Doram And I do also wonder about the more “reasonable” high price coffees that are discussed. Is the main goal to spend as much as possible (and brag about it on a forum)? I would much rather brag about the minimum price I paid for an excellent coffee. To each their own, I guess.
Why is one kind of bragging less ‘braggy’ than the the other kind? ;-) Different ends of the same stick.
I’m certainly not suggesting a linear relationship between coffee price and taste, from time to time I buy coffee at £3.20/100g (which I’d call mid-price?), but this mostly ends up in a moka pot. To get clean tasting pour over brews, with notes I enjoy, this mostly seems to happen around £8/100g, plus/minus £3 or so. The main goal, as it is for any of us I guess, is to get a pleasing result in the cup.
When I logged 100 bags of filter coffee (price, how much I liked them), the top 16% liking-wise cost an average £9.81/100g (but there were a couple of bags under £6/100g in there).
The bottom 16% cost an average £6.21/100g (there were a couple of bags approaching £9/100g in there).
If there were cheap coffees that could do what I want, I tend to think I’d have found them by now. I don’t like spending a lot on coffee and it leads to me buying smaller amounts and making smaller brews. Too many bad punts in a short space of time puts me off coffee altogether and I have to take a short break from it,
Coffee is a luxury, I choose as carefully as I can, I don’t waste any (that I can actually drink, that is), I don’t buy more than I need, I don’t race through it.
