What coffee are you drinking just now?

[farmerbarleymow]

My very wonderful Guatemalan beans have arrived and I also bought a fresh jar of peanut butter to go with the bread - which will have hempseeds in as well as flaxseed powder.
Hot bread and coffee are an inseparable package for me.

I used to buy Guatemalan elephant coffee (I think that's what it was called) many years back at Whittard's and I remember it being lovely coffee.

 

[gentlegreen]

Maragogype - I used to seek that out as well.
Robusta beans so poorly-rated by the cognoscenti ...

Whittards unfortunately cook it to death.

 

[nogojones]

V60 filters fit a V60 coffee dripper

Not sure what the Asda filters are and how you are executing your pour over

My filter cone looks quite like that, but its brown and cost about £2. It has a flat section at the bottom so a normal coffee filter fits in comfortably. Is V60 a brand or a size?

 

[Hassan I Sabha]

V60 is a model, the maker is a Japanese company called Hario. They come in two sizes, 01 & 02, and several different materials.

Have a look at their products here

 

[nogojones]

V60 is a model, the maker is a Japanese company called Hario. They come in two sizes, 01 & 02, and several different materials.

Have a look at their products here

Wow. I don't know exactly what this is or what it does, but it looks pretty cool....

Hario Water Dripper Wood 2 Litre Capacity

5 hours to make a cup of coffee! I'd be gagging

 

[Hassan I Sabha]

Try a couple of minutes. If you look on the various coffee forums are out there the Matt Perger method is the most respected for a consistent quality V60 brew.

 

[magneze]

McDonald's

 

[Virtual Blue]

Has anyone tried cold brewing?
I'm sick of spending silly money coffee at work...

 

[gentlegreen]

I'm now noticing some acidity in the Guatemala El Bosque.
Perhaps my palate has changed thanks to my diet changes.

Such a shame I didn't order it sooner so I could compare it with the very wonderful Papua New Guinea.

Still very good coffee though.

 

[gentlegreen]

Has anyone tried cold brewing?
I'm sick of spending silly money coffee at work...

I'm sure recently on this thread - they were grinding the coffee and extracting it in the fridge overnight and using it as a concentrate.

EDIT:-

Hello.

Didn't want to start a new thread.

Didn't find anything in a search.

Anyone tried cold brew coffee?

Google tells me it's a bit of a fad (I hadn't heard of it until today), but regardless I'm considering trying my hand at it using a big jar to make it in and my current stock of paper filters that are sitting doing nothing atm to filter it through once it's done. Therefore costing me nothing but the price of the beans.

Acidity and bitterness are what always turn me away from coffee, and by all accounts cold brew cuts down on this considerably. And I quite like the idea of making a job lot that lasts all week.

Anyone done it? Thoughts?

 

[nogojones]

Try a couple of minutes. If you look on the various coffee forums are out there the Matt Perger method is the most respected for a consistent quality V60 brew.

That's pretty much what I do, except I use a kettle and don't measure the temperature. You might as well try some normal filters from a supermarket. I suspect you'll get the same result at half the price

 

[Hassan I Sabha]

Had the following coffee's delivered this week, lighter roasts than usual, and the first two I have tried (Burundi and Kochere) are delicious.

 

[gentlegreen]

I blended 1 scoop of Guatemala El Bosque with one scoop of now rather old El Salvador El Bourbolon (11 weeks old !) - with a view to raising the chocolate in proportion to the acidity.
It certainly went down well enough ....

 

[gentlegreen]

I ran out of Guatemala El Bosque and I just ordered some more from Hasbean - I'm ashamed to say 500g or 16 brews / 8 weeks ...

I will try sealing the bulk of it tightly and put it in the fridge at work ...
I know I'm going to regret buying so much in one go - it's so nice when I get to open a new bag

 

[pogofish]

I have enough beans for one last cup of Eastern Ghats left tonight, then its on to Blue Sumatra or a new Mexican coffee.

Also back to Columbian in the day to day grinder - no more Monsooned Malabar till December.

 

[gentlegreen]

So dependant am I on my optimal weekend coffee I cancelled and ordered half the amount

I actually used the telephone to move an appointment the other week so Saturday breakfast (fresh bread and coffee) could be enjoyed at a leisurely pace.

 

[gentlegreen]

I may have to try monsooned Malabar again - what's it like ?

 

[gentlegreen]

I ordered some more tea too. Looking at past orders it seems I drink less than I used to - or make more extractions from the same leaves ...

 

[magneze]

Had some Lavazza Rossa but didn't much care for it. Now have some Rave Signature Blend. Much nicer.

 

[gentlegreen]

Go on, treat yourself to some nice beans

I had a brief relationship with someone in 2003 who ended up having me drinking Carte Noir

 

[gentlegreen]

I just ordered some more Guatemala El Bosque.
My palate seems to have adjusted and I'm no longer noticing the acidity on the finish.
If I can manage it I will overlap the transition next year with my local roaster's Papua New Guinea - assuming they manage to get some - to see if it really was as good as I thought at the time.

I don't drink coffee at work, but I'm pleased to see Aeropressing taking off in the common room - and the first user I encountered now uses the inverted method and is no longer determined to extract the maximum caffeine from cheap pre-ground beans ...

 

[8den]

I have really nice hand roasted coffee from a Irish company.

 

[Hassan I Sabha]

Currently enjoying some Brazil Irmas Pereira from Rave coffee who are my current supplier, this is a great single origin bean and on a medium roast is going down well both as an espresso and via the V60 as a pour over.

 

[gentlegreen]

WTF ?

 

[moose]

WTF ?

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Actual coffee's cheaper!

 

[gentlegreen]

Indeed.
I just got 250g of lovely Guatemalan beans for that

 

[killer b]

This article is amazing.

The Cool Way to Brew Good Coffee

 

[gentlegreen]

I like the bit at the end

My biggest problem in evaluating coffee and methods is that I drink very little - just one brew on Saturday and another on Sunday - so even the smallest bag of beans ends up hanging around for 4 weeks - to the extent that I could tell yesterday while grinding when the half scoop of old beans ran out and the scoop and a half of fresh beans began. And that half scoop of tired beans made a significant difference in terms of froth - and perhaps in flavour ...

So I don't have much of an educated palate - though I do end up with bags of beans I found I definitely didn't like ... at the moment a coffee that's all chocolate and nothing else and another that's all acidic after-taste ... and no combination makes me like them

But I'm also chasing the remembered distinctive tastes of relatively poor pre-ground coffees I routinely drank 30-odd years ago - prepared in ways I won't touch these days - stovetop / filter or even cafétière ....

 

[gentlegreen]

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[Dan U]

I've recently noticed this place about 10 miles away from me, conveniently next to one of my favourite pubs.

surrey hills coffee home

Currently drinking their Christmas blend. The people who run it are Swedish and very nice.

Can anyone recommend a good aeropress? Want to branch out from cafetieres and pour over.