What coffee are you drinking just now?

[gentlegreen]

The chocolatey Guatemalan definitely has potential, but it has just a teeny amount more acidity than I like, so tomorrow I will start blending it with the Thai.
I hope the maragogype makes another showing ...

In the meantime I've just done what I should have done ages ago ...
Using a metal filter in my Aeropress in place of paper has one disadvantage in that the teeniest bit of coffee ground in the works makes it impossible to click the cap in place - no fun when it's full of boiling hot coffee.

So I took a fine file to the leading edges of the (whatever those ramped things are called) and just rounded them off the teeniest amount and it will hopefully have done the trick.

 

[gentlegreen]

Such a shame I drink so little coffee ... I would like to try this one :-

Brazil Fazenda Cachoeira da Grama Pulped Natural Yellow Bourbon

A pulped natural processed Yellow Bourbon grown by Lidolpho de Carvalho Dias and family at Fazenda Cachoeira da Grama in São Sebastião da Grama, São Paolo, Brazil. Tasting notes: milk chocolate, hazelnut, caramel, dried apricot, almond butter. Hasbean - freshly roasted coffee from our roastery...

www.hasbean.co.uk

As it happens, 2/3 of the Guatemalan to 1/3 of the Thai works very nicely indeed - the Thai breaks up the well-rounded profile of the Guatemalan and somehow makes a little acidity actually desirable

Mind you I'm stuck at home with the lurgy so my palate may be slightly skewed.
It needs to be borne in mind that I never drink coffee without wholemeal bread/toast, crunchy PNB and Vitam-R yeast extract.

 

[skyscraper101]

Been drinking this stuff recently. Tastes alright. Bit more pricey than gold blend but does the job.

 

[gentlegreen]

You can have the proper stuff for 44p a mug and almost zero effort !

Ok, double that for the posh stuff.

 

[Orang Utan]

Douwe & Egberts Pure Gold - my favourite instant

 

[skyscraper101]

Douwe & Egberts Pure Gold - my favourite instant

That is good stuff.

 

[iona]

Such a shame I drink so little coffee ... I would like to try this one :-

Brazil Fazenda Cachoeira da Grama Pulped Natural Yellow Bourbon

A pulped natural processed Yellow Bourbon grown by Lidolpho de Carvalho Dias and family at Fazenda Cachoeira da Grama in São Sebastião da Grama, São Paolo, Brazil. Tasting notes: milk chocolate, hazelnut, caramel, dried apricot, almond butter. Hasbean - freshly roasted coffee from our roastery...

www.hasbean.co.uk

Want me to send you a couple cups worth? Just ordered some last night and I always buy too much coffee coz I can't choose what to get

 

[gentlegreen]

Want me to send you a couple cups worth? Just ordered some last night and I always buy too much coffee coz I can't choose what to get

That's very kind of you
But I'll leave it to fate that it will still be available when I next have to order.

My coffee consumption goes from twice-weekly to daily from the summer onwards

This morning - with my lurgy focussing on my sinuses, I got a distinct coffee-flavoured-toffee hit from my blend

 

[Mattym]

This...

Espresso Blend

ROAST Our Espresso Blend combines the best of our coffee from Latin America with an injection of some juicy East African beans. The result is a unique full-bodied all-rounder, which works perfectly as a lone pick-me-up, or combines beautifully with milk. Awarded 1 Star at the Great taste Awards...

pobladocoffi.co.uk

It's bloody lovely.

 

[Des Kinvig]

Such a shame I drink so little coffee ... I would like to try this one :-

Brazil Fazenda Cachoeira da Grama Pulped Natural Yellow Bourbon

A pulped natural processed Yellow Bourbon grown by Lidolpho de Carvalho Dias and family at Fazenda Cachoeira da Grama in São Sebastião da Grama, São Paolo, Brazil. Tasting notes: milk chocolate, hazelnut, caramel, dried apricot, almond butter. Hasbean - freshly roasted coffee from our roastery...

www.hasbean.co.uk

As it happens, 2/3 of the Guatemalan to 1/3 of the Thai works very nicely indeed - the Thai breaks up the well-rounded profile of the Guatemalan and somehow makes a little acidity actually desirable

Mind you I'm stuck at home with the lurgy so my palate may be slightly skewed.
It needs to be borne in mind that I never drink coffee without wholemeal bread/toast, crunchy PNB and Vitam-R yeast extract.

I have a bag of this on the go at the minute. It’s excellent. They have it every year, I always look forward to it.

 

[gentlegreen]

Oh look - seems like I quite liked it in 2018 :-

What coffee are you drinking just now?

