Jan 23 2009
Gourmet Coffee Delivered to Your Door
Gourmet coffee is no longer something you have to hunt for or travel any distance to buy. You can enjoy beans from pretty much any place in the world, and have it delivered right to your front door. Now is the time to get adventurous and sample some more exotic coffee than your usual supermarket fare.
There is really no limit to what type of coffee you can order anymore. Freshly roasted beans can come from Indonesian, Kenya, Hawaii or Jamaica just as easily as coming from the next state.
Your best bet for having your coffee still be fresh when it arrives is ordering whole bean coffee, rather than ground coffee. Whole beans stay fresh for a couple of weeks, which should be plenty of time to account for shipping and your usage time. Just make sure the coffee sellers does the roasting immediately before shipping. If the coffee was roasted a week before it gets sent out, then you are not going to have much time to use it up before you end up with stale coffee. And the last thing you want is for your precious Kona or Blue Mountain beans to be stale before you can enjoy them.
Ordering from smaller coffee roasters located right where the coffee is grown can also increase your chances of getting really fresh coffee. Large coffee distributors can end up passing your order through too many hands, and take up time to get to your door.
The most interesting way to get gourmet coffee delivered is through a coffee-of-the-month plan. Many large coffee bean sellers have these now, and they really give you a chance to try a number of different coffees. Each month, you can get set amount of coffee beans, usually from a different coffee region or perhaps a different flavour each month. Sometimes you don’t even know what you’re going to get.