Bigsarge, thanks for dropping by the AmBack coffee forums. It's great to have another coffee lover aboard. By the way, if you're looking to go the green bean/home roasting route, you're stepping up to the big leagues. I think that the link I posted to an AmBack thread below might help. The coffee forums haven't been that active, and searching the three pages for other threads won't take all that long.
Personally, I've been kind of lazy to do the home roasting thingy, and maybe a lot more blond(e) than lazy, :sm_angel: but I hear your coffee drinking costs will be cut in half. :thumbsup:
Besides the link I've posted below, I buy my beans and a few coffee drinks every year from Oren's in NYC. I work in NYC, grew up there, moved up a bit five years ago. Oren's is small, not like the 52,316 of that place from Seattle's franchises in the city. Oren's concentrates on "small batch" type of coffee production and presentation. They have only about eight locations in the city. I don't know if they ship green beans, but you might wish to check out their web site.
http://www.orensdailyroast.com
I also occasionally buy beans from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, a great company from way back.
http://www.gmcr.com
Thanks again for stopping by. Let us know how your foray into the hobby progresses.
http://www.ambackforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=7148