Meet the coffee obsessives
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My favorite ever coffee that I ever had anywhere ever was a cold brew at a fancy place that does some super complicated 24 hour process to do a true cold brew.... It was delicious but there's no way I could recreate that at home or do anything remotely like it on a regular basis.
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My brother showed me a funny Internet picture the other day. It said--
How do coffee lovers take their coffee?
(Picture of coffee mug]
Seriously.
We alternate between coffee and tea. Tea is much easier.
Choose coffee beans.
Grind.
French press.
Organic half and half.
Organic sugar.My parents drank mass produced drip coffee black from morning to night.
I didn't know what coffee could taste like until I went to college.
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Off to Whole Foods tomorrow...they have an awesome coffee selection, many local roasters. The hard part for me is finding the roast level I like. (See previous post.) And I would like to support local roasters.
These days I have to order "dark" if I want light French style, "extra dark" if I want French roast. No traditional Italian espresso roast, it's all lighter than that. No uniformity in labeling anymore, so it's trial and error.
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I like light roast, and dark roast was in vogue for so long that its nice to have the option. I didn't know there were places that had stopped offering dark roast, though.
We have a variety of coffee preparation devices, and we use them depending on our moods--a Keurig, a Nespresso, a pourover that Muffin got me for Christmas and that I have learned to use. We have a nice frother/heater thingie, and frothed milk is all I need if the coffee isn't too bitter.
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@RealPlayer said in Meet the coffee obsessives:
Well, I have found a couple of nice coffees that I order consistently. I know there are others out there but it’s Russian Roulette buying random bags and hoping you’ll like them.
I used to follow that practice when I worked in downtown Pittsburgh because there was a coffee roaster just a couple of blocks from my office. I could go there, peruse the many possibilities, and purchase smaller quantities to try at home.
Now I have a few that are reliable go-to's and get to taste a new variety each month thanks to a coffee club that one of my sons enrolled my wife and me in a little over a year ago. I've enjoyed the bit of variety that has lent to my regular cuppa.
Big Al
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I bought a new coffee at Whole Foods today and noticed their posted return policy. Apparently if I am in any way dissatisfied I can get a refund. Hoping this applies if I find the “dark roast” I just bought isn’t dark enough for my taste.
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I'm roasting my own coffee beans now. I can buy the green, unroasted beans for as little as $3 or $4 per pound.
My coffee never tasted as good!
My Espresso machine was under $400. My grinder was only $200 but it is a 64mm flat burr grinder with variable speed.
My roaster was about $700
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@AdagioM said in Meet the coffee obsessives:
Peet’s Major Dickason’s Blend. Yum.
We've been drinking that sometimes recently. It's been available at Costco. I like it, but the beans are very oily. I've had to clean the grinder and it's discharge hopper frequently.
Big Al
Money seems to buy the most happiness when you give it away.
Why does everything have to be so complicated, all in the name of convenience. -ShiroKuro
A lifetime of experience will change a person. If it doesn't, then you're already dead inside. -MarkJ
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We drink Major Dickason's, too
@AdagioM - Our Costco has a coffee grinder up at the front of the store, somewhere in the vicinity of the food court, I think. They had one years ago, then it was gone, and now it seems to be back again.
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
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Mark, my hat’s off to you for roasting your own beans. My brother does this as well. I’m afraid I don’t have the energy for that myself. I used to homebrew beer until I lost the bandwidth for that effort (and craft beer became widely available).
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@AndyD Oh! I have a tea set (tea pot, cups and saucers) from Denby in the Baroque pattern.
I can't find the coffee pot on their website. It comes up on Amazon from Denby USA but out of stock. I wonder if it's discontinued?
My tea set pattern must be out of production because Baroque doesn't come up either when I search their site. It looks like this:
