[Closed] Coffee, suggestions.

Tesco's own french (5 strength) I find one of the tastiest around.

i like the waitrose own. silver bags. java is the bestest.

I find the coffee at Lidl good. About £1.80 for 200g for arabica coffee or the more expensive Taylors of Harrogate - Hot Lava Java (strength 6) is about £4 from asda/tesco

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Find a decent local Italian/French deli and buy beans. 🙂

Lavazza Qualita Rossa

Cheers, beans and grinder a bit of a faff with oily hands plus Cardiff or Abergavenny are nearest places likely to have a Deli.

This stuff, after trying all the expensive supermarket stuff spending £15/bag seemed like a lot, and it is, but he was giving out free samples and it was so good I jogged home and back to get the cash!

http://derbyshire.greatbritishlife.co.uk/article/azorie-blue-coffee-beans-melbourne-derbyshire-12482/

Also seems to have kept longer than most other brands, been in my fridge 6 weeks now and still tastes good, lavarza would be tasting a bit rough by now.

He wants coffee, not legumes.

Legumes suggestions also welcome 😀 Apart from Endives 👿

There is no best, it's a matter of taste.

Get down to Whittards in Cardiff and go through all their bean varieties 🙂

If anybody spots a wired oily looking man in Cardiff on saturday you know who it is 😯

... scampering around looking afraid of all the people and lights and big buildings.... 🙂

Anyway there's a world of coffees out there. I'd suggest buy 200g each from Africa, Indonesia and South America -those are the main families of coffees, and they all taste completely different (there are other smaller regions of course).

I'm like that usually when I go to town, the coffee only makes it worse 😉

The Illy red label is nice just a bit too pricey at £5 a tin, don't like Lavazza.

I guess the tastes due to soil type e.t.c is similar to the differences in vinyards soil types Chaulky soil in Chablis and such like.

Will go and have an investigation when I get time.

Illy or square mile for me. Sometimes the red tab lavazza but i'm not convinced about it.

I've slowly been working my way through the shelf in the supermarket [url= http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries/index.jsp ]this[/url] has been the best so far.

Much better than some of the brand named stuff. Yes Lavazza i'm talking about you.

Currently drinking Guatemala Picola from Grumpy Mule. Actually anything Guatemala seems good to me. Whittards Guatemala Elephant is good too.

[url= http://www.whittard.co.uk/store/catalogue/Coffee-P3000/Freshly-Ground-&-Beans-SC3001/Strong-Roast-SC30013/Guatemala-Elephant-111047.raa ]I like this one from Whittards[/url]

If I have to get Lavazza it'd be qualiatia oro, which is nice.

Personally out of the Whittards ones I like the old brown Java, the Australian Skyberry or the After Dinner nitro. Fab as espresso, dangerous in a cafetiere mind. Ended up in A&E at 3am once drinking that stuff*, just one cup.

I seem to be a bit of an Indonesian fan I think.

* after drinking it - I wasn't sat there making myself a cup.

FWIW Marks & Spencer Espresso is my favourite of all Espresso (including Illy etc), but I don't know what their cafetiere coffee is like.

having been buying Illy for the workshop

😯

Gis' a job la 🙂

I work for them so am biased, but I do drink lots of different brands for comparison purposes. Percol Italiano is my current favorite.

deadlydarcy - Member

having been buying Illy for the workshop

Gis' a job la

It's for the visitors mainly 😉

Ikea sells ace coffee in it's food shop.Medium,Dark or Espresso and decaf too.All about £1.50.Best I've tasted

We could do with a separate forum for this kind of talk.

We could do with a separate forum for this kind of talk.

That kinda crazy talk will get you banned.

Ooh pickled herring.

dime bars.....

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Sainsbury's Premium Blend does me. Stock up when it's on offer which it is now and again.

[url= http://www.grumpymule.co.uk/ ][/url]

definitely worth a try

Waitrose own ground in the tin is as good as illy IMO, and its less than half the price.

Another vote for Lidl. They used to do beans too and not found a replacement that tastes as nice yet. The Lidl stuff is damn cheap too.

[url= http://www.hasbean.co.uk/ ]Hasbean[/url] have a massive range. You're bound to find something you like.

Lightning fast delivery as well.

Grumpy Mule. I'm biased because they're local to me but my sis in Bristol swears by them and she's definitely not local.

Panama Esmeralda at the moment, but honestly - they're all good.

http://www.grumpymule.co.uk/

Life is too short for bad coffee... Do yourself a favour, buy a good grinder (something like a second hand MC2 120£) and head to squaremilecoffee and / or hasbean.

Baristas in Bristol city centre , you can get it beans or fresh ground in any quantity. And the owner is cycle friendly.

The best coffee I've had, very smooth [url= http://www.monmouthcoffee.co.uk/ ]monmouth coffee[/url]

something like a second hand MC2 120£

You what?

All my coffee recently has come from [url= http://www.smallbatchcoffee.co.uk/ ]Small Batch Coffee[/url] and I am really liking it.
Speedy delivery and great beans!

Baristas in Bristol city centre , you can get it beans or fresh ground in any quantity. And the owner is cycle friendly.

Possibly the nicest cup of coffee in town. Bit of a bind to find them though - since Cafe Gusto (the shittest coffee in town) stole their nice location in the centre.

Was in France a couple of weeks ago and bought 2 @ 1 kg bags of beans from one of the supermarket chains for just about 9 euros the pair (so about £8 all in); works out at about half the price of the cheapest beans from a UK supermarket and the resulting coffee is very drinkable indeed.

Hmm, may get parents in law to grab a couple of different bags when they go over next month 😀

We use the Ikea coffee at work, on a daft two for £1.95 offer last time I was in. The no.4 strength (morkroast) is a good one AND it's UTZ certified which is some kind of Euro fair trade certification. As a treat we get some Hot Lava Java in, you don't need much to get a lovely tasting coffee there.