What coffee are you drinking just now?

[gentlegreen]

Those Japanese hand grinders are crazy expensive now. Handgrinding my beans is a morning ritual.
My nerves couldn't take a whizzy grinder quite apart from them smashing the beans unevenly and perhaps even caramelising them.

 

[bcuster]

Tea

This

 

[shifting gears]

I’ve only been to Algerian coffee stores once or twice for a takeaway £1 coffee but it’s great going inside it’s so beautiful inside

I’m never really in London anymore but do they sell ground coffee? I know, I know, freshly ground beans taste better but I am a person who values the simplicity of a filter machine

Yes they will grind it for you - you specify what method you use for making it and they grind to appropriate coarseness

 

[nottsgirl]

I’m drinking Waitrose Ethiopian. It’s nice and wasn’t too pricey.

 

[kalidarkone]

I'm drinking Kenya aa. Beans from Radical Roasters.

Just discovered after reading a nerdy blog comparing coffee grinders that the one I have been using is not a proper burr grinder. Realising that I could be drinking even better tasting coffee...I bought an electric proper burr grinder.....and Its incredible. Tge taste is so much deeper.

#coffeewanker

 

[Sasaferrato]

This was last weekend.

Ice Process Jairo Arcilla.
From Radical Roasters, my local punk independent roasters and cafe.

It was £10 per 100gm.
It came in an iridescent bag!

Unbelievably fucking delicious.


A Juicy and exotic microlot with tasting notes of Mango & Lychee and an umami finish.

This coffee is one of the nicest experimental processed coffee we have tasted. The Pink Bourbon varietal results in a complex and floral nature to the cup. The Ice Process (explained below) produces intense tropical fruit flavours. The result is a memorable cup of coffee, out of this world!

ICE PROCESS
This coffee was exposed to a dry aerobic fermentation of 24 hours,
later placed inside grain pro bags for 50 hours maintaining a
temperature below 22 oC. Afterward, coffee was frozen for 72
hours. Later the coffee was placed on raised beds below 35 oC
until ideal moisture content was achieved.
This micro-lot is 100% Pink Bourbon.

Bloody hell! Coffee prices will outstrip that of weed at this rate.

 

[gentlegreen]

I have been using is not a proper burr grinder.

#coffeewanker

I got about half way through this - not that I have the stomach for any more James Hoffman, but at least he has some sort of credibility..

I resolved to carry on making my Aeropress coffee just the way I have for ages - hopefully correctly ground, but no doubt over-brewed..
A key reason I like my hand grinder is I don't get my nerves jangled at 8 in the morning ... and when I bought it and my Aeropress 12 years ago, I paid £50 for both - it's now at least twice that

 

[danny la rouge]

Bloody hell! Coffee prices will outstrip that of weed at this rate.

Yeah, I like an Indy roast from time to time but right now I rely on the mainstream bean producers. On a 1kg bag of Lavazza Italiano Espresso beans atm. £12 from Tesco.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Maybe I'm a heathen but I noticed no difference with a cheap electric spice grinder and a posh hand grinder. This is aeropress and cafetiere. I've heard its more important for espresso.

 

[gentlegreen]

I drink what I consider to be really good coffee - £21.75 for 600g = £36.25 a kilo - or 76 pence for a full mug of strong coffee.
If I had the palate for it, I suppose paying 3 times as much wouldn't be too horrific given that's significantly less than you would pay as Starshit or similar... and I use 22g of beans which is 3 espresso shots...

 

[kalidarkone]

Maybe I'm a heathen but I noticed no difference with a cheap electric spice grinder and a posh hand grinder. This is aeropress and cafetiere. I've heard its more important for espresso.

Heathen!
Burr grinders crush the beans and a very different, deeper more complex (omg I'm such a prick ) flavour is acquired.
Honestly...I was a little bit cynical regarding if it would make any difference- but it totally did!

 

[Chz]

Maybe I'm a heathen but I noticed no difference with a cheap electric spice grinder and a posh hand grinder. This is aeropress and cafetiere. I've heard its more important for espresso.

Once you've moved to beans roasted less than 2 months ago and are grinding them fresh, you're 90% of the way there. There are ways to make it nicer still, but you've got most of the flavour right there, I think.

 

[Elpenor]

Maybe I should move to using a grinder rather than buying beans. I use a filter coffee machine at home, while at work it’s a cafetiere. I suppose I could grind the coffee at home the days in the office and bring in a container.

Is there anywhere I can look at these devices in a shop? Simplicity is what I’m after. Dont like buying things like this online, like to have a look at the item in my hand. Would John Lewis have something similar for example?

 

[gentlegreen]

Good ELECTRIC burr grinders are very expensive. A key reason I bought a Japanese hand grinder.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Heathen!
Burr grinders crush the beans and a very different, deeper more complex (omg I'm such a prick ) flavour is acquired.
Honestly...I was a little bit cynical regarding if it would make any difference- but it totally did!

