As an addicted BSG fan, now in forced cold turkey mode, I’m holding out for the proverbial boxed set that includes the on line shows I never downloaded & watched on a computer. Give me the big screen with full surround sound or give me….

Are you in Louisiana? Cuz I thought it was pretty much a local brand, Nawlins and environs.

Or do you order it by mail?

I grew very attached to Community Dark Roast during the 10 years I lived in Baton Rouge. But I cannot find it in stores here in New Mexico…

Seconding the San Jose Ocana recommendation. I also like most Central American Bourbons (yellow, orange, whatevah). I’m drinking an excellent CoE from Finca Malacara right now. Yum.

For the commenter who complained about where to start with the whole new language… well, that’s where the fun gets in. There’s a new language because there’s a new reality to talk about – beans taste different, roast different, and the language exists to talk about something you’ll never experience if you just drink commodity coffee blends.

If you’re getting started, a FreshRoast will work just fine, roasting one pot at a time. You can get a fine dark roast off that, where the beans get all shiny. Eventually you might get hooked like me and move up to a bigger roaster.

Sweet Maria’s is a good operation and a good place to start.

I just bought this portable player through the B-J link. Very Linux and FOSS friendly.

You can’t really roast green coffee beans in a skillet, unless you either
(a) don’t mind your house smelling like the the inside of a chimney, or
(b) you build a campfire outside.

Roasting coffee beans puts off a lot of smoke, and unfortunately it doesn’t smell like coffee, it smells like burning husks. I always roast outside, on a bench next to an outside outlet. Buying a roaster is the way to go. I bought one for $150 8 years ago, and it’s still working fine.

As far as the selection of beans at sweetmarias, I think they still offer a sampler with a coffee roaster. One of my favorites is from Guatemala, Finca San Jose Ocana. But I like most of the Central Americans. There are accurate descriptions for each coffee and recommendations for the level of roast.

I wish everyone who recommended any coffee roasted more than a few weeks before drinking, and especially when ground more than a few days before drinking, could have a mug of freshly roasted, freshly ground, small estate coffee.

Krista, if you drank coffee in the Netherlands it was probably a Douwe-Egberts. Truly great coffee, indeed. You should try the Belgian Cafe Liegeoise as well. If you liked Douwe-Egberts you are going to kill for Cafe Liegeoise.

IN the USA you can get it here:
http://www.enjoybettercoffee.c.....s-s/70.htm

And they craved coffee since it was early in the morning. They looked terrible until their cup of coffee and they could drain those giant coffee thermoses you see at events in 20 minutes. It was horrifying to see intelligent young people reduced to such a state of dependency.

Since that day I never have drank coffee.

To be fair it should be noted that I don’t slowly wake up or go to sleep. I am either Wide Awake in seconds after I open my eyes, or I crash and sleep instantly. There is no in between for me, so I don’t need coffee to rev up in the morning. I can function at full awake immediately after getting up without any trouble.

Go to ANY BB, chat room, forum, blog, on ANY topic. Post a casual comment about your coffee preference. Sit back and watch the flame war unfold.

Old Soul.

Best coffee EVER.

cain

Kona is very tasty, though sadly it seems to be most commonly found as a blend of 10 or 20% Kona and the rest being more normal varieties.

Last time I went to Hawaii, I bought 100% Kona in the Commissary on the base at Pearl Harbor for $8.99 per 12 oz. bag, brought home 5 bags. I was a seriously happy camper for a couple of months.