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How much do y'all spend on coffee a month?

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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I have an espresso machine, so I just buy a bag of beans that I grind myself for about $15 Canadian. A bag lasts me at least a month, usually more. The only other expense is I do use more milk than usual since I make lattes.

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- One 12oz bag? Wow, that's efficient. Maybe that'll help me justify forking over the initial cost for a decent espresso machine.
  
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  To be fair, it's only me drinking it and I typically make it only during work days. But yeah it's pretty nice to have. I've been getting syrups to flavour the lattes which makes it even better.
  
  Edit: The bags I get are about 1kg which is about 32oz.
  
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  Just had this conversation with my partner who wanted to get a Nespresso (no idea why). I also have an espresso machine and have 2 large coffees a day, a 1kg bag of beans is £10 ( $13) and lasts over a month. Espresso machine and a grinder is the most eco and pocket friendly way.
  
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  Try out a Moka pot first if you want to save on money. The espresso is quite good for the price $5 vs $500
  
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  Get a V60 or an aeropress or a french press or a mokka pot or... All of those are cheaper and make delicious coffee as well. They're even less work! I personally love filter coffee so I use the first two.
  
  Only real investment you need is a grinder, and you can get a very decent one for less than 100$.
  
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I buy green unroasted coffee for cheap and then roast it myself, 5lb bag is like 8 bucks Canadian

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- Do you just roast it in your home oven? Does it make your house smell like a Starbucks knock box?
  
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- I do the same thing. Green coffee has a longer shelf life than roasted coffee does.
  
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- Where do you buy from?
  
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  I believe it's called buycoffeecanada.com
  
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- Recently moved to a more coffee-oriented area so I should be able to find green beans way easier now. Thanks for the reminder!!!
  
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I buy 20 lb bags of green for 80-120 once a year or so, roast a batch once a week or so in a modified popcorn maker, and make espresso, pour over, or french press depending on how it turns out.

I probably don't save any money when you calculate power, and even if I did, it would take a decade to pay for the grinder/espresso machine.

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- Realistic take but it sounds like you're enjoying the best coffee in your city regardless of how much you spent initially. $120 is a hell of a steal for a whole year of joe, IMO
  
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  You most probably won't reach the coffee quality of a professional roaster at home. It just depends on how much you're interested in the process or how much the taste is worth it to you.
  
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  it sounds like you’re enjoying the best coffee in your city
  
  Nah, the roasts aren't very consistent so most of the time it's kinda mid. Sometimes it's so good it demands 3 more shots.
  
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I spend about $30/mo on whole beans from a local roaster. Cheap Hario hand grinder, French press. KISS

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$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.

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- So about 200g ice?
  
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  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.
  
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$15-20 for 2.5lbs @ Costco of whatever looks good. They usually have some local stuff mixed in w the Kirkland stuff. I’m a aingle person using either percolator or cold brew so that bag will last me 1.5-2 months. ☕️🍩

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~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

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$24 AUD ($16.30 USD) for 500 grams of coffee a month. I drink a cup a day and it's enough for me and my partner to get through. I use a stovetop moka pot and get beans from the local markets here in melbourne :-)

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I drink tea, like the standard orange pekoe stuff. 1 to two bags a day... About $8 for a box of 72... So I dunno less than $5/mo anyway

EDIT pardon me I just saw that this was a coffee community. No hard feelings meant! I still enjoy a social coffee every now and again! May the coarse bean with you or whatever it is coffee drinkers say eachother 😅

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- Any good coffee drinker can appreciate tea the same. It's all delicious plant water one way or another 🤩
  
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I just use whatever the machine at work has. So $0 lol

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- I'm no coffee snob but jfc, I swear they get Folgers and CFoN just to fuck with us lol
  
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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.

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- $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).
  
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  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.
  
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  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
  
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About 75 €/month at most, but that would require drinking only specialty coffee. Normally I also have a bag of cheap supermarket coffee, which I use for experiments and training. Really good specially coffee costs about 80…100 €/kg, while good light roasted fresh supermarket coffee costs about 14 €/kg, so that can easily bring that monthly expense down.

