Taylor's Hot Java Lava

[finch]

Simple question really . Is it worth the £7 delivery Betty's want for it ?

[MSeries]

One can get in in the supermarket round here. I don't think it's worth £7 delivery though.

[andygates]

£7?  No.

[finch]

I just started going through the checkout and they let you choose a delivery date , the earliest being offered for my £7 , October 19 . At £7 for a 12 day wait for a bag of coffee I'm pretty disgusted . It'd only be worth it if I bought loads of cakes and biscuits too

[MSeries]

Sainsbury's online/home delivery do it too.

[finch]

Sorry your postcode is currently outside our delivery area 

[Rhys W]

It's nothing special, a bit over-roasted if anything.

[GruB]

Ditto what Rhys said.
Tried it, liked it but it is nothing to write home about.

I mistakenly ordered beans the other week in the Sainsbury delivery service.  No worry as I have a small electric grinder from old.  I must say I have not ground beans at home for quite some time and I reckon the coffee tastes better as a result.  Cheaper too that way.

[Hot Flatus]

Absolutely not.

If you want decent coffee don't buy ground coffee from big companies like Taylors.  Betty's are a piss-take anyway.

Invest in a grinder and buy beans from Freshly roasted coffee from Hasbean

[andygates]

Save up for a grinder.  Even average beans make great coffee when freshly-ground.

[HTFB]

I had a research-student flatmate once with a large collection of stove-top espresso-makers, who had calibrated very exactly the stove settings which would ensure that, for each size of pot, it would just brew, generally over about three-quarters of an hour. She ended up with a treacly black caffeine-laden substance midway between coffee and bile, quite able to fuel one's Scrabble evening until 4am. Hot Lava Java was the perfect feedstock for the process.