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That sounds low, only plausible if you're drinking very small amounts or if you're getting a really good deal on your ingredients.
Where I live, the local and regional roasters generally charge about $15 for 12 oz/340g. I like black drip/pourover coffee at a 17:1 ratio, so a 20 fl oz cup is 590g of water and 34g of coffee, or exactly 1/10 of a 12 oz bag.
So for me, each 20 oz cup of black coffee costs me $1.50 in beans.
Espresso based drinks use something like 8g of coffee per shot, and 3 shots per 20 oz cup is pretty standard, so we're still talking about 24g of coffee bean, or 7% of a 12oz bag, or over $1 per drink in coffee alone.
If each shot is about 1 fl oz, you've got 3 oz of espresso and 17 oz of other stuff, milk I assume, which also costs money. Regular milk is like $4/gallon, so we're talking about another $0.50 or so of milk alone filling up that 20 oz cup.
One local roaster sells a 1 kilo bag at my Costco for $22. One shot of espresso on my machine is 22g, so that’s $0.48 of coffee.
The milk I buy is $12 for three half gallons. A latte has 6 oz of milk, so $0.38.
Grand total is $0.86, a little bit more than the last time I calculated it. This spring when I got the espresso machine, the coffee was $18 and the milk was $9, so the latte was closer to $0.70. Not quite the $0.50 I remembered, that number may have been just the coffee without the milk.
Inflation is a bitch. Thanks Trump.
Coffee roasted less than 48 hours ago from a local roaster costs me around 1CAD per cup (16g shot)