Firing up my Aero-Press.
If you love coffee and espresso, get one. I may have reverberated this once, already, but in addition to that, I have a suggestion for coffee.
After going through a bag of coffee that my brother roasted, that he brought from Durango, when he came up for the holidays, I've been rather disappointed in every other store bought bag I've tried since, until this last find.
Kroger or any other store that carries Daz Bog beans in bulk, to fill or grind and fill.
After tasting some of their alleged Espresso roast and other dark and medium roasts straight from the server at the store, I found one that has that very fresh and specific finish flavor and final aroma that I've only had from two other, rather expensive roasts. One of those being the one that my brother roasted.
This stuff is called Daz Bog's Java Mocha. I don't know why the name, but its a medium roast, so it doesn't have a sooty flavor and is very rich in flavor and dark in color. It is not a flavored roast, like amaretto or cinnamon, cocoa, etc. Its just a really, really proper roast with a great finish and aroma that you don't get from crappy roasts. Attributed to lots of oils still present and not nuking the beans too dark, I'd imagine.
Anyway, if you can, for the price, I have yet to find a coffee cheaper than $15lb that matches this stuff at $10.99lb. Most bags are 11oz, not a full lb/16oz, just FYI, while you're pricing. If it were bagged like the rest of the stuff on the shelves, they would be right around $7.55 for a 11oz bag, like your 8 O Clock, Dunkin', etc.
For the quality of this stuff at half of the price I've paid for equal quality joe, its worth buying your own grinder for at home, to have it as fresh as possible.
