Oh, the places I will go for coffee

Baltimore evidently. I just got back from picking up three bags of Ethiopian Yirgacheffe. For those of you who don't know, each bag holds 60 kilograms or approximately 132 lb of coffee. So three bags weighs in at just a smidge under 400 lb. I'm just hoping I didn't pull anything.

So why, you are probably asking, did I buy 400 lb of coffee? For the wholesale discount, of course. Actually that is only part of the reason. Buying coffee wholesale gives small operator like me access to some coffees we otherwise might not be able to buy. Sale of green coffee is not that widespread and almost non-existent from a retail perspective in DC. Buying wholesale, especially directly from the importer as in this case, often means getting more information about where the beans come from.

And what do you do with 400 lb beans? I bought the beans to distribute them to members of a green coffee buying club that I have been working with for some time now. While this is my first distribution, I have been buying beans off other members of the club, who don't make any money doing this, by the way.

This particular coffee comes from an Ethiopian fellow I first met at a murky coffee cupping. He has recently started importing the beans from Koke where his cousin operates a washing station. Professional cuppers have consistently scored this coffee in the low 90's, which is a very respectable score.