I hate coffee

see i don't make espresso, only pour-over filter coffee. so i only need to ever grind at medium, sometimes fine or coarse for cooking but it's not really mission-critical to get a perfect grind for coffee ice cream or whatever.

grinding the beans fresh with a burr grinder makes more difference in my experience than just about anything else.

this has also been my experience

i keep my beans in a bamboo canister with a vacuum seal lid

now i understand how this keeps them cool and dry and out of light, but the airtight part sort of makes no sense - I mean, there is plenty of oxygen in there, they're going to oxidize anyway, so what diff does it make if they oxidize under fresh or stale air??

― the late great, Monday, February 27, 2012 7:20 PM

get yr 'îron game up, rap

http://www.koracoffee.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=57

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I need to find a kettle w/ a spout like that

― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, March 10, 2012 11:48 AM

if i didn't already have the hario i'd get this cuz its half the price

http://www.amazon.com/Bonavita-Pouring-Kettle-1-Liter/dp/B005YR0IBU/ref=sr_1_2?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1327523010&sr=1-2

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good lookin out am0n

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg87E1tjTOE

I am making cold brew for the first time right not. Excited!

This came out amazing btw.

what is it made

I realize I'm late to the party but was given an aeropress and am drinking the first cup right now. Delicious!!!

I thought i could get by drinking shittty supermarket coffee but today I had some coffee brewed from counterculture beans and my resolve is crumbling

You know what I do to save a little money is I go back and forth between cheaper Trader Joe's beans and good shit like Stumptown/Counter Culture/Intelligentsia. That way the good stuff feels like a treat.

I also make a real point of seeking out and remembering places that sell the good stuff cheaper, e.g. there's a weird cafe by my work that will sell you counter culture beans for $13/lb, which is pretty cheap in NYC (normally $13-16 for a 12oz bag), and they just like scoop it for you out of their own wholesale bags.

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that camera doesnt have a lens on it

I bought starbucks coffee because it was on sale and I think it has twice the amount of caffeine as normal coffee does. twice. bzzzzzzzzzzzz

do any of these people still post to ilx?

― gershy, Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:12 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

weird reading this thread and recognizing webber and fergus as frequent posters on a msg board that i started posting on in 2006

or maybe not weird at all

maybe you should ignore this post

good day

have noticed that with starbucks. it feels like they boiled off half the water.

i've realized that i don't like a lot of the more acidic coffees that have started to become more popular. anything fruity is just not my speed. more caramely or chocolately light roasts are good, though. i've had some sharply acidic coffees that taste like pungent lipton's tea.

sounds like youre a sumatra man

i have tried but don't think i like anything lighter than medium dark

a friend of mine runs a very good, very small coffee business out of his house and tends to specialize in good dark roasts, hmu if interested

balanced citrus notes can be amazing imo but it's easy for it to go overboard. i get this dark-roasted yemeni coffee sometimes that's very dark chocolate and spicy in a root beer kind of way.

I haven't bought artisanal coffee in like 2 years =(

more caramely or chocolately light roasts are good, though.

Hey, I agree with this!

Although I'm currently going through Fresh Direct's Breakfast Blend, whatever that is.

"this velvety brew balances dark-roasted Ethiopian beans (known for chocolatey, berry flavors) with a lighter roast of smooth Costa Rican beans" apparently.

generally speaking "velvety" is an adjective I look for when buying coffee, as opposed to "floral" or "citrus". I think darker roasts when done poorly can taste a bit ashen but when done well can be as smooth as a good light roast. worst coffee I've had in recent memory was the scalding hot piss they serve at a very popular place a couple blocks from me. Dark or light? Could not tell.

Ooooeee Bustelo espresso grind is a leeeetle bit stronger than any other coffee I've ever made before.

kinda hate the coffee i make right now. i can't go back to french press though. it takes too long in the morning and i'm already suffering chronic lateness.

i think maybe i need a bean change

describe your current coffee routine

whole foods french roast
cheap blade grinder
cuisinart auto drip maker
grind an amount larger than the max fill line while rotating the grinder for evenness
dump in the thing
water up to 8-9 "cup" line

probably using too much coffee idk

i just don't trust all those lines

Those lines are hard to trust

I need to do something about my coffee game too but first I need to stop using Cafe Bustelo espresso grind in my french press.

bustelo. i spent a lot of time at HARD TIMES CAFE MN And spend a lot of time at ROCHAMBO here and at MA FISCHERS

3cup max 20m @ ma fischer's. 1.59@.90c refills@rochambo. 1$cup/.50ç rfl@mn. im going to rochambo now

My friend had an espresso machine at her apt and used the Bustelo and it was SO GOOD (although also "so hot" and "so sweet" so maybe I should try those qualities too). Sadly does not work out the same w my french press.

The ridiculously cheap totally not fancy Mexican beans we have been using somehow taste pretty good with our espresso machine! I say "our," but it is totally the spouse's baby. I never touch it, I just drink the stuff. We also use milk and sugar so I dunno I'm sure that helps the el-cheapo beans.

in orbit, harbl - your respective sitches sound custom-made for the mighty aeropress. trust

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbla3pMZpl1r3hgy9o1_1280.jpg

gonna buy some nail polish and head over to ROCHAMBNO

I had friends living in Singapore the past few months, they made side trips to Hanoi and Bali and brought me these:

http://i.imgur.com/Xl5VKTx.jpg

I feel like the Vietnamese one on the left is pretty much a scam as it was much cheaper and is very careful to use the word "weasel" a lot without every mentioning that it passed through a civet cat's digestive tract. The Indonesian one was much more expensive, specifically mentions having been shit out by an animal, and was purchased from a place with an actual civet cat on display so it's either a more elaborate scam or is actually real and therefore exploitative to animals.

Either way, I'm going to aeropress one or both of these tomorrow.

i wd drink that civet cat shit coffee

i think the cuisinart is dead. the thing that keeps coffee from dripping out while the pot is not in the machine is not staying pushed in enough, i think. so it keeps overflowing unless i am vigilant about pushing the pot back into place every 30 seconds. i would like some fancy contraption but i don't have time for that in the morning and don't want to clean it. time for another shitty coffee maker.

after i came back from drinking the world's worst coffee for two weeks in georgia and wanted to just quit coffee maybe i will

have a pleasant withdrawal

cries

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