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Post by President Ackbarβ’ on Oct 16, 2018 20:40:55 GMT
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Post by alittlebirdie on Oct 17, 2018 0:46:24 GMT
We've talked about coffee quite bit in here. In fact, here's a link to a recent discussion about coffee... imdb2.freeforums.net/thread/126150/starbucks-reserve-roastery-officially-fridayHere's a few things you really do need to know about coffee, if you want to start making it at home. 1. If you drink coffee black, you only want to buy freshly roasted whole bean coffee. The reason for this is, coffee only has a shelf life of about 30 days, after this, all the natural flavors created by the coffee beans fade due to exposure to oxygen. Look for "roasted on" dates on the package. Expiration dates and best before dates are useless when it comes to coffee. 2. I do recommend buying a moka pot and a single cup pour over. In my opinion, moka pot is THE BEST way to make coffee and 'pour over' is the second best way. You can get a really inexpensive pour over if you just want something cheap. The Melitta single cup pour over will do and it's only 5 bucks not including filters, although I think it does include like 10 filters when you buy it. They sell Melitta filters that are made specifically for this device. I believe it's "filter number 2". Here's a picture.... you can get this little coffee maker at just about any store out there. And here's a picture of a moka pot - Anyhow, the single most important thing to consider are the beans. Some coffee beans are just better than others. Buy a grinder and try a few coffees offered by your local coffee roasters, most of them roast the beans AFTER you order them. And if you don't drink it black, get to where you can, it's the best way to "taste" the natural flavors created by the coffee beans. also, there are plenty of youtube videos that show you how to use a pour over and/or the moka pot. good luck.... Hi Stickman, yes, I figured the topic has come up, but gave up after trying several pages. I'm going to read that thread. Thanks for the tips! you sound like a true connoisseur.
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Post by alittlebirdie on Oct 17, 2018 0:48:45 GMT
A heaping tablespoon per cup of Starbucks French Roast or Italian Roast, brewed a full ten minutes in a french press. No sugar, no cream. Most people find my coffee undrinkable. The above post about learning to like black coffee is very wise. Another connoisseur no doubt, thanks for your post bravomailer
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Post by alittlebirdie on Oct 17, 2018 0:53:07 GMT
We've talked about coffee quite bit in here. And if you don't drink it black, get to where you canGood post stickman but I disagree with drinking it black. There are some very good coffee creamers out there. And you can add as much or as little as you like. Original, French Vanilla and Hazelnut to name a few. I will use a hot dog as an example. You could eat one like in the first picture or one like in second and third pictures. I will take the second or third hot dogs for sure. Same way with coffee. You could drink it black but adding creamer just enhances the taste. I like your point Area, but no fair on the pictures, now my mouth is watering. Coffee-mate tastes great
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Post by alittlebirdie on Oct 17, 2018 0:56:43 GMT
Nothing fancy: Maxwell House Original Roast, "Good to the last drop." Sounds good wickedkitties, back to the basics can hit the spot just as well.
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Post by alittlebirdie on Oct 17, 2018 1:00:16 GMT
Chock full o nuts New York dark roast, Coffeemate sugar free hazelnut creamer, made in a drip maker. Sounds good nicoroni, and the coffeemate sounds a good substitute until I can get use to black. I'm going to look for it.
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Post by alittlebirdie on Oct 17, 2018 1:08:20 GMT
Alittlebirdie: I remember Eight O"clock coffee from the 50's when I was a little girl, my mother would send me to the local Krogers on my bike to do her grocery shopping and often this coffee was on her list, the store had a big grinder machine and had a footstool for the many kids that had to buy and grind the coffee for their mothers. This was still an era of the one car family and many of the mothers didn't drive so during the summer and school breaks, there were a lot of kids grocery shopping for their moms. I loved grinding the coffee. At that time Eight O'clock coffee was popular because it was less expensive than the other coffees. I haven't seen kids doing the grocery shopping for decades. That's funny wickedkitties, my Mom loved Eight O"clock too, and I'm sure I did the grinding for her too. I can almost smell it looking at that picture. No, kids aren't allowed to run around like they did back in those days. Good and bad I guess.
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Post by alittlebirdie on Oct 17, 2018 1:14:56 GMT
Ohhh btw, this is what a coffee tree looks like - The "coffee cherry" contains the coffee bean. However, it's not really a "bean" it is the seed of a coffee cherry. Cool, thanks stickman. I thought I knew what the tree looked like, but maybe I was thinking of Cocoa trees.
