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by fabian2k 1259 days ago
The kind of people that buy specialty coffee would also tend to pay attention to roast dates and have very different expectations compared to people that buy coffee in a supermarket. Half a year is a lot for this audience.

When you buy from a roaster directly something like roasted a week ago would be more like the typical age. So I'm a bit surprised, I would have expected this audience to be much pickier about the age of the coffee.

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I suspect that the people buying this coffee are either:

1. Taking the "loss" to support a small business

2. Normies who feel like they are getting a deal on "Specialty coffee" that they normally wouldn't buy. Some people can't pass up a deal (esp a feel good one!)

How large are these bags? Maybe it’s a good price for coffee to season grinders.