you a coffee snob?

[jyl]

I don’t make coffee much anymore, preferring espresso, but on those occasions I usually use a French press. Pros: easy to make strong coffee and a decent volume of it. Cons: sediment, and the glass ones break.

My other favorite way of making coffee is a Bialetti. Pros: easy to make very strong coffee, durable. Cons: the common sizes only make a couple cups at a time (fine for personal use, but a pain if you have a group that wants coffee).

My wife likes an Aeropress and carries one when she travels. Pros: compact, light, clean flavor. Cons: need filters, one cup at a time, kind of fiddly.

At the office I can use an automatic drip machine for when I want to drink coffee all day. Since that means pee-ing every five minutes (feels like that anyway) I don’t do that as much as I used to. Pros: easy, makes lots of coffee, thermal carafe keeps it warm kinda. Cons: waste coffee and too many bathroom trips.

Instead, I have a Nespresso pod machine. Pros: espresso (kinda), convenient. Cons: waste aluminum, cost per shot, only passable shots.

I have a single group 110v Elektra in the queue for a restoration, eventually that might make it to my office. Then I’ll be all set.

When I was in Taiwan last year I had a coffee at local coffee bars, made with a Japanese syphon system. Some of the best coffee I’ve ever had.

I like coffee from medium and light roast beans, sometimes. Someday I’ll get an espresso machine suited to pulling shots from med/light roasts, or modify my Elektra to do so. The future office Elektra might get those mods.

[KFC911]

There is nothing like a big sip of coffee, and then going....

Ahhhh

Anyone else?

[TimT]

Cons: need filters

Get her a stainless filter, Aeropress sells one, so does Fellows.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by KC911

The local BBQ joint reduced their bag size from 1 lb down to 12 oz a year or so back ... it's $11 I think .... and perfect freshly roasted Sumatra !

I gotsta have good coffee .... I'd go back to roasting my own beans if not for them.

It's just a small sideline for "the owner" .... a hobby methinks ....

Well.... I was thinkin' about their old price/lb .... 12oz is just 9 bucks.

....Burp

[Soterik]

Originally Posted by island911

I became a coffee snob when a local roster made me a cappuccino that tasted as good as coffee smells.

Nothing was even close to that prior.

One key pointer he gave was to not buy burnt/over-roasted beans (like in the OP link)

Local in Seattle? If so, who/where?

tks,
E

[juanbenae]

Originally Posted by KC911

There is nothing like a big sip of coffee, and then going....

Ahhhh

Anyone else?

sip nothin.... i have to make one as soon as the brewing starts and by the time 1st sip rolls around im on my #2 #2..... daily meta musil? like clockwork over here.... finely tuned machine, and im not talking about the coffee maker...

[varmint]

dated a girl from Ethiopia. once a year she'd come back with a suitcase full of "real Coffee". i am not a snob, and don't have very good taste buds, but there was a very big difference. going to an american shop after that was just sad.

[astrochex]

Originally Posted by varmint

dated a girl from Ethiopia. once a year she'd come back with a suitcase full of "real Coffee". i am not a snob, and don't have very good taste buds, but there was a very big difference. going to an american shop after that was just sad.

Ethiopia is held to be the birth place of coffee. Wanna taste blueberries in your coffee, try a good Ethiopian Yirgacheffe.

[KFC911]

I like all of those coffees from that area....

Tanzania Peaberry ..... Ahhhhhh

[island911]

Originally Posted by Soterik

Local in Seattle? If so, who/where?

tks,
E

Redmond https://caffelusso.com/. Over by Mac & Jacks /Marymoore Park. The focus is on bean roasting. - it's not so much a cafe, last I was there... yikes, ~20 years ago

Phil is the man who changed my coffee appreciation world.

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by KC911

There is nothing like a big sip of coffee, and then going....

Ahhhh

Anyone else?

That would be great for a commercial.

[astrochex]

Originally Posted by KC911

I like all of those coffees from that area....

