My wife and I go through about 4lbs a month using mainly Chemex and Areopress. Used to get (decent) crummy coffee at Aldi and Grocery Outlet, occasionally splurging for local roasts at the coffee shops. Still, I calculate that’s about $35 or so a month on beans, Chemex filters should probably be calculated with how pricey they can be - napkin maths say $11 roughly for a months supply.
$46USD ain’t bad compared to my other vices 😪
Curious to hear if I’m around the average spender or how it tracks! Maybe you have some tips on cheap but amazing coffee? I wouldn’t know unless I asked y’all
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Between $0-$30 a month probably. I rarely buy coffee, but on occassion at work I will, usually if it’s long working hours. I don’t often make it at home either both because I usually lack cream and/or because I forget.
I’ll more commonly have coffee if I’m with friends, that’s where the cost increases the most.
We have been super happy with CostCo’s Rainforest Blend(I think it’s under 15 bucks for an 3lbs bag) and grinding it ourselves for our EOD cup of joe. We have some specialty coffee’s in some vacuum containers for weekends.
We typically make Americano’s or French pressed coffee.
We also will do drip sometimes but I usually just use the Costco canned stuff for that. We are using it more and more now that we have a 6 month old and it’s on a timer.
About 4.99 for 200g of instant. Lasts me a while but it’s just me using it
$32 USD a month for 2 lbs (0.9 kg) from a local roaster. Not the most economical, but they do a decent job of roasting.
I do pour over iced coffee (aka Japanese Iced Coffee) using a Hario V60. 35g coffee and 300g water brewed over ice (dilutes the rest of the way and chills the coffee) and I’m good to go.
So about 200g ice?
I just fill my insulated tumbler all the way to the top with ice and I get a perfect amount of coffee. It stops right where the lid goes on top.
However, if you were going to do it the normal way it would indeed be about 300g of ice. Then you’d put that over fresh ice (bigger pieces so it doesn’t dilute as much?).
I’m just lazy and also don’t want to use a second container so I just do it my way.
$57 monthly. But I order not a cheap coffee.
What coffee do you use?
Radiokava. It’s a local coffee roastery in Ukraine.
I use 25-26g per day at a cost of $10-$20 a pound so maybe $15-$30 a month
For the current coffee, 56¢/k-cup, so about $25/mon
My wife likes instant coffee. I use a french press and pre-ground coffee. I go through probably about a kilo a month so something like 800 to 1000 JPY
Instant coffee occasionally becomes my habit if I happen to find a good looking box at the supermarket. Super hit and miss here in the 'States but I find the most luck at the Japanese supermarket in town!
$40-$60 for two of us but we don’t drink the same coffee so usually it’s just a bag for him and a bag for me.
If I am not traveling, just drinking at home or my office then under $25 for single origin Typica or Yellow Bourbon light roast beans.
If I am traveling then I might splash out $100 for four bags of beans.
I use an aeropress every morning to make americano style. Roughly 17g of coffee ground somewhere between espresso and turkish coffee.
I get my coffee from a local roaster that will roast and grind the beans for you on the spot, in about 15mins.
200g for around $12~17g per day depending on how much over or under I scoop, ~6205g per year, ~517g per month
~$30 USD per month at homeanother ~$20 USD per month on decaf at restaurants/cafes
Thanks for including the stats! I’ll be looking back on this to improve my AeroPress pulls
Most days it’s two 18g of espresso, one 25g made into a pour over. I go through about 2kg a month (about 4.5lbs) with dialling in and some shots for other people.
I spend anywhere from £60 per kilo down to about £30, depending on where and from whom I am buying. My local roasters (Outpost.coffee) tend to be more expensive than some of the other big names in the UK.
Depending on what’s available, I either get a single bag for espresso and a bag for pour over or a bunch of different bags, anything up to 8 typically.
~2kg/month, currently spending ~$60NZD/kg - anywhere between 1 and 4 espressos a day for me depending on if I’m going into the office or not, and my wife drinks a jug of cold brew every ~week
My wife and I split a pot a day, brewed on a Moccamaster. We buy bulk from a local grocery store a lb at a time and go thru about 3 lbs a month. At $12/lb, we’re at around $40 a month.
During the winter months I go to a coffee shop down by the Seattle waterfront. I do it because they’re starving in the winter and I want them to stay open. Couple times a week, $5 with tip for a drip.
$5USD for a coffee, is that normal? Is that inclusive of a tip? Here in Australia Id leave the register if they tried charging me more than $3USD, and we don’t have a tipping culture (thank god).
You could probably find $3, but no less. And if you went to a nice coffee shop, that did a pour over or something, I’d expect $5-$7.
I’d say $3.50 is about the cheapest pour over house coffee here in PNW US. You can find cheaper stuff at like 7-Eleven and other convenience stores - about $1-$2 but the quality is usually lacking. McDonald’s was my cheapest/most convenient/tastiest go-to back in Florida. I think it was around $2
PNW?
Damn, $3.50USD gets you a flat white/cappuccino/latte here, I don’t know if you’d find pour over coffee. And people here are upset at THAT cost, with home espresso machines taking off accordingly. I’m surprised Americans drink so much coffee at that price.
My local sit-in cafe near Portland has V60 and chemex for about $3.50 but the ones I really love is the whole milk 16oz latte from the tiny 4x12 coffee house but they’re like $4
The sit in place, I tip in but the coffee house doesn’t even ask for one if I use my card.
Lots of coffee here so I’ve found $8 lattes at places and that makes me retch
I have an auto reorder every 3 weeks for a 2lb bag of ground coffee that we like from Amazon.
I then use a reusable bag and a gallon pitcher and steep the coffee for about a day.
So, maybe $30-$35 a month?
