Buying coffee to bring home?

[dave]

Where do I locate Thunder?

Thunder is behind Miss Sonia's-
between Alfreds & Roots- morass side beach road
Just ask someone at Miss Sonia's

[monk]

Thunder is behind Miss Sonia's-
between Alfreds & Roots- morass side beach road
Just ask someone at Miss Sonia's

who by the way, is an AWESOME cook, very old school, granny recipes in use, and herself is an icon of negril going back to the early days when she would walk to negril from grange hill with fruit and her baby.

[monk]

I have tested other coffees using my 'warm up' method .... but only if I'm not satisfied with the flavor straight out of the package. I'm picky about my coffee, but not a 'purist jerk' like you Monk (LOL). I can't stand the flavored coffees, get irritated when someone uses my coffee pot for that sh** (can never get the smell out). I would never put rum in my coffee ... mainly because I like my coffee black & unadulterated, but also because I only buy the expensive rum ..... and I only drink that straight & unadulterated, too

I hear you on that. Life is too short for the cheap stuff lol.

You asked how I prepare my coffee: Depends on where I am - I have a burr grinder at home, but have a blade grinder in my motorhome, and an old-fashioned, manual crank grinder at my cabin. And depending on where I am and what I have access to, I either prepare it as drip, in my Italian coffee maker, in my French press, in my old-fashioned, stove-top percolator (at the cabin), or other. When I lived in JM, I didn't have a coffee maker, so I did it the way the ladies on the B Mtn showed me ...... add coffee grounds to a pan of water, steep sufficiently, strain & serve. I'm a hopeless addict .... have to have it every morning .... and I do enjoy it!!!

i like those old school hand cranks!

[Sparky]

Just got back from seeing Thunder who cut me a great deal on some beans. He says he has a bunch of beans to move right now because the independent farmers in the blue mountains just got flattened by Sandy and they need cash to rebuild infrastructure. so stop by and chat with a wise and funny man and score some of the worlds best coffee and help out the coffee farmers in a tough time.

[Ras Walleye]

Can anyone tell me if Big Roy is currently in Negril? I had heard he might have gone foreign.
Also does anyone know his current price or what Thunder's current price is?

Thanks and blessings...
Ed

[LLAP]

Just got back from seeing Thunder who cut me a great deal on some beans. He says he has a bunch of beans to move right now because the independent farmers in the blue mountains just got flattened by Sandy and they need cash to rebuild infrastructure. so stop by and chat with a wise and funny man and score some of the worlds best coffee and help out the coffee farmers in a tough time.

The statement above about the farmers in the Blue Mountains has me wondering about the near future of coffee. Will this effect supplies and prices over the next few months?

[eightseven6]

Just found out Standing Spring Plantation has a website now, so you can get the good stuff straight from the source. Just Google them and you'll find it.

[Stoners6]

So I get that sense that buying my cup of coffee at the corner gas station where I fuel up is not the way to go.

[SLP]

Last year I went to see Thunder...Go to Miss Sonias and ask them to point you over to his place...He had just returned from the Blue Mountains and had a couple of 100lb burlap bags of fresh unroasted beans... He roast it out back over a wood fire...It smells wonderful around the dutch oven he is roasting in. ....

Thunder is a wonderful man and you can watch him roasting if you like. He will explain the whole process to you which is fascinating.

Raw Beans







Roasted Beans cooling

[wha gwan]

If you want to purchase high quality coffee beans from the Jamaican Blue Mountains, then go with a company that has an established connection with the growers and will roast the beans after you order them. See...

http://www.dauphinkaffee.com/jamaica...eaberry-coffee
http://www.martinezfinecoffees.com/s...in-coffee.html
http://barniescoffeekitchen.com/prod...le-bean-coffee

If you want a souvenir or don't want to spend $$$ on coffee beans, then the local negril suppliers are great.

Happy trails.