> What I was intending to say is that you can absolutely get within a negligible margin for far less than half the price of say, 85 euro per 250g, which is comically expensive, all equipment and other ingredients kept more or less the same in terms of investment. Not all fermented coffees run that high either, and a lot of the cost comes from rarer varietals that may or may not be unique, but just aren't inherently higher quality than high specialty grades of others.
Fully agree. There's plenty of good coffee you can have that isn't stratopherically priced. That said, there's a certain price bracket where you just cannot get some of these flavors. Anyone buying $10/lb coffee will never get those flavors. If you want lightly roasted coffee with fruity or floral flavors, you have to spend a certain amount.
I'm not suggesting you have to spend the "$500 champagne" equivalent to get good coffee; I'm just saying that coffee isn't a percentage goodness thing. For certain types of coffee flavors, there isn't any way around spending money to get them. Certain flavors are a lot easier to achieve with lower cost coffee, though. Any sort of chocolate or nutty flavor is generally easier to achieve with cheaper coffee, so if that's what you like drinking... then you probably don't need to spend as much.
Fully agree. There's plenty of good coffee you can have that isn't stratopherically priced. That said, there's a certain price bracket where you just cannot get some of these flavors. Anyone buying $10/lb coffee will never get those flavors. If you want lightly roasted coffee with fruity or floral flavors, you have to spend a certain amount.
I'm not suggesting you have to spend the "$500 champagne" equivalent to get good coffee; I'm just saying that coffee isn't a percentage goodness thing. For certain types of coffee flavors, there isn't any way around spending money to get them. Certain flavors are a lot easier to achieve with lower cost coffee, though. Any sort of chocolate or nutty flavor is generally easier to achieve with cheaper coffee, so if that's what you like drinking... then you probably don't need to spend as much.