Your BEST cup of coffee

[WPOZZZ]

How do you make it?
- cold brew
- French press
- drip coffee maker
- pod
- Aeropress
- pourover
- Moka
- Japanese siphon

I do cold brew, French press and pods. Had Japanese siphon and pour overs at coffee shops. I think the best I had was Japanese siphon coffee. Need to try an Aeropress and a Moka.

[rusnak]

Yes, siphon coffee is pretty good. But it's just so much easier to make an Americano with the cappuccino maker.

[red-beard]

Super-Automatic Espresso machine with 100% Columbian Coffee (Eight-O-Clock), strong setting.

Drinking it right now.

[Roswell]

Clever Cup coffe Dripper. Ethiopian Yirgacheffe natural process, 25 grams coffee ground fairly fine to 400 grams water. Use this method:

[KFC911]

Haven't roasted my own in years.... fresh is key. Then mebbe a Sumatra etc. ground fine through a French press. The local BBQ joint does a great job roasting ... and I get some Q too !

[GH85Carrera]

Folgers coffee from a standard coffee maker.

Just simple cheap black coffee. No fru fru flavors, cream, sugar or other crap, just the coffee.

[dad911]

Originally Posted by red-beard

Super-Automatic Espresso machine with 100% Columbian Coffee (Eight-O-Clock), strong setting.

Drinking it right now.

Super-automatic here also. I cannot drink coffee any other way now that I'm spoiled.

Best beans ever were from Hawaii/Pelican gift exchange. Threatened the wife with divorce when she drank the last cup.....

[wswartzwel]

Onyx Monarch beans, freshly ground. French press 5 minutes soak time. yum.

[LWJ]

I have a client that imports large dollars of very high end beans from Ethiopia.

Wife bought me a double boiler espresso machine- which I use daily.

Still finding perfection. Getting better and closer.

I find most roasts are too dark. Except for the ones that are too light! Goldilocks has not been found.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by LWJ

I find most roasts are too dark. Except for the ones that are too light! Goldilocks has not been found.

Find Eight-O-Clock 100% Columbian coffee (Columbian Peaks it is called now). Thank me later.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by dad911

Best beans ever were from Hawaii/Pelican gift exchange.

WPOZZZ sent me some good stuff this Christmas. It didn't last long.

Even with a cheap drip machine it was very tasty.

Best was with a small espresso machine I had for about five years in the early 2000's. Hardly mattered what the beans were as it was always rich tasting.

[dad911]

^^ That was the good stuff Bob.

We like the Cubano Dark Roast beans from Costco.

[astrochex]

Best I have made myself is Moccamaster drip + weighed beans (Kean Coffee / Kona Farms / Maragogype) + 150 TDS H2O . Those beans have a deep, smooth flavor that is really amazing.

I have not made french press since I have gotten better equipment.

I have enjoyed pour over coffees, but do not have home equipment. Ain't room in the kitchen for more stuff.

[flipper35]

French press at home with local roasted coffee mostly. Kwik Trip has decent stuff if I am on the road.

You have to start with good beans or it won't matter what method you use.

[island911]

Originally Posted by red-beard

Super-Automatic Espresso machine with 100% Columbian Coffee (Eight-O-Clock), strong setting.

Drinking it right now.

Originally Posted by dad911

Super-automatic here also. I cannot drink coffee any other way now that I'm spoiled.

Best beans ever were from Hawaii/Pelican gift exchange. Threatened the wife with divorce when she drank the last cup.....

Which Super-Automatic Espresso machines? (brand & model?)

Agree with the Hawaiian beans. I use Kauai Whole Bean Coffee, Koloa Estate Medium Roast.

My last two gigs have had Super-Automatic Espresso machines - keep the nerds caffeinated. Gotta say, pretty cool Machines that deliver foamed steamed milk and espresso to the cup - latte, mocha, caramel cappuccino...whatever, in about 15-20 seconds. The latest is a Concordia brand machine. I've had a look inside. It's pretty cool mechanisms.

But my first cup, my morning starts with a simple espresso machine. -A couple shots using the Koloa coffee.
While grinding, leveling and tamping, I think about the office super automatic, and how there's not a long process in getting that espresso drink... of course, those machines do take a lot of counter space. And are not cheap, even used. :-/

For travel I pack some Hula Girl instant (freeze dried) Kona coffee. (best instant coffee IMO)

[nota]

Hawaiian beans a buddy had a connection to a small grower on the big island

by far the best coffee even better then the commercial Hawaiian beans

[OldSpool87]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Folgers coffee from a standard coffee maker.

Just simple cheap black coffee. No fru fru flavors, cream, sugar or other crap, just the coffee.

This but I use Costco’s Kirkland brand. Quite good.

[MikeSid]

I go to Philz.
I'm not a huge coffee drinker, but I'll be damned if that wasn't the best cup of coffee I've ever had in my life. I walked back an hour later and got a second cup.

I live in the land of SBUX, and Phil doesn't live here. But whenever I'm near one, I'll get a cup.

[tabs]

Salvatore Espresso maker using dark roasted Yemen beans from Trader JOes. It was so strong it could dissolve your spoon while stirring. I called it Mud Coffee...

Cant get those beans no more cause there is a Civil War in Yemen.

[908/930]

French press fresh ground, I am still trying to get it right.