Very interesting read so far, imho grean beans that are in the $14 to $22 ish dollar range per kilo are mid range quality at a cheap price that can bring great results in the cup, perfect for the home roaster I would think. If you consider the in the cup price it all seems a very reasonable offering. Lets look at a bean that is $17 per kilo, we pay $10 postage to our door, we then roast the bean for $2 of electricity (yes it's more for us with larger gas roasters but we can do bigger batches so all works out) we loose 15% mass through the roasting process. So:- 1kg posted and roasted = $29.00 -15%loss = 850grams out @ 20 grams per shot pulled we get 42.5 shots. Lets allow a little waste and an odd binned shot, so 35 shots for our $29.00 investment = 83c each Not bad really for great coffee ? As we normally order a little more than 1 kilo the price per cup will be even better. Have you checked out global coffee prices lately, seen all the big players buying entire crops, increases in demand globally, coffee rust affecting SA crops and the list of price controlling factors goes on. We are lucky to have sponsors such as Bean Green, My Cuppa and MoG all of which are competing in an extremely competitive market. There is no one reputable out there with outlandish prices as the nature of the industry would soon see them disappear into oblivion, just hard working folk trying to make a modest wage in an ever tightening market. Chester
