Where do folks get there coffee beans?

Simple question as above. Have tried redbar who were pretty good

Buy mine from Grind house

Grindhouse Murano Dark

Very happy with both the coffee and service

Monsoon Estates

Lidl.

B and M bargains,

come in a jar,

nescafe

no BS

Carwardines – lovecoffee.co.uk

Buy by the Kg bag.  have tried a few different ones over the last couple of years but current favouite is the Classico which is only £14 a kg.

From a dictionary.

8quid delivery from love coffee! Sod that! And I can’t get the website to work properly. Looks ok otherwise…

I’d like a fair trade or similar coffee bean if possible.

I like small batch here in Brighton but it’s a treat rather than a regular as it’s not that cheap and i have to make a special trip to get it.

+1 for Grindhouse I go for the reunion blend

Wogan Cafe Feminino and also the Continental Espresso are current favourites.

I got given a bag of sacred ground beans as a present – nicest coffee I have tasted for a long time. Came from some shop in Scotland apparently

jekkyl wrote

From a dictionary.

He’s right

I get mine from my LCS https://www.macbeans.com/

We buy Peak Bean from the local bike shop. Local beans for local people 🙂

Rave. The monsoon malabar is reet good VFM by the kilo. 2kg gets free postage – 1 for me, 1 for the olds.

From a dictionary

There there. There is no need to be sarcastic, they’re only saying where they get their beans from and there you are up there with your smart comments. Play nice. There’s a good chap.

Outpost.

Excellent

Sacred ground i see roasted in Arbroath, im tempted but £8 for a wee bag whereas Lidls I buy a kilo for that. Artisan roast in Edinburgh good beans for £6 but the flat white they serve in their cafe is always lukewarm like so many arti farty baristas just give you that look like you know nothing

My plan was to type name of local town/city into google followed by coffee roasters.  I’ve tried the ones local to Nottingham and now alternate between 200 degrees and stewarts.  Outpost had too much hipster packaging for me, didn’t fit through the letterbox so I had to fetch it from the post office and the bigger portions mean they are less fresh by the time I’m finished with them.  Coffee was nice enough.

Union Roasters.

Local cooperative (not the coop), who seem to have a selection from local roasters. Tastes good enough for me!

Dear Green, from Glasgow. Top notch. https://www.deargreencoffee.com

Whittard’s online – the Guatemalan Elephant beans are great and there are always discount codes to be had if you’re prepared to order £40 worth

The Forge

Forge in Sheffield

Exchange Coffee Company in Skipton. Felicini Espresso Beans at the moment, very nice.

Subscription with Dusty Ape

My daughter has just started a part time job at Starbucks so gets a free bag each week – made me buy a £250 bean to cup machine though!!

I’ve been buying from Taylor Street Baristas but it’s costing me a fortune – 28 quid a kilo. Tastes lovely though.

Just ordered a kilo of Murano Dark from Grindhouse for 12.49 delivered. Fingers crossed.

MacBeans in Aberdeen, apparently they do online orders. They always have interesting coffees.

Strength 5 columbian coffee beans, Aldi £1.90. 227g. Electric grinder then cafeteria, usual 2 sports direct mugs of coffee. It tastes good, good price.

Any number of good independent roasters out there now if you’re happy with Redber price and maybe a bit more. I keep trying and enjoying new ones. Rave as mentioned above and Foundry I’ve been back to more than once. Make sure you get them soon after roasting (aim to finish the bag not too much beyond a month after roasting if you can).

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Lidl. Tastes amazing for €2

[Smug]  I bring mine back in my suitcase from Addis Ababa. [/smug]

Braithwaites in Dundee.  Magic wee shop been going forever, not on line.  Do some fine teas as well

[alsosmug] Service station in Luxembourg. Get 6 x 1kg boxes @ €8 a kilo bag Segafredo beans. Then top up with filthy diesel at just over €1 / litre [/alsosmug]

Brodies Mount Etna does me fine, i buy them in 1kg bags from my local deli.  Also bought a 250g bag of Dear Green Goosedubs blend this week so i’ll try that at some point but once i find a bean i like i tend to stick with it as changing the grinder settings to get a good coffee can waste beans.

I’ve been buying from Taylor Street Baristas but it’s costing me a fortune – 28 quid a kilo. Tastes lovely though.

thats speciality coffee (as defined by the SCA) so is always going to be expensive as it’s a premium product and only comes into this country through a couple of importers (most stored in the Vollers warehouse in Bury st Edmunds) so doesn’t have the lower costs of commodity bulk roasted coffee.

anything called ‘monsoon malibar’ ‘old brown java’ ‘italian blend’ etc etc isn’t going to be of the same quality.

the best non-speciallity beans can be had in the supermarket with the Taylors in the bronze/gold illustrated packets or the beans from Momentum available in sainsbury’s.

ignore the fair-trade/rainforest alliance labels it means very little, the best is direct trade where you know the farm/washing station but thats only something speciality importers and roasters do.

as for the comments about ‘local’ well the beans are grown in the tropics and come into the country through tilbury and felixstowe so you could argue that buying Momentum beans (roasted in Tilbury docks) and transported at low cost to your supermarket have the lowest impact.

Get your hedge cut…….

8quid delivery from love coffee! Sod that! And I can’t get the website to work properly. Looks ok otherwise…

ouch.  was much less when I started using them and more recently I’ve always ordered just over £50 value to get it free but going to be a bit more difficult now the coffee i’m buying is £14 and not £17.  Need to find someone to split an order with.

Website is non-functioning but they’re very friendly on the phone.