Coffee

democratic people's republic of coffeestan

Former secretary general of the UN Kofi Annan? More like Coffee Annan, amirite?

(NB: 3 feet behind me my electric drip is making coffee.)

Eat coffee

i'm having some...right now!

hell yeah brother

What, coffee? Insane update.

I had coffee

coffee is good it makes me shit

luv2shit

now that just doesn't make sense

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I make my coffee pretty much the same every day, and yet some days it turns out extra good. Today is one of those days.

weird innit

It's pretty fucking awesome, is what it is.

it's the little things <3

give the bloom time friends

Fuck the bloom. I'm going to pour over the god damn freshly ground Kenya AA in my Chemex right to rim. Stop me.

Bloom that shit, then stir it. Let out that trapped CO2, and your cof will be less acrid.

respect the bloom ppl cmon

literally the coffee cant even brew while the gas is escaping

sounds like something else is a-brewin'

moodles otm

"Fuck the bloom. I'm going to pour over the god damn freshly ground Kenya AA in my Chemex right to rim. Stop me."

Good God man.

the bloom

i respect it

but it could be bullshit huh

You can perceive with your eyeballs that it isn’t bullshit! The coffee visibly foams up and subsides when you bloom it.

Burnt umber

It probably depends on the grind and freshness. I've got my conical burrs set just larger than espresso powder, so the grinds de-gas rather quickly once immersed in hot water. By the time I've poured over to the half way mark, there are no more bubbles. I'm also not drinking $20/lb coffee fresh from a roaster, my beans have spent a few months in nitrogen purged packaging, and have already degassed a bit.

Waiting for a bloom strikes me as a gratuitous ritual, on a par with swirling then tossing vermouth from a martini glass. If it does make a difference, its rather minor compared to bean, roast, grind, and brew method. It's on the order of those who break out digital thermometers to ensure their brew water is exactly 205 F (96 C), rather than pretty darn close. I've bloomed (as the Chemex instructions suggest), I've just slowly poured over for a couple minutes, and I couldn't taste the difference.

Coffee is a gratuitous ritual, that’s why it’s fun.

cautionary tale - drink un-bloomed coffee even once and your palate may be as ruined as sanpaku's is

also not drinking $20/lb coffee fresh from a roaster

*faints into chaise-lounge*

Truly cultured individuals know it’s a chaise longue

!!!

*faints into chaise-longue, dies of shame*

wtf is bloom

ruined acutely aware of the law of diminishing returns.

flopson: for pour over coffee, one blooms by pouring brew water 1:1 with grounds and waiting 30-60 seconds until the bubbles stop coming off. This supposedly permits carbon dioxide still caught in the grounds to escape, and pre-wets the grounds, so that they're all brewing for about the same time when one adds the rest of the brew water later. But really, its just an excuse to hover over the coffee basket at the most aromatic part of the brewing process.

Dayenu

xp- oh cool i already do that w my HARIO cuz the guy who sold it to me told me to do that

the bloom is such an easy thing to manage it take like 30 extra seconds and pays dividends if u dont believe me do a taste test, obvs as mentioned up thread its more important if youre doing freshies

the reason he told me to do it wasn't about bloom or bubbles he just said to wait after the first pour so that it would kind of solidify and so it wouldn't all stick to the sides in subsequent pours, but it's good that it's also got the bloom rationale

Avoid the gloom
Do the bloom

joe persistently chiding us for not following the finer details of third wave coffee bro best practice is my favourite part of this thread. i need it

i just want to see you all succeed at coffee

i spend too much on coffee to take my chances with 204° or 206° water

It’s weird how flops calls people by the generic “joe” instead of people’s real life ilxor names

lol his literal government name is like Joe Schmoe or some shit

i'm not even joking

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