Hey everyone,
I thought, as this is a pretty small community, it would be interesting to have a discussion on everyone’s favorite rosters in their region/country and what kind of coffee you like best from there.
In Belgium, I really like Mok Coffee in Leuven. They have some solid Ethiopian roasts.
Nylon Coffee is skate or bicycle away from home.
They also drop freshly roasted beans on a vending machine so I can pickup beans anytime. I prefer african/floral variety so skipped their South American heavydeliver-to-home-subscription.
I really enjoy Black and White coffee roasters of of Wake Forest, NC. They experiment with a huge variety of things. I choose from their single origin options every time I’m low. From clean to funky, I really enjoy getting a new experience with each new bag.
What does the clean/funky label mean though? I purchased from them from time to time but can’t really understand it.
I had a really hard time figuring that out as well, until I got into food fermentation. There are certain aspects of flavor and scent like boozy fruits or muskiness that are generally referred to as “funky”.
A lot of it comes down to the processing method for coffee. For natural processes where the coffee cherry’s fruit body is left on the bean during fermentation, you’re a lot more likely to get these funky notes.
For “washed” processes where the fruit body is removed before fermentation, you get more of the flavor from the coffee bean itself. These tend to be more “clean” in flavor notes.
I’m in USA,
They’re not close to me, really, but same country.
But when I order, I get coffee that was roasted within the last couple days. Good variety of roasts, and I’ve never disliked anything I’ve tried, all high quality.
edit Oh, this post is 2 years old. Well it’s still a good question! Hopefully this community picks up with all the new users.
I’m a former employee. My experience there wasn’t great. Owner treated employees poorly.
OTOH you aren’t going to beat their prices anywhere else, but the main reasoning for that is they try to keep costs as low as they can and push the employees to get everything out same day to keep orders coming in. It was pretty exhausting and there was a high employee turnover.
If you’re on a budget they’re fine. If not, go elsewhere.
we have some coffee planted in Yunnan province, but they are not very famous yet. :)
I’m in southeast asia and always by my coffee from Yunnan! Are you commercially selling it? If so i’d happily buy some to try!
haha sorry i m not a coffe saler