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Post by alittlebirdie on Oct 17, 2018 1:17:37 GMT
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Post by stickman38 on Oct 17, 2018 1:58:35 GMT
We've talked about coffee quite bit in here. In fact, here's a link to a recent discussion about coffee... imdb2.freeforums.net/thread/126150/starbucks-reserve-roastery-officially-fridayHere's a few things you really do need to know about coffee, if you want to start making it at home. 1. If you drink coffee black, you only want to buy freshly roasted whole bean coffee. The reason for this is, coffee only has a shelf life of about 30 days, after this, all the natural flavors created by the coffee beans fade due to exposure to oxygen. Look for "roasted on" dates on the package. Expiration dates and best before dates are useless when it comes to coffee. 2. I do recommend buying a moka pot and a single cup pour over. In my opinion, moka pot is THE BEST way to make coffee and 'pour over' is the second best way. You can get a really inexpensive pour over if you just want something cheap. The Melitta single cup pour over will do and it's only 5 bucks not including filters, although I think it does include like 10 filters when you buy it. They sell Melitta filters that are made specifically for this device. I believe it's "filter number 2". Here's a picture.... you can get this little coffee maker at just about any store out there. Hi Stickman, yes, I figured the topic has come up, but gave up after trying several pages. I'm going to read that thread. Thanks for the tips! you sound like a true connoisseur. you welcome.
I'm probably not a connoisseur, I just enjoy trying different coffees. I never had any interest in it until I started trying different coffees and then I was like "wow, this stuff is delicious" and I just learned a few things about it online.
Ohh... and here's a good website to read up on coffee reviews -
Goodness me, that Esmeralda Estate Porton Geisha Natural looks amazing but I don't know if I would spend $75 for a half pound of it. Hmmmm...
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Post by koskiewicz on Oct 17, 2018 3:12:35 GMT
Another coffee worth mentioning is Tchibo which is a German name for a coffee shop that only sells coffee. I have had it on several occasions (while in Frankfurt, Germany) and can attest to its excellence.
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Nov 9, 2018 22:38:27 GMT
We've talked about coffee quite bit in here. In fact, here's a link to a recent discussion about coffee... imdb2.freeforums.net/thread/126150/starbucks-reserve-roastery-officially-fridayHere's a few things you really do need to know about coffee, if you want to start making it at home. 1. If you drink coffee black, you only want to buy freshly roasted whole bean coffee. The reason for this is, coffee only has a shelf life of about 30 days, after this, all the natural flavors created by the coffee beans fade due to exposure to oxygen. Look for "roasted on" dates on the package. Expiration dates and best before dates are useless when it comes to coffee. 2. I do recommend buying a moka pot and a single cup pour over. In my opinion, moka pot is THE BEST way to make coffee and 'pour over' is the second best way. You can get a really inexpensive pour over if you just want something cheap. The Melitta single cup pour over will do and it's only 5 bucks not including filters, although I think it does include like 10 filters when you buy it. They sell Melitta filters that are made specifically for this device. I believe it's "filter number 2". Here's a picture.... you can get this little coffee maker at just about any store out there. And here's a picture of a moka pot - Anyhow, the single most important thing to consider are the beans. Some coffee beans are just better than others. Buy a grinder and try a few coffees offered by your local coffee roasters, most of them roast the beans AFTER you order them. And if you don't drink it black, get to where you can, it's the best way to "taste" the natural flavors created by the coffee beans. also, there are plenty of youtube videos that show you how to use a pour over and/or the moka pot. good luck.... that Olympia Coffee has free shipping in nov with the code: Novfreeship
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Mar 14, 2019 1:20:14 GMT
March 2019 Coffee Review: Revisiting the Andes: Coffees From Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia stickman38 www.coffeereview.com/revisiting-the-andes-coffees-from-peru-ecuador-and-bolivia/sounds wild... The Sensory Experience, From Classic to Experimental Of the 11 coffees we review here, some were sensory rides as wild as the Peach Coffee Utcubamba. Bird Rockβs Finca Tasta Peru (93), a natural-processed Red Caturra, offered up blood orange zest, dried raspberry, ginger blossom, cocoa powder and sandalwood β again, not your classic Peru cup, which is typically balanced, soft in structure and understated in aromatics. Of this coffee, Maritza Suarez-Taylor of Bird Rock says, β[Farmer] Edith Meza started to experiment with honey and natural-process coffees in 2014, and after tasting a lot of samples, we offered the first coffees from this process in 2016 (at PTβs Coffee, a brand also owned by Suarez-Taylor and her husband, Jeff). Every year, Edith and her brother Ivan ask for our feedback on what they can do to improve the green coffee, which is a challenge for them due the lack of infrastructure and knowledge in coffee processing that deviates from the traditional washed process. For this coffee, we asked her to separate out the Red Caturra. Each year we continue to see improvements in quality and consistency.β
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Post by NJtoTX on Mar 14, 2019 1:37:37 GMT
The most flavor I want in my coffee is a pinch of cinnamon and a pinch of chocolate. Every flavored coffee to me is an abomination.
