Have you ever wondered how to find the best deals on buying green coffee beans? I surely have. Purchasing green coffee beans is no easy task if you are a coffee buyer. I don't mean your average joe consumer who roasts green coffee beans at home. I am talking about a person who travels to exotic coffee plantations and witnesses the entire coffee harvesting and processing experience.
Imagine yourself being chauffeured around in an open door jeep on rutted out dirt roads with heavily armed para military personnel guarding the local country side. People still live in small shacks with galvanized steel roofs. Chickens, goats, and other farm animals mill about freely. Barefoot children are the norm. This is not far from the truth as most green bean coffee is still cultivated on small farms in impoverished 3rd world nations.
When you are drinking your $6 a pound gourmet green coffee, remember that it may have gone on an "Indiana Jones" style adventure before it arrived at the local coffee roaster.
So, what about the best deals on green coffee that I first started writing about? Does it really matter whether you are paying $6 or $12 a pound for green coffee beans? I don't think so. On a per cup basis, green coffee beans are so inexpensive to the end user that most of us gourmet coffee connoisseurs hardly give it a thought.
On the flip side of over priced green coffee beans is poor quality beans. That is why I really on buyers such as Tom at Sweet Maria's for most of my knowledge on purchasing green coffee beans. I don't plan on flying into remote villages of Kenya to purchase my 2 pounds of green coffee beans per month. If you want a great deal on green coffee beans that have been on an adventure greater than "Indy", visit buyers like Sweet Maria's and others that are just as passionate. While I am not advocating paying $40-$50 a pound for exotic green coffees of the world, I don't recommend buy the cheap stuff just because it is cheap.
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