Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
Cheap-shit Kivu house blend from Fred Meyer 'cuz it's fresh-roasted and $7.99 a pound. Based on discussion with cgod I've tended to look for the roast that's not shiny but also not dull and it's almost always the house blend. They've got a "kona" too but I'll be damned if those beans have ever been to Hawaii. Ground 4 cups at a time, drip brewed into a thermos via a ceramic filter holder, unbleached melitta #2s and a gold filter for backup because the melittas split sometimes and grounds in my coffee annoys me. I'm not a coffee snob by any stretch of the imagination but for people that don't really "get" coffee the act of seeking out fresh whole beans is seen as the ultimate in pretense for some reason.