Coffee Bargains

Artessa 20% off all coffees.

30% off at Bear Market plus Free shipping this weekend.

30% discount, but shipping not free

could anyone recommend a nice medium roast preferably under 30/kg with deals today?

Just over a grand for a lelit Elizabeth on that site. Hope it's legit!

Heading back over to Bristol early next week, so I stuck in another order with Wogan Coffee - top quality beans the last 2 times I've bought them. Look at these prices - even with the price of my flight to and from Bristol (tenner each way) I doubt you'd get this sort of selection for the price I'm paying, travel to collect them included. 250g bags of each to keep the weight in the luggage down

it was a disaster! I ordered them on Thursday 1st Dec thinking they'd be delivered Friday or Monday - not to be, they hadn't arrived to my BiL's house by the time I was due to fly back on Weds, some Royal Mail postal issue (I think there are strikes)

I actually went into the shop on Tuesday to ask what was going on and they said they'd sent the beans.

I'll have to get my relations to freeze them when they do arrive, and bring them over to me at xmas

You can import coffee from Germany for less than it costs in Ireland, and if you want to try your hand at roasting and buy raw beans, you can halve that lower price again.

I freeze all my roasted coffee, so no decline in taste towards the end of a bag.

Sorry if not new news or previously shared but Velo India Ratnagiri Estate is on offer in Dunnes Stores and seems to be significantly cheaper than direct from Velo. I'm really enjoying it. Available in both whole bean and ground.

€5.99 for 200g (was €6.99 or €10 direct from Velo)

€14.99 for 700g (was €19.99 or €26 direct from Velo)

Did you not check delivery?

Royal mail strikes have been all over the news and social media.

There's a clip of the Bristol sorting centre with hundreds of cages in the car park.

10-14 days is the estimate.

Knock on effects on other carriers too as companies using them more than normal.

Not at all: https://www.mondodelcaffe.de/produkt-kategorie/kaffees/

They have a wide variety of coffees including raw beans. They are actually in Luxemburg but are on the border with Germany.

Shipping to Ireland is Ireland: €15.60 for 2.5kg to 30kg, so it's really more of a large batch order, in order to save money (I bought 10kg of green for my last order). They have some pretty interesting products. Would have liked to try their advent calendar, but it's a little late now.

If you don't max the shipping weight, you will get that result. I quoted that site because I wasn't sure if the person asking was interested in raw beans or not. The shipping adds a lot. As I mentioned, green beans don't require freezing.

A recent order was for €136, for 5kg, 2 of which were green, so €27 per kg. the latest order was for mostly green beans as the experiment exceeded my expectations and is even cheaper per Kg than that.

I have ordered Paté de frois gras from both Germany and France, on occasion.

I'm buying the same raw ingredient those roasters are, though they benefit from economies of scale. I just choose to prepare it myself. Paying them to do it for me would be akin to a charitable donation. I wouldn't be against it, but there are needier causes. Support local business where it is economical and sustainable to do so (getting coffee delivered in 250g bags isn't exactly environmentally friendly). I still buy prepared coffee from my local coffee shops when I'm in the office, but the roasting process holds no magic for me any more, and I don't see that they are adding sufficient value to justify the cost they charge.