When I was in high school I worked at a coffee shop. It was a chain of shops around Boston called Coffee Connection. They had their own roasting facility and would deliver a couple of times a week. We would help unload the truck. You had to bear hug these big burlap bags and I remember feeling the heat from the beans. The owner would travel the world to source the beans, and we had the best. Guatemalan Antigua, Sumatran, Jamaican Blue Mountain (before Hurricane Hugo), Kenyan, Colombian Supremo, Brazilian, Hawaiian Kona (my favorite). The aroma from the beans was unbelievable. We didn't know how good we had it. They let us take home free coffee and a lot of it. Boston was the last major US market that Starbuck's hadn't been able to enter. Coffee Connection was their primary obstacle. They eventually bought the owner out and all the stores turned into Starbuck's who even then had terrible coffee. The owner signed a non-competition agreement and couldnt sell coffee in Massachusetts for 25 years. But he's back roasting again. I tried some and it's really good!