Coffee

i guess i can google that

yah the other reason I never really use my aeropress is because it only makes like 2 ounces at a time. I like making a big cup and just sitting there and drinking that cup. even if the caffeine content or w/e ends up being the same.

Got some "New Orleans" brew from Albertson's that had a big label "WITH CHICORY!!!" whatever tf that is. Anyways, read yer labels: I get home and supposedly chicory is supposed to be great thing because it drastically reduces caffeine content.

ffs i don't drink coffee because i enjoy it, i would've gone to starbucks

now i have to drink 6cups before leaving the house just to get a buzz

also, it tastes like plants

yah the other reason I never really use my aeropress is because it only makes like 2 ounces at a time. I like making a big cup and just sitting there and drinking that cup. even if the caffeine content or w/e ends up being the same.

― Neu! romancer (dayo), Wednesday, February 23, 2011 7:14 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you can make americanos dogg

i like the americanos i make w/ the aeropress and my bialetti more than the concentrated "espresso"

americanos don't have the same mouthfeel imo

ugh i hate that word

otm

aahhhh, tastes like teen spirit

haha

you would also be drinking an 'americano' xp

handtaste

xpost Chicory coffee sucks. IIRC, chicory coffee was historically simply a poor man's method of extending coffee grounds, akin to watering down milk.

Personally, I love my Chemex, and have yet to have a home brew equal to what I get out of it. As intriguing as the penis-pump looking Aeropress may be.

lol that's the first thing I thought of when I watched the video

penis pump b/w scalding hot coffee

tell me how my mouth feel

What's y'alls coffee intake regimen? How can I consistently get my buzz on?

one cup in the morning on an empty stomach, black.

^this

I eat a thermosfull everyday - I am die-dard for Cafe Bustelo - cheap and black - hot and stacked

Went all y'day without any coffee due to sick hangover and by this morning I had a crashingly bad headache. One strong stovetop espresso later and I'm 100%. DAMN U CAFFEEN.

coffee makes everything all better

Sweet sweet coffee numbs the pain

I now dumb an expresso into my normal coffee in the morning and then I usually have another one before eleven. Than it's like 2 more before lunch.

Probably not healthy all things considered.

I'm headed down that route myself. 3-5 a day.

but it might prevent prostate cancer!
http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/fitness/article_bb0a8000-c84b-5fdc-9707-f4174ff05f37.html

too bad I read that it might also be a carcinogen somewhere else. ¯\(º o)/¯

california?

it IS healthy dammit!!!!!!!

had been thinking about picking up a crank grinder (Hario mini slim) and Aeropress for work, for quite a while now and finally did. I just had my first cup. I rarely have afternoon coffee, but damn... it was delicious and I am significantly more awake at 3pm than I usually am. Aeropress was easy as hell to use, too.

i've been given a nespresso machine and now i can't sleep so good

So the place I've worked the last few months has a keurig, which makes pretty crap coffee (bad enough that I started drinking flavored with milk and sugar because I couldn't take the taste of the regular). I was fortunate enough, however, to discover that another associate and a paralegal here are both coffee snobs like me, and we went in on a hario hand-crank burr grinder, a hario single-cup ceramic pour-over dripper, some paper filters and an electric kettle, all told a $90 investment split three ways. We're taking turns bringing in bags of coffee.

I have to admit, the pour-over coffee is nice. I do the whole deal where you wet the filter/warm the cup first, then pour in small batches through the center. I usually rearrange the grinds with a coffee stirrer after each pour. You can't really get a perfect pour with the electric kettle but I think it's good enough.

One of my favorite things about it, actually, is that the mug itself gets super warm from the process, and that makes the drinking experience much nicer.

The downside is that people in the office look at us a little funny, including partners. I guess being "an attorney" now I can sort of get away with it more than if I were just office drone #7 though. Ah, privilege.

I bought a Hario hand-crank with an Aeropress, and end up having a conversation every morning about it. I guess I'm the "coffee guy" in the office now. Do you guys draw straws to decide who gets stuck with the grinder? Not that it's super strenuous or anything, but I grind mine pretty fine (more taste with less beans), and it takes me about two and a half minutes of pretty intense grinding. I'd hate to have to do it for three cups.

Really? I find I only need to grind for maybe a minute, but you don't need a lot of grinds for one cup drip

Yeah I also find it's a conversation piece. One secretary said something about how there are hipster lawyers now.

how many clicks are you setting your hario?

idk actually, the other dude set it and it seems to work where it's at. It's not really "clicks" though, just like a screw you turn.

which hario did you get? the mini slim or the regular?

From looking online it looks like the one called "Skerton"

btw dude I was wondering about you and how it's going. we should e-mail or something.

yeah its funny, the aeropress is so great and quick but i need like 2-3 minutes to grind w/ my hand-crank so theres kind of no net gain in time saved. i should post this on the other thread where harbl was talking about how nice it is to have no wait time for a cup of coffee, especially if youre just using it to wake yourself up.

i think this is why k-cups are okay by me--i never found them to be undrinkably horrible when i was working in an office with one (in fact some of the k-cup blends were surprisingly tasty)--and whatever flava sacrifices u make are counterbalanced by the speed of it

this is the thing about being "into" coffee (not that i really am, not at dayo/hurting levels), sometimes you just need it to open your eyes and could gaf about how it tastes

what do you guys put your coffee in after you make it in a chemex? i usually make enough to have 2-3 cups in the morning but it doesn't stay hot so i dump it in an old automatic drip thermal carafe which is on its last legs. any recs for a nice insulated carafe or similar?

Coffee gets gross if it sits more than an hour or so imo. Although it seems to stay good longer in those giant pump thermos stainless steel thingies that they sometimes have at coffee places. So I guess something more-or-less air tight is good?

it usually doesn't last more than an hour or two in my house, but an hour in no thermos equals cold coffee and reheating coffee is even nastier.

I like cold coffee

I finally got one of the Hario mini mills and am on the "can't have any unless you grind it" plan. Was getting frustrated because the nut kept slipping looser and looser as I'd grind - until I realized I had turned it upside down. It's a straight thread, so will screw on with the detent side facing either way.

Yeah did you get the Skerton?

http://fourbarrel.tumblr.com/post/283821195/easy-way-to-set-the-grind-on-a-hario-skerton

the mini mill is not quite the same design iirc

yeah, the mini is different - the nut goes underneath the burr,and it has a lid.

oooh did not realize mini mill was the name of a thing. well if anyone DOES pick up the skerton ... it's p nice.

I like cold coffee

― flagp∞st (dayo), Monday, March 5, 2012 3:41 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So La Colombe is getting in on the single-origin direct trade game. I picked up some of their Papua New Guinea and made myself a pour-over cup this morning and I'm not too happy with it, but I think I may have used too much water. It has a slightly funky smell though and it tastes dark to me for a supposed medium roast. Also it tastes kind of similar to their standard Corsica blend, which I'm also not that fond of.

In any case, the Colombe dude has a new No Reservations style show about coffee on Travel Channel, apparently.