We all like and praise specialty roasters. We recommend them online, we tell our friends about. The coffee is great.
… Except when it’s isn’t. And you still paid specialty price for it.
Do you have any bad experience with specialty roasters, places you won’t go back to? Have you ever encountered roasters claiming to sell specialty coffee, but when you open the bag it’s worse than supermarket coffee?
Give 'em a break!
They’re necessarily small businesses, and if they get say, a bad sack of raw beans, or the roast doesn’t come out right for one reason or another, they still have to make a living.