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Post by stickman38 on Mar 14, 2019 2:17:38 GMT
March 2019 Coffee Review: Revisiting the Andes: Coffees From Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia stickman38 www.coffeereview.com/revisiting-the-andes-coffees-from-peru-ecuador-and-bolivia/sounds wild... The Sensory Experience, From Classic to Experimental Of the 11 coffees we review here, some were sensory rides as wild as the Peach Coffee Utcubamba. Bird Rockβs Finca Tasta Peru (93), a natural-processed Red Caturra, offered up blood orange zest, dried raspberry, ginger blossom, cocoa powder and sandalwood β again, not your classic Peru cup, which is typically balanced, soft in structure and understated in aromatics. Of this coffee, Maritza Suarez-Taylor of Bird Rock says, β[Farmer] Edith Meza started to experiment with honey and natural-process coffees in 2014, and after tasting a lot of samples, we offered the first coffees from this process in 2016 (at PTβs Coffee, a brand also owned by Suarez-Taylor and her husband, Jeff). Every year, Edith and her brother Ivan ask for our feedback on what they can do to improve the green coffee, which is a challenge for them due the lack of infrastructure and knowledge in coffee processing that deviates from the traditional washed process. For this coffee, we asked her to separate out the Red Caturra. Each year we continue to see improvements in quality and consistency.β
Thanks for the tag.
I've tried a few of these experimental coffees. One of my local micro-lot coffee bars was offering an experimental coffee from Ethiopia but they wanted like $80 for a bag and $22 for a single cup. LOL!
A little pricey but I tried one cup, at a discounted rate of course, and it was dope. Really really good stuff but I'm not sure if I'm sold on these "experimental" brews. Although, I think it's great that farmers are doing this, they should definitely keep it up.
However, a new place I've been going to lately is serving an outstanding Peruvian. Tastes like you're drinking straight up blueberry/currant juice. Amazing cup.... definitely makes me want to try more from this region.
Also, been wanting to get around to trying stuff from Bird Rock, have you tried this Finca Tasta brew? If so, what did you think?
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Post by stickman38 on Mar 14, 2019 2:38:34 GMT
The most flavor I want in my coffee is a pinch of cinnamon and a pinch of chocolate. Every flavored coffee to me is an abomination.
Agreed, I really don't like flavored brews but the coffees they review at coffeereview.com are NOT flavored coffees. They're what you call "small-lot" or "micro-lot" coffees or just "specialty coffee".
I guess it's kind of a fancy name for high grade coffee or the best of the "lot" found in a group of coffee trees.
Letβs say you have an apple orchard. A majority of the trees on the orchard produce great apples. However, in one area of your orchard, there is this one spot where the apples are amazingly great. The trees in this little area produce crisper, juicier apples than the rest of the orchard. Generally, all of the fruit from the entire orchard is mixed and sold together, putting the best apples in with the ones that are more standard. But with coffee, the micros are bagged separately and the price is higher for these because these coffee beans produced flavors that you don't typically get with just a regular cup of coffee.
With these, you'll get flavors like apple, plum, cherry, chocolate, cinnamon, grapefruit, raspberry and so forth and so on. And yeah, they can be quite tasty and I would consider some of them to be on the same level as the great wines and whiskeys of the world.
Anyhow, hate to make this sound like some crazy version of Jack And The Beanstalk... LOL! but you get the idea.
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on Mar 16, 2019 3:19:34 GMT
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Post by maya55555 on Mar 17, 2019 5:32:37 GMT
I personally enjoy dancing coffee beans.....
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Post by nutsberryfarm π on May 31, 2019 23:15:14 GMT
Good post stickman but I disagree with drinking it black. There are some very good coffee creamers out there. And you can add as much or as little as you like. Original, French Vanilla and Hazelnut to name a few.
Good coffee already has those flavors. No point in adding anything to it. Seriously, try some micro-lot coffee. You'll notice the advertised flavors on coffee bags really do exist.
A good example is a coffee I can get here locally called Jasmine Blossom. The advertised flavors are Jasmine, lime, grapefruit, strawberry jam. I will admit, I've had this coffee many times but I've never tasted anything that tastes like Strawberry Jam but I definitely taste the jasmine, lime and grapefruit. It's an expensive coffee but I think it is 100% worth it. The main thing, this is NOT a flavored coffee. The coffee beans are naturally producing these flavors. You see, coffee is a lot of like wine, the acidity can produce flavors that taste like citrus fruits or dark fruits.
Of course, you most likely won't taste these flavors when drinking old beans, or cheap coffee like Folgers or Maxwell House. You gotta drink the more rare coffees that are grown for taste. Look for single origin direct trade or micro-lot. These are typically the best coffees you can get.
And yeah, that hot dog example is rather amusing but there is a huge difference between coffee and hot dogs. lol...
I had this other coffee here not too long ago... and yeah, you do pick up the flavors listed.... although I only picked up these flavors when I made it using a moka pot with a fine grind.
It's called Ethiopian Kilenso roasted by a coffee company called Coava out of Portland. Terrific stuff! Scroll down a little to see the tasting notes...
Another local coffee I get here is very similar to Kilenso called La Pira Natural from Costa Rica. Both coffees, I get a very dark rum like taste out of them. Just great stuff...
a client got me this as a gift! holy moly good! have you been this place in olympia, ZolotoyRetriever?
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 1, 2019 15:58:00 GMT
Seems to me that in the last year Starbucks beans have lost their flavor and strength. I have to use 50% more to get a full though disappointing taste.
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