I'm taking a punt on this :- Has Bean Coffee — El Salvador Finca Argentina Washed Bourbon "Milk chocolate, caramel, orange, green apple." :hmm: And since Amazon refuse to let me have any paper filters because they're an "add-on" item and I don't buy enough other Amazon stuff to make up the...

www.urban75.net

 

[gentlegreen]

It seems I wasn't massively keen on that Brazilian, but the same farm has this :-

Brazil Fazenda Cachoeira da Grama Natural Canario

A naturally processed Canario grown by Lidolpho de Carvalho Dias and family at Fazenda Cachoeira da Grama in São Sebastião da Grama, São Paolo, Brazil. Tasting notes: cocoa nibs, Brazil nut, walnut oil, dark chocolate. Hasbean - freshly roasted coffee from our roastery in Staffordshire.

www.hasbean.co.uk

Cocoa nibs, Brazil nut, walnut oil, dark chocolate

So I'll take a punt...

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Incidentally, someoene elsewhere mentioned the "cilantro test" (coriander) which may explain why I liked the lightly-roasted maragogype beans stewed somewhat in my Aeropress and have a metal filter partly to make it more like the cafétières I used before ... I almost miss the grit that got through thanks to my whizzy grinder.

I dislike coriander - but also rocket - even though I eat cruciferous veggies and Dijon mustard most days...

I'm also massively conservative about tea - just ordered a 6 month supply of Taiwanese dark oolong and Keemun - something I've been drinking for decades now ...

I have a selection of samples of greener teas from my last order, but have yet to even taste many of them ..

 

[gentlegreen]

Clearly this video is waaaay beyond the pale - as are most of his videos to be fair...

I couldn't get beyond a minute or two, but he seems to be claiming that dissolved minerals in water significantly affect the taste of coffee and may explain why I can't taste all the "fruits" described by cofficionados...

Personally I see this as no bad thing - I might pursue the idea of making my hard Bristol water even "worse".

My brother, who is an engineer in the water industry, had to argue forcefully with our dad to stop him getting ripped off for a water softener.
In the end they settled for a BRITA jug instead.
... all because they saw scum on their Typhoo tea ...

It annoys me at work when once in a while I see someone (quite likely a scientist) filling up their kettle at the water cooler when there's not just a perfectly good tap, but a water boiler.

One of the joys for me of (oolong) tea and coffee is that they make tap water taste nice with no sugar or other calorific adulterants ... and my tea blend NEVER produces scum....

 

[gentlegreen]

Brazil Fazenda Cachoeira da Grama Natural Canario

A naturally processed Canario grown by Lidolpho de Carvalho Dias and family at Fazenda Cachoeira da Grama in São Sebastião da Grama, São Paolo, Brazil. Tasting notes: cocoa nibs, Brazil nut, walnut oil, dark chocolate. Hasbean - freshly roasted coffee from our roastery in Staffordshire.

www.hasbean.co.uk

Deep and dark - absolutely no sign of "walnut oil" to my jaded palate ... but definitely up chocolate street - but with a "well-integrated" acidity ... I'm glad I bought another bag of Thai beans - I reckon a blend will open it up a bit ...

As per always boiling water inverted aeropress, at least one minute brewing - not much flavour left when I did a sneaky reinfusion as a vehicle for the last bit of toast - and quite a lot of fine stuff (hard to press) - probably because the roast was so recent and the beans smashed easily in my hand grinder.

It feels deeply decadent in the current climate, but I don't have much else going on in my life atm. and it is a modestly-priced pleasure at 78p

EDIT:- Saturday 28th March ..

50/50 Thai/Brazilian - super smooth - difficult to fault - but I'm slightly lurgied at the moment - though thankfully no C19 anosmia ... thinking about it, perhaps I am a bit anosmic generally, but I'm super-sensitive to the all-pervasive "fragrances" - many of which to my nose might as well have come out of an oil refinery .. (probably a lot of them do) ..

 

[gentlegreen]

I thought I should test out my emergency supplies of beans I wasn't keen on ...
Finca Argentina from September ...
6 months in the bag worse than posh instant ?

I reckon it still has the edge... though not much in it ...
It would probably have been OK-ish if I was necking unhealthy food with it.

 

[dessiato]

Lidl decaf. Not supposed to drink caffeine now, (heart related problems) and it’s this or nothing. It isn’t too bad. I’ll be glad to get something better. I might even have a sneaky proper coffee to keep spirits up.

 

[gentlegreen]

Following on from Sunday's undrinkable stale beans, a second infusion of today's Thai/Brazil blend is actually more drinkable - certainly with food.
I have definitely been sold worse coffee and it's not much worse than the Starbucks crap they serve at work.

