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Same as @JB, I swerve the multi-roaster distro brands as it seems like unnecessary additional travel for the coffee.
My workshop colleague has a PACT subscription. There's plenty to like about it and plenty that's "meh". If you interact with the service you can choose your beans before they arrive and such but we tend to just pick the one they call 'premium' or 'small batch' for the illusion of exclusivity/rarity. It takes the pressure off having to buy coffee for the workshop but the system frequently bottlenecks and we end up with with too many or too few beans and balance it out with our personal supplies. Given that their only job is to make sure we have the product with some regularity, they aren't very good at it.
For personal beans, I like the admin to be honest. I like cycling around town on a mission. Can be a fun day out for the family to run a relatively inconsequential errand and have it be an excuse for a day's family bike ride.
My local coffee shop will ask customers what they should get as the guest roaster every month or so which is quite good; they've gone with my choice a couple of times, which has been a treat.
Again, same as @JB, I know what I like but conversely, I rarely buy the same bean twice. It's always struck me as somewhat peculiar that "how do you take your tea/coffee?" is a question we're supposed to have a definitive answer to. I suppose it's not so daft as "how do you take your food?" but maybe more like "how do you take your potatoes?" as if once you've decided, you can never change your mind! I think I'd rather drink a clanger every now and again rather than never have tasted as much as possible.
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I tried one (up thread) which promptly closed a few weeks after my first order. One of the coffees was dire and over roasted (to my taste).
And this was after ticking the ‘light fruit driven African coffees’ box.
If I felt a subscription offered what I liked I might try again but what I don’t want is a bag of cheap Brazilian with horrible papery after taste to turn up and go in the bin, if you could pick countries you don’t want to include that would be a bonus.
I guess coffee subscriptions maybe are not for me…
I do have assembly, Colonna and Baileys stockists 2 min walk away so not reliant on ordering beans.
For a producer I guess you might end up getting orders from people who try the coffee, like it and then want some more.
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Mr_Smyth
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Hi all
Are many people on this thread using multi-roaster subscription services?
I’ve avoided selling on them after a bad experience early on, plus I always had a bad attitude about them being parasitic and it’s a load of extra admin (avoiding admin plays a surprisingly large role in my life) but I now have the staffing capacity to get someone else to do it.
What are important factors in the roasters’ areas of these sites that makes you pick them? Reputation? Price? Breadth of choice? Coffees you recognise?
Cheers.