So I was told. I got one the rhinowares hand grinders, but I got board spending so long each time I wanted a brew, so thought I'd try my spice grinder. I'd like an electric burr grinder, but can't justify the cost.

Once you've moved to beans roasted less than 2 months ago and are grinding them fresh, you're 90% of the way there. There are ways to make it nicer still, but you've got most of the flavour right there, I think.

Yes. I think this is it. Heck even buying supermarket stuff, you've probably got a better brew then what most people drink at home.

 

[Elpenor]

Good ELECTRIC burr grinders are very expensive. A key reason I bought a Japanese hand grinder.

Hand is fine, I don’t have much of a budget for this and need to assess the tangibles before a purchase hence a physical shop is needed

 

[gentlegreen]

Hand is fine, I don’t have much of a budget for this and need to assess the tangibles before a purchase hence a physical shop is needed

I paid about £30 for my Porlex in 2011 from a dodgy place that also sold improbable amounts of whipped cream propellant ... - now sadly £70 - even just the replacement burrs cost £40
There are lots of fakes available online.
The "tangibles" are that my 22g of beans takes about a minute while I'm reading something online.

 

[gentlegreen]

I don't know why I didn't reorder last week while I was recuperating from flu...
While I wait for the beans to arrive I've had to compromise.
Rather than settling for one day of good beans, I opted for blending 50/50 with some knackered old Colombian beans.
It was surprisingly non-disgusting ... as expected, 12 months has taken the fruity edge off .. as expected they were noticeably chewy in the grinder...

Beyond tomorrow it will be 100 percent Colombian...

 

[gentlegreen]

The coffee has arrived. First world problem diverted ...
So I needn't have compromised today - but it's reassuring to know my old beans are drinkable in an emergency...I think my standards may have reduced even further...though the lurgy will definitely be a factor...

 

[Artaxerxes]

Our Pact subscription saves a bunch of time and means we get a good mix of coffees which is nice.

Only issue is because both of us are at home and having it in morning we have 3-4 days before the next one where it’s a bit short.

 

[Orang Utan]

A gingerbread latte from Costa - delicious!
gonna order that as a regular from now on

 

[Agrippa57]

Lavazza Rossa. Wrorks perfectly in espresso machine, cafetierre, moka or the upendy thing I bought in Naples a couple of years ago.

 

[danny la rouge]

the upendy thing I bought in Naples a couple of years ago.

Pics!

Is it an Aeropress? If it’s an Aeropress, I know what those are. But if it’s something exotic I might want to buy I need to see it!

 

[gentlegreen]

My local Tesco now offers Costa coffee.
The giant coffee cup sign outside has already been kung-fu'd - a pity they didn't at least make it a waste bin...
Perhaps I should waste however much on an espresso to see how undrinkable it is ...

 

[tony.c]

I like the expresso coffee you get from hotel breakfast buffet coffee machines in Europe. I've been trying to find something similar here but unsuccessfully.
Any suggestions?

 

[pbsmooth]

My local Tesco now offers Costa coffee.
The giant coffee cup sign outside has already been kung-fu'd - a pity they didn't at least make it a waste bin...
Perhaps I should waste however much on an espresso to see how undrinkable it is ...

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and it can be your drink in a meal deal. bargain!

 

[petee]

having my afternoon single shot of nespresso.

 

[gentlegreen]

After drinking the same 50/50 blend of two beans for ages, I thought I ought to try each one in turn again over a few days...

The El Salvador red bourbon by itself was maybe just a tad too richly roasted ...
The natural Brazilian - similar, but with noticeable acidity ...
Not sure which bean I would sooner drink by itself - though yesterday I drank the whole lot without remembering it was just the Brazilian.
The blend is pretty well spot on for me.

I'm a creature of habit and I hope that if I actually manage to emigrate to France I'll be able to reproduce it - here's hoping that though I can't participate in traditional French cuisine, there will be people there who take coffee equally seriously - though clearly coffee, like wine is something that goes with food and perhaps wholemeal bread, yeast extract and peanut butter are less likely to be catered for ... as yet I am only confident in obtaining the whole wheat flour and peanut butter - perhaps I need to start trying to emulate Vitam-R yeast extract using nutritional yeast flakes ...

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Iced espresso

I'm in Athens and wondered out to get breakfast. I'm staying in a more Greek neighborhood and asked for coffee and random pastry. When I asked what coffee I said I'd try what she likes as they had loads of different beans. Now I've had a bit, it's quite nice. But I think I'd have preferred my first brew of the day hot

 

[Artaxerxes]

Iced espresso

I'm in Athens and wondered out to get breakfast. I'm staying in a more Greek neighborhood and asked for coffee and random pastry. When I asked what coffee I said I'd try what she likes as they had loads of different beans. Now I've had a bit, it's quite nice. But I think I'd have preferred my first brew of the day hot

I tried to have iced coffee a couple of times last year and hated it every time. Just doesn’t taste right