Price of coffee What are you drinking.

Mace Canute · Jul 7, 2011

Hmmmmm...I gave up drinking coffee this past year. I was a regular coffee drinker but just got overloaded on it one week. Too much caffeine! I just didn't feel like having a coffee one day and didn't. Next day the same. Before I knew it, I was down to a cup or two a week. I don't miss it one bit and feel better for it to boot. Dropping my coffee habit saved me a nice bit of change too which is nice.

crash325 · Jul 8, 2011

I think coffee has gone up in price faster than most other food items. But I wish it were only coffee. Most every thing that we normal folks buy is up way over 20%.

I'm one of those who drinks coffee of & on all day. Unless its Beer 30.

:thumbsup: No Fufu coffee, just a little milk or cream. For a long time would not drink warmed up coffee. With the current price, that has changed.

ragkar · Jul 8, 2011

I've sampled around Kenya, sumatra, ethiopia, hawaii, vietnam, costa rica, columbia, yemen, jamaica and a dozen others. My favorites are from the Indonesian Islands especially Sumatra. I buy green beans from there in twenty pound lots at 5 to 6 dollars a pound.

I roast, outgas and grind it myself. My roasted is never more that five days old.

The very best that I've tasted is Kopi Luwak but I only have 361 grams of that left. That sells for $400 a pound roasted. And the USA allotment is only fifty pounds per year.

By the way, never buy a blend. A blend can be as little as ten percent of the named component. For instance, the James Bond favorite Jamaican Blue mountain sells for forty dollars a pound of green beans. A Jamaican Blue Mountain 'blend' which may be only ten percent of blue mountain beans, is also forty dollars a pound.

The University of southern Florida recently published a medical study that caffeinated coffee when fed to mice with Alzheimer showed that it slowed and prevented the disease. They did not use instant coffee in the study.

Gizmo2 · Jul 8, 2011

Only way to go...

ustmd · Jul 8, 2011

ragkar said:
I roast, outgas and grind it myself. My roasted is never more that five days old.

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I am with ragkar. I started roasting my own coffee about 4 years ago and will never go back. There is a significant difference between it and what you get at the store. It is amazing how quickly the pre roasted coffee goes stale/rancid--especially once you grind it.

Also, you need to use a Mocca Master to brew your coffee. Temperature management is the key for good coffee.

wdchyd · Jul 8, 2011

Is there anything else better than Dunkin Donuts coffee..??...:confused3:

missingstexas · Jul 8, 2011

two_bit_score said:
Simple. Community with chicory. If community is not available anything with chicory will usually do.

X2. Although I've grown quite fond of Community's Cafe Special

Bird · Jul 8, 2011

wdchyd said:
Is there anything else better than Dunkin Donuts coffee..??...:confused3:

It's been at least 35-40 years since I had any of their coffee so I wouldn't know.:laughing: I do remember that Braniff Airlines, in the late '70s, served the best tasting coffee I ever drank on their planes, but I don't know what it was or how to duplicate it. If I did, I'd pay more for that.

nikdfish · Jul 8, 2011

The Kirkland (Costco) Columbian bean & the Kirkland single pot foil packs (the wife doesn't like to run the bean grinder first thing in the AM... )

Nick

Ken · Jul 8, 2011

Kind of knew that when reading of the coffee exporting companys in South America the country have forgotten. Were using dozers to push the green beans into a disposel pit then medical reports of how good coffee is for health reasons and the coffee shops being built that price would go up . So when went past $5.00 said O'k then jumped to $7.50 thought about the top but now over $10.00 having to re-evaluate the whole idea.

I remember the WW11 book of stamps for purchase most anything you needed. and could go back in the photo album maybe there still usable. coffee was one of items that had a stamp.
Postom, baked barley, used as a subsitute just never had a good flavor.
Chocolate was bad for you now good for all illness has also jumped in price .
Our local water system sent us a notice that our water has exceeded the allowable level for Turbidity for April and May this year Knew the color was off so now just a bit stronger and will have the proper color for coffee.

Thanks for the replys on what you are using. Just not ready to give it up yet.
ken