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Sadly Coffee beans have gone overpriced in my opinion, I used to buy green Monsoond Malabar for about £10 a Kilo and roast them myself.

Now its near £15 a Kilo so roughly 50% increase in about 5 years.
 
Cadder said:
I bought some from them but wasn't impressed. I had the 5 x 250g Tote selection and I found nothing special with any of the different beans. One of their bean types was a nightmare through the grinder - it sounded like I'd put gravel through it! The tote bag is nice though, we still use that.

It's a shame as I'd like to shop local but I've not felt a reason to return to Tynemouth Coffee.
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Ah thats a shame, I've never had an issue and always had a good pull on their beans. Other local ones are relish based out of Whitley Bay, and there is a little roasters in cobalt which are not bad either.
 
... maybe next time I'm near San Francisco

phil-k said:
No they don't have a roast date, ones I have recently bought have on them "best before May 2024"
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the most they put on life is a year so should be a good sign,

waitrose uses julian dates / week numbers to show roast date - had to laugh they publicize that one of their coffee is roasted in Italy (how many weeks ago was that)
 
dave28 said:
Sadly Coffee beans have gone overpriced in my opinion, I used to buy green Monsoond Malabar for about £10 a Kilo and roast them myself.

Now its near £15 a Kilo so roughly 50% increase in about 5 years.
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I used to pay £5.50 for a 250g bag of roasted Malabar. Now it is £7.50. Not too bothered as summer is approaching and I think I'll be consuming less coffee by then anyway.
 
On Saturday I bought 2 x 1kg bags from Grind with the MSE code reducing the price to £17.50 each.
I'm still waiting for the dispatch email though.
We have around 4 coffees left to keep us going until the new beans arrive too :eek:
 
During my last order from Rave, I was offered 250g of their 'test roast'. At £6 I thought it was worth a punt. No idea if it was single Origin or a blend but it was a medium roast when it turned up & it was fine. Dunno if anyone else here got that offer, but my thoughts are is if coffee roasters have said 'test roasts' left over, instead of going to waste why not sell it off cheap? I'm quite happy to do that if there's enough discount.
 
quickshot89 said:
I use a local roasters, Tynemouth Coffee Co
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Cadder said:
I bought some from them but wasn't impressed. I had the 5 x 250g Tote selection and I found nothing special with any of the different beans. One of their bean types was a nightmare through the grinder - it sounded like I'd put gravel through it! The tote bag is nice though, we still use that.

It's a shame as I'd like to shop local but I've not felt a reason to return to Tynemouth Coffee.
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I'm all for helping local roasters but have to say my most recent experience with TCC has been the same.

Bought 1kg of Black Midden beans for my B2C machine. Unless I'm doing something wrong the beans have next to no taste. Contacted TCC to ask for any advice and if I had just been given a bad batch but zero reply so not the best after sales support.

Still got about 250g left and it's going to be a struggle getting through the last of it. Don't want to just bin it.
 
Cadder said:
I bought some from them but wasn't impressed. I had the 5 x 250g Tote selection and I found nothing special with any of the different beans. One of their bean types was a nightmare through the grinder - it sounded like I'd put gravel through it! The tote bag is nice though, we still use that.

It's a shame as I'd like to shop local but I've not felt a reason to return to Tynemouth Coffee.
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I used to use Tynemouth Coffee Company for over a year, tried most of their blends. They make a very nice traditional coffee flavour but no matter what I done I couldn't kill the slight bitter edge that I kept getting. I suspect they use a percentage of robusta in their blends as when I moved to different companies I didn't have the same issues.

It's kind of disappointing as I live 5 minutes away from their roastery.
 
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