Coffee

[gorshar]

Anyone know a distributor, or even a retailer of quality single origin bean coffee other than Starbucks and 94?

[raslin]

Anyone know a distributor, or even a retailer of quality single origin bean coffee other than Starbucks and 94?

Sisuki coffee from Tesco is OK but not sure about the single bean source.

[hUsh]

Kuppa Restaurant on Sukhumvit Soi 16 has really good coffee beans.

[MarkBKK]

On the subject of coffee, does anyone know what happened to the DoiTung organic coffee? I like(d) it and it just seemed to disappear a few months ago (6?)

I've tried all the Bangkok supermarkets (well, OK, only one or two branches of each) and can't find it anywhere.

I've also asked a few times and just get ''we don't have any'' as an answer.

Any ideas?

[Little Black Duck]

Royal Coffee thats made and sold in Pattaya is very good..

[sbk]

I know this doesn't help at all, but I am pretty sure I saw it on the shelves of the Samui Tesco Lotus last week. Perhaps they have started carrying it again?

[Rinrada]

Bon cafe....all over the joint...

[sabaijai]

In Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai you'll find lots of excellent Thai Arabicas on offer. Cafe Libernard in CM is a good source, as they roast on site.

[Rinrada]

Coffee and Thailand go together like gin and tonic and the future looks good ...

couple of Facts and bits of information about where and when....

Another well known outfit that you will find in every shopping mall is of course Black Canyon....

join their club (BCCCC)and you can get some not 2 bad ...discounts....

The Duang Dee Coffee Story

In the past, Large Development Programs promoted coffee growing in many small hill tribe villages, in northern Thailand, as a cash crop replacement for opium growing, as it can be stored for a long time. However thousands of the finest coffee trees were abandoned or cut down as many of the small and most remote farmers , who produced the best beans, had no ready market to sell their premium raw coffee beans. This problem is now solved!

We at "Duang Dee Hill Tribe Coffee" a small "micro coffee roasting company", now work together with these remote farmers and purchase all these small amounts of coffee, that each farmer produces and then we blend and hand roast it, to produce the finest "Organically Grown" coffee in Thailand.

http://northernthailand.com/duangdeecoffee/index.html

Northern Coffee

On any given day, Lanna Cafe in Chiang Mai is a busy place. There is the hum of conversation of businesspeople and local teachers, students taking a break from their classes and tourists, all to the accompanying whir of the cappuccino machine steadily churning out lattes, au laits and strong-brewed coffees to its patrons.

The walls of this little cafe nook are covered in coffee history. Colourful charts explain the process of roasting beans, the history of the cafe and other coffee-related trivia. Filters and coffee plungers line the shelves, fighting for space with northern hill-tribe produced dolls and purses. And, as the seeming centrepiece in a refrigerator next to the counter, are row upon row of green, red, white and silver coffee bags, cooled locally-produced ground and ungrounded beans sorted by blend.

http://www.travel-phuket.com/04jul-northern.htm

A Few Facts on Thailand as a Coffee Nation

Thailand is a coffee nation, ranked third (after Indonesia and Vietnam) in Southeast Asia in annual raw coffee production. While there are many species of coffee trees in the world, only Arabica and Robusta have major economic significance, both of which are grown in Thailand.

At present, Thailand produces approximately:

80,000 tons of Robusta coffee, of which 40% (ca. 30,000 tons) are processed locally and about 60% (ca. 50,000 tons) is exported.

A few hundred tons of Arabica coffee, which are almost entirely processed locally

http://www.boncafe.co.th/thai-coffee/thai-coffee.htm

Write direct to us for coffee supplies as we sell Arabic and Expresso Coffee beans world wide. No kg limit (260 baht per kilo) & buy the best coffee beans in the world.

We sell 10kg bags of coffee with min 19.5 kgs for 220 baht per kilo (we allow .5 kg for packing). Get a school of your neighbours and all chip in for the 20 kg special. Think of how much you can save and we will have your supplies to you within 3 days. We will DHL your supplies direct to your door.

We can supply you with ground or roasted or green beans.

http://www.asiatradingonline.com/coffee.htm

[MarkBKK]

I know this doesn't help at all, but I am pretty sure I saw it on the shelves of the Samui Tesco Lotus last week. Perhaps they have started carrying it again?

Thanks, almost missed that reply. Still no sign in my Tesco

[lotus eater]

"on the subject of coffee", does anyone have a definitive answer as to whether ground coffee - once out of the vacuum pack - is best kept in the freezer, fridge or neither?