Since we are talking about coffee...
5Those of you who do not buy your coffee at a grocery store, or the equivalent, OR at starbucks, where do you buy it? And why do you get it there. Tell us basically where in the world you live and where this wonderful place to buy coffee is
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https://dailycoffeenews.com/2022/08/25/worker-owned-slow-bloom-coffee-cooperative-comes-into-its-own-in-california/
Slow Bloom Coffee Cooperative in Redlands CA
I was a regular at their not so honorable ancestor. And one of the first they told about what happened to them on July 4th 2020. I was part of the kickstarter. I was sadly not around when they physically finally opened because I was up in monterey. But now that I am back I go there regularly to buy coffee on the way to the grocery store where to buy coffee to brew at home or whatever I need to do.
I’m not sure which one of them roasts. But they do a pretty decent job. And they’re not there to be fancy competitive baristas. They’re there because they love coffee and they want to give coffee to the community
I only buy coffee as a gift for someone else. When I do, I usually shop here.
https://www.javacoffee.com/
Small business, still in its original location, still the same people running it.
I have been ordering dark roast coffee from Ruta Maya: https://rutamayacoffee.com/
I think both Costco and Amazon sell it, but there’s no knowing how long it has been sitting around, or in what conditions before it ships.
When I order it directly it gets here in a couple of days. I store unopened 2 lb bags in a cool spot and open a 2 lb bag, which pours neatly into two canisters. They don’t quite vacuum seal, but excess air is forced out as the lid slides down onto the canister. I grind (Baratza steel burr grinder) enough in the morning for about 24 oz. of coffee. I don’t drink coffee after mid-morning.
Some people think the Ruta Maya coffee is too oily, and others (apparently people who buy it at Cosco) think it is dry/stale. It’s my favorite until I can move where fresh-roasted beans are available.
@rockblossom
they make a handy gadget that allows you to vacuum seal mason style jars with a push of a button. Fits over the sealing lid and will pull a vacuum on a jar (reg or wide mouth) in under a minute. These are great for this application.
We have an awesome local place that imports and roasts. You can order online and walk right into the building where they’re processing and pick your beans up off of a shelf while they work.
LEGOS! EGGOS! STRATEGO! AWESOME!
@jouest so where is this and what is the name of the place
These are the places I like to spend my coffee money at around these parts.
Southside Coffee Brew Bar
https://www.southsidecoffeebrewbar.com/
Buddy Brew.
https://www.buddybrew.com/
Black Crow.
https://www.blackcrowcoffeeco.com/
@yakkoTDI crow
@Cerridwyn ??
@yakkoTDI sorry, rented fingers. I have a thing for crows. If I believed in Totem animals I would probably think a crow was mine. Or raven. Not sure how different they are mythologically speaking. But I let crows whistling to a bunch of them this morning
@Cerridwyn I don’t recall where I did this, but on a forum thread about totem animals for groups of people who didn’t already have one, I suggested the rock dove as the totem animal for National Park visitors from urban environments, because of the tendency they have to remark upon the lovely iridescent neck plumage.
I did this because few people know that in an urban environment, the “rock dove” (which is what naturalists call them) is called a “pigeon”, and typically viewed as a pest. I somehow failed to mention this. I can’t imagine why.
@yakkoTDI I’m in Tampa so I recognized Buddy Brew - but nice to know about the other 2 establishments in South St. Pete
@shells I forgot about a few others in the area. Good but out of my way usually.
Bandit Coffee Co.
https://banditcoffee.co
Intermezzo.
https://www.intermezzo.co
Jet City Espresso.
https://www.jetcityespresso.com
Have had several batches of coffee from these guys and liked them all…
Gevalia has some good coffee.
I get mine from several local Seattle area roasters, bluestilly.com, camanoislandcoffee.com, storyville.com (when they have a good sale) and from the beautiful island of Kauai, kauaicoffee.com.
@robson it’s been a very long time since I went coffee crawling in seattle. Don’t think I ever went to any of those. And they intrigue me
I buy unroasted green coffee beans in bulk and roast them at home in a Huky drum roaster, 1 lb at a time. Did some math recently, and I am close to roasting 1000lbs in that machine over the last 5 years.
