Trying out their blend and just opened my first bag. It’s their 295 mix. I like it, lite and easy to drink It tastes like coffee. Did an aeropress brew and will try V60 next time. I will say the beans gave off an interesting smell that made me nervous about how it would come out, but all is good.
I never heard of this place, but it was recommended in another post. I’ll likely keep the subscription, at least for another few bags to see how it goes.
Sounds like an interesting subscription service tbh. I used to like these, and love the idea of someone surprising me with really good beans I might not have ever found or decided to buy myself. I feel like a lot of my purchases are pretty wild guesses anyway. However, for these bigger services (which frankly do have the greatest variety) its been my experience that quality is or becomes somewhat suspect. When they have your dollar committed on a subscription, how hard are they going to work to find you the very best beans? If you are paying $20 a month for 12ozs are they going to sometimes send you one that’s worth $24 and sometimes one that’s worth $18? It’s my impression that what you get for that $20 is usually a $15 or a $17 bag. Not to poop on anyone’s parade, but I have gotten many more mehs than wows out of these. Subscriptions from individual roasters are different, those just amount to a tour through their inventory which can be fun but relatively short lived and you end up getting a few bags that you probably would have known we’re not your taste if you just manually went through and ordered things as needed. I will say these services do make great gifts though. Buy someone that likes coffee but isn’t really “into” coffee an affordable conical burr and a subscription like this and before you know it they might be here chatting with us snobby bastards.
I’m sure there are going to be bags I’m not too hot on, but that’s ok. This happens when I shop around on my own as well.
It’s still fun to try these services out even if only for a few bags.
Sure, but my experience was that there are next to no bags that will blow your mind with these. They tend to be tours through a sort of pleasant mediocrity. Have tried Atlas, misto, and bean box. Let us know in a few months if you are loving this one though. Has not been on my radar. I’m just skeptical of the whole business model lacking incentive to give you really good beans without pretty severely overcharging. I mostly buy from local roasters but also like to find other people’s local roasters that have free shipping options to branch out. I’d love to make a website that keeps a list of these hidden gem roasters that have free or very discounted shipping costs but don’t have the time to maintain that myself.
Yeah, I don’t think my mind was blown by my first bag, but that’s just marketing fluff. I’m just happy they have 8oz sizes as it takes me over a month to get through 12oz bags. I did notice there was a lot of chaff on these.