Meet the coffee obsessives
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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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Just remembered my sister gave us some coffee syrups for christmas. The vanilla and white chocolate look tempting.
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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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Didn’t read the whole thing in depth. I like great coffee and do pour-overs here at home.
But I appear to be out of step with the current coffee movement. I like a dark-ish roast, and the coffee snobs would accuse me of having a leaden palate. I made a trip to a Devoción (mentioned in the article) coffeehouse in NYC and they don’t even offer a dark roast. Nor do other boutique places. Somehow, the fancy light-roast single estate darlings lack body and taste too acidic to me.
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.
@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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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@Bernard
Coffee pot made by Denby in Derbyshire:https://www.denbypottery.com/?msclkid=606c660c074a1238e70001af74c11ed8
@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:
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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:
@Bernard said in Meet the coffee obsessives:
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?
There seems to be a British version of Replacements LTD.
