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Green Coffee Beans
What are green coffee beans?
Wikipedia have an excellent overview on this topic with more links than you could shake a stick at Read more here: wikipedia
Supermarket Coffee Isn't As "Fresh" As They Make Out..
"Fresh ground coffee" has been available in supermarkets for years, and every week it seems they have a new range or blend in stock. Anyone trying these coffees will no doubt never purchase a freeze dried, jarred coffee again... ever
How do I roast my own coffee?
Buy a home roaster, order your green coffee, and roast away Roasting your own coffee is an amazing experience, especially if it's your first time Sweet Maries have a vast wealth of knowledge to assist you with the type of roaster you should buy, how to use the roaster, and "roasting profiles" you should use as reference to know when your coffee is roast and to which level. they also sell green coffee beans at good prices, however, they're based in the USA and have high shipping costs.
You can find all of this information here: Sweet Maries.
However, the process of having the coffee beans picked from their cherries, dried, processed, shipped, packed and FINALLY placed on the shelf for the consumer is a long one, and every day that passes is another day your coffee has aged and lost it's flavour.
Until you've tasted fresh coffee you simply can't appreciate the difference in freshness when it comes to the aroma and flavour of the coffee.
Our recommendation? - buy a domestic "coffee roaster", roast your own coffee and save money each time by buying green coffee beans direct from a green bean supplier.
There are a few online wholesalers that will offer to sell you grean beans, however, where you choose to buy your green beans will depend on a few things:
Sustainability: Have the coffee beans been grown, produced and harvested in a sustainable, ethical way?
Quality: Are the beans of high quality, and are they packaged in strong, air-tight bags?
Price: The price of the coffee beans
I have personally purchased coffee from most of the UK suppliers available, and I will say most of those coffees did not meet the above criteria, and the majority of the suppliers could not tell me where these coffee's were actually from They simply buy bland stock in bulk, and resell to anybody who will take it - in some cases the packaging was simply a plastic freezer type bag and the variety of beans I purchased all looked/tasted exactly the same (pennine tea and coffee - be warned).I decided to source my own beans and now stock them online via my my own website (the-coffee-shop.co.uk). We source all our green coffees by farm or co-operate, and have relationships (and frienships) with farmers all over the world. We buy in large quantities, and therefor we can offer cheaper prices than almost any other supplier for the quality / grade of coffee we source. We currently have in some amazing green coffee beans.
From Sumatra:Our Sumatra Blue Ling Tong coffee beans from Lake Toba is a real winner this year.
From Central AmericaWe're proud to have an excellent El Salvador green coffee (near Lake Cuatepeque) in stock at the moment, which has been sourced from the Las Lajas Cooperation - a member of the Rainforest Alliance Conservation Group.
If you have any questions about green coffee beans or home-roasting, feel free to leave a comment here, or shoot us an email over via our contact us page. We're always more than happy to help :)Mic
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