Start buying coffee from co-ops local to where the coffee is actually grown.
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2025
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Fucking hell that's some grocery trip
Ugh...byebye D&E. It was nice drinking you.
What are the European alternatives?
In Portugal we have Delta Cafรฉ. Probably you can find it in Germany.
Dallmayr Classic is pretty good, it's made in Germany
The supermarket house brand is always an option, and it's cheaper too.
For Albert Heijn that would be Perla, I'm not sure about Jumbo and the others.
Look for small artisanal roasteries in cities (The Barn in Berlin is decent, as is Roast in Copenhagen); theyโll charge slightly more, but the beans will be top notch.
Perla koffie, is huismerk van AH, uit Zaandam
Arvid Nordquist is the Swedish goat.
Zoegas coffee is good but unfortunately owned by Nestle nowadays.
Avoid Lรถfbergs and Gevalia. They are functional and from a different time.
Was already never buying JRE brand product again, because it's stance on selling wares in Russia was: "Coffee is for Everyone. " I don't agree with that stance. I think excluding genocidal mass murderers is the normal thing you would do.
excluding genocidal mass murderers
As far as markets go, the coffee industry would suddenly have few qualifying customers.
This is one of the problems with the kind of market system in place. It is and has been enforced through genocide acts.
Gas and oil markets especially.
I personally switched to Lavazza years ago. I didnโt do a full due diligence but it says made in Italy and generally Italians donโt lie on these matters.
Well thatโs unfortunate. But nothing is perfect and my money still goes to Italy since I donโt buy caps in North America I guess.
Wrong. Douwe Egberts also continues to produce in the Netherlands, but the profits go to the mother company, in this case in the US. Same with Lavazza. The only money that goes to Italy is to the wages of its workers. I doubt they pay much taxes as these giant corps usually find ways to avoid that.
Lavazza has no parent companyโฆ it is apparently still owned by the family. thatโs a partnership which is described in the linkโฆ seemingly via one of their subsidiary.
Hereโs the group structure from their yearly report;
Whatโs wrong with that?
I was wrong, Lavazza isn't owned by Dr pepper but has a partnership. In the Dutch article it says Dr pepper already has other coffee brands including Lavazza. I assumed ownership, as that's the usual meaning of wording it that way in Dutch (I'm Dutch myself).
Np, I got the opportunity to actually verify the whole infoโฆ but Italians keeps me for coffee :) Iโll keep the Dutch for my fishing equipment though.
Example of the difference between Italians and the Dutch when it comes to coffee:
Schiphol airport: a "coffee" is 7,90, is basically water with a slight coffee taste. Not regular Dutch coffee (like americano) but more like tea.
Milan airport: 2,90 for a double espresso, actually really properly made espresso from high quality beans.
No one beats the Italians when it comes to coffee. At Schiphol airport they're not even trying (who cares, no one is a returning customer anyway, fuck them, let's cheap out on freaking coffee, something which barily costs anything to make)
It's funny that Keurig is American since its name is Dutch for 'neat'. Americans are butchering the pronunciation though.
Worth noting for any Brits that Kenco is owned by Douwe Egberts, so the same applies.
Taylors of Harrogate (the people who make Yorkshire Tea) do a decent coffee, for those that want a British mainstream alternative.
Personally I get most of my coffee from Revolver Coffee, who are a British cooperative who source all their beans from growers' cooperatives.