colinwen wrote:
Thanks for people offer some good info about where to get the green bean. I just try to start my first home roast due to the local roaster start to become less reliable and pricy. Since I live pretty far from urban area (Townsville, North QLD), the postage is a huge concern for me. After quote few kg green bean at CS, it will cost me 20 bucks. Bean Green sounds like a better option for me. Since I am a newbie of home roast, and never really know what kind of flavour I prefer. (Used to buy home blend from local roaster). Can some body suggest which blend I can start with from "Bean Green"? And I don't think they offer any mix package for starter like CS did, right? Then I have to buy at least 1 kg for each bean. I also looks for some decaf bean for which I can drink after evening. Cheers Colin
I have not ordered from beangreen (yet), but personally I'd try and source a few different region beans just to get you going. Having to get $50 worth to get free shipping, I'd get a selection of five: I'd get something 1kg of each of: Ethiopian Yirgacheffe, Kenyan AA, Brazil Santos naturals, PNG Kimel, Indonesian Java Kalistat. Should give you a sampling of very differing coffees to play with. Others will have other opinions, but that's what I'd go for. You might love some, you might hate some, but it will get your tastebuds deciding what you like. It will also allow you to do some basic blending - Indonesian, for example, blends well with Ethiopian generally. The Brazil is a good base bean if you want to mellow out some of the others if you don't like them as much etc. There is one decaf on beangreen, so go with that one, but personally I wouldn't roast that to begin with - they will roast completely differently to all the others and may just end up confusing and frustrating you in the short term.
