Q&A: Help me please to buy premium coffee?
Question by Carin: Help me please to buy premium coffee?
Hey everyone! I’ve tried to purchase coffee but turned into a problem with delivery. I don’t want to spend so much for delivery, so I need help to find a reliable source that offers low cost shipping… Thanx in advance for your answer!
Best answer:
Answer by wendy rose
Amazon.com
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As the 1st poster said, Amazon sells some premium coffee and in some cases delivery can be free if you spend $ 25 or more. They have hundreds of brands.
Long Beach rocker is not 100% accurate in his description. True that Arabica and Robusto are the two types of beans. And, you want Arabica beans (which is what ALL premium roasters use). Robusto is relegated to the cheapest commercial coffee That is the limit of where he is correct.
The source of the coffee is also very important. Arabica beans grown on the slopes of the Jamaican blue mountains or in Kona Hawaii is not equal to arabica coffee grown in Tunesia. Shade grown coffee is generally better coffee than coffee grown in full sun. It grows slower and as a result it is richer upon maturity.
Coffee also has a relatively short shelf life. The quicker the beans get from the grower to the roaster to your coffee pot the better. Higher end coffee roasters take great pains to move coffee quickly (not something that you’re going to get at Walmart).
Lastly, the roasting process is NOT regulated. French, Italian and Espresso roasts are generally the darkest roasts with commercial roast like your basic folgers or maxwell house standard brands being the lightest roasts. Inbetween those roasts are many variations and individual roasters have full leeway to roast to a darkness that they see fit.
Why waste your money?
I managed a Seattle’s Best Cafe’ for 3 years and had to go to school to be qualified, here are some little known facts that the “premium” coffee people don’t want you to know.
1. There are only two types of beans used for distribution: Arabica (best) and Robusto.
2. Every single coffee maker uses the same color scale, by law, for roasting
3. Starbucks medium roast, dark roast, etc., is the exact same coffee as the same roast from Wal-Mart, or any other manufacturer for that matter.
4. There is really no such thing as a “premium” coffee, as 75% of the worlds coffee is Arabica, and since a coffee maker in Columbia has to follow the same color codes as one from Africa, all coffee is basically the same. The only difference is the bean strain, and the roast.
5. If you must buy an expensive coffee, give it to some one who doesn’t know that it is the same bean and roast as Wal-Mart’s
6. The darker the roast, the less caffeine you have. Roasting leaches out moisture and takes the caffeine with it. You want to perk up? drink a medium roast rather than a French roast, which has less go-go juice.
My guess would be that Long Beach Rocker managed Starbucks which would explain why the coffee served there is of such abject quality. Of course there is a difference between beans and blends of beans.There are two basic type of bean Arabic and Robusta but with in these types there are many varieties all with their own qualities and flavours. All of which are effected by the freshness of the roast. A simple taste test between a coffee from a quality roaster against those from Starbucks will confirm that all beans are not equal.
Anyway in answer to your question you don’t say where you are from – without this information it is impossible to say what the best source for you will be.