I have no idea what those are but they sound delicious.

It’s possible that you can get these in the US, but we buy them in Japan to bring back as gifts (and for ourselves) from the Yokumoku brand and those are the kind I’d recommend. Truly delicious!
https://www.yokumoku.co.jp/en/store/usa/

But they won’t be once you dip them in a hot drink!

LOL...If I were to share my list of culinary eccentricities, you'd surely utter that phrase many more times.

This sounds like an excellent suggestion, and one I'm keen to try this weekend. I've always prepared my hot chocolate with whole milk which should make a nice contrast to a cup of black quality coffee, at least for me.

Probably engaged in the practice since college? I dip it into the coffee very briefly when the donut's sweetnenss becomes too overbearing. I've done this with hard chocolate chip cookies, biscottis, stroopwafels, etc...

And, as you may have guessed, I place whatever I've just dipped onto a plate and enjoy with utensils.

Anything but donuts are acceptable! How dare you!

So I finally ground some of my Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee and put it the French press. It was a good cup of coffee but not worth the high cost, at least how I treated it.

I will try pour over tomorrow. And with the next grind, I'll do it finely enough to make espresso from it.

I may change my mind on the cost benefit analysis.

I hope that it’s better. I know that Blue Mountain is extremely special!

Its special because of the rarity.

So - pour over method produced a decent cup of coffee but nothing out of the ordinary. I also made an espresso and that was good, not amazing but definitely decent. I've now tried 3 ways of making the coffee and think the espresso grind produces the best result.

having done that, I maintain that JBM produces a good cup of coffee but definitely not worth Ł40-Ł50 a bag for 250g.

Like all things (e.g., wine, high-end audio), it is a case of diminishing returns. There is, for the most part, easily discernible difference in quality for a given price at the lower end but beyond a certain point, any improvements are more difficult/hard to discern and at a point beyond that all esoteric or theoretical (unless or even if you are a supertaster or have golden ears per the twp examples), with a huge premium for such. From what I understand, even 4K TV is barely distinguishable from 1080p (assuming each is displaying media of the appropriate resolution) unless 1) you are close enough to the display, 2) the display is large enough, 3) you have eagle eyes, or all 3.

These days, my premium coffee is Miele No. 1 black edition at C$15/250g bag (normal quaffing stuff is closer to 1/3rd that for nearly 2x as much). I only have it as I needed to buy 20 to get a $800 discount on the coffee machine.

have you found a coffee that tastes as good as what you bought but at a lower retail? Thank

A friend picked up coffee from a brewery visit for me. They use Honduran coffee beans, age them in bourbon barrels that were used to age beer, and then, after they are aged, they roast them. The beans smell amazing.

How does the coffee made/brewed from these beans taste?

David

I haven't tried them yet. I just received them around 5 PM on Saturday, and that was too late for me to really enjoy a cup of coffee.

I usually pay Ł20 per kilo as you get a little bit of a discount for buying that quantity. I buy a caffeinated blend and a decaf blend as well as a couple of single origin coffees that the roasterys recommend, those come in the 250g bags as they're typically more expensive.

Do you go through 1kg fast enough? I'd worry about the beans going bad if I kept them for that long.

We typically get through 2kg of coffee every 4-6 weeks (we drink 5-6 cups a day each). If I was buying ground coffee I would do it in smaller batches more frequently however, I think the roasted beans are good for a bit longer in storage.