Brandywine does a collaboration for Halloween with Fellow Drops, which is an interesting service from Fellow that promotes one or two high end coffees a week. I’m a sucker for a good special occasion edition, key word being good. Brandywine is the roaster I trust to deliver good, so this is my Halloween week coffee.
This coffee is pretty tame, relatively speaking to my recent fare and Brandywine in general, a pure Ethiopian natural process coffee from the Chelbesa station in Gedeb, reasonably lightly roasted. 15g coffee, 40 second bloom, 250g water total starting around 95 degrees. Brew time was 2.55. Fellow recommends a more coffee heavy recipe, which I’ll try, and I’ll grind a bit finer next time, but my default recipe handled this very well. Just a beautiful, plump Ethiopian coffee. I didn’t get the big red fruit notes mentioned in their listing, but I do get the creamy body and as expected lovely sweetness.
$63 for two pounds of coffee is… steep
That equals 123 euros per kg. Which is expensive but not not surprising for high end coffee. It the price can go way higher than that.
I usually pay around 40 USD per pound = 80 EUR per kg for what I would call entry level specialty coffee. I live the nordics btw.
How much is the coffee at your local roasters?
No more than $20 per pound, but perhaps the coffee I drink ain’t all that special.
It gets a lot steeper. At the tippy top the going rate for the scarcest, most desirable gesha is around $600 a kilo, $250 a pound, give or take.
that’s expensive? Then you’ll love this one from XLIII
https://xliiicoffee.com/en/product/sukkot-racemosa-2026/
$270 for 250g
2lbs is a hair over 900g. Standard specialty coffee bags are 300g. So $63/2lbs would be about $21/300g. That’s definitely on the lower end of prices for specialty coffee.
What country are you in? In my experience 250g is the standard. Sometimes I see 200g but not that often. I’m in Sweden, but the 250g bags seem to be all over europe.
Canada. 250g does show up from time to time (I’m currently finishing a 250g bag) but 300g is far more common.
American money?