I hate coffee

yeah i'll probably get one someday

dyao what the hell is that aeropress bullshit

it makes a good cuppa (little bit thin cause you're pressing all the oils out. still hell of a lot stronger than drip). it's really big among coffee geeks. some call it the poor man's Clover.

don't rush on the moka, harbl, it's better to dream about a thing than to get it and find out it's a fizzer.

that's like my life motto estela lol

xp does it make both brewed and espresso--how does it do that?

despite what they'll tell you, it still doesn't rate against a properly drawn espresso. but it's a pretty cheap way to get high quality coffee at home. works well with a blade grinder, since you can just chop the beans up until they're all dust. xp

know what iirc one of the best cups of coffee i ever had was french press w/ a blade grinder. so it's obv my fault

i mean, i didn't make it. it had cardamom and cacao nibs ground with the coffee. i stll think baout it

mmmmm

maybe you should try adding cardamom and cacao nibs to your current beans then

i do sometimes!

http://www.hersheycanada.com/en/products/details/twizzlers/images/full_nibs.jpg

i have a french press and espresso machine and burr grinder but here are the things that drive me crazy about coffee:

bean freshness--i am just one dude and don't go through shit fast enough
keeping everything clean is maddening

that all sounds overwhelming, perhaps you should take up tea bags instead.

that sounds snide, perhaps i should take up stfuing instead.

hahaha i mean i'm just bitchin i recognize that these are my problems not the world's

yeah I didn't mean to come on to this thread and be all "man up and stop whinging"

let me give you all a http://s3.amazonaws.com/readers/2008/11/06/bunny_1.jpg

call all destroyer, how many beans are you buying at a time? I'm lucky in that I've always lived next to a local roaster who does things up for me in 1/4 or 1/2 lb quantities.

as for keeping everything clean it's a lost cause :o(

that's awesome--if i could buy 1/4 lb at a time i probably would brew a lot more coffee than i do.

what type of container do u keep it in

I used to store it in one of those cute airtight glass jars with the orange rubber seal. in a dark cupboard, naturally.

this thread has inspired me to finally pick up some more coffee. a good yirgacheffe, or maybe mocca harrar.

i had a plastic tupperware-like thing; also just the regular coffee bag thoroughly folded and tied shut

"beer is cheaper than coffee" where, in backwards land? Coffee is like 2-3 dollars a cup, beer is minimum 5 or 6 dollars a schooner/pint.

let's give it up for coffee, the greatest creation in the history of the world

― Mr. Que, Monday, September 21, 2009 4:55 PM

let's give it up for coffee, the greatest creation in the history of the world

― Mr. Que, Monday, September 21, 2009 4:55 PM

let's give it up for coffee, the greatest creation in the history of the world

― Mr. Que, Monday, September 21, 2009 4:55 PM

let's give it up for coffee, the greatest creation in the history of the world

― Mr. Que, Monday, September 21, 2009 4:55 PM

let's give it up for coffee, the greatest creation in the history of the world

― Mr. Que, Monday, September 21, 2009 4:55 PM

let's give it up for coffee, the greatest creation in the history of the world

― Mr. Que, Monday, September 21, 2009 4:55 PM

my never fail method is usually: pour beans into grinder til approximately full. grind. dump into filter basket. add water btw 6 and 7 c line on pot. brew. sometimes i go a lil stronger. i am not allowed to make the coffee at my grandparents' house bc they use like half the coffee i do and make gross brown water and think i am trying to poison them if i make it the right way.

is the bag made of paper? brown paper is still permeable and lets oxygen in; and even with tightly wrapped bags made of foil or plastic there's still some air seepage. tupperware is fine, if it has the rubber lining at the top to form an airtight seal. I usually get about 2 weeks, starting from the roast date, out of my beans. xxxp

yeah. i put about 3/4 of the grounds in one of those airtight jars with a latch and the rest in the bag just because the jar's not big enough. wouldn't use the bag for more than a few days or coffee will start to taste like blah.

is it gay to drink decaf?

sigh

i always want more coffee but if i have another cup of real coffee i will feel faint

i have low blood pressure mr. que

oh

sorry!

I'd drink decaf if it didn't taste like crap... if it weren't for worries of caffeine addiction I'd probably drink 10 cups a day

you can lower the caffeine content by shortening the brewing time

also, by using a darker roast

xpost yeah how insensitive of you. maybe i will go buy a pound, i can't decide. i just want more more more!

i already use a pretty dark roast but i don't want to shorten the brewing time. see this is gonna turn into another 100 posts about how confused i am

what does doctor harbl say about more more more

hmm some methods naturally have shorter brewing times - like the aeropress above

I heard that they found a coffee bean with a naturally low caffeine content (less than 1%) - dunno where they're at in terms of bringing it to market or as to how it tastes

how do you like it how do you like it

how did coffee go this morning harbl

it was good. zeke's royal blue is great. but i am still smelling the dregs at the bottom of the cup next to me and that's why i want more but i am kinda wired!

nope drinking decaf is gay. sorry.

i got some. and i ground it myself. it's too fine but i am using drip this time so we'll see what happens

wait what about your blood pressure???????????

it's ok it's decaf you dummy

as u can see i'm gay and i don't care who knows

decaf still contains caffeine, jokes on you