# Good Coffee: where to find, good brands **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** coffee\ **Created:** [April 19, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-coffee-where-to-find-good-brands/353371 "2006-04-19T22:04:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-coffee-where-to-find-good-brands/353371/21 "2006-04-21T02:40:01Z")
Lion’s Gate will roast the beans and ship them to you express! They may not arrive hot, but they’ll be the best Kona beans you can get. Lots of people who love “kona coffee” have actually been drinking blends with less than 30% Kona. Lion’s Gate sells only certified 100% estate Kona. The difference in taste will blow you away. Okay, lost it for a minute there… thus endeth the commercial! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-coffee-where-to-find-good-brands/353371/22 "2006-04-21T03:39:58Z")
My current favorite miniroaster coffee is [Green Mountain Tanzanian Peaberry](http://www.greenmountaincoffee.com/prdCoffee.aspx?Name=TanzanianPeaberry), i have a pretty high caffiene tolerance, most mass-market coffees do _nothing_ to wake me up, but i have to be careful with Peaberry… if i have a cup after 4 PM i’m not getting to sleep until 2 or 3 AM, it’s _that_ strong, heck, i bought a bag on Monday (around 3 PM) opened it, took a whiff of the aroma, just the vapor, and was unable to get to sleep until 1:30 AM Tuesday… no, it’s not freshly-roasted-while-you-wait microroaster coffee, but it’s one of the better small brands, and it _is_ one of their high end, gourmet “Exotic Origins” coffees… ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-coffee-where-to-find-good-brands/353371/23 "2006-04-21T04:03:18Z")
I think I’ll email them tomorrow **EJS**. > [@](#): > > He used to own and run The Coffee Connection in Harvard Square before they were “acquired” by \*$. He is a purist, and hand selects his coffees. Hey! I grew up with a Coffee Connection…they used to have one in Lexington, MA, where I went to high school! I remember when they sold it to Starfrocks. I used to go to the one in Harvard Square, too. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-coffee-where-to-find-good-brands/353371/24 "2006-04-21T11:23:10Z")
> [@EJsGirl](#): > > How cool! Suzanne was born one month before me and we were best friends from then until after HS! I don’t get to see her as much lately, obviously. > > Did you meet Diane & Bill, her parents? They run the B&B and are really great people. We didn’t really meet anyone else. I think there was an older lady inside, but we basically stayed outside on the porch, and chatted. We stayed on this farm nearby where the driveway was literally paved with mac nuts. Literally. I was having problems roasting them, but she told me how they do it. > [@anu-la1979](#): > > He uses a french press and grinds his own beans. Which is good so I don’t have to contemplate what type of grind to get. Of all things with coffee, grinding your own beans is a must. Just last night, Alton Brown did a thing about the best way to brew coffee. He said that not grinding your own beans would be like having the cashier open a bottle of champagne. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-coffee-where-to-find-good-brands/353371.md?page=1)