Originally Posted by Rodney Crater
I am in the boonies now so I have to buy Starbucks at the small local store and it is preground as drip. Real bummer
When I lived in Monterey I could get a 5 or 10 pound bag of Espresso beans at SmartNFinal dirt cheap made by Nestles. Shipping kills me if I order on line here{ unless you'all know of a good place
} and I don't wander to the big towns often. So I buy a bag of French roast and a bag of Espresso, mix them, and brew them normally because of the grind then mix in the water. ( Sorry I did not clarify the previous reference to just Espresso although I used to drink it that way and brewed in a proper machine when I could get better stuff ).
Hi,
this is a pain in the butt. And you need to a garage or something because coffee roasting stinks up the place like crazy. But you can buy green coffee from Sweet Marias and roast it yourself. Green coffee is half the cost, and if you buy a 6 moths to a year's supply, the shipping is not a large factor in the cost. And you get a better choice of coffee than you'd get almost anywhere and roasted exactly
the way you want. But once a week you have to baby the coffee roaster, and don't even think of roasting inside the house.
But... when it all get going properly, the results are exquisite.