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| Author: | GarotaLover [ Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Coffee Locations |
Hope you can help me with this.. there is a place that sells coffee by the pound in SJ, I don't remember the name, but i want to say Volcan?? I don't remember the location, but its close to SL..the guy that served me had a mole on his face.. anyone know thia place?? |
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| Author: | CRGolfer [ Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Coffee Locations |
GarotaLover wrote: Hope you can help me with this.. there is a place that sells coffee by the pound in SJ, I don't remember the name, but i want to say Volcan?? I don't remember the location, but its close to SL..the guy that served me had a mole on his face.. anyone know thia place??
Go to any supermarket and buy a couple bags of Cafe Brit coffee, it is abouut as good as it gets and the price is good. They also have a program at any of the Cafe Brit stores in the airports (we have one of their stores in my hotel). You can send 10 pounds of coffee to anywhere in the U.S. for about $125 including the shipping. You pick out the mix of flavors and stuff, pay at the counter and it gets shipped the next day. I think this is the best and easiest way to take coffee home from Costa Rica. |
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| Author: | Irish Drifter [ Mon Nov 02, 2009 6:11 pm ] |
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Place you are thinking of is most likely Cafe Volio. They have a store on Avenida 1 near the central market. You can also find it at many supermarkets. The price is about 200 colon more at the markets but I think the packaging is better for taking it back to the states. Everyone has a favorite coffee but, IMO, Cafe Britt is overpriced and geared toward the tourist market. The price is almost double what Volio sells for and Britt is a 12 oz bag and Volio is a 17.6 oz bag, |
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| Author: | GarotaLover [ Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:18 pm ] |
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Thats the one!!! Thanks amillion ID.. great coffee. I plan on buying about 5 lbs next month. |
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| Author: | Ilv4play [ Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:32 pm ] |
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GarotaLover wrote: Thats the one!!! Thanks amillion ID.. great coffee. I plan on buying about 5 lbs next month. Can you check if they will ship it for you. I went through 6 lbs in less that 2 months last time so I need to send myself about 25lbs, hopefully that will last me until I get back. I need to make 3-4 trips a year to buy coffee....
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| Author: | JazzboCR [ Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:20 am ] |
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Here's an excellent Thread about coffee from Aug. '09. Includes some embedded links. All generally useful: www.costaricaticas.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=30366 |
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| Author: | MarkL54 [ Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:10 am ] |
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You might want to try Voilo before you buy a lot of it, to me Brit is a much more full bodied cofee. |
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| Author: | Irish Drifter [ Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:03 am ] |
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Ilv4play wrote: GarotaLover wrote: Thats the one!!! Thanks amillion ID.. great coffee. I plan on buying about 5 lbs next month. Can you check if they will ship it for you. I went through 6 lbs in less that 2 months last time so I need to send myself about 25lbs, hopefully that will last me until I get back. I need to make 3-4 trips a year to buy coffee....You can have it shipped to the U.S. If you buy 20 bags (22 lbs) the cost including shipping is $109.00. http://www.cafevolio.com/ourcompany.html |
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| Author: | Thirdworld [ Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:14 am ] |
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I drink Cafe Rey, at 250 grams it is 790 colones at Mas x Menos. One of the cheaper in the supermarket. I make it the Tico way with a sock and it is some of the best that I have had anywhere. Ditto on Britt. It is just packaged pretty to appeal to the tourists. I always advise just buying in the market. Will try your recommendation ID, always looking for a different taste. |
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| Author: | Hank [ Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:27 am ] |
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Spanky buys it in the Central Mercardo. It is packaged in a paper sack. The cost is lower than the prepacked items as for the quality I don't know |
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| Author: | Irish Drifter [ Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:40 am ] |
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Thirdworld wrote: I drink Cafe Rey, at 250 grams it is 790 colones at Mas x Menos. One of the cheaper in the supermarket. I make it the Tico way with a sock and it is some of the best that I have had anywhere. Ditto on Britt. It is just packaged pretty to appeal to the tourists. I always advise just buying in the market. Will try your recommendation ID, always looking for a different taste.
Cafe Rey selcto is very good. The reason I do not use it it because it is very difficult to find in whole bean (entero) version. Most all of the markets only carry the ground (molida) version. |
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| Author: | Kickstand [ Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:36 pm ] |
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Thirdworld wrote: I drink Cafe Rey, at 250 grams it is 790 colones at Mas x Menos. One of the cheaper in the supermarket. I make it the Tico way with a sock and it is some of the best that I have had anywhere. Ditto on Britt. It is just packaged pretty to appeal to the tourists. I always advise just buying in the market. Will try your recommendation ID, always looking for a different taste.
With a sock? 
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| Author: | Thirdworld [ Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:41 pm ] |
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jaja That's what it is called. It is a cloth thing that hangs from a wooden or metal stand and you pour the boiling water through. Not a wearable sock... 
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| Author: | Kickstand [ Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:06 pm ] |
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Thirdworld wrote: jaja That's what it is called. It is a cloth thing that hangs from a wooden or metal stand and you pour the boiling water through. Not a wearable sock...
Oh, that's better  It's just a filter for the coffee grounds.
For a minute there, I thought you were referring to a sock used on feet or for other nefarious purposes
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| Author: | Whosear [ Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Tips for buying coffee |
The bag hanging from the frame is called, "una bolsa" here. My advice buying coffee. Buy the whole bean. Buying fresh roasted beans. The freshness lasts about a week. Ground coffee begins off-gasing CO2 right away, and loses freshness quickly. If you buy from the supermercado, look for the one-way vent in the bag. It off-gases CO2, and keeps its favor longer. The coffee vendors around the Mercado Central is the best bet. I tried all of them, and the best one for favor and freshness is Volio. It is located across from the north side of the mercado. And the smaller bags are priced proportionately to the kilo bags. I keep extra bags in my freezer in the US, and it keeps for 2-3 months. Ideally, I would have a tostadora (coffee roaster) at home and buy raw beans. But I'm lazy, so I go to the next best way. |
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