Coffee

[synthsis]

I'm making an impromptu visit to my HQ next week in SanFran and I plan on hitting up all the good roasters in the city: Ritual, Blue Bottle, 4 Barrel, etc. My carry-on luggage on the way home is going to stink of fresh coffee beans

[Jeremy R.]

I love coffee. We just got a Kurig in my house and that thing is freaking amazing!!!

[synthsis]

I love coffee. We just got a Kurig in my house and that thing is freaking amazing!!!

not sure if serious

[Jeremy R.]

not sure if serious

I'm completely serious.

[MeineFolks'wagen]

I'm completely serious.

X2 - great for when I only want a single cup of coffee without making a full pot.

[Jeremy R.]

X2 - great for when I only want a single cup of coffee without making a full pot.

Yeah it's great.

[sortadelux]

So I'm new to coffee. Like I can count on one hand the number of full cups I'd ever had before my 36th birthday. But now its a regular staple for me so I have two questions.

First, we are a strictly preground, supermarket (currently folgers black something) coffee couple. So, if I'm going to be cheap and dirty, what's the best to buy.

Second, as a beer home brewer I love to experiment. I don't however have the money to buy any equipment. So what can I do with my air popper/BBQ (charcole) that will expand my horizons? Any tips?

[jnm2.0t]

Ah yes this thread, I had forgotten about it.

So I had been using the Nostalgia brand popper but it was going way too fast. Did the 100 foot cable and that certainly helped some but I have also added a second West Bend popper to it and now get roast times around 12 minutes. The difference between the two poppers is dramatic. The West Bend pushes far more air so you can roast more. It is also cooler so you get a few more minutes on the roast. I will eventually retire my Nostalgia altogether but it still works fine.

I have also been picking up some more coffees.

Sumatra Lake Toba 19+ Screen was not as good as I had hoped for and is a pain to roast. Good thing I bought 5 lbs.

Ethiopia Dry Process Saris Abaya this is a great great coffee, it is the first coffee that I have found you can actually appreciate the dry, wet, and brewed notes. Definitely has a godiva raspberry hint to it.

There were 7 others but since it has been a while I won't pretend to remember how they were, but I liked them all.

Ethiopia Sidama Deri Kochoha
Sumatra Lintong Dolok Sanggul
Sumatra Lintong Tano Batak
Plus a sample that came with a Brazil (surprisingly very good), a Kenya, a Papua New Guinea, and something else.

Next up I need to get the Aged Sumatra Aceh '07 Crop before it is gone.

[GolfGLSGirl]

Not considered "gourmet" by any means, but I simply cannot find another amazing coffee taste like that of CHOCK FULL 'O NUTS!



My fave is the New York Roast BOLD. Amazing They don't sell it in Canada so every now and again, I've gotta bug my US buddy to smuggle some in for me lol

[jnm2.0t]

Placed an order of small bags for sampling.

Brazil Mogiana Dry-Process Peaberry

Ethiopia Dry Process Saris Abaya

Ethiopia FTO Dry Process Worka Sakaro

Yemen Mokha Matari

Sumatra Toba Batak Peaberry

Aged Sumatra Aceh '07 Crop

[prom king]

http://www.gocoffeego.com/products/B...ural-1169.html

[dieselraver]

not sure if serious

I'm completely serious.

X2 - great for when I only want a single cup of coffee without making a full pot.

Yeah it's great.

for you people who use a Keurig... YUCK

Get one of these.

[jnm2.0t]

french press has way too much oil

[dieselraver]

french press has way too much oil

thats the best part

[synthsis]

french press has way too much oil

run the coffee through a paper filter in between the press and the mug and it will soak up the oils. But honestly, anyone who's content drinking K-Cup coffee isn't going to appreciate good coffee anyhow.

[dieselraver]

run the coffee through a paper filter in between the press and the mug and it will soak up the oils. But honestly, anyone who's content drinking K-Cup coffee isn't going to appreciate good coffee anyhow.

x2. i'd rather have nescafe instant crystals than that keurig crap.

[Vision33r]

Keurig cups are scams. So, they sell you a ($50-300) machine all it does is puncture a hole and shoot water into that cup and you end up with some coffee that taste no better than instant coffee mixes.

These kcups cost a lot of money it's just 2 scoops of coffee inside each. So that 20 K-cup box cost like $7-30 makes only 20 cups when a premium 2lb grounded coffee cost maybe $5-16 can make over 40 cups.

Is it really that hard to boil water and then measure 2 scoops of coffee and pour into a French press?

[leitmotif]

Just saw this one on the news:

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs...ews-deals.html

$11k and it measures the temperature and adjust during brewing to ensure consistency.

[GeoffD]

The OP was asking about value-priced coffee. Like usual, the thread got hijacked by the premium coffee bigots.

My go-to mass market coffee is Eight O'Clock Brand 100% Colombian whole bean and an inexpensive Krups coffee grinder. Lots of flavor. No adulterations like chicory that mask bad coffee. Not Charbucks-style over-roasted to mask bad coffee. Consumer Reports always rates it #1 every time they do a coffee bake-off.

Edited:
It wouldn't surprise me if some store brands like Kirkland are the same coffee relabeled.





There is way better coffee out there but not at that price point.

[synthsis]

The OP was asking about value-priced coffee. Like usual, the thread got hijacked by the premium coffee bigots.

bigot is NOT the right word. Snob, sure, I'm ok with that.

[jnm2.0t]

I had to drag this back up... overheard a lady on the street yesterday that took all my might not to correct here. She was saying how Costco must do something special because the beans they sell in bulk are so fresh... I mean really, really, so very fresh... because when she opens the bags they are all so so shiny.

(for those that don't get it, while shiny could mean a super super dark roast, it usually occurs with store bought beans because they have sat so long the oil is seeping out. freshly roasted coffee is dry looking, unless you roast the sh!t out of it)

[Vision33r]

I had to drag this back up... overheard a lady on the street yesterday that took all my might not to correct here. She was saying how Costco must do something special because the beans they sell in bulk are so fresh... I mean really, really, so very fresh... because when she opens the bags they are all so so shiny.

(for those that don't get it, while shiny could mean a super super dark roast, it usually occurs with store bought beans because they have sat so long the oil is seeping out. freshly roasted coffee is dry looking, unless you roast the sh!t out of it)

Ignorance is bliss, well Costco coffee ain't bad. Atleast she's grinding the beans instead of those K-cup folks that claim their mighty K-cup machine taste as good as freshly grounded coffee.