Since I drink a little bit of both, I think the overall cost is somewhere around 30…40 €/month.

AP filers are really cheap, so they contribute only cents to the monthly sum. Can you really taste the difference between two filter types? If so, can Chemex really justify the higher cost?

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- Chemex is preferred when I'm sharing a pot with my wife/company since we can make 3 cups at once. I know you can make AeroPress for two cups at a time but it seems like it's better when pulling singles. It's nice having the coffee warm for everyone to enjoy at once but I'm now thinking a V60 might be a cheaper alternative for that situation.
  
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  You can also do americano style with the AP. If I’m brewing to 3 people at once, I make the coffee very strong, and then dilute it with milk or water to make it just right.
  
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Between $75-$120 a month, for two of us.

We pay an average of $22 for a 12 oz bag of the good stuff from local roasters (Temple or Chocolate Fish) and go through just over a bag a week. Work days we have 2 cups each, weekends we go all out and have 3. We buy whole beans, grind them at home, and exclusively use the Chemex. Sometimes when we pick up a bag at the shop we treat ourselves to a latte (stupidly expensive) and that bumps up the average.

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$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.

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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.

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Do you have a Costco near you? I usually get Lavazza beans when it’s on offer for £10/$13 per kg (~2lbs) but Amazon sometimes have it cheaper delivered. One word of warning though, the Kirkland coffee beans are terrible, no idea how they make It so bitter.

Also have you tried a re-usable metal filter for your AeroPress?

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- The Kirkland beans really are bad, which is surprising. I like the Don Pablo beans they carry a lot though.
  
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  Ooh not sure we have those in the UK, we do have San Francisco Bay coffee beans which are good but Lavazza is smoother. I did wonder if the San Fran was just for us in Europe so we had “Exotic American” coffee.
  
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- Good price. I spend over $20 for Lavazza organic on Amazon.
  
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- We do have Costco around here! I'll take a look for those Lavazza beans - they sound like a great deal.
  
  Never tried the metal Aero filters but I found some off brand ones on Amazon that do the job really well. Got like fkn 800 filters for $10 on Amazon so that's WAY cheaper than the Chemex as it is. I worried about the metal filters resulting in oily coffee akin to a french press, did you experience that or are my fears unfounded?
  
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  Well I’ve asked Santa for an AeroPress for Christmas, I take a French press camping but we broke it this year. Planning on getting the metal filter, and finding out myself.
  
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Random guy here, stumbled onto this thread.

I can only drink decaf, doctors orders. My wife doesn't drink more than a cup a day usually, caffeinated.

We have a breville espresso machine, got it during COVID because we were home so much.

We made coffee every day, sometimes several times a day. But now that we're more or less back to normal, we're not home often enough to use it regularly. Perhaps once a week.

We still love fancy coffee, just not enough to get up a bit earlier to make it, and take it with us, and then clean the thermos later. Bah.

So we go through a pound or so every few months. It's actually a bit annoying because the coffee gets less fresh as the weeks go on.

As for what coffee we buy? We buy local, there's a roaster near our house, which always smells amazing when you drive by. Their coffee is fine, quite tasty even, it just all kind of tastes similar, if that makes sense. Even if I go for some fancy flavors, which I'm guilty of doing (in a separate special grinder), they all taste very similar in base flavor. Maybe people like that 🤷‍♂️ it's fine.

Our favorite coffee is schuil in Grand rapids Michigan, super tasty, and their flavors are phenomenal (if you like that kind of thing).

Edit: beans are about $9-11/lb here in Michigan.

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It's about $30 a month for two of us who both drink 2-3 cups a day.

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Like $10 on a thing of instant every couple months.

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$12. A single pack of grounds lasts me right around a month.

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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

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- 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!
  
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1.25 kg of Lavazza beans (at USD ~21, converted) for a single person per month, brewed ~20g (in V60) for 1-3 times per day

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For me about 10€. At work I have free "coffee" and at home I alternate coffee and tea. For the coffee I've found a nice 500g bag of whole brand for 8€ that is my go to.