Tanzania Peaberry ..... Ahhhhhh

I’m making a Zambia Peaberry tomorrow. To be snobbishly specific, its from the Mafinga Hills, Northern Province region at the Kateshi, Ngoli, and Lombe farm, grown by Covoya.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by astrochex

I’m making a Zambia Peaberry tomorrow. To be snobbishly specific, its from the Mafinga Hills, Northern Province region at the Kateshi, Ngoli, and Lombe farm, grown by Covoya.

LOL if ya don't extend yer pinky finger while drinking it .... you know what you are ?

Sanka Freeze Dried Decaf ... picked during Nixon''s first term ..... Ahhhhhhh !

Don't know what I like better .... this Sumatra or their BBQ ......

[tdw28210]

100%. My wife needs what I call "princess coffee". Must be light roast, low acid and organic. There are a handful out there. This what we have been drinking for a few years now. It si really, really good. https://cafekreyol.com/shop/organic-caribbean-blue-coffee-haitian-blue-light-roast/

Plus the guy who founded the company had a jailhouse conversion and is now helping out the needy by setting up coffee co-ops. Really cool actually. Short video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzJcofGKC5k

And this guys is basically a coffee sommelier. This is crazy deep detail on brewing and serving coffee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoKA9IDGHlc

[Oracle]

not a snob but won't drink crap coffee.. at home I have a Jura machine that will grind the beans and press them, the coffee I've been using for years is the Organic Fair Trade from Costco, its probably the best coffee.

Next time at Costco, give it a try, you wont regret it.

[tabs]

Originally Posted by KC911

IMO freshly roasted coffee is like bread ... it's at it's peak a day after roasting and needs to be consumed within 2-3 weeks. I check the "roasted on" dates for everything .... including the BBQ joint's coffee . Fresh, oily, dark beans .... from Columbia, Sumatra, Yemen ..... no high $$$ hoity-toity beans from Jamaica, Hawaii, or pooped outta a ferret's butt for me .

Some roaster's around here sell coffee that's already old and stale....

And Starsux does indeed .

I've had in once ... visiting a friend in Hermosa Beach decades ago .... from a drive-thru ... $4 for a cup-o-crap .... poor girl ... bless her heart

Where the Hades do you source beans from Yemen? T Joes used to have it about 20 years ago...but a war stopped that...I called it "Mud Coffee" as it was so strong...put the spoon into the cup to stir and it would eat the spoon... I got to luv it..

In my book if it ain't strong enugh to clean carburetor parts it ain't fit to drink!

[Daves911L]

Originally Posted by KC911

There is nothing like a big sip of coffee, and then going....

Ahhhh

Anyone else?

I’m with ya man. Don’t think I’ve missed a beat for at least 40 years.

[Daves911L]

Yeah, I’m a coffe snob. I won’t touch that sissy self-important northwest coast crap. Or any of those other burned to death types. Give me real coffee. Regular coffee. Black and strong. Truck stop coffee.

I do make an exception when I’m in Hawaii. Not sure if it’s the environment or the beans, but just about every cup I have in Kona area is good coffee.

[Skip Newsom]

Coffee snob?
Well yes, yes I am.

I blame my big brother, I used to go spend the day or weekend at his house from when I was 14 until about 17 or so. He was 10 years my senior and even in the mid 70's grinding beans for morning coffee.
I was 16 before I asked if I could have a cup... it made the typical Folgers, Yuban etc. taste bland.

I do grind fresh some mornings, always a dark or at least medium roast.
Usual MO is some already ground in the auto brew coffee maker, done and ready at 6 am so I can roll downstairs and enjoy.

I've got about three brands and 6 blends I cycle through depending on what's on sale.
I don't care for Starbucks, it is too burnt tasting, a good dark roast has none of that IMHO

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

Cafe Bustelo in my espresso machine. Add hot water and it becomes an Americano. Add steamed or frothed milk and it becomes a latte or cappuccino. Add sweetend condensed milk and cafe sua nong. Add ice to that and it becomes cafe sua da. Add some espresso to my Jameson and it becomes Irish Coffee.

I finally tried Peet's Major Dickason. Wow, what have I been missing all these years! It makes Cafe Bustelo taste like Yuban.