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Lake 503 Costa Rican Tarrazu Coffee Review

 

[spoiler title=’Click here to read the transcript.’ style=’default’ collapse_link=’true’]hey welcome to coffee coffee coffee this is your place for average Joe coffee reviews and today we have a little addition to our set here this is the map and we are located here no you pointed to the Bahamas I wish we were in the Bahamas right now actually I don’t there’s a hurricane there that would be horrible we are here just north of Orlando Florida yeah which we are waiting for hurricane Irma to see if she’s gonna come this way but that’s enough talk about hurricanes right the only thing we might want to talk about is a hurricane of flavor was that present with this coffee tell us a little bit about the coffee so we were talking about Lake County Florida and that’s where our coffee is actually from well not the beans the beans are from Costa Rica from the Tarrazu region and this is lake 503 coffee and you actually went to school right with the the wife the owner’s names are Bryan and Rebekah Pleitez I just I wanted to pronounce it correctly and so we had heard that they had a coffee company and we were a little bit nervous because they’re like you know we wanted to try it but we thought oh but what if it’s no good and then we you know review it so but so let’s see a little bit more about the coffee it is classified as strictly high grown shg so if you ever see that that’s what that stands for it’s grown it like 5,500 feet of altitude over a mile high yeah I wonder what the cutoff is if it’s a mile and above that is strictly high ground I don’t know we should look that up before we record next time yeah you look it up that’s what Google’s for so um let’s see other things cost $12 for 12 ounces yeah so the most expensive coffee so far reviewed so far yes so um anything else to say it before we try it I’m ready to try that try it let’s tell you what you should think about it that’s not true we just tell you what we think about it love the coffee yeah it’s a very good cup of coffee it is it’s very good from the top to the bottom and it smells really good and actually I just picked up a little bit of cocoa okay I think I have tha yeah yeah like like I’m not a semi-sweet a little less sweet than that but more of a cocoa flavor I don’t know if it’s supposed to be there or not or if I’m just craving cocoa and tasting in my mouth yeah and I think I’ve picked up at over drinking you know a few cups a little bit of citrusy I mean it’s not overpowering and then maybe a little bit of an earthiness yeah yeah it’s really good though yeah whatever it is from the start to the finish it’s a really good cup of coffee like some you know cups you might start out it’s kind of yeah that’s not so good and then at the end it’s like that is better and then sometimes they start out really good and by the end you know it is not that great this is really good the whole way down yeah I like that a lot mm-hmm yeah so would we buy it again yes again yeah and if you’d like to buy it go on Facebook and look up lake 503 coffee that’s all the numbers not written out but right numerals right and you’ll find them that way and you can order straight from there and they also do farmers market for you local people like starting October they’ll be well I mean if you’re watching this at a different time of the year you know you’ll just basically need to visit their Facebook page right and find out where they are because sometimes they’re at the local farmers markets but they do ship right anything else to add on I don’t I think it was just really neat to see and actually meet the roaster like he brought it to our home that was only because he was out he doesn’t normally drive it all the way to your house but it was neat to shake his hand and get to talk to the actual person who roasted it compared that to like getting something in the grocery store and you know you don’t know the story and the of the person who made it it was just neat yeah I agree so if you have any other coffees that you’d like for us to try reach out to u here I won’t ask you to send them to us for free well I might but you can find us on Facebook Instagram YouTube under coffee coffee coffee and also on our website at coffee coffee coffee show dot com where you can find a coffee table that has information about all the reviews we’ve done whether or not we would buy it how much it cost per pound flavors all that good stuff so if you have any questions about that or whatever let us know until then keep grindin we’ll find a good tagline sometimes working on it[/spoiler]Read More »Lake 503 Costa Rican Tarrazu Coffee Review

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How much is your coffee habit costing you?

