OP here. Thanks all! We grind in our Vitamix daily using the "grain" base and it seems to work okay. However, I think it may slightly heat the beans which is probably a bad thing. Maybe a burr grinder is a good idea.

For the person who roasts at home, where do you source your green beans?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's no good coffee here in dc. Period.

Perhaps you mean there's no good coffee in the DC suburbs? There's plenty of excellent espresso in the city.

Chinatown Coffee Co
Peregrine Espresso

Also good -
Bourbon
Tryst
Baked and Wired

Sigh. Are you all from here or something? These places are better than others but nowhere near "good coffee." Sorry.

Coffee snobbery. It cracks me up. No thanks, I think I will keep my money.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's no good coffee here in dc. Period.

Perhaps you mean there's no good coffee in the DC suburbs? There's plenty of excellent espresso in the city.

Chinatown Coffee Co
Peregrine Espresso

Also good -
Bourbon
Tryst
Baked and Wired

Sigh. Are you all from here or something? These places are better than others but nowhere near "good coffee." Sorry.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The best beans are fresh beans - fresh roasted, ground right before use in a grinder appropriate to your brewing method. A quality grinder matters much more than brewing equipment.

We home roast, so I can't help on where to buy already roasted coffee.

Couldn't agree more. Our burr grinder has been the single best investment we've made in our kitchen. A nice even grind right before you brew turns even so-so beans into a good cup of coffee. With good beans, it's heaven.

What brand? How is a burr grinder different than a regular coffee grinder? TIA.

Anonymous wrote:There's no good coffee here in dc. Period.

Perhaps you mean there's no good coffee in the DC suburbs? There's plenty of excellent espresso in the city.

Chinatown Coffee Co
Peregrine Espresso

Also good -
Bourbon
Tryst
Baked and Wired

Anonymous wrote:The best beans are fresh beans - fresh roasted, ground right before use in a grinder appropriate to your brewing method. A quality grinder matters much more than brewing equipment.

We home roast, so I can't help on where to buy already roasted coffee.

Couldn't agree more. Our burr grinder has been the single best investment we've made in our kitchen. A nice even grind right before you brew turns even so-so beans into a good cup of coffee. With good beans, it's heaven.

I'm really happy with Swing's beans. You can mail order, or buy locally at their shop or at some grocery stores (Whole Foods, CC Supermarket).

Don't use either stovetop or French press. Buy yourself a nice burr grinder (I prefer a manual Lido grinder from Orphan Espresso) and an Aeropress.

My fave beans are Black Cat espresso from Chinatown Coffee Co.

Also - you should invest in an vacuum canister to store your beans.

Anonymous wrote:There's no good coffee here in dc. Period.

Sigh.

Majorca.

There's no good coffee here in dc. Period.

p.s. this probably belongs in food...

I use Peets mail order-- it's roasted the day they ship it out and then takes about a week to get to DC by UPS. Price and coffee are both pretty good and there are often coupons for free shipping.

The best beans are fresh beans - fresh roasted, ground right before use in a grinder appropriate to your brewing method. A quality grinder matters much more than brewing equipment.

We home roast, so I can't help on where to buy already roasted coffee.

I'm such a coffee lover that I was actually ticked that the last "I love coffee" post was really a post of shirtless Ryan Gosling.

Anyway, moving to a stovetop espresso maker and would love recs on best beams to buy either in store or online.

Also, always looking for better beans for my French Press.