"Antique" 2€ grinder bought well over a decade ago and french pressing. No expensive equipment.

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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.

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I work in a café, so I really only pay for my coffee on my days off.

I average maybe half a pound of beans per month for home brewing, so let's say $20 for a nice bag from a local roaster (in Canada-bucks). Ten or so dollars in V60 filters is enough to last me most of a year, so add a dollar a month. I also like checking out cafés, so add $15/$20 in random café visits, and I'd typically spend anywhere from $20 to $40ish per month.

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- $40 is great! Plus you get plenty of cafe time which is worth a ton in my opinion. I didn't factor in my coffee house budget because that can get pretty high depending on the month 😅
  
  I've been considering the V60 to get away from the pricey Chemex filters and that figure sounds really great. Thanks!
  
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About $30/month USD when we can afford to order from Stone Street. We get by on much less from Aldi during leaner times, which still isn't that bad.

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- Aldi's whole bean bags are pretty damn good for what it's worth. Those organic yellow bags, I think Panamanian or Peruvian ones were the bomb.
  
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  We like the Peruvian. I was iffy about the Sumatran because it was already ground, but my partner loves dark roasts, and I must admit, it's really good. One caveat, the instructions on the bag say two rounded tablespoons per 6 oz. cup, and that's far too much. We like our coffee strong and find that one tablespoon for every two 6 oz cups is plenty.
  
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Not much, the only thing relatively expensive was the expresso machine. Coffee beans we have is mostly Lavazza's Crema e Gusto (the blue/red bags). On sale it is about 11 to 14€ per kilo. We spend a little extra on good coffee creamer (Friese vlag Goudband). I don't drink much coffee but I can't have a sip without making noise...my wife goes "everything alright?", or "shut the @#€# up?".

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10 - 15 euros probably

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My wife works at Starbucks and we have an espresso machine, so not a lot.

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I use a small French press, usually used once per day. I buy preground for press from a local roaster which is about $10 for 500G which lasts about a month.

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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.

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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?

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$57 monthly. But I order not a cheap coffee.

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- What coffee do you use?
  
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  Radiokava. It's a local coffee roastery in Ukraine.
  
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About 4.99 for 200g of instant. Lasts me a while but it's just me using it

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3 to 5$ a month but I can only drink one cup a day now and it is just me.

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A 1lb bag of kicking horse is about $15CAD on sale, and it lasts me 3 weeks or so

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Around 1kg per month. I buy Lavazza red, it tastes good and strong for £10. 40mg lisdexamfetamine washed down with a quad espresso is a good way to start the day.

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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 home

another ~$20 USD per month on decaf at restaurants/cafes
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- Thanks for including the stats! I'll be looking back on this to improve my AeroPress pulls
  
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I use 25-26g per day at a cost of $10-$20 a pound so maybe $15-$30 a month

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£30-£40 for me. Currently working my way through local roaster recommendations from another thread but it’s taking a while because I order in 1kg packs.

Usually go for two americanos per day with a double shot in each one.

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For the current coffee, 56¢/k-cup, so about $25/mon

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About 2,5€ or so

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maybe 75 cents I'm guessing. maybe 2-3 store brand kpods a month.

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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.

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700 UAH (18$) for a kilo for a month. freshly roasted. two people. two double espresso (16.5g of coffee) almost every day. plus occasional guests. Kyiv, Ukraine.

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$180 US. $360 including tips.

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Around £21 a month.

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$0. I can't stand the taste of The Bean. Not sure how much my housemates spend on it, but it doesn't seem to help them. I'm up first, and they claim I make a good pot of coffee, so they wake up when I feel like putting the pot on around 7:00 am.

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- You know what the best cup of coffee is? The coffee you don't need to make for yourself, in the comfort of the place you live/call home.
  
  Do you drink something like tea instead?
  
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  No. Caffeine doesn't agree with my ADD.
  
  I hit a vape of nicotine and a vape of THC to wake up, lol
  
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