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Favorite Coffee

I go to my local beanery, they roast the beans there daily and have a decent assortment to choose from. I have a few favorites and rotate through them depending on what they have, currently working on some yummy Sumatra. I usually get a huge piece of cheesecake too. It's a nice little cafe.
 
On my least favorite coffee list at number #3 is farmers bros i absolutely can't stand there coffee, it makes sick🤢, the exception is Metropolitan I actually like this one.
If you have a Ross, Marshall's, Home Goods store were you live or close by these stores generally carry a lot off brand coffees, if your feeling adventurous :D
 

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We have a Black Rifle Coffee Company roasting facility here in Manchester, Tennessee. The Darling Bride and I were actually given a tour a couple of years ago: observing as the burlap sacks of green coffee beans were sent into the roaster; then the cooling bin; then vacuum tubes sucked the beans up, remaining chaff removed; and they went into the various flavors or grinders. The ground coffee was then sucked away into the bagging section, where it was sealed in bags and ready for retail. The entire process is fascinating! There's also an outpost store so we can buy fresh coffee right there.

HOWEVER: we're both Navy veterans and like our coffee strong but tolerable. Our daily driver these days is Kirkland Signature French Roast from Costco. Fantastic roast! We get the whole beans and grind them here.
 
Years ago, with my regular employment slow, I worked nights stocking shelves at a local grocery store. Not being able to smoke while I worked I took to taking a couple of coffee beans from the coffee bean dispenser to suck on. It wasn't bad at all and they would last until my lunch break or the end of my shift. I would likely have been better off with the beans than smoking all those years.
 
For years I thought eating coffee beans was strange and odd but when I go to my beanery I always ask for s few of the new/different kinds. They sure a tasty crunchy treat and a good way to decide which to bag up and bring home!
 
Preparing 3 tumblers this morning. The Donut is from starter Bros a grocery chain in California.
The blue berry cobbler and the breakfast blend are Brooklyn beans roasters (haven't tried either)
My favorite one from Brooklyn bean is their Fuhgeddaboutit flavor
For gas station coffee Mount Grogg is my new favorite
 

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Preparing 3 tumblers this morning. The Donut is from starter Bros a grocery chain in California.
The blue berry cobbler and the breakfast blend are ones i haven't tried
 
There is a blue box with gold writing and inside of it, it is a gold bag.
We had it in the pantry forever but I cannot recall the name of the coffee, it is blue berry flavor.
 
This is was my coffee choice for yesterday
 

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We live just a few miles from a Black Rifle Coffee Company roasting facility, so it's nice to go into the outpost store there and pick up fresh-roasted coffee (they also throw out tons of chaff, left over from grinding, which is fantastic for garden plants that love acidic soil!). We had some and the coffee-snob Darling Bride almost couldn't drink it, it was so relatively weak to our go-to. So, it's back to our go-to: Costco's Kirkland Signature French Roast beans. Super dark, rich, and I have the grinder set on "5", which is barely coarser than an espresso grind. Being Navy people, we wake up in the morning with way too much blood in our caffeine system and need a good liquid jumpstart.

If you're close to a BRCC facility, just go there with a pickup truck and ask for a bag of chaff. They'll probably be glad to hoist one with a forklift and put it in the bed. A bag is 5 five cubed, weatherproof and weighs about 150-200 pounds. It will last you a LONG time.
 
We are pretty much hooked on another Costco Kirkland brand bean. Though we love Kenya AA beans they aren't good enough for the special trip and extra dollars for a daily driver. We drink Kirkland's medium roast Columbian Supremo most every day. It's a decent tasty coffee at a decent price. It's basically three pounds of beans at the same cost as one pound of Kenya AA at our local spice merchant.
 
Can you not order it and have it shipped? Coffee snob has to have half & half, not powdered creamer: so we order our Mini Moos from Costco and it's shipped to us, 2-day FedEx, for a lot less than the cost of fuel round trip. We usually only go to the store if we happen to be in that town for another reason (medical appointment, etc).
 
We are bigger tea snobs than coffee snobs. We buy our loose tea at a spice shop down town. We buy our teas a pound at a time so it isn't a weekly or even monthly purchase. The store is also the outlet for great coffees and we often will buy a pound of Kenya AA when purchasing teas. The aroma of their freshly ground coffees is to die for. We grind our own but the aroma of that coffee is worse than popcorn wafting through a theater when we are there to buy tea. It's impossible to not buy some.
 
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