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Excellent: My coffee (ordered on Thursday - a coffee from El Salvador and another from Costa Rica, plus filter papers) has arrived - I received a notification by email this morning informing me that it was "in transit" and on its way.
 
This morning, well, late enough this morning, my coffee took the form of a blend of my own devising, a blend of three coffees from central America: Coffees from Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica.

Served with (organic, full fat) hot milk, and quite delicious.
 
I've added https://coffeelink.com/ into the first post. They were popping up in my Facebook feed every day and had an offer of free P&P so thought I'd give them a try. To be honest, I wasn't expecting much but the first order was delivered really quick and well packaged and the beans had just been roasted and were pretty good. I've just received another box of the Colombia Supremo Noble (Oro De Suarez) which is even cheaper at the minute.
 
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Crazy Badger said:
I've added https://coffeelink.com/ into the first post. They were popping up in my Facebook feed every day and had an offer of free P&P so thought I'd give them a try. To be honest, I wasn't expecting much but the first order was delivered really quick and well packaged and the beans had just been roasted and were pretty good. I've just received another box of the Colombia Supremo Noble (Oro De Suarez) which is even cheaper at the minute.
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Thanks for sharing.
 
Thoroughly enjoyed my coffee this morning; a blend (of my own devising) of three coffees from central America - coffees from El Salvador, Costa Rica and Honduras. Served with (organic, full fat) hot milk.
 
TwoH said:
@Scepticalscribe - I'm interested in this Ethiopian coffee you use. Could I have any specifics of what Ethiopian coffee you buy?

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In general, if such a choice exists, I tend to prefer "natural" rather than "washed" coffees from Ethiopia.

However, - and this is somewhat contradictory, for, I also especially like the (Ethiopian) coffees from the Yirgacheffe region of Ethiopia, and, as it happens, they tend to be "washed" coffees.

Having said all that, in truth, you won't go wrong with any Ethiopian coffee, especially one sourced by a small business - a coffee specialist, for example, or an artisan roaster or coffee-shop - which specialises in serving (and selling) coffees sourced from a small producer, or small producers; I say "small producer" because it is more likely that they will have ticked a number of proverbial "boxes":

The coffee will be of better quality, because it will be in the interest of small producers to have ensured that this is so, and they will be producing small quantities and can afford to concentrate on quality; there will usually be a relationship between the small producer and the buyers, and roasters of their coffee, and it will be in everyone's interests to ensure that good environmental practices take place and environmental standards are met, and that payment for the product (and labour) is as fair as you will find in that industry, and a lot better than the average.

So, good coffee, good labour practices, and good ethical and environmental practices: What is there not to like?

Well, cost, or price.

Coffee from such sources is not cheap; I will frequently pay anything from €10-15-20, (much the same in £ or $) for a bag of Ethiopian coffee.
 
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a recent purchase arrived Friday so yesterday's coffee was organic Mexican coffee from Chiapas....this morning I'm trying some Colombian coffee
 
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