Freshly roasted coffee beans online

Yeah B&D do great coffee - how versed are you in beans? The different processing methods? Washed, Natural etc

My advice would be to start with their Fairy Floss blend, which is a blend of Washed and Natural Ethiopian beans - it's normally a great coffee. Then have a look at their single origin. Work your way through the different offerings, compare a Washed Ethiopian to a Natural, compare South American v African beans, compare the growing elevations.

Nice one. I'll tell you how my journey went.

When I got into proper coffee I hadn't a clue what I was doing, so I asked someone to get me a year long subscription for my birthday. Each month two new bags of beans would arrive from a roaster, along with tasting notes, description of the processing method, details of where the coffee was grown and things like that.

I liked it so much, I renewed for a second year - after that I felt I knew enough about what I liked or didn't like, how to interpret the information presented on the different roasters websites, I was confident enough to start ordering for myself, based on what I like instead of relying on the roaster to choose for me, and also if I spot something that looks a bit different or something I haven't tried before I might get that along with something I know I'll like.

It's a great hobby, and my other advice would be to get used to drinking something other than coffee in other people's houses if they aren't "proper" coffee drinkers like you are about to become. Does that sound snobby? Yeah it does, but you are definitely about to become a coffee snob, so embrace it early. That also applies to coffee shops and cafes by the way.

Lovely stuff, I've found that Brazilian coffee isn't for me really, but I do go back to it if I see a Natural, or Honey Process or something like that. Brazilian and Columbian coffees, especially Washed ones, are maligned (I think) because they offer the more traditional coffee flavour profile, they aren't really "exciting" enough, if that makes sense.

I love East African coffees, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya all produce amazing coffees, I really especially love the natural process ones. Loads of weird and wonderful flavour profiles there.

Recently I've been enjoying Central and South American honey process coffees, they are a bit more expensive so not every month, but the odd time they are worth checking out.

Here you go , very good blend for beginner

Buy 1kg bags , keep them in the freezer.

It is creamy, simple, every day bean , medium roast .

Stay away from complex ( floral/fruit) beans for now , until learn something.

Don't bother with milk until you could pull few decent espresso in a row.

Prices in Ponaire have jumped significantly. Paying an extra 20 quid for 3KGs.

I ordered from them on Sunday. It was delivered yesterday.

yeah I contacted them, and they said they were waiting for some green beans to arrive.

Fair enough, but they offered me a full refund, which I wasn't looking for - I just asked them to continue with the order, and they said they'd throw in an extra bag. Half an hour later, I got confirmation it's shipped, they use GLS so I wonder if it will arrive tomorrow.

Thing is, I'm running low on my supply at the moment, so I'll have to go and buy some in the local coffee shop and freeze whatever arrives from WCC.

Wow, I must be doing something wrong but my best WCC order was 5 days and worst was 6 days confirmation to delivery. But....they are always as fresh as can be so I don't mind in the slightest.

I do also normally order a selection too so that in itself could slow the process if they are possibly roasting to order.

check this thread

Any good discount codes going this weekend?

“You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear “ ….

OK lads I’ve been messing around with coffee for a good year or two now starting with French Press and trying really hard to convince myself that those ashtray washings were nice

Graduated to €70 Timemore C2 grinder and Clever Dripper ‘pour overs ‘ ( a basic kitchen funnel is as good !) ( but I guess a V60 may appear in my kitchen any day )

You can spend a fortune on hardware and tweak and tweak every variable but the bottom line is good coffee beans make good coffee …I was thoroughly enjoying the citrus-ey BearMarket and CoffeeAngel ( and suffering through the supermarket ‘affordables’ and some mediocre ‘proper’ brands that didn’t deliver)but the Bell Lane plum/fig/peach mouth bombs are another level .These are all Colombian with the best two being via Jairo Arcila

I liked their bagged Jairo Arcila before Christmas with the figgy/ plummy flavour but thought the €20 180g tin would be overpriced and not as good .It’s AMAZING!

Fresh ground coffee with mediocre Irish sourced local ‘artisanal’ beans is gonna cost you about €1.20 a cup …( or half that if really penny pinching ) stepping that up to €1.70-€2 means every cup will be a delight of flavours rather than ‘just coffee ‘

Also while usually far better value I think 1kg bags are a false economy unless you’re practically on intra venuous caffeine

I orrder three, 1Kg bags of beans at a time. From Ariosa, B&D, or McCabes. I go through one bag a month. But I have noticed that by the time I get to the third bag, the quality has definitely gone off a bit - the coffee is a bit 'dead'.

You definitely should keep it in the freezer. It is the only way to reduce oxidation.

I'm really enjoying it- it tastes quite strong, but it's full bodied and fresh.

By way of a lack of update, despite all the experimentation throughout 2020/21 I've been firmly sticking with Artessa.

For my morning coffee during the week I still haven't found anything remotely like their Smooth blend. It's just glorious.

I've also completely eliminated getting coffee out of home now more or less. Paying 3euro for the regular disappointment is just not worth it these days.

I haven't grabbed anything from WCC in a long long time. I don't think I've ever gotten over that glorious Indonesian they had. I think though, it might be time to grab something new from them.