"Rosie Miller" > wrote in message
...
: >
: >
: >Coffee beans after roasting have a 2 week max shelf life in
whole bean
: >format-ground it is only a matter of hours or some say minutes
before
: >the varietal flavors have left. So if you want to experience
real
: >coffee, find a roaster that rotates their beans. These people
are
: >around if you will just look. Also a few roasters are bottom
feeders
: >over roasting cheap crap beans and selling roast. We call one
of the
: >big chains charbucks cause they can not possibly sell fresh
roasted-so
: >they way overroast their coffee and are offering roast flavors
and not
: >varietal flavors. But at least they start with high quality
beans not
: >like the big bulk can guys who are peddling steam treated
(without the
: >steam treatment these beans taste like truck tires)Vietnamese
sourced
: >robusta beans.
: >
: >Now if you really want great coffee-roast your own beans. If
: >interested go to alt coffee-having a great cup of Ethopian
Harrar
: >Horse just roasted into the beginning of the second crack.
Lots of
: >sources of green beans and if you are a bit handy, can make
your own
: >roaster for not a lot of money. Our ancestors used to roast
their own
: >beans.
: I have never roasted my own beans, but now you've got me
thinking about it,I
: may give it a try, my first cup of coffee in the morning is one
of life's
: little pleasures. Thanks, Rosie
: ========

Be careful with that! Once you roast your own - you can't go
back to "store bought crap"!! Rick and I have been roasting our
own lately and the difference is ASTOUNDING!!

There is one store bought that I still really like. I just
discovered it during a trip to Chicago... Trader Joe's has a
coffee that has Pinon nut (Pine nuts) from New Mexico in it.
WOW!! I wasn't going to tell anyone about it for fear that
everyone would buy all of it and make the price go up... but
since I live far enough from a Trader Joe's ... I guess it won't
matter if I only tell you guys.

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Cyndi
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