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[Dev]

Being a coffee lover myself, I have long wanted to try the prohibitively expensive Blue Mountain coffee.

Years of wondering have been biting at me, I finally gave in and bought 200 grams of Jamaican Blue Mountain from one of the big coffee companies in Japan.

Wah! What a let down! Mediocre at best. Please don't bother with it.

For a good all around taste, I recommend Columbian.

What kind of coffee do you like best?

[tzechuk]

I thought you were going to tell us that it was cancer inducing and would kill you if you drank the stuff......

What a disappointment.

[the eye]

note to self: don't open Dev's threads.

[JongnoGuru]

Paging Miss Jaderedux.



Columbian, Brazillian, Italian Roast, French Roast -- I like all kinds, Dev. In any form, too. Hell, I'm freebasing Taster's Choice right this very moment.

[Ginormousaurus]

Do you ever stop complaining?

[mindmetoo]

Indeed. I used to work for a Second Cup and had many opportunties to sample Jamaican Blue Mountain, it's less expensive brother Jamaican High Mountain, and Kona. Blue Mountain was nothing to write home about. It's expensive because of limited supply. One mountain's worth. Conspicuous consumption keeps people buying and drinking. The less expensive High Mountain I found a better cuppa joe. I've never noted anything good about Kona to warrant the price either.

Back in the day when coffees were almost exclusively marketed by region, I used to enjoy Costa Rican and Guatemalan. Mexican was good but hard to find. But I liked a milder cup.

[Bondrock]

i once visited the hoover dam... as the guide took us down in the elevator he said "this elevator was built by Maxwell House"

good to the last drop

[SuperHero]

I prefer Ethiopian coffee.

[Novernae]

The whole JBM crop was crap this year. Lots of lost money...none of the specialty roasters bought any. Kona was no better, although there were a couple good ones to come out.

Like someone else said, there're lots of other coffees that are better than JBM, even when it is a good year.

[bixlerscott]

I like that Hikoca Columbian Supremo in a 7 ounce sea green colored bag at HomePlus for 8900 Won. I tried everything else and its crap, even coffee shops trying to be a knockoff of Starbucks are serving tasteless swill. Like the rediculously limited supply of meats, coffee is very expensive (20,000 won per pound!). While most coffees in Korea lack quality despite high prices, I find the Hikoca to have rich flavor and good overall quality without being no more pricier than the crap coffees (alot of it is very old). I heard about that there is Kaldi's coffee available in Seoul which is what I drank at home and is the best I have ever had. Kaldi's is only $9 a pound at home while Starbucks was $7 a pound which your looking at coffee costing a whopping 2x to 3x more than in the USA.

[Dev]

[Hollywoodaction]

I roast my own. I concur, Ethiopian coffee is high up there on my list of coffees, excellent aroma, tastes great, and is very affordable. Kenyan is great if you roast it just right, b