Coffee

its good

in my vision of the future im wearing a 2.5K suit standing outside a hip bistro with a babe in each arm and a hologram of a skateboard at my feet

...everything ...is a hologram ...u r back at the shantytown

my impt coffee opinions

-- best way to make iced coffee is to use an Aeropress over a glass w/ ice in it. Add milk or water as desired.

-- best coffee rn is Ethiopian bcz it is complex and fruity and tastes like blueberries!!! How fun is that? I bet it wd be SO good cold brewed

-- cold brew takes so much coffee-to-water and is kinda expensif to make :-/

...everything ...is a hologram ...u r back at the shantytown

where i take off my virtual reality ray-bans to reveal... a beach in the south of france. a babe hands me a cold iced coffee as i take in the panaromic view of the water glad to have played Urban Squalor VI: City of Angels but happy to relax now with my friends and listen to music coming out of our combination cd/tape deck boombox

fuuuuc

There's an Ethiopian bean at my local roaster that tastes like peaches and is delicious/weird. But sadly ime Ethiopian coffee does not make a good cold brew.
also, I have often purchased Stumptown cold brew in a bottle from gas stations in Oregon and it's not bad but definitely doesn't transcend the category of cold brew in a bottle available at the gas station

I made Japanese iced coffee for the first time w/ a borrowed Chemex and holy shit it was delicious. Immediately ordered one of the glass-handled Chemexes from Amazon because the wooden collar is kind of a PITA.

My espresso experiment has kind of stalled, I seemed to be absolutely hopeless at getting a decent pour so I guess I'm shitty at tamping. Will revisit when it's not 100F every day.

But sadly ime Ethiopian coffee does not make a good cold brew.

― rob, Tuesday, June 30, 2015 2:06 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya all those subtle aromatic elements r gonna be killed by the cold

is a Chemex not just a v nicely sculpted all-in-1 pourover?

just try telling that to the chemex faithful

no i mean they are wonderful and handy but idk how it could possibly be different than a pourover

I recently asked the same thing.

it is a fancy pourover carafe

i shun chemex bcz of those ugly 70s-home-crafts wooden collars

i had coffee from dunkin donuts this morning

my thoughts are with you and your family

is a Chemex not just a v nicely sculpted all-in-1 pourover?

― WE WANT FET WAP (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, June 30, 2015 2:16 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

official chemex filters are thicker is my understanding letting fewer oils pass through making a cleaner bup which some ppl like, also theyre glass instead of plastic, tho u can get ceramic pour over cones (i have that), also u cn get a big chemex and use it as a carafe for multiple cups

i shun chemex bcz of those ugly 70s-home-crafts wooden collars

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, June 30, 2015 2:41 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha i love the 70s look

nothing like a clean bup of coffee

a nice good bup of cof to start yr day :)

dunkin donuts coffee is not the enemy expensive yuppy jetson food pill robocoffee is the enemy

yirgacheffe is my favorite single origin bean

yirgacheffe is the ultimate coffee nerd bean

is that even a word

i like more earthy centro american type of bean usually tho yirgacheffe cn be nice on occasion

gesundheit

is that even a word

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, June 30, 2015 2:38 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

things that make u go lol

I think they added the Y to Irgachefe to make it sound more like yerba matte

is yirgacheffe trendier than poopy bean coffee or peaberry coffee?

feel like its more a cult classic than trendy

is it like the forbidden zone of coffee

its the man who fell to earth of coffee

hey fun coffee frans if i like fruity peachy fun zippy coffee what do I seek out besides Ethiopian? I wonder if I can buy coffee like this at Trader Joe's...

i hear their Ethiopian is not v great

yirgacheffe

okay that's already Ethiopian coffee

might try this TJ's kenya

yirgacheffe;

stebie you should probably try yirfachgeffe

hmm i wish someone cd come to some sort of consensus abt what type of coffee i should prob try

YR GA CHEF

yr ga chef now dog

maybe thinking i shd just not buy coffee @ TJ's at all and go to like La Colombe or somfin' fancy

the co-op sells it in bulk, tho, that's p dope, i can just buy like half a pound of coffee and grind it and it stays not too unfresh

i ran out of coffee the other day and my local grocery store doesn't sell much whole bean coffee and i really needed some beans so i went to starbucks and bought some guatemalan beans and....... they weren't bad?

rotting moka pot gasket makes that statement kinda suspect /jk

lol

Stevie a lot of central African coffees have similar characteristics you're getting from the Ethiopian coffee, so definitely dig into Kenyan coffees. And there are so many great Ethiopian coffees out there, though finding something fantastic is as dependent on roaster as origin. For US roasters I'm super impressed with Heart and Blueprint at the moment, and Intelligentsia's quality control and consistency are fantastic.

Origin mania is silly marketing bullshit. There are two species of beans. They should be well-grown, well-harvested, and well-roasted.