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demure · 3235 days ago · link · · parent · post: "Craft Beer is Booming" or "KB rants about his grocery store again"

I feel your pain, but in a different way. Local roaster (when I'm in NH, not San Francisco) tried to sell me 3 month old coffee beans. Thought I'd try to support local business...but I order my coffee online now (except when I'm in SF).

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kleinbl00 · 3235 days ago · link ·

Dude. That's like all of Los Angeles. But yes - the fact that I can buy 3-day-old coffee for $7.99/lb takes some of the edge off of the beer situation.

+discuss+discuss

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demure · 3235 days ago · link ·

Where the hell are you getting coffee for $7.99 a POUND? That must be nice.

Even my go-to inexpensive online roast-to-order shop is ~$12-13 per pound, and anything out of SF/Santa Cruz/Portland is $18-22...

Then again, that same place sells green beans for $5 and I roast them myself (ecib)

+discuss+discuss

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kleinbl00 · 3235 days ago · link ·

Fred meyer, yo. Their organic is $9.99 a pound.

When it's on sale it goes as low as $4.99.

+discuss+discuss

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cgod · 3235 days ago · link ·

The medium or light beans at Freddie's are often oily, at least at the store near me. That usually means that they have sat around bleeding goodness out of their poors for a long time. It isn't bad when they look on the dry side.

+discuss+discuss

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kleinbl00 · 3235 days ago · link ·

The flavored robusta crap next to the arabica tends to be oil-slick shiny. I used to think this was a coating difference but it sounds like it means that even up here in Hicksville North Seattle the whole bean buyers have better sense than to buy robusta.

I have yet to buy coffee up here as bad as the best stuff I could get in LA.