 

[chilango]

Just finished my Pact house blend so have started on the kilo of Australian coffee I was given...

Quite dark and bitter but still pretty good.

 

[gentlegreen]

Maybe it's the current situation, but I've been habitually doing a second infusion of my Brazilian/Thai blend - thankfully not involving even more bread / toast - I hold some back - definitely not for drinking on its own.

I've always shoveled my food, and though I often actively look forward to the breakfast coffee / toast experience, and prefer it to any other option, it's over far too soon ...

 

[gentlegreen]

Long overdue and prompted by another thread, I'm taking a punt on a local coffee I apparently liked before ...

El Borbollon — TwoDay Coffee Roasters

twodaycoffee.co.uk

I ordered it last Thursday ... I only have two days' worth of the good stuff and if it doesn't arrive tomorrow I will have to dilute what I have left with my emergency beans (first world problems writ large given the current circumstances ...)

 

[blairsh]

Oops. Wrong thread

 

[chilango]

First batch of cold brew is ready, and it's pretty good.

 

[gentlegreen]

First batch of cold brew is ready, and it's pretty good.

How long does it take ?

 

[chilango]

How long does it take ?

8-12 hours.

Ideally I'd lmake it the evening and leave it overnight ready for the morning. But when it arrived in the post I couldn't resist. So this batch brewed for about 10 hours.

 

[High Voltage]

First batch of cold brew is ready, and it's pretty good.

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O. K.

Sell me on cold brew coffee then

 

[chilango]

O. K.

Sell me on cold brew coffee then

It's like a smoother, lighter, sweeter iced coffee. Very refreshing. Easy drinking.

 

[kalidarkone]

I'm drinking some Thai coffee that my friend sent me. One pack was sealed and the other just a placy bag with a very perished elastic band.....the beans from the latter look over roasted....I've been a wuss and mixed it with illy beans...its great!

 

[gentlegreen]

This may be the moment when I discover that Aldi have amazing coffee beans for a fraction of what I've been paying

My new beans haven't arrived after ten days and I'm down to my last few days of Hasbean's "Red blend" - which turns out to be drinkable if it's all you have and you make it strong ... even a second infusion has sufficient body to mask the acidity... plus it's mostly a vehicle for toast in any case ...

I may give the local deli a go first, but the one time I bought beans in there, they were distinctly chewy - stored in massive jars - I suppose I should ask which beans they use for their in-house coffee making ...

Perhaps once I'm home permanently and drinking coffee every day on a pension, my perspective will change ...

 

[gentlegreen]

Serious shit.
Only one scoop of beans left ...
So I just ordered two kinds of coffee from Hasbean and paid extra for DPD delivery
Doubtless the other coffee will immediately appear.

So the same coffee I've been enjoying recently :-

Brazil Fazenda Cachoeira da Grama Natural Canario

A naturally processed Canario grown by Lidolpho de Carvalho Dias and family at Fazenda Cachoeira da Grama in São Sebastião da Grama, São Paolo, Brazil. Tasting notes: cocoa nibs, Brazil nut, walnut oil, dark chocolate. Hasbean - freshly roasted coffee from our roastery in Staffordshire.

www.hasbean.co.uk

Cocoa nibs, Brazil nut, walnut oil, dark chocolate

And they've run out of the Thai I was blending it with, so a different "natural" Brazilian ...

Brazil Carmo Estate Pulped Natural Bourbon

A pulped natural Bourbon grown by Túlio Henrique Rennó Junqueira at the Carmo Estate in Heliodora, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Tasting notes: caramel, digestive biscuit, pecan, dark chocolate. Hasbean - freshly roasted coffee from our roastery in Staffordshire.

www.hasbean.co.uk

Caramel, digestive biscuit, pecan, dark chocolate

Hopefully if I can't get a good blend out of those, the El Salvador El Borbolon will help when it arrives...

 

[gentlegreen]

Darn. Almost made it.
I'm using the last of my drinkable beans today and my new coffee is being delivered tomorrow - I wish I'd ordered before ...
There's a bag of beans trapped on my desk at work too - so I technically now own a whole kilo of beans ...
I think the real reason I don't want to by a £2 bag of Aldi beans is that I don't want to find out I actually like them !
I probably need to go to Aldi today ...

The alternative is some 7 month old beans which were fairly grim last time I tried ... I wonder if a quick infusion would be better than a long one
I just glanced at a suggestion to add salt !

... or overnight cold infusion ...
No way am I going to add soy milk to it...