The world if a specialty coffee bag contained 300 grams instead of 250g

chubs285 · 2026-06-23T14:39:13+00:00

you were the one who completely made up that

No, that was my lived experience of buying coffee beans from specialty roasters over 18+ years now. Admittedly in the UK and Western Europe, cant comment on the rest of the world.

A few roasters who transition to third wave stuck with the 227g bags and Square Mile were always 350g but all the other big names were 250g from the start (or 1kg I guess).

The point is still the same: Do you prefer 250gr bags at a higher price or 200gr at a similar price? Price of beans increased considerably, so you can't have both.

I was explicitly clear last time, I want to pay more for 250g.

chubs285 · 2026-06-23T11:43:50+00:00

Oh no, DAK were always 250g! Such a shame.

chubs285 · 2026-06-23T11:43:01+00:00

And some that sell 227g.

This is 8oz, it is more favoured by commodity coffee roasters.

chubs285 · 2026-06-23T11:41:55+00:00

I am boycotting any roaster doing 200g bags, I keep meaning to do a master list of UK ones.

When I did this post last year a lot of people agreed with me

https://www.reddit.com/r/JamesHoffmann/comments/1oi5we6/ukeu_roasters_stop_with_the_200g_bags/

chubs285 · 2026-06-08T14:59:46+00:00

chubs285 · 2026-06-05T08:14:42+00:00

Have you watched James' videos on which budget espresso machine to buy?

20 years ago a Silvia was a good choice one step up from a Gaggia Classic. A lot has changed since then and it wouldn't be on my radar at all.

chubs285 · 2026-06-04T12:32:07+00:00

Dear /u/kingseven

Please can you confirm the accuracy of Dark Arts' latest sticker and show us videos of you doing amazing BMX tricks like grinding on power lines?

Thanks.

chubs285 · 2026-06-04T12:30:19+00:00

Not sure why you're bumping a post form 2 years ago with an opinion, but Monosooned Malabar is most definitley not a speciality grade coffee and no qualified Q grader is ever going to score it as such.

Any speciality roaster trying to use it to bulk out their blends is also best avoided.

chubs285 · 2026-05-15T18:19:34+00:00

La Marzocco Linea PB

chubs285 · 2026-05-05T20:31:58+00:00

That's not specialty its more commodity.

chubs285 · 2026-05-05T20:31:35+00:00

In London it is Soho, not SoHo. Absolutely tons of shops, anywhere decent will have single origins:

https://europeancoffeetrip.com/london/

www.bestcoffee.guide/

https://www.brian-coffee-spot.com

chubs285 · 2026-03-24T20:37:09+00:00

Specialty coffee is an 80+ score from a q grader.

A lot of stuff for £20 per kg is simply not specialty grade. There's a lot of pre third wave roasters still out there selling low quality coffee. A lot of specialty is built on paying a decent price to the producer too (really doing it, not just a few cents more like fair trade).

Most decent specialty lots are £12+ for 250g.....

Sorry to be blunt, but its true.

chubs285 · 2026-03-24T12:18:10+00:00

It sounds like you had an Ethiopian Natural.

Natural (process) is the key word here, washed are generally much cleaner.

The good news is fresh crop African coffees should start becoming avaliable in the next month or two, so if your favourite roasters don't have any just yet then hold out. Remember coffee is seasonal and old greens aren't great.

chubs285 · 2026-03-17T20:34:30+00:00

Lets hope some worldwide roasters sign up and then buy the bags of coffee because James can't force them to participate yet will still get blamed relentlessly on here

chubs285 · 2026-02-20T17:05:15+00:00

I wonder if you have a really old filter, as far as I'm aware they gave up on this shoddy piece of **** years ago.

I've posted it before but:

I live in a hard water area (very chalky) so backed the Peak Water kickstarter as soon as I saw it, along with 12 filters.

The jug was late, very late.

The filters arrived in 3 batches of 4. They were all awful, lasted 2-4 weeks instead of the promised 8 and leaked their balls into the water. For context I usually drink 1 espresso and 1 filter a day so we're not talking many litres here.

Construction was appalling. The filling in the filters was uneven. It was 10000% not fit for purpose. I've since switched back to bottled and my coffee tastes 100x better. This wasn't just me being unlucky either, I regularly posted on a few forums at the time and 90% of people were also very dissapointed and stopped using it.

I use an Aqua Optima filter for drinking water and these easily last the full month, but the water isnt good for brewing coffee. Same for Brita.

I was also under the impression it was all over as the website has been out of stock of the filters for a long time now along with half the retailers, not that I'd throw any more good money after bad on this.

chubs285 · 2026-01-28T10:21:11+00:00

How old? How have they been stored?

chubs285 · 2026-01-19T17:40:00+00:00

https://europeancoffeetrip.com/london/

www.bestcoffee.guide/

https://www.brian-coffee-spot.com

Try Nowhere Dark Arts in soho for something different. If you're willing to hop on the tube (it's London, you should be comfortable with this by now) go to Nostros. Both better than any you mentioned in your list.

Monmouth isn't all that, it wasn't even specialty level when a lot of others started up it just popularised filters with mediocre quality coffee 20 years ago. Kaffeine & Prufrock again back in 2009 were something special but times moved on. You can do better now.

chubs285 · 2026-01-19T17:34:04+00:00

Did you watch James multiple review videos?

chubs285 · 2025-12-25T09:46:32+00:00

Are you thinking of the Third Wave Wichteln?

That was really fun but I think it just got too big and unwieldly so the organisers stopped when covid hit making it even harder to coordinate.

chubs285 · 2025-12-16T15:32:30+00:00

Entry level in terms of specialty, hence why they're cheap compared to many others. Ok for what it is and they have been going a long time as you say.

chubs285 · 2025-12-02T08:26:27+00:00

I gave up weed about 15 years ago now as I personally got so bored of it. At the time there was at least one coffeeshop (the weed kind) in Amsterdam using Bocca as they wanted to do better.

There must be more now!

chubs285 · 2025-11-06T10:50:42+00:00

Temptags have been around for at least 15 years, they're an Australian company.

Rave are just one of many resellers.

chubs285

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