@bigcurmudgeon wow!! That’s impressive… would love to know how you prepare your daily grind as well… like what grinder - what espresso maker (I’m guessing?)… I drink espresso every day that I make in a DeLonghi and I buy organic beans online (I won’t post the link unless some one wants to know - but they’re great beans for $24 for 4 lbs…)
/showme big curmudgeon roasting beans in a huky drum roaster
@mediocrebot wow that’s some serious spit fire!
@bigcurmudgeon this is kind of amazing
@shells LOL that picture is hilarious.
I answered some of this in the other coffee thread, but my common brew methods include Moccamaster CDT Grand (drip) heavily modded Astra Pro (espresso), Clever, and Chemex (pour over). It all depends on what mood I’m in. The daily grinder is a Sette WI, but I’ve also got a few commercial grinders in various stages of modification/disrepair, as well as a few hand grinders for work or travel.
I found this today. Haven’t tried it yet, but looking forward to it. I have never seen a peaberry blend before.
Peet’s, of course. Available fresh along most of the west coast. If not they have very rapid delivery from online, which they only ship out once or twice a week so that it’s fresh out of the roaster. Wide selection of roasts and single-source beans, we do the basic french roast.
We sometimes buy it from Safeway, if you check the roasted on date you can find it fresh for a bit less money.
@stolicat not a fan of dark roast, but i know people who are. Peets in its original form was the founder of the modern coffee movement, without him, we would not be having this discussion today, except maybe over a folgers
@Cerridwyn @stolicat I’ve got too much back-stock of coffee (yes, I know, expired expired expired) and deciding what I can still drink through and what to throw out (contents in the garden, containers recycled as much as possible). this is some whole-bean, Nespresso, and even (ugh) K-cup stuff. Yes clearly I was messed-up for a while.
but when I did the Peet’s custom roast subscription, it was pretty nice. You’d get stuff by 1- or 2-day shipping and they had unique stuff.
I’d still want to support a local importer/roaster if I could, but for a nationwide-shipping chain Peet’s seems to be pretty good. And my name is Pete.
@Cerridwyn @pmarin Peet’s has many different roasts, including some light ones, all good.
When I’m in Berkeley I often stop by the mother church, the original Peet’s (now remodeled) at Walnut & Vine.
@Cerridwyn @pmarin @stolicat The original Peet’s was a revelation to me! The line to get coffee was out the door on a weekend morning. It was before you could get anything better than usual restaurant coffee in my town. It took on a kind of mythical aspect in my memory. That was the same trip where I had my first café latte, at some Berkeley coffee place I can’t remember.
(2-story? With seating upstairs that looked down to the first floor?) I was blown away.
@Kyeh @pmarin @stolicat I can remember going shopping in San Francisco many many years ago. I was blown away by the fact that you could get a cappuccino everywhere, even McDonald’s. But you couldn’t get a glass of iced tea
@Cerridwyn @Kyeh @stolicat Conversely, I remember going to Dallas TX for work in the 1980s, and the business guys I was working with all ordered ice tea at lunch, and we got like 48 oz mugs of iced tea. It was like “this is for the whole table, right” but no, we each had our own 1/3 gallon.
@Kyeh @pmarin @stolicat Finest kind
save my guess is it was sweet tea, pew pew
@Cerridwyn @Kyeh @stolicat No it was just regular iced tea. But years later when I met my wife and we travelled in the South she discovered sweet tea and now that is what she likes. But you can only get in certain areas. Apparently not the same as adding sugar to tea after it’s brewed. (it has to be cooked in!)
@Cerridwyn @Kyeh @stolicat Updating the 48 oz iced-tea story, after work you could go to places and get 32-48oz beers and really good boiled shrimp or other stuff. But only on the right side of the highway. The other part was a dry “Drahh!” coun-y. You can’t get beer in the Draah coun-y. Unless you got 'em club membership card which costs like $1, and then you could get beer. Strange place. That was 40 years ago. Not sure what it’s like now in Texas. Freedom! Texas we #1! Except for our power grid, apparently.
EDIT This is a weird forum sorry we started at Peets in Berkeley and I brought you to outskirts of Dallas Texas in the 1980s. But seriously I loved Texas it was a fun place at the time. Had to go there a lot for work.