Best Costco coffee beans; compare to top-tier coffees and to Starbucks
Even at Costco, you get what you pay for: 3 lbs of Columbian coffee beans is only $14. That is an insanely good price, and it's the only medium roast coffee they have (all the others are dark roasts--doesn't Costco know that dark roast means "burned" and the best, most-delicate flavors come from a light or medium roast?). It is a pretty good coffee (I have no problem drinking it), but if you pay up for the "top tier" of the world's best beans, you will really notice the difference. 1. Costco Columbian : 3 lbs = 192 tablespoons, or 96-to-180 cups (depending on how strong you like it). Let's call it 140 cups of coffee, which is $14/140 = $0.10 per cup! This is FAR better coffee than the regular coffee at Starbucks, and you save $5 or so every time you make your own. If you hit SBUX 4 times a week, you'd save $1040 a year plus gas saved, if you make your own. Do that for 10 years and you've saved $11,000 plus gas saved, AND you've drunk fa...