Portland coffees are generally amazing. If anyone is travelling to the Canadian Rockies (I’m in Calgary) and wants a listening session/great coffee and/or mountain (biking/climbing/hiking) guidance, you’re welcome to touch base with me.
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Spent a week there before continuing on to Lake Louise, Canmore, and Banff.
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I usually start the day with a liter of coffee (drip). Little did I know I’m getting as much fiber as in three servings of broccoli!
A cup of coffee also contains fiber — up to 1.8 grams, or roughly half the amount you’d find in one serving of broccoli.
Coffee in many ways is akin to a liquid vegetable, said Hubert Kolb, a visiting scientist at the West-German Center of Diabetes and Health in Düsseldorf who studies coffee’s health effects.
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This is a pretty good deal, typically the best I see is 20% off. No affiliation just a satisfied customer. Bike Fuel is my go to. Electric Monkey is always on hand at my house. WTeff (wow can’t type Doubleyou Teee F) and Soul Shaker are up there too.
Enjoy 
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Glad to know about Just. I have been ordering from Stone Creek in Milwaukee for about the same price, and good coffee, but I think I will try a bag from Just.
Get Bike Fuel for daily coffee and Electric Monkey for Espresso. Good stuff and a good company to deal with.
Enjoy!
I buy a 1 kg bag of beans from Woolies am I a philistine ?
Press the button - coffee comes out -simple 
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A slight sideways shift - my partner and I have just discovered espresso martinis. What a lovely way to kickstart an evening. Albeit two of them in quick succession will drop a horse, as we found out last Sunday 
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You should not give coffee and alcohol to a horse!
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Neigh you shouldn’t (well you did tee it up for me!)
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Not at all Mike but are you saying we should all be like you?
What’s wrong with making an espresso from a single origin bean that tastes delicious compared to the dark and bitter beans on the shelves at woolies. I’ve heard exactly the same thing from close friends until I’ve made them a coffee and they have agreed that it is so much more enjoyable to drink.
Then they have gone home and carried on drinking their woolies coffee beans.
Each to their own.
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@Mike_O_Neill 
Maybe Mike. I have several friends who play all their music from little Bluetooth speakers smaller than a soup can. They come over and are blown away, but are still happy to go back home and listen to their soup cans. I think the coffee thing is a bit like that. They are almost two different drinks.
Heard in my house last week (tasting an espresso) “that doesn’t even taste like coffee!” And a few minutes later drinking the cappuccino of the same “Oh my gawd that is good!”
Coffee can be a vehicle that transports caffeine to the system and a flavour that grows on one, but it can also be a different experience every time. And much like the “music to test the stereo” there’s something to the exploration that resembles audiophilia. 
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I’m a Hermanos chap most of the time, but am inspired by this thread to get more adventurous. My coffee activities are relegated to the naughty corner.
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Not sure if this belongs here or in a music thread: Coffee Tastes Like Music
It’s a six-minute YouTube video from James Hoffman. He pops up on my version of the internet from time to time, seems like an interesting enough person.
In this video, I think he makes some good points and there are some comparisons to made for the way we enjoy music as well. Maybe music sounds like coffee? Cheers!
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2.1 million You Tube subscribers suggest he’s doing something right (that number is insane!)
I subscribe to the channel - much like the Jeremy Clarksons of this world (Top Gear, Grand Tour) he entertains as well as informs (ditto Darko, although I’m slightly biased there obviously).
Hoffman also influences. Hence my new Kingrinder K1 manual grinder that popped through my door an hour ago. Hoffman reviewed the cheaper Kingrinder P1 and loved it. None in stock, so I went upmarket slightly and paid £55 (the P1 is £33). I have to say the K1 is really nicely put together and the first cup of coffee from it was very nice indeed. If you can’t stretch to the likes of the Wilfa Uniform that I normally use (£280) the Kingrinder appears an excellent alternative.
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I’ve since added myself to his very large number of YouTube subscribers, but I guess I’m late to his party. I can certainly see that Mr. Hoffman will have something to say about my future coffee-related purchases. I’ve been a long-time subscriber to Darko’s channel; he and others have influenced my audio-related purchases, for sure.
Hoffman’s video has accumulated over 400k views in 3 days! It drew my attention for the fact that he draws some interesting parallels between coffee and our objectivist/subjectivist debates (not trying to start one, I promise!) around music listening here and on every other audio forum on the internet.
I have used an inexpensive Hario manual grinder for years, and it’s served me well as far as I can tell (coffee fan but definitely not to the level of detail that I would say I am with my music and music-listening gear!). I’ll have a look, thanks for the recommendation. Cheers!
+1 for Kingrinder, well made for the money, I haven’t seen a better priced decent hand grinder. Enjoy
Coffee gear and music gear share some things in common. Not the least of which are the upgrading options.
Photo of today’s second cup, a delicious wages Colombian with savoury notes and a minty finish. New Timemore Sculpture grinder turning my beans into powder.
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