Really not much to write about, but I'm sure coffee snobs will have their say.
Description:
Dark roasted Arabica blend with a rich, strong continental style aroma & flavour.
Country of Origin:
Roasted and packed in Australia from imported coffee beans
A lot of supermarkets used to have grinders mounted in the aisle though can't say I've seen one of these in a while..
+1
I was just remembering that myself 2day, while i was unboxing my new delonghi from this deal last week…
Damn that looks like a great bit of kit!
Are you happy?
@0jay: only arrived 2day, going out shortly 2 buy some ground beans 2 give it a whirl, let u know later 2nite, lol… :)
A lot of supermarkets used to have grinders mounted in the aisle
Geeze…… you've just made me feel really old! I haven't seen them for about 15 years.
It was the time when woolies had all those weird flavoured coffee beans, isn't it?
"I'm sure coffee snobs will have their say"
Must…. not… take.. the bait……. gnnnaaahhh
I would like to see some feedback too. I am no Coffee Snob, but freshness of the beans really matter. If you want cheap coffee beans that taste Ok, Aldi is a good option at $12/Kg
agree Aldi beans taste good and extract well for me on em7000. Keen to see how these beans go.
Forgetting about the coffee snobs, just thinking about the average home coffee drinker.
This coffee has a long shelf life, best before date on what I've got on the shelf at the moment is 24th February 2019, and I bought it on 17th January.
I grind enough each morning for my coffee for the day, about 50g. The ground coffee is kept in an airtight box in a dark cupboard. The diminishing 1kg bag is resealed and kept in an airtight box in a dark cupboard, and - obviously - lasts about 20 days. There is some difference in freshness at the end of the 20 days, but not enough to bother me.
Once you bought a fresh bag of beans it is pretty hard to go back to supermarket coffee beans. I use a Breville BES870 to make my coffee. I love the tat hot honey like extract that you get from the freshly roasted beans.
How I got back to Aldi was a bit of a process. I slowly downgraded from the speciality roaster to online roasters to V(Sh)ittoria (worse beans). Then got a bag of (medium roast) Aldi beans. I rate Aldi beans at 6/10 for the taste and 8/10 for value for money.
I can't afford to pay $50-60/kg for my regular coffee.
I know it. I love mannabeans, but just can't afford to buy them. IMO the Robert Timms are 100% better than Vittoria, which I tried once, and binned them after a few days.
Don't have Aldi anywhere near, so haven't tried theirs.
@dealspider: How about $30/kg :)
Thoroughly recommend @mannabeans.
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@gunslinger: I tried them as well. Honestly I could not convince myself to pay more than double the price of Aldi beans for not-very-significant quality difference beans.
@Who is she: Thanks! Will definitely give this a try. Would you recommend this for milk-based coffee? I don't drink much espresso. Only on the weekends.
@Who is she: Hmmm… what I heard about these beans that they are good for espresso. Will give it a try. Thanks!
I only drink it black.
cut away to Airplane/Flying High Clip….
These Robert Tims beans are very strong flavour. As a real fine grind in an extracion I don't like it, it's basically too much/ too dark. As a coarser grind it isn't too bad, and also not too bad in a plunger. As for a decent crema look elsewhere.
I find the coles brand fair trade at $12/kg better value. I will have to try the Aldi beans once I'm through these Robert Timms beans.
Nice coffee 👍
Going to go full snob here. I used to buy beans from a roaster and man is the quality WAY WAY above any supermarket swill. I have an almost 10-year Sunbeam Cafe EM6XXX (whatever it's called). Grinding the freshly roasted beans and running thru the machine you get a golden brown pour. I'm yet to get that in any of the supermarket beans. But at $15 for 250 Grams (I'd only buy in small batches), it's just too expensive, so + vote for cheap supermarket beans.
Grinding the freshly roasted beans and running thru the machine you get a golden brown pour
It's kinda priceless. I mentioned the same thing in my previous comments.
But in OZB, everything has a price :D
'you get a golden brown pour'
Lovely!
Some people are into that kind of thing!
Yep that it is. There is a HUGE difference. I simply can't get that consistency from supermarket beans. I always try and get the freshest beans from the shelf (by checking the longest best by date), but it simply doesn't compare.
Actually, find the $11 Aldi beans quite nice for the price.
I live close by to a huge Merlo store, (they say it's the headquarters) and they sell fresh roasted beans and such (and on the side menu is coffee lol!) but how would their beans go? Should I go down and try them? I'm interested in tasting fresh but don't want to go far and spend too much.
Think asking them to buy a sample pack would be wise/not silly?
once you tasted the fresh beans it will be bit harder to go back to supermarket stuff. Just like most other premium stuff such Cattle Class vs Business Class
Nah. I'm pretty open to differing flavours, even bad flavours.
To convince a coffee snob just say Timms comes from a hipster/organic/artyfarty coffee shop. He'll cream his pants
Very good coffee at a very good price. It's a shame they don't make this in the 1kg that is already grounded.