What coffee are you drinking just now?

[friedaweed]

Where do you get it from? - That stuff vanished off the shelves here a good while ago.

Tesco. You can get it online too at a fair few places cheap. My ASDA occasionally has it in 2 bags for a fiver

No waitrose, it really is the best coffee imo has a slightly sweet aroma and hint of sweetness in flavour

I got some of that on Saturday on your recommendation as the lover wanted to go to our new waitrose super store. I'm very impressed. It has a lovely deep warm smell to it

 

[pogofish]

The Tescos here were the last to stop stocking it - For about a year it was the only reason I would go into one!

Not seen it in Asda but I'll look again - the online places I've found stocking it are either very expensive or cheap only if you buy 10-12 packets, which is a bit much even for me!

 

[monkeypig]

Volcanocoffeeworks the Mount Blend.

 

[friedaweed]

The Tescos here were the last to stop stocking it - For about a year it was the only reason I would go into one!

Not seen it in Asda but I'll look again - the online places I've found stocking it are either very expensive or cheap only if you buy 10-12 packets, which is a bit much even for me!

I will have a gander next time I'm in either. I actually stocked up on the Rossa version at Christmas because Sainsburys were doing two for for £5:50 with a third one three so I treated myself to 12 packets for £22. I do prefer the Creme Gusto and the Ora though but it's still a bloody nice coffee at that price

If i see any cheap I'll grab you two

 

[clcat]

Tassimo Costa Coffee

 

[gentlegreen]

I had to grind a second batch this morning.

I ground the usual (large) amount of beans and it frothed up so much in my Aeropress - with dry coffee overflowing, I tried to pull the plunger out a bit more to make room and it all came apart when I tried to invert it on the mug.
Clearly it doesn't help abusing the seal like I do. I found when I let it rest for a day it was a lot tighter.

Properly yummy this blend though - half Brazilian, half Nicaraguan. I have rather too much Brazilian, but I'll seal up half of it and put it somewhere cold, and buying fresh Nicaraguan in a few weeks' time will revitalise the mix.

 

[pogo 10]

Nescafe, got tescos last time. Was horrible.

 

[Cheesypoof]

Starbucks Christmas coffee. It's delicious.

 

[mango5]

We normally get through 500g of coffee beans each month. Every couple of months I buy a couple of different blends from Drury, plus a small amount of a fancy small batch. These are consumed in the morning.
But to indulge my afternoon/evening coffee craving I recently bought some ready ground decaf from the supermarket. Just made some. It's coffee, but not as we know it I think I'd rather go without.

 

[fizzerbird]

Aldi's Alcafe whole bean instant...I love it though it may not be everyone's cup of tea...er...coffee

 

[boohoo]

I need to get me some Vietnamese coffee!

 

[Voley]

I'm drinking some Ugandan stuff that I got at Xmas. It goes by the imaginative name of 'Ugandan'. It's quite nice, dark coffee but it's mighty powerful. My usual morning mugful is enough to send you bouncing off the walls. This hasn't deterred me though.

 

[gentlegreen]

I just spoiled my Sunday breakfast coffee.
I only have my COE Brazilian at the moment - since Hasbean have sold out of the funky Nicaraguan I had intended to mix with it ..

This coffee is very pleasant though it lacks sparkle - so I decided I would at least exploit its lack of bitterness - not only by brewing longer, but by carefully extracting the plunger of the Aeropress and passing the diluting water through the grounds instead of straight into the mug.



Slightly bitter and treacly - though not nearly as undrinkable as the El Salvador Finca La Fany which I struggled to get down without jam on my bread and not disappointing enough to make me grind another two scoops.

Since I seem to be determined to experiment, perhaps next weekend I'll try making the coffee in two batches - the perceived problem being to successfully extract the flavour from 30g of coffee using only a small volume of water - albeit with much stirring.

 

[Hassan I Sabha]

At the moment some Brazil Yellow Catuai (dark roasted) I have some Guatemala Antigua (also dark roasted) in my vacum container to consume when they have finished. Still prefer the Old Brown Java beans though.

 

[gentlegreen]

Hasbean ran out of the cheap Nicaraguan, but I liked it so much, I've ordered something similar to mix with my remaining Brazilian :-

Nicaragua Finca Limoncillo Natural 'Funky' Yellow Pacamara

The last lot were natural red Pacamara....

"Funky" apparently describes a unique drying process ...

 

[gentlegreen]

I ordered far too much of my posh Brazilian at the start of the year to blend with the other coffees I had left - I miscalculated somewhere ...

500g Cup Of Excellence- Fazenda Sertaozinho - £19 inc post. = 3.8p per gramme

And I ran out of the Nicaraguan that worked so well with it ...
(Nicaragua Finca Limoncillo Natural Red Pacamara 'Funky' - Roasted Whole Beans 250g £7 inc post = 2.8p per gram

50/50 = 3.3p x 29 g = 96p per mug

By the time I came to order more Nicaraguan, they'd run out and I finally caved in and bought the REALLY expensive alternative to use up the very nice but bland Brazilian...

