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Any recommendations for good suppliers? Seem to be lots out there, so wondering where to try?
Cheers
Rich
Hasbean is the one
hasbean
Hasbean used 1st time recently have used others but the updates and speed of delivery simply great. Nice beans too as an aside well 2 or 3 I bought I liked 🙂
Hasbean subscription.
Hasbean (another) +1
neil - what has the mix been like on the subscription?
Monmouth in London. Courier fees are steep though unless you buy 3kg at a time.
Big Maggies
(Magnus Backstead)
Hasbean
Get the Espresso starter pack to get going.
Anyone roast their own?
hasbean... on about my 4th sub now... good mix and great for trying stuff. like their espresso blends too.
also quite like waitrose's expresso beans for generall run of the mill stuff...
Anyone roast their own?
Yes, started with a popcorn roaster. Now have a Gene Cafe roaster. Lots of of information on:
http://www.home-barista.com/home-roasting/
and
http://www.sweetmarias.com/instructions.php
Easiest and best way to have fresh coffee, which, as has been said, is essential for good espresso. Not so important for other types of brew.
I though there was some guff spouted on here about the feel of bikes, but that coffee forum is a whole nuther level!
Do any of these online coffee retailers sell fair trade coffee?
Do any of these online coffee retailers sell fair trade coffee?
Fairtrade means very little. It was originally introduced to artificially raise the prices of coffee but now the Fairtrade price is actually way below the market value.
That's the main reason that Starbucks switched their entire supply to Fairtrade, it was cheaper than market value! (although it's also good PR for them).
Hasbean pay their suppliers considerably more than the price that Fairtrade set.
hasbean doesnt I believe, heres why:
http://faq.hasbean.co.uk/questions/13/Fair+Trade+for+who%3F+A+counter+view+to+the+Fair+Trade+Debate+
interesting as a flip side of the fairtrade coin which made me think about fairtrade a sa whole
Thanks for that i'll have a read when i have more time.
On the whole i think the idea of fair trade is a good one, it may not be perfect but at least someone is trying.