Coffee

i like to chew up a coffee puck and spread the resultant paste between two intact coffee pucks.

part of the draw to the chemex was that it was similar to french press but without all the gunk getting into your coffee. it is indeed slow, but I'm planning on using it mostly on weekends when I'm not in as much of a rush.

Pourover is just gravity, man.

right, i have to wait for it! waiting makes me antsy!! i'm in a hurry, man.

Protip: have a cup of tea while you wait.

come on now, if that's true how come every FP ever spends 95% of its life with spent grounds in the bottom of it, just stewing

#NotAllFP

If yr in a rush

Do an impromptu redeye each morning

buy an automatic espresso machine

Churn that first thing

Whiel you wait for yr pourover

ive had an aeropress which i use every weekend for about a year but i'm still not entirely clear on HOW to brew w it. ive read conflicting shit all over the internet which just leaves me even more confused. how do yall brew with yours? shit that makes me confused: inverted method, stopping when you hear air going through the grounds, should i be adding more water afterwards?

Think there is no right way

Don't be a prescriptive presser

Do what feels right and good my man

(note that slopping hot water and coffee grounds over your hand feels neither right nor good.)

Exactly. Preferred method is whatever gets coffee in the cup w/o damage.

yeah, you want to add water to your cup unless you just want a shot

supposedly pushing the air through the grounds extracts more of the bitter oils, but i find aeropressed coffee exceptionally smooth to begin with so i want as much of that as i can get. plus sometimes that last push creates an amount of pleasing froth on top

heh ew?

That's crema

ty, tracer

i went to the store and forgot to buy coffee and i am out and it is 0º out : /

Fuck it, making a cup

Extracting dark roasted beans with Everclear right now for the ultimate cold brew.

i can't drink brewed/drip/french press coffee anymore, it's too harsh on my stomach. and if I do have one I have to have it with tons of cream which kind of defeats the purpose. i tend to opt for lattes ie lots of milk. a good home latte is my favorite thing :)

Can you tolerate cold brewed? All the ones I've tried are so smooth and low in acid, I wonder if it would work for you? I fill mine up with creamer (coconut cream/milk mixed with some vanilla).

maybe i will give it a shot!

But you can't cold brew espresso *rimshot*

fnar

I bought some cold brew concentrate from Trader Joe's :D

it's pretty good

Hope it treats you right!

so far not even a stomach cramp :)

I much prefer the stumptown cold brew to the grady's fwiw, not that into the chicory.

Lately I have actually been sometimes using Starbucks Via Colombian instant packets in the morning when I'm in a rush, and it's a surprisingly good cup of coffee. Still do the pour-over/fresh local roasts thing at work.

bought some intelligentsia guatemalan shiz inspired by recent thread revive; kinda wish it were tomorrow already so i could drink it

I tried the TJ cold brew and didn't think it met fresh brew standards.

I saw TJs carries Jamaican Blue Mountain last time I was there and bought a can ($20 for 13 oz). It's very good but I'm not sure it's that good (compared to the Bali $9/can coffee).

After a couple of hours of reading espresso people argue and basically come down to "if you're not spending at least $1k on a grinder and machine you're a savage and even then you're still kind of a savage" I'm going to get a Moka Pot from Bed Bath and Beyond tomorrow. I liked the espresso I got from my mom's Nespresso machine so I'm guessing I don't exactly have the most delicate palette for this shit anyway.

i realized at some point a couple years ago that as far as my palate is concerned there are really only two levels of coffee, good and bad, and most important thing i can do to get from bad to good is grind beans fresh. i like the ritual of my aeropress and hario burr grinder but i dont fuck with recipes or weights or temperatures or anything, and you know what its pretty good coffee!

I didnt find fresh ground to make much difference tbh but storing grinds airtight after opening def does imo

Yeah, I just buy bags and get them ground for french press. Good enough and one less thing I have to do in the morning. I can't really tell a difference between that and grinding them immediately before.

xp max I have the same routine! Do you have the skerton or the mini mill?

mini! skerton is more than i need

Is that the skinny one that has the lid? If so how many "clicks" from all-the-way-tightened do you set it at for Aeropress grinding? Also do you fux w water temp or just boil it?

the grinder is regular, no lid or clicks. i boil and then usually wait 10 seconds or so, more so that the water doesnt jump out of the tea pot than to get it below boiling point

Agree milo, moka pots are great IMO and are good enough for me. Easy to clean too and I like the routine of using them

i do every fancy coffee thing and I LOVE IT

coffee is good it gives u visions

xp max I have the same routine! Do you have the skerton or the mini mill?

that is my exact routine too, I have a mini

I have occasionally weighed things out, it adds like 20 secs to prep time idk

i weigh weighing is tite

fresh grind or die

i used to areopress but why is it so small need to make bigger one now i pour over, i own an insulated metal french press too, i own a moka pot, i have an electric burr grinder, i have a scale, i buy single origin beans

electric kettle of course

i mostly just fuck w espresso

lpulling espresso shots is like this cool sorta jenga puzzle, every step is kinda u&k

ya its tricky

I think espresso is where all the micro choices you make really start to show, it's true for non-espresso and drip and aeropress that 'good enough' is great

I got the gooseneck electric =]

No temp control but who cares

haha veg it is like jenga or something! My bf got us a refurbished espresso machine (pavoni, a small one with only a few buttons) for Christmas and so far I'm the only one trying to master the art of it - I think I'm doing pretty well. Need a better grinder though, that's where I run into problems with the puzzle :/ Yet it still makes a more rewarding and delicious cup of coffee than the stovetop pot I used for years and thought I was okay with...