Why Should You Join a Coffee Club?

Would you love to explore new coffee beans, coffee blends, and coffee flavors from around the world? Have you discovered one particular type of whole bean coffee you especially like that you'd love to be able to enjoy on a regular basis? Is there a coffee-growing region or country that you'd enjoy exploring in depth? Are you a busy coffee lover who would love to have a steady supply of gourmet coffee beans without having to stand in line once a week? Do you need to pick up the perfect gift for that coffee loving family member, friend, or colleague?

If you answered, "Yes!" to any of these questions, then a coffee club may be just what you need.

What is a Coffee Club?

Coffee clubs provide their members with regular shipments of high quality freshly roasted coffee. These usually arrive as special parcel shipments containing whole bean coffee, although some may also make ground coffee available to members.

The initial order may be placed by mail with a credit card number or check; or via the telephone or the Internet with a credit card. Then, the member receives, usually on a monthly basis, a specified quantity of freshly roasted coffee that suits his or her coffee-drinking needs. Some clubs continue the shipments, and the credit card charges, until the paying member asks to leave the club. Other clubs, particularly those offering gift memberships, send coffee bean shipments over a specified prepaid period of time.

What Do You Get from a Coffee Club?

The main benefit of belonging to a coffee club is the knowledge that high quality coffee beans you know you like will arrive at your home on a regular basis. But there are other benefits as well.

Many coffee club premiums provide incentives for joining. With your first shipment of coffee may come a coffee grinder, a coffee maker, or special mugs or cups and saucers in which to enjoy your coffee.

Another, less tangible but no less exciting benefit is the opportunity coffee club membership offers for coffee lovers to explore and learn more about the world of fine coffees. Some coffee of the month clubs offer their members different freshly roasted coffee beans each month from the world's coffee-growing countries or regions; or from a different quality roaster; or different kinds of flavored coffee beans. Other clubs may provide assured regular shipments of particular kinds of exotic coffee beans, such as Hawaiian Kona coffee or Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee. Still others may cater just to people with espresso machines, or to members who use only coffee pod coffee makers. Whatever the coffee drinking or coffee brewing tastes or habits you or your gift recipient might have, there's a coffee club to match them.