Buying coffee beans?

[Anonymous]

Where do you buy your beans? I can go to the roaster and spend $20 on a 12 oz bag, but I have been having good luck buying local beans at Whole Foods. however they are about $17 a bag. I went to Harris Teeter to look and the beans are SO old. They don't even work in an espresso machine because the freshest I could find was from April. Some even had sell by dates of May. I used to do a subscription but I don't like switching beans.

I am in moco.

[Anonymous]

Trader Joe’s or Mayorga. I also like Chesapeake Coffee Roasters found in grocery stores. We prefer medium-dark and dark roast.
We used to buy the Peet’s Major Dickason whole beans from Costco but they suddenly became weird.

[Anonymous]

We get ours shipped from Coava in Portland. They roast twice a week and ship the next day.

[Anonymous]

Costco- Mayorga, DD, Starbucks brands have whole bean options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trader Joe’s or Mayorga. I also like Chesapeake Coffee Roasters found in grocery stores. We prefer medium-dark and dark roast.
We used to buy the Peet’s Major Dickason whole beans from Costco but they suddenly became weird.

Do you go to Mayorga or ship? I drove 20 minutes to go there once and there was a sign on the door that they all had Covid.

[Anonymous]

IME Trader Joe’s coffee is terrible.

Not sure where you are but I like Swings which is available at Whole Foods in Alexandria.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trader Joe’s or Mayorga. I also like Chesapeake Coffee Roasters found in grocery stores. We prefer medium-dark and dark roast.
We used to buy the Peet’s Major Dickason whole beans from Costco but they suddenly became weird.

Do you go to Mayorga or ship? I drove 20 minutes to go there once and there was a sign on the door that they all had Covid.

I buy from Costco.

[Anonymous]

Another nod to Costco. Price is right, and their high volume of quantity sales means supplies are usually relatively fresh. Plenty of varieties and roast levels to choose from.

[Anonymous]

I normally buy from local roasters, but sometimes I’ll get Peet’s or Counter Culture at Target. Wegmans organic whole bean is good for the price too.

[Anonymous]

What grinders do you all recommend? I've been wanting to switch to whole beans but I don't have a grinder and I hate the mini ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What grinders do you all recommend? I've been wanting to switch to whole beans but I don't have a grinder and I hate the mini ones.

The mini ones are fine. This is what I have.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005EPRFKO/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What grinders do you all recommend? I've been wanting to switch to whole beans but I don't have a grinder and I hate the mini ones.

We have had the Rancilio Rocky for many years now:

https://www.wholelattelove.com/products/rancilio-rocky-doserless-coffee-grinder?currency=USD&variant=14409527197755&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=Google%20Shopping&gclid=CjwKCAjwtuOlBhBREiwA7agf1lJbDPPRLnC2LN6SmPcmZ9KoUcZUSb_78WXgy7Py7sgkUQWMWCjj4RoCiHEQAvD_BwE

[Anonymous]

We get ours online from wholelattalove. Great service and coffee club discount

[Anonymous]

Lavazza whole beans via Amazon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:IME Trader Joe’s coffee is terrible.

Not sure where you are but I like Swings which is available at Whole Foods in Alexandria.

I actually quite like Trader Joe's. We've had several people give us bags of nice seeming bags of beans as gifts from coffee making places but I still prefer TJ.