Based on another thread, I was asked to repost an interesting croudsource of information on the coffee we buy:

Make your replies fit the following format;

  • Location: at least your country, not the beans.
  • Retailer: Were did you buy your beans?online, brick and mortar. Be specific.
  • Beans: If a blend, name the brand and type. If single origin, give the detes, i.e. country of origin, region, farm, processing method, elevation
  • Roast: Light, medium, dark, french …
  • Advertized tasting notes: e.g. stone fruit, sweet, balanced acidity.
  • Your tasting notes: Do you agree with the advertized cupping notes? Why?
  • Price per unit: e.g. $/lb or £/kg etc…

With any luck we might discover hidden gems, or discover a new favourite or maybe a bargain.

      • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.worldOP
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        5 days ago

        Doesn’t have to be green. I’m just happy to try something new and see if it bring me caffeinated joy or not. I have varied enough tastes to enjoy wildly different profiles and pre-roasted is fine, but I’ll only buy enough that I can drink it all before it goes stale and loses some of its shine.

        • fritobugger2017@lemmy.world
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          5 days ago

          It may be difficult to find some THA1 outside of Vietnam since it’s less than 10 years I think since it was developed and it was developed for growing here. Most of it probably gets consumed here, which is true for most of the specialty coffee grown here. The pour over/specialty scene here has grown a lot in the last decade. When I first came here 20 years ago, your choice were the robusta/arabica blends used in traditional Vietnamese phin brewed coffee or the small amount of moka/highland arabica beans used for drink coffee. Now there are coffee events all over the country throughout the year.

            • fritobugger2017@lemmy.world
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              3 days ago

              I’m not in the coffee business so my view is that of an outsider. I am not sure how much the folks here want to develop the export market considering how badly the farmers in the larger export areas are screwed while the middle and end folks repeat the rewards.