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Oh haha I can't read. I like Supreme's Colombia Hulia decaf.
$70 for 1kg? Is it $70 a kg good?
As a comparison, the other suggestion of Hummingbird is $39 for a kg.
$17.50 for 250g of single origin, high Q-score coffee is not unreasonable. You'll see some single origins at Flight Coffee go for $23 for 250g or so, and obviously very high Q-score coffee goes for significantly more. I don't usually buy 1kg lots of coffee due to freshness concerns.
Hummingbird claims to source speciality grade coffee but I have seen so many defects (both roast defects and defects in the green) when buying from them that I kind of don't believe them (or they're getting ripped off by their suppliers). You still can make tasty coffee with Hummingbird but I think the quality of raw ingredients and the skill of the people who roast the coffee is lower than basically all of the other roasters that are targeting the speciality NZ market (as opposed to the commodity coffee market).
I'm pretty sure you and I are on totally different levels haha. I wouldn't know how to spot a roast defect and I don't think I notice the difference between freshly roasted coffee or a few weeks old.
I think I'll stick to $40/kg coffees until such time as I can appreciate high grade coffee a bit more.
Haha fair enough. I thought owning lots of coffee gear would save me money in the long run but now I just end up buying more expensive coffee lol
I've never been under the impression that owning coffee gear would save me money. I used to only occasionally drink coffee, when other with others (I would say I was only a social drinker), but when I started to get coffee equipment for home (since I now work almost full time from home) it was always going to cost more than not drinking coffee 😆