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Originally Posted by Ben Franklin
A coffee connoisseur. Love it. What kind of roaster do you have and where do you buy your green beans?
When I was younger, I visited a coffee plant in New Jersey. They told me green beans will last forever, as they don't decay and there are no pests to eat the beans. Once coffee is roasted it immediately starts to decay, and not even vacuum packaging will save them. They did say that putting the coffee in the freezer helps prevent decay, but by the time we buy coffee, off the store shelves, the coffee is so far decayed, it tastes like mud, to me.
With that said, I don't roast my coffee, but I would like to do so, in order to get back to tasteful coffee again. In the meantime, I buy Folgers or Maxwell House, whichever one is on sale at the time. I prefer a half a packet of organic stevia with Greenwise half & half. Kona is also my favorite, but real kona coffee is quite expensive.
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I buy coffee from
HOME Kona Purple Mountain Coffee - Pure 100% Organic Kona Coffee
And
Coffee Bean Direct - Free Shipping on Orders of $35+. Another good source is
Sweet Maria's Home Coffee Roasting. I use a fresh roast roaster but you can start with a stove top roaster or and old air pop corn popper. I roast most of my coffees to a light city, the first crack, 2 cracks is full city. Dark roast and French roast is basically burned but some people like that, it’s all about what you like.
Yes green beans will not spoil as long as you keep them dry. I pay around $30 per lb for Kona, it’s our weekend coffee, Jamaican Blue mountain is more expensive and imho not as good, and around $10 per lb. for regular coffee’s.