and they do all their roasting on site in a tiny industrial unit. You wander in and it smells as I expect Heaven does 😉

He'll make you loads of coffee with the different beans they use and then pretty much roast them while you wait. I ring in the morning and have fresh beans in the afternoon. Obviously they'll grind then but as a man clearly au fair with the hepster's dictionary ( http://www.dinosaurgardens.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/hepsters.html - go on have a read, it's gold) you'll be hand grinding them on the thighs of a local sheep.

it's also not £9 a throw 😉

Kevin1911, I think the hub used to sell packs of miscela d'oro coffee.

Could ou explain please?

If you can find animal to eat the beans and shit them back out they'll happily pay at least 3x the price.

Cougar Coffee?

So its basically..... 'i can afford it, so i will' mentality?

Cougar Coffee?

Got to be worth marketing.

I just go down the local coffee roaster and see if his 'coffee of the month' tickles my fancy...

He had a lovely Columbian 3x combo deal that was rather splendid before xmas.

But then, I do frequent the oil capital of europe (well, scotland at any rate...)

If you are in the north of England, Booths do a great range of fresh beans, about 8 different ones, £3-£3.50 per 250g. They also have a grinder in store should you need it. Why pay more?

They also have grinder in store should you need it.

I'm pretty sure Stoner is married...

There's a guy that sells excellent coffee from a mobile unit on College Green in Bristol, who has now started selling his own bean blend. £12 a kg, way better than the stuff the wife bought from an online "coiffured, artisanal douchebag". Win.

Drac - Moderator

Could ou explain please?

If you can find animal to eat the beans and shit them back out they'll happily pay at least 3x the price.

Don't even go there especially when you have no proof of how they got the beans mass produced. i.e. civet cat processed beans. Basically the producers captured hundreds of the wild civet cats then put them in individual cage slightly larger than the cat itself and fed them coffee cherry only for their diet in order to produce the highly priced kopi Luwak .

They do this to keep up with the "demand" because some of the parasitic oxygen abusers in the west, calling themselves the experts in drinking coffee, decided that they are/should be expensive and worth the effort. So the unscrupulous business people there so an opportunity to boost their income by mass producing this beans, then telling others they got the beans in the wild.

Now, if I can impale the producer(s) of this mass caged produced beans like Vlad III Dracula I would. Really. 👿 The last time I was in the region I could see the whole shop stock full of this beans (not very cheap and I refuse to taste them) to cater for tourists trade. I mean how many civet cats do you need to constantly produce that amount of beans and how on earth can you collect them in the jungle?

Been using Rave coffee for the last year.. excellent coffee and service