In my epic search today for some whole coffee beans (whole coffee beans doesn’t sound right) I came across this review for Cork Coffee Roasters which in my opinion stinks of coming from someone attached to the company. It goes something like this:
It was really good value too, and a great place of breakfast. Inside the café on Bridge Street it’s quite small, but nicely warm and homey. It’s pretty popular, with lots of locals coming in for their morning take-away coffee. All the beans used in the blends here are hand roasted in Cork, and a lot of the pastries on sale are made using only organic ingredients.
Maybe I am just too sensitive to totally positive reviews. It seems like it’s too overdone, what ever you business you have you will have good reviews, and not so good reviews, but you should not try to go out and blatentally try to game these review sites. Someone will see it, and possibly call you out. When looking at Amazon reviews for books and products, you can spot when they are coming from the Authod/someone attached to be product/etc.
And as for their “really good value”, I took a look at their site, for the prices of their beans which they charge from €30 for 1kg (which I can get it for 1/2 the price in Germany), I really wonder how someone could say that it was good value.
Anyone know where one can get some reasonably priced whole coffee beans ?
My dad is a big coffee guy, and he loves this coffee
http://www.portorico.com/store/fallsale2008.html
They have a sales once a year, and buys like 15 pounds of coffee beans, then freezes them, to last him months or a year.
dunno if they ship overseas
Cheers joe, I don’t think you are supposed to freeze coffee beans, as it can take away from the taste. I was looking at settting up my parents with a regular supply of good quality inexpensive beans in Ireland. But it doesn’t seem to be the case. I might just try to send some in the post.