Buying coffee to bring home?

[Bnewb]

Conquering Lion is another roaster that sells around town & another gentleman named Thunder that I believe sells across the street from Alfreds.

[LLAP]

Are you saying that the beans that Big Roy, Thunder, etc... offers is a higher quality / better bean than the Jablum, Wallenford, etc.. that are sold in the airport store?
If that's the case I will make a point to look one of them up next trip. I meant to last time but... well you know how that goes.
I always go with a list of things I'd like to do, see, try but never get to all of them.

[smith744]

Are you saying that the beans that Big Roy, Thunder, etc... offers is a higher quality / better bean than the Jablum, Wallenford, etc.. that are sold in the airport store?

lemme share MY-experience(s) with BigRoy's '..roasted-on-site..' coffee (beans)

ONCE upon a time,
a few years ago, got some for myself & several pounds to take-back to-foreign to mail-to a fellow-boardie.

Pon arrival in-foreign, @ USofA Customs/Department of Agriculture check-point, the inspectors/agents went craaaazy when they open-ed (to inspect) my bags, and smell-ed that coffee.

They salivated & every-thing.

when i reached home,
& unpacked
the house was lit-up with this glorious aroma

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
smelt(sp?)/smell-ed sooooooooooooo nice

AND it tasted super-duper goooooooooooooooooood.

now,
flash-forward
to a more-recent trip:::::: a Ja-buddy asked me to bring-back some of that "..for-tourist..", allegedly BlueMountain coffee that he haste-ly purchased at some someplace in Negril,,,, i was to take it back-to-foreign for a friend of his, who lived near me.

* sigh *

no smell
no aroma
nutin

dunno how it tasted,
and DON'T wanna know or/nor find-out

gimme BigRoy's fresh-roasted ANY-time.

argument DONE....!!..

[Ellen]

At the Hi Lo, the people that work there told us Jablum was the best, so we bought some beans, and they are really good.

[dave]

Are you saying that the beans that Big Roy, Thunder, etc... offers is a higher quality / better bean than the Jablum, Wallenford, etc.. that are sold in the airport store?

Yes without a doubt
not even close IMO

from mi personal experience-
Thunder would be mi #1 choice
&
Big Roy would be mi #2

link below is video of Thunder 'roasting' da beans
http://eyeneyecoffee.com/