Recently I was given some Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee. It wasn’t fresh whole beans. Instead, it was pre-ground coffee in packages used to make whole pots of coffee in offices. Great coffee! We used this at our family reunion last week and I was amazed how great it tasted…even 12 hours after being brewed. Absolutely no bitterness!
But even so, who’d pay $50 a pound for any kind of coffee? Maybe you would…maybe you already are…consider this:
Depending on preferences for coffee strength, 1 tablespoon of fresh ground coffee yields a standard 6 ounce cup…1.5 ounces will make a pot of ten 6oz cups…therefore a pound of coffee beans equals 100 cups of coffee.
A 12oz cup of Starbucks averages $1.85…or the equivalent of a pound of whole coffee beans for $87.50 .
The coffee Starbucks is brewing cost $12 a pound. And, believe me, it is not the same quality as Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee.
So, who’d pay that much for coffee?
At $50 lb, you can enjoy a 12oz cup of fresh ground Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee for only $1. That's just little more than half the price of a Starbucks cup of coffee.
