If you’re into specialty coffee and live in Dubai, the choices for the range of coffee beans seem unlimited. Various roasteries offer specialty roasted coffee beans from across the world. They range from the run-of-the-mill Brazilian to some super exotic South American and Yemeni varieties. They are typically sold in packets of 250 grams. One expresso takes up 18 grams of it. A filter coffee made with the Hario V60 would require 15 grams.

As a single home consumer with an appetite for roughly 35 grams daily, getting the best experience often involves having not more than 3 packets of 250 grams each.

I have often ended up with too many expensive coffee bean packets which lose flavour with time, or been left with only one that I dont particularly enjoy.

The Solution.

I keep 3 packets in rotation.

Two of those three have to be the flavours I enjoy, and the third one leaves room for experimentation – and training my taste buds to appreciate the heavy cacao notes, or the super floral ones, that are in the process of getting ‘acquired’ by my taste buds.