Funkii Munkii

My bean to cup machine will be here in a couple of days.

Other than Blue Mountain Jamaican and Colombian Medellin would anyone like to offer suggestions on what I should be buying.

Anyone out there blending their own beans, something I have considered for the future, a mate in Oz had it down to a fine art, I'll be asking for his input as well

Cheers

Squarepusher

I buy my beans from this guy... Here

I tend to go for South American beans as it is more to my taste, but he does a wide range with tasting notes for the majority.
Excellent service, good prices and quality advice if you ask

A few of my favourites

Finca La Fany Bourbon

Fazenda Cachoeira

baz995

iTrader: (8)

This in my opinion is the cocaine of the coffee world, very nice indeed but far too addictive

http://www.roastmasters.com/sumatra.html

brendy76

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Noooooo, send it back and get one of these, best move ever!!!
16 varieties, Ristretto and Arpeggio are great! Works out at 25-30p a cup.


No faffing about with beans, messy ground beans and cleaning. Been there and didn't think it was worth the hassle.

Funkii Munkii

Thanks guys

Some useful links there

Brendy I'll let you know in due course whether it's too much faffing around or not, but to my mind it has to be freshly ground beans and not something that was ground months ago and then packaged. I suppose it could be argued that the beans were harvested weeks ago and they're not necessarily that fresh either.

Scooby Soon!

Have you just got the letter in the post fellow nespresso owner?

something about a new limited edition coffee that is 12 on the strength scale, going to order some today

brendy76

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12 you sayyyy?
I know they do specials each year towards Xmas, vanilla etc. I'll be keeping an eye out for that one. Got round to ordering the welcome pack last month and am working my way through it, luckily the missus only drinks decaf so around 40 of the 250 capsules are spoken for

billythekid

You can get a trial pack from Real Coffee.

http://www.realcoffee.co.uk/products.asp?id=Trial

Quite handy size packs to try out.

HTH

ScoTTyB

This is probably the nicest coffee I've ever had:

http://www.hrhiggins.co.uk/coffees/o.../san_cristobal