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[spoiler title=’Click to read the transcript. ‘ style=’default’ collapse_link=’true’]Welcome to Coffee Coffee Coffee. Today’s episode is a little bit different because we’re not going to be reviewing a coffee we’re going to talk about how much is coffee costing you. You know we are budget minded people and we’re always curious like how much are we really spending on this that or the other and then coffee because it can be such a wide range of pricing we were kind of curious like how much are we spending on coffee what’s the normal amount to spend and it kind of depends right on you know are you buying bagged or k-cups are you getting it through the drive-through so so we just kind of nerded out on you know taking it down to like we even measured out how much does a coffee way based on our our general scooping and all that so here are the assumptions we started out with just so that you can see you know over the course we tried to keep everything pretty even so we assumed two people because that’s the average number of people in a household that drink coffee three times per day which is also the national average and then we figured you know 30 days a month just to keep it easy math when using a rounded tablespoon which is what we generally use so we don’t level off the tablespoon but we also don’t scoop as much as we can and whatever holds on is in there it’s just you know kind of a rounded tablespoon and that equaled out to about 30 grams of coffee each time because when we you know make coffee and our coffee maker we need two six ounce you know servings for each mug so that ends up being you know twelve ounces per mug of coffee so every time we’re making coffee we’re using 30 grams of coffee so when we multiply that out we end up figuring out that we are basically buying 6 pounds of coffee per month and so but what does that mean for your overall you know price per month that you’re paying so if you’re buying the low end stuff like you know my brother-in-law just found coffee for $2.32 a pound that was a big ol can of Great Value coffee but you could even go all the way up you know in the grocery store brands like Peet’s coffee that the higher end brands or local roasters are usually about $12 a pound so you could end up paying anywhere between about $14 a month to about you know what’s that seventy-two dollars a month so that’s a pretty big variance and so you know it’s just something to be aware of if you’re buying and higher end stuff this is about what you’re paying now k-cups k-cups were pretty interesting because we don’t have one we don’t have a Keurig so we were kind of curious like what do they cost per cup and that kind of thing so the first thing to remember or to notice is that generally speaking K Cups are only about 10 grams of coffee per pod so that was a so basically you’re getting less coffee every cup you know as far as the coffee that you’re using strength-wise than you are if you’re just making your own bag from home so and so if you try to make a you know twelve ounce cup of coffee with just one pod it’s probably going to seem pretty weak but but just for the sake of argument let’s say that you only use one and it’s fine for each mug of coffee each 12 ounce mug you’re still paying like 31 cents per cup and then if you multiply that out so basically your multiplier is gonna be 180 because you know two times three times thirty days a month you’re gonna end up at around 55 to about 120 dollars oops per month and so really you would be better off like if you’re if you’re really wanting the higher quality stuff go ahead and just buy the bag and you know and you can even buy those little adapters and so you could end up using much better coffee to make the k-cups or to make to make it in the Keurig for the you know the same amount of money or even less really you so so that’s something to consider so and then lastly what about drive-throughs well depends on where you go so McDonald’s has $1 coffee which sounds pretty cheap right but if you multiply that out again you’re still gonna be spending you know a hundred and eighty dollars if you get you know both of you get coffee three times a day which not many people are doing you know drive-through coffee that often but something to keep in mind it does add up over time Starbucks on the other hand if you’re spending a you know a $1.95 for that same sized coffee that we’re talking about over here and you’re doing that with two people three times a day then that’s you know a ridiculous amount of money it’s you know it’s basically like 350 bucks for the Starbucks so so yeah so you can end up spending a really wide variety of money depending on what you buy and and how you prepare it so you know you’re really better off to go with the bag you’re always better off to go with the bag and really by a whole lot you know even with the cheapest k-cups like these 31 cent ones were like Great Value brand k-cups so all the way up to this is what we found Peet’s k-cups for so you know it’s still kind of that same variance although really you can find cheaper coffee per pound then you can find the k-cups the k-cups kind of keep it in this like kind of tight range that we found whereas bag can be really really cheap or you know all the way up to $12 pounds so anyway hope that helps we were surprised by how much you know of a variance there was especially with the k-cups so I hope you found that informative and we’ll see you next time[/spoiler]
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