Coffee

its not... terrible tho? i think i mentioned i bought it just to have some quick caffeine around before workouts but i dont hate it tbf, i started drinking the canned cof on long drives and i kinda grew to like it in its own way, i just love sugar too, which i dont allow myself in my cof generally

it can be good

the japanese have some good canned cof

my exp has been with bad canned cof in mainland china though

where the cof is not readily available

and the canned cof is all like

sugary frappucino knockoffs

cant get any caff

guys what's your preferred roast, y'all go for the lights or the mediums or the darks? or light-medium/medium-dark?

― nomar, Wednesday, March 2, 2016 1:08 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

i like medium-dark (a 'vienna' roast i think?) for blends and low priced beans

i like the whole foods big bags they're cheap and p good

back when i used to do single origin or plantation or w/e i went with city or full city roasts for maximum flavor

i think light roast coffee can be bright/sour and fatiguing after a while i have come to appreciate the darker roasts

if a light roast is sour that generally means its under extracted (of course sour is subjective so it cld mean anything)

i like medium tho cause im extremely reasonable

for me it varies by region like the central/south american coffees tend to be sour but not the african ones, same extraction meth

huh interesting

a lot of commercial "bold/dark" roasts just taste burnt to shit, we only go bold at home if we are familliar w the roaster (god that sounds like such hipster wank, sorry)

i prefer medium roast for my lattes tho

my friend roasts his own beans and does a nice dark roast. that Danny Trejo coffee i got is a dark roast and it's pretty smooth.

the dark roast makes a smooth cof

might make another cof right now

I will take bitter/burnt over sour any day.

No wait just thinking about that choice makes me feel ill. I will take neither.

not sure i've ever had a sour cof

3rd wavish

third lavish floral light roasts often skew towards the sour. i feel about those the way i feel about a lot of IPAs i guess. not for me.

when i find a nice smooth chocolate/toffee/caramel/hazelnut kind of light to medium roast it's almost my ideal coffee.

some sour third wave coffee is too sour imo

when i find a nice smooth chocolate/toffee/caramel/hazelnut kind of light to medium roast it's almost my ideal coffee.

― nomar, Wednesday, March 2, 2016 9:09 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya, i was just going to say this is my preferred coffee

my local whole foods currently has a costa rica and colombia light roast that are actually described with those exact words (chocolate, caramel, respectively)

my ideal coffee too

im sorry i introduced the word sour to the discussion most cof people say 'bright'

maybe 'acidic'

my ideal coffee too

same

i too buy from a third wave place thats def on the light-medium spectrum, like they dont even label them as such

i would love to find a smooth choc/tof/caramel/nutty light to medium!! All the ones I find like that are DARK and BITTER, too gross

rrrobyn and i had a v intersting chat in mtl abt 3 wave cof, iirc rrrobyn you said that there are maybe 2 or 3 places that do it but not really that many??

guys idk if you have been to mtl but "coffee culture" there is just, uh, "culture", like EVERY place you go (diner, take out places, maybe some bodegas/deps idk) has an espresso machine and all the coffee you ever get anywhere is just fucking GREAT, like divey little corner poutine place has the latte of yr life, it's so cool

i got some recently that i swear to god had a pineapple taste to it, crazy days man, crazy days

excited to hit up mtl coffee dives this summer

montreal very good for cof yeah

make SURE that when you order it you order it as "le cof" otherwise they will scoff at u

nothing worse than a montrealian scoff

i too buy from a third wave place thats def on the light-medium spectrum, like they dont even label them as such

i would love to find a smooth choc/tof/caramel/nutty light to medium!! All the ones I find like that are DARK and BITTER, too gross

― police patrol felt the smell of smoke and found that goat burns (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, March 2, 2016 5:30 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I find Colombian (non-dark-roast) most reliable for this, especially if you're not shelling out for some kind of super-coddled single estate microlot stuff.

Guatemalan, Costa Rican, Peruvian all also pretty reliable. Avoid Brazilian coffee. African coffees tend to have a more tea-like flavor imo, can be very interesting, subtle and complex but not necessarily what I want in my daily cup.

In Germany they disapprove of u keeping it within the walls of a fortified medieval structure

xp I got an Ethiopian recently that tasted just like bergamot!!! So crazy!!

rn I've got that Guatemalan I mentioned upthread that's really fruity/complex ("WE TASTE: Honey, Vanilla, Mango, Peach" says the website) which is great but I'm gonna ask their recommendation for like a nutty choc tof jawn next time I go

Would u like an extra shot with ur ice-cold xp

make SURE that when you order it you order it as "le cof" otherwise they will scoff at u

― police patrol felt the smell of smoke and found that goat burns (Stevie D(eux)),

"le caf" en fait

A few more third wave places have come to my attention, mostly in mile end, little Italy and near McGill. Good coffee but not really for me. But yeah the general espresso here is darker - and everywhere, thank god :)

lol "le cof"

my go-to coffee for my ideal, just because it's easiest to find, is Holler Mountain by Stumptown. i can usually find a 12oz bag on sale for $10 at the grocery store.

i've had a few from scattered micro roasters that aren't easy to find that are arguably superior. Verve makes a couple really good ones. Metropolis from Chicago, too.

guys i am so homesick for melbourne lattes served in a glass
ughhhhh

to combine Montreal and Melbourne talk the best coffee I had in Montreal was in a place called Melbourne ran by some stralians

omg

there's a joint in Los Angeles called the Bronzed Aussie that purportedly serves some "flat whites"...is that what you're talking bout?

and a Garlo's in West L.A. and Aussie Pie Kitchen in Santa Monica. .

xpost flat whites are a diff thing

lattes are just lattes but served in a small drinking glass

there are so many austrialian coffee places in new york now have no idea why

we have an nz place called chocolate fish that is v good

i'll take kiwis in a pinch :)

sounds like someone's getting ready for an invasion, "m8"

bcz australia is the best iirc cxpost

STRAYA

i have a weird aversion to having any coffee product in a glass. i hate when places give you coffee in a glass. it looks gross!

there's a third wave joint near us where they give you the coffee in a mason jar wrapped with a dainty napkin