250g Nicaragua Finca Limoncillo Natural 'Funky' Yellow Pacamara - Roasted Whole Beans £14 inc post = 5.6p per gramme

50/50 = 4.7p per gramme x 29 g = £1.36 per mug.

The result ?
It's very nice coffee, but different to the original magical blend and I can't swear it's any better than my long-term favourite ...

Guatemala El Bosque Amatitlan Washed Red Bourbon - Roasted Whole Beans 250g £7.70 inc post = 3.08p per gramme. x 29 = 89 p per mug ...

 

[danski]

Horrible shite in wetherspoons while I'm waiting for the brakes on my van to be done

 

[dynamicbaddog]

Sumatra Mandheling from the Algerian Coffee Stores on Old Compton Street in Soho. It's £22 / kilo.

Really rich and deep flavour. I love th Algerian Coffee stores, I have yet to find a better coffee shop anywhere in the UK.

I found these beans in Waitrose. Best coffee I've had in a long while, have loaded up my coffee maker and set the timer so I'll be waking up to a nice strong brew tomorrow.

 

[gentlegreen]

I was accosted as I passed one of our coffee facilities at work yesterday by a salesman of some sort standing by an array of sample cups.

I used the truthful excuse that I turn into an axe-murderer if I drink coffee at work (that and be uncomfortably buzzing for the rest of the day and possibly into sleeping time ...)

The truth was these people never understand when I explain what sort of coffee I like.
I once caved in and bought a cup from the bearded, top-knotted "barrista" at a second facility who actually told me that I knew nothing about coffee when I asked him whether he had any single estate South American - all he offered was the same beans delivered with different levels of dilution and contamination - for some reason all with Italian names.

His product was undrinkable - like over-roasted but under-extracted acorns ...

There must be at least half a dozen places at work where I could buy similar coffee during the week and I wouldn't actually buy coffee from any of them - even if I drank coffee during the week.

 

[Mogden]

When the Nespresso rep (no great standard of coffee I know) came to chat to us about their pods in my cookshop work days I did ask if the coffee was burred or bladed. She looked aghast and frankly had no bloody idea. I still don't know to this day! She was also surprised that I knew the difference between arabica and robusta. If coffee is your business does it not make sense you would want to know when a geek like me and like you gentlegreen knows.

 

[gentlegreen]

I'm really not a geek though, I've just been drinking coffee intermittently over the past 30-odd years and so know what I like - though my palate has changed - having first enjoyed stovetop, then filter and for the longest time cafétière...

It's only been the past few years since Mrs Quoad convinced me to buy a hand grinder and Aeropress, that I've been drinking coffee regularly and started thinking about it a bit - next stop will be experimenting with less-than-boiling water.

 

[rutabowa]

I work just round the corner from Monmouth, haven't bought any really nice coffee recently, just bean getting Columbian beans from aldi or tescos... any recommendations for nice rich chocolatey type beans in monmouth that will work for a filter?

 

[Mogden]

I mean geek in the most liberal sense

I just don't understand why people wouldn't want to know all this stuff as surely it improves your enjoyment of maybe that's just me and my brain.

 

[pogofish]

Morrisons Instant - Foul stuff!

The good coffee shop beside the theatre I'm working in isn't open on Sundays this year.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Bought some Alta Rica yesterday for home, fairly strong stuff but it was only 2 quid from Tesco and I tend to go for coffee only when its on offer or under £3.

Today at work drinking my usual, Azera, lot smoother and bit milder

 

[gentlegreen]

I may try not drinking coffee next weekend - certainly may try avoiding it on Sunday.
My anxiety levels are so high at the moment

 

[Purdie]

I've developed a liking for cold Latte Machiato from Aldi or Lidl.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

The coffee Nazis at work upped the cost of coffee by 25% so I brought my Keurig and installed it at my desk. So I'm sitting here drinking German Chocolate Supremo. It's better coffee by far and cheaper with the little wire mesh filters I use.

It also gave me the excuse to buy a new coffeemaker for home. Gotta have the latest coffee gizmos.

 

[mrs quoad]

When the Nespresso rep (no great standard of coffee I know) came to chat to us about their pods in my cookshop work days I did ask if the coffee was burred or bladed. She looked aghast and frankly had no bloody idea. I still don't know to this day! She was also surprised that I knew the difference between arabica and robusta. If coffee is your business does it not make sense you would want to know when a geek like me and like you gentlegreen knows.

Burred.

There's no way that blades would make any kind of sense at that scale, or with any form of requirement wrt consistency.

 

[mrs quoad]

Though tbf, the alternative prospect is that somewhere, somehow, there's a coffee company with a fuck-off massive bunker housing forty-metre bastard blades, and employing a bloke whose job it is to hold down The Button for 4-7 seconds, have a look down on his 32 tonnes of half-smashed beans, and go "nope, not quite yet..."

I find that far more attractive than industrial burr grinding!