you a coffee snob?

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

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

Dark or medium roast?

(Thanks again for the coffee a few years back)

[WPOZZZ]

Dark roast. Found it while shopping at Sam's Club and figured I'd give it a try.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

Dark roast. Found it while shopping at Sam's Club and figured I'd give it a try.

I saw that Sam's Club sells per Google. Only place local but I did not dig deep.

Thank you!

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

Dark roast. Found it while shopping at Sam's Club and figured I'd give it a try.

Welcome to the Dark Side ....

Peet's MD blend is on just about every grocery shelf here including Walmarts... fwiw.

Next time yer in the neighborhood .... I'll introduce you to my favorite BBQ joint .... and their Dark Sumatra..

Ahhhhh

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by KC911

Peet's MD blend is on just about every grocery shelf here including Walmarts... fwiw.

Shut my mouth. First regular grocery store I went to and a good sized retail offer for Peet's.

The side of the bag says 2 tablespoons for every six ounces of water. My basic drip coffeer maker brews 12 cups to fill the pot. That's 32 tablespoons.

Advice on how to make it in the drip maker? Edit: I'll just measure a half pot's worth and see how I like it. :-)

[id10t]

Basic black coffee, strong. No flavored crap. Folgers Black Silk or Maxwell French Roast, whicever is on sale

Not too picky about how it gets made but it needs to be simple enough for me to do in the dark at 5am while still half asleep

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

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

One of my operators like that stuff. Nope for me.

Eight-o-clock Columbian Peaks. Relatively cheap and excellent coffee. Of course it is best in a Super Automatic espresso machine, but I have to deal with "k-cup" while I'm in Idaho.

[mjohnson]

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

...
The side of the bag says 2 tablespoons for every six ounces of water. My basic drip coffeer maker brews 12 cups to fill the pot. That's 32 tablespoons.

Advice on how to make it in the drip maker? Edit: I'll just measure a half pot's worth and see how I like it. :-)
...

Wholelattelove says, per some Specialty Coffee Association or something similar with apparent authority, 1:15 - 1:17 by mass for automatic drip. Pick a ratio, a bean and roast will "prefer" somewhere in there with the extremes favoring various characters. Then play with grind size to find your preferred extraction in that particular machine/system.

First you need to figure out how large your "cups" are on the machine - there is no standard. Then, recalling that 1 mL of water is 1 gram, dose the appropriate mass.

Get a digital scale - there are decent ones with 500g capacity that read to the 0.01g available for under 30USD. You can be precise and consistent, but for life-critical things like coffee of course you could, like reloading cartridges with powder, learn the typical apparent density of your grounds to get a standardized (for those beans and that grind) volume. At least here, a mis-dose won't be more dramatic than a bad cuppa'.

You'll probably find that you go through more coffee beans than you used to. Most of us are used to thin, over extracted and over roasted (thanks $tarbux!) brew. Drink better quality - less volume if you need to.

[stevej37]

Yes, I'm a coffee snob.
I only use Folgers Gourmet Supreme in my 4 cup Mr. Coffee.

[917_Langheck]

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

Shut my mouth. First regular grocery store I went to and a good sized retail offer for Peet's.

The side of the bag says 2 tablespoons for every six ounces of water. My basic drip coffeer maker brews 12 cups to fill the pot. That's 32 tablespoons.

Advice on how to make it in the drip maker? Edit: I'll just measure a half pot's worth and see how I like it. :-)

6oz water (≈ 170 g) and 2tbls (level) coffee (≈ 10.6 g), is close-ish to the golden ratio of 60 g coffee per 1 liter of water.

As noted above, weighing is easier than guessing what a "cup" is in coffee-speak, and what is a tablespoon? Leveled, slightly mounded, heaped???

Of course, the "ah, eff it" and just dump stuff in method works too.

[oldE]

How many times have we been over this in the past decade or so?
I still enjoy grinding Etheopian beans in our cast iron grinder, dumping the result into our stainless steel double wall French press and holding back for about 5 minutes, or about the length of time it takes the Missus to shower.
Nothing added, thank you.
When we are at a restaurant and the server asks if we would like cream and sugar, our usual answer is, "Not if the coffee is good. "

Best
Les

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by oldE

How many times have we been over this in the past decade or so?
I still enjoy grinding Etheopian beans in our cast iron grinder, dumping the result into our stainless steel double wall French press and holding back for about 5 minutes, or about the length of time it takes the Missus to shower.
Nothing added, thank you.
When we are at a restaurant and the server asks if we would like cream and sugar, our usual answer is, "Not if the coffee is good. "

Best
Les

Unbelieveable! Your wife only spends 5 min in the shower, not an hour?

[oldE]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

Unbelieveable! Your wife only spends 5 min in the shower, not an hour?

Wife is a person with obligations. She has her horses to attend to, a mother in long term care and sees herself as primary care giver to our 10 year old granddaughter. I got to look after her equines when she broke her hip, but as soon as she was cleared by the surgeon, she was back with her 'babies'.
My job is to have the coffee ready when she gets out of the shower.

Best
Les

[KFC911]

LOL .... Les you're doing it ALL wrong .... just ask crowbob!

CB don't make coffee ... yer wife is a total slacker !

[oldE]

Given the choice between the barn and the house on any given morning, I will happily make coffee.
You know what they say, "Happy wife =Happy life"

Best
Les

[GH85Carrera]

We recently stayed at a Bed & Breakfast. The first morning I looked at the wide selection of coffee. All were the little one serving Kureg things. They had all sorts of gross looking names and flavors. I want plain old black coffee. I called the manager, and as we were too get a free breakfast. I asked if they had plain old black coffee. He had to think a few seconds, and he said we can make you a French Press. So I had to squeeze out the grounds, and it was really strong, but just black coffee.

The guys running the place were two gay guys, but the breakfast was great, and the room comfortable. And right around the corner from the convention center were we had too go to meet up for our driving tours.

I was happy to get home to my standard old Folgers black coffee.

[DWBOX2000]

I’ll drink whatever. There’s okay and better. At home I buy whatever they are selling at ocean state job lot. Sometimes wow, other times pretty good,
My weapon of choice is a 15 Walmart coffee machine. It’s fine. At work they now have machines to grind the beans with each cup. 4 flavors. The problem is it takes dam long. I always reference an old guy with prostrate issues. Moaning, growning, dripping coffee with an occasional blast. It was better when we had the big containers.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by 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.

Batdorf and Bronson is good from WA. They changed their name a whole ago bit it is good stuff. Not like the other stuff from that area.

[juanbenae]

I've had a number of epic threads in my 22 years here, for sure. "CRAIGSLIST chicks at the track", a couple of build threads including my road rig to spec911 racer called "the plunge", the 75-hotrod "domino" build, and now this "Coffee Snob" thread!! The "epic" threads in other forums were much more greatly attended and appreciated, but this kind of play in the OT playground? Getting bumped after a year or so! Making you all admit to being or not being snobs? Priceless for my undervalued membership status..

Will I be getting the OT secret knock? or does that take a 5-page thread and at least 4 star rating?

[KFC911]

Long after we are gone .... I have programmed a bot to revive yer "meat bucket" thread every few years.... I don't give out stars ... even on my own threads... alas ...

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