Fresh roasted coffee for sale

[Dreepa]

NH Underground....where even "fresh roasted coffee for sale" can turn into a debate 

Coffee7 just make another post saying you have unfair trade coffee beans...

If you drink coffee and that is a good price.... buy the coffee...support each other.

[Lloyd Danforth]

NH Underground....where even "fresh roasted coffee for sale" can turn into a debate 

Snob

[Kat Kanning]

Curmudgeon. 

[Tom Sawyer]

I think it is great that C7 has custom roasted coffee for sale.

The idea of "Fair Trade" coffee sounded good to me until I read the Reason article. Another example of clever "branding" that is misleading...

...a fair farm as a family farm that is a part of a large democratic cooperative. Farms cannot be "structurally dependent on hired labor," which means that hiring even one laborer year-round makes a farm ineligible for certification. Even more controversial is the cooperative requirement. Rather than deal with individual farms, the FLO exclusively certifies large cooperatives composed of hundreds of small land-owning farmers, each with a single vote on how to best spend the Fair Trade profits.

"Fair Trade does not incentivize quality," explains Geoff Watts of Intelligentsia Coffee, who has spent the last nine years training coffee farmers in Africa and Central America. Fair Trade co-ops are composed of hundreds of farmers producing vastly different qualities of coffee. Often their output is blended together for sale to roasters, masking any quality improvements one farmer may have felt motivated to implement. Money then flows back to the co-op, not the individual farmer, and is distributed equally among the members. "There is no reward for the guy who works harder than his neighbor," says Watts. Nor is there much motivation for individual farmers to learn better farming techniques, experiment with new types of coffee, or seek new markets.

[coffeeseven]

My next offering will be coffee X so as not yo raise the hackles of anyone.

Except Malcolm X

Or the X-Men

[mappchik]

I'm all for fair trade coffee. Doesn't matter that it's a marketing gimmick - everybody involved is happier after the trade than before, which is a good thing.

I'm a big fan of fresh roast, so let me see if I can get this timing down...
If I order this weekend, I'd get the coffee Thursday-ish?
So, I should pick up enough of the Sunday roast at Whole Foods for the first half of the week.

How's this blend for a person with a penchant for dark, dark roast?

And, how's about setting up a regular order, should your coffee be addictive?
I'm lazy, and like to automate things.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Most people drink stale coffee.  There are some restaurants that have coffee makers that use refigerated coffee extract liquids that are used until they are finished.  The coffee is gross---yet people actually are fooled into believing it is a uniformly good tasting cup of coffee.

When I get low on my imported Costa Rican java, I start blending it with 8 O'Clock brand which rates no. 3 in taste and value in the last Cook's magazine testing.   For coffee drinkers on a tight budget, it is an excellent off the shelf brand.

I've been blending Foldger's Gourmet with Starbucks's Sumatra about 50/50, although sometimes less Sumatra.  I make it pretty strong. 4 scoops for 6 cups in the peculator and 1 to 1 in the French Press.

[Tom Sawyer]

For a winter pick me up while shoveling snow, my buddy and I used to mix Colombian Supremo, Jamacian Blue Mountain and the secret adjuncts Bailey's Irish Cream and Kaluha. Made for happy shoveling.

[Braddogg]

I'm all for fair trade coffee. Doesn't matter that it's a marketing gimmick - everybody involved is happier after the trade than before, which is a good thing.

I'm not sure that's a standard I would use to judge the ethics of a transaction.  By giving a crack addict some crack, I'm making him happier, but I'm also killing him.  It's certainly nothing worth using violence to stop, but it's certainly not an ethical act.

[eques]

Can't go anywhere these days without people comparing coffee to crack!!

[Braddogg]

Mmmmm . . . liquid crack . . . .  I like it best when it still has the blood from the farmers in it.

[Insurgent]

NH Underground....where even "fresh roasted coffee for sale" can turn into a debate 

Too funny!

[Russell Kanning]

is braddogg our 20 year old curmudgeon?

[Kat Kanning]

Always two there are...a master and an apprentice.

[Pat K]

For a winter pick me up while shoveling snow, my buddy and I used to mix Colombian Supremo, Jamacian Blue Mountain and the secret adjuncts Bailey's Irish Cream and Kaluha. Made for happy shoveling.

Thats a fine recipe.