So. thus far in my ~2 weeks of being open, i'm really happy with the roaster, and i like his coffees a lot. he gets coffee via royal importers NY and is very much in line with my coffee philosophy - roasting exactly what the bean needs and always up for experimentation. at the moment we have a sumatra, a natural processed sidamo, a single farm colombian (mesa de los santos / bucamaranga) and a peru norte. the sidamo has been a big hit, and he gave us a kilo he'd taken a little darker to blend into our espresso, and it was really nice on the pourover bar. i haven't blended up espresso with it yet.
the problem is this - i want to know more about where the coffee comes from (i know with the colombian, the others i don't). but take the sidamo - even intelligentsia's website has their "sidama" as being sourced from the "sidamo zone," with 500m variation in altitude, which is 100% unhelpful. especially considering they say they buy directly from farms / coops. i would love to get a bag or two of some cup of excellence coffees and roast them over a couple months, but i don't know where to begin. the cup of excellence website has all lots going for like $20,000 (seems like they're auctioning the coffee off at once, and not by the bag?). i understand that both my roaster and i are small time, but buying a 69kg bag at $8-9 USD a kilo isn't totally out of the question if we can stretch it out and push the coffee over two months. buying a $20,000 lot is, of course, out of the question.
so, to you roasters out there - how do i get a single bag of green coffee with good information on where it's from and good recommendation on its quality? thanks in advance.
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