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    Advise Please: "Best" French Roasted Coffee Beans in Manhattan and Brooklyn

    I am going to be in NYC (staying in Williamsburg, Brooklyn) for a week in September 2018. I would like to buy some French roasted coffee beans to take home to Denmark, where this coffee does not exist. Please recommend a good retail roaster or outlet for this. I see many on the net, but it's...
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    Temperature/time profile for roasting to French Roast

    Can someone give me a temperature and time profile for roasting coffee beans into a French Roast, or else direct me to a url that shows this? I haven't even bought a coffee roaster yet! But I was given a huge bag of beans for Christmas. I have no idea how to do this.
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    Coffee Drinkers: which means more for you?

    1. The type of bean? 2. Where/how it is grown? 3. How it is roasted?
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    French Roast Beans: Commercial Roasters in the US who Ship to Europe?

    This is an ongoing (as in decades) problem for me. I love French Roast Coffee, but I have had trouble finding commercial roasters (other than Peet's) who will ship roasted beans from the US to the EU (Denmark). Here's the problem: 1. I have looked hard in DK in person: no supply due to no...
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    Smaller Beans?

    I have been drinking French roast coffee for a long time, since the 80s when it first became prominent in the Bay Area and the PNW. Today, I live in Denmark and, finding no decent French roast coffee supplier in the EU or UK, I import the roasted beans primarily from Cafe Ibis (in Logan, Utah...
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    Anyone from the EU here?

    Who ships to the EU? I know Terroir does, but I have trouble finding others. I have written a bunch, but most don't answer. From experience, you often don't find this out until after you've paid, which is why I write.
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    How do you get a French press to "resist" when you

    plunger down? With me, it's hit or miss. Sometimes it slides down like butter; sometimes there is a lot of resistance, which I assume is good What matters? How much coffee you use? Am I filling it too close to the top? How do you make a good seal? Is there a trick I am dumbfounded: too many...
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    Some Suggestions for roasted beans to try

    I have several hobbies and I can tell right now that this one is too complicated for me. So, if I tell you what I like, can you just make some suggestions of roasted beans I might try. On the light side, I like these Daterra beans that go into Terroir South Italian Espresso On the Dark side...
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