Coffee

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.

voltaire otm

coffee is my only real dietary vice. i don't like sweet things or heavy/salty things, but i crave caffeine pretty much constantly, and drink coffee pretty much constantly. i don't want to hear anything bad about caffeine because, really, i don't feel i should deprive myself of such a modest pleasure.

Ordered a Bialetti Moka Express this morning. Still searching for that best tasting/easiest to prepare/easiest to clean sweet spot.

got a pile of sbux vias from Costo for cheap, they've been getting me through the draggy afternoons. It's ok. Kind of a baseline for average coffee.

but I still look forward to the weekend and homemade lattes.

http://www.yowazzup.com/coffee/images/vietnamese-drip-coffee.jpg

anyone ever have this? it's vietnamese drip coffee. it takes forever to make but it has a unique flavor to it. almost toffee-like, but i think this flavor actually inheres in the coffee somehow: it's not flavored. it's pretty cheap too you can buy the stuff on amazon but my parents picked it up for me in asia.

mr veg raves about it but I have never tried it

the condensed milk is the key to that drink, also using either cafe du monde or trung nguyen coffee xp

i had it with the trung nguyen. didn't know about the condensed milk, obviously not an expert. thanks for the tip.

yeah I heard the condensed milk is the best part. dying to give it a go, sounds amazing

i think i'm going to try out the condensed milk thing tonight. give a full report.

Still searching for that best tasting/easiest to prepare/easiest to clean sweet spot.

I think a good old cone filter does pretty well on all three requirements.

French press with pre ground coffee is pretty easy.

french presses are kinda bullshit to clean though

or maybe i'm just easily annoyed

what differentiates vietnamese drip coffee from any other drip coffee besides condensed milk?

French press is a bit more cleanup than a cone filter. It gives a different flavor profile too, so it might depend on your preferences. If the only coffee you have available is coarse ground though, a cone filter is not going to produce a very good result, so you'd be better off with the french press.

i had it with the trung nguyen. didn't know about the condensed milk, obviously not an expert. thanks for the tip.

― Treeship, Wednesday, May 8, 2013 5:43 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

well if youre raving about the toffee-like taste that comes from the condensed milk

i recommend http://i.imgur.com/uZMp9W4.jpg

what differentiates vietnamese drip coffee from any other drip coffee besides condensed milk?

― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Wednesday, May 8, 2013 5:52 PM (57 seconds ago) Bookmark

usually has robusta beans, cafe du monde version adds chicory