Coffee

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.

can anyone recommend a good entry-level electric burr grinder?

Capresso makes an excellent one. We've had our for 10 years, still going strong.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0000AR7SY/ref=redir_mdp_mobile?redirect=true&tag=coffeegeek-20

back when I did research on this it was the capresso ^ and the bodum barista that were recommended, I have a bodum and I like it

First response Hall of Fame.

+ whisky

I've had the Capresso for six years and I use it for actual espresso grinding. Haven't had to do much to it other than clean it with a little white rice. Still works great.

we use it for espresso, drip & french. A+ for all

VegemiteGrrl otm.

http://slingshotcoffeecompany.com/

I am drinking this right now. Pro: it's good. Con: it cost $6.50. $6.50! (I tried to return it when I saw the price, stupid cashier couldn't figure it out, I wound up leaving so I could get back to my office).

But anyway, what's sort of neat is that I notice a very different flavor from the water, bc it's brewed in Raleigh instead of here.

$6.50 for 16 oz is not much more than canned Starbucks.

I want something that tastes good through a Keurig (I have the refillable cup) - it seems to work too fast and regular good ass coffee tastes real watery. I need something ground up fine and dark. Any suggestions???

well first step is to stop buying ass coffee

what's the second?

I have been experimenting with cheaper brands of wholebean coffee. Just got the Trader Joe's columbian supremo whatever -- man it's so thin, it's like coffee water. Bleh. You have to use more to get it to taste any good, so the savings are pretty null.

Per Dayo's rec in the artisanal thread I'm going to check out Target's Archer farms SO beans

At this point it's just kind of an experiment, to see what's out there that's affordable and not terrible. So far the Peet's Major Dickason's Blend is about the best. it's always on sale at Safeway or Savemart.

go to yer supermarket, get a bag of whole bean coffee, and use their grinders set to an espresso grind setting

I had done that. But it wasn't fine enough. Maybe their grinder sucked. I got some Caribou French Roast and it was okay. But I need something darker. I wish the Keurig would just have a setting to do it slower.

well... what you're talking about it sounds like is that the grind size is not fine enough, the finer the grind the more time it takes for the water to go through the grinds

so yeah sounds like yer supermarket has a shitty grinder... there's a lot of variability in ground coffee that you buy in bags, different companies have different ideas about how fine the grind should be, but invariably it's always still relatively coarse

what's the second?
― frogbs, Thursday, March 28, 2013 12:56 PM

throw away the keurig

it belongs to my boss

$6.50 for 16 oz is not much more than canned Starbucks.

― nickn, Thursday, March 28, 2013 12:51 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no it isn't and who cares

I mean these are three for $8 and they have all kinds of other crap besides black coffee in them:

http://www.campusdepot.com/#/item/starbucks_doubleshot_mocha_15fl-zs-oz_3ct

But anyway, what's sort of neat is that I notice a very different flavor from the water, bc it's brewed in Raleigh instead of here.

man if this takes off then maybe they can expand their product line and just sell the tap water separately

It gave me this idea to host an expensive coffee tasting with cold brews from around the country, called "Like Water for Coffee"

Would also like tips for good k-cup coffee as my friend has a keurig machine and makes me coffee a lot.

Also: I fucking love my AeroPress

A good trick for improving your results with the keurig is to pour HOT filtered water into the chamber to start, tilt the machine forward, and push it into the garbage can.

ha

hurting, did you buy cold brew concentrate? can't wait to start making that again (via Toddy) this summer.

no it was just regular ready-to-drink cold brew

i assume the concentrate is more expensive?

I imagine so

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/05/21-to-drink-coffee/275621/

There are of course a ton of extremely successful, healthy people who drink inordinate amounts of coffee. Voltaire was rumored to have drunk 40 to 50 cups per day. Meanwhile the FDA has set a pretty arbitrary limit of 400 milligrams of caffeine per day as healthy, which is like one Starbucks venti or two 5-Hour Energies. A huge number of people are drinking a lot more than that. When it's in our oatmeal, though, that's a call to action.

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