Are You Paying Too Much For Gourmet Coffee?
If you are a real coffee drinker and I mean the kind that is
willing to pay a lot of money for good coffee do I have
something to tell you. You may be over charged for your coffee.
For instance, if you were to buy a bag of Starbucks Gourmet
Blend from a local Supermarket for $7.99 per 12 oz bag you might
not be getting your money's worth. If you were to pay over $5.00
per 12 oz bag of any coffee at the Supermarket you are paying
way too much. Let me explain just why that is. Most of the
Gourmet Coffee at the supermarkets is usually a Gourmet Blend.
Blended with what you might ask? Exactly! You have no idea what
the blend is. Is it fresh Arabian beans blended with stale
French Roast? Could it be Galapagos Island Coffee blended with
old dried out Mexican Coffee beans? You can never really tell,
but I promise you that if you think for one minute a company
won't try to recoup their loses then you have another thing
coming. A Blend Coffee is the perfect way to sell damaged coffee
or half stale coffee & half fresh coffee combined with out the
customer's knowledge. I am by no means accusing anyone of doing
such a thing, but I know it happens.
I have seen coffee blends sell for as much as $14.95 a 12oz
bag. The part that makes me laugh is that you never know how
much of the coffee is high-grade and how much is low-grade
coffee. Yet people believe it is just as good as the unblended
coffee. That is to far from the truth. Let's take the Kona
Blended coffee for instance. Lets say it is a 50% Kona and 50%
mixed coffee beans. If you were to taste pure Kona Coffee next
to this Blend the pure Kona would standout as
the better of the
two in smell and taste. How much is Gourmet Blended coffee
really worth? There is a market for just about everything these
days and blends are no exceptions. Seeing you are probably pay
for 50% good coffee and 50% crap then I wouldn't pay more then
50% of the price for the unblended coffee.
What about coffee that is not blended? It really depends on
where you buy it. Supermarkets don't know what really fresh
coffee is, but a private roasting company will. Gourmet Coffee
ranges in price from $7.95 a lbs to $48.95 a lbs. Why so much?
Because the hard to find and rare coffees like Kona, Jamaican
Blue Mountain, and Galapagos Island coffee are in high demand.
The higher the demand is for rare coffee the higher the price is
as well. I always recommend shopping around, but it can be
difficult to find rare coffee. As a coffee roaster I have a hard
time locating good Kona coffee beans, and due to the hurricanes
the Jamaican crop has been scarce too. The cost associated with
Kona and Jamaican coffee is expected to go up even more this
year. Just like the inflated price of gasoline we may all have
to pay a high price for great coffee.
About the author:
Don is the owner of several free information websites and the
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Written by: Don McKay
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