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Any Coffee Snob Like Me Here?
I'm off topic by a margin, but I'm sure I will find a good answer as always.
Any coffee snob like me here?
I want to try a new coffee, anything that is dark and tasty.
Any suggestion that I can order online?
I always like to taste new beans of coffee.
My last purshase:
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You know, some of the best coffee I've ever had was in Italy at their roadside refueling stations, which they call "Autogrill". Absolutely delicious.
I confess have a small roaster and do my own at home - there’s simply no way to say that without sounding like a complete tosser. My current favourite are Yirgacheffe beans from a cooperative in Ethiopia.
But in Australia we are really spoiled for choice of good roasters: The Little Marionette is one I look out for but there are dozens.
I read once that Australia has the highest ratio of espresso machines per capita in the world. No idea if that’s true but it feels like it when I travel anywhere else.
https://thelittlemarionette.com/
Nuts.com has a good selection at decent prices.
Good! Thank you sir!
Sorry Nespresso is best.😵💫 I’m far too lazy to roast my own.
My ex-wife was a big fan of Nespresso, but I always find the taste of the coffee cup a little bit too "cardboard" for my taste. Not sure if it's psychological or not, but the taste is never as good as a regular coffee. It may sound snob or annoying, but when you really know what you want, you became very picky (and maybe annoying haha).
I can be a snob when it comes to coffee, and I'm too lazy to brew my own (let alone live in a studio efficiency apartment with no kitchen!) For instance, I love going to a local coffee spot called Fairgrounds. (It's also luckily within walking distance.) Unlike Staryucks, every coffee order at Fairgrounds is brewed fresh. And each blend has a vivid description so you know what you're about to drink.
Then again, when it comes to cheap coffee, I absolutely fancy a cuppa from McDonald's. 🤣
Confirmed!
And you'll never get that taste with 100% Arabica.
But marketing seems to be more powerful than taste, although taste is a subjective thing of course.
Not a coffee snob at all 99% of the coffee I drink is Nescafé AltaRica
As long as it’s pure arabica I’m usually happy, i drink too much of it to be able to cope with even a hint of robusta ☕️☕️☕️😳
If you go to any bar in Italy and ask for a coffee you get an espresso. That's fine by me and that is what set my expectations :-)
My dad was Italian so my preference for coffee is Italian style espresso. I find the lighter roast 'specialty coffee' to be far too acidic and bright (and thin textured) for my taste. I like the darker roast Italian blends with Robusta to get that lovely thick velvety texture and crema. I prefer my coffee to me more bitter than acidic.
I mainly just drink espresso. I like the morning ritual/get the kids breakfast, grind some beans and make a nice strong double to start the day.
Growing up in the UK, coffee is usually on a scale from undrinkable to absolutely terrible
As a kid if you went to anybody else's house, they'd crack out the Nescafe as it was the 'fancy' coffee. :-/
Any coffee that stars with "Nes" is just plain bad. Nestle are to coffee what McDonalds are to fine dining.
I have the big packs of Lavazza beans, I grind in a Hario mini slim, I use a dripper and filter papers, I put milk in, I drink it. This, several times a day. I’m not fussy about coffee though. Theoretically instant coffee should come out the same, as it only consists of coffee brewed up in a big vat and either evapourated by being dropped through the air to cause it to become granules, or freeze dried to sublimate the solids from the water, and putting hot water back in should theoretically put you back at the state where it was brewed. It doesn’t though, but it’s really only brewed and dried coffee - no other ingredients, so it should.
100% @klownshed
Have you tried coffee with a tiny pinch of salt? 🤏
Oh yes, forgot to mention - I do that now. Once I’ve weighed out the amount on the filter in the dripper I use the nearby salt grinder and just gently tweak it over the coffee almost imperceptibly, which drops only a few fractions of grains into it. Since I saw that youtube video of putting salt in coffee to reduce the bitterness of it, I do it all the time now.
Love coffee, Columbian, Guatemala, Java, Sumatra....
Medium to dark these days... used go for more robusta... find that a bit too bitter a roast for me (probably giving up the cigarettes! )
Apparently this stuff rocks...
https://www.roastandpost.com/shop/gold-collection/Kopi-Luwak-125/
Way too pricey for me ....
funky shit as they say!
Oh yes, by the way, stay away from Civet cat coffee – it’s a stupid fad that has resulted in force feeding of civets purely to satisfy the hipster demand. The person who brought the whole concept to the fore now regrets it.
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Big coffee snob here. Also a big fan of Yirgacheffe. Some tips...
1) Roast it yourself if you can
2) If you can't, buy it freshly roasted. Find a good coffeeshop that roasts in-house and buy your beans there as they'll have usually been roasted in the last day or two. Any longer than about 10 days and the beans rapidly start to lose their magic.
3) Grind it yourself. You can't compromise on this one, as soon as beans are ground they start losing their magic very quickly. If you buy pre-ground, especially from a supermarket, it'll be shite.
4) If you don't have the space for a good espresso machine, the next best coffee you can drink is from an Aeropress.
Yeah - I'm spoiled by Italian coffee as well. There's nothing like a good espresso.
Now - a Marocchino is something entirely different. Much more desserty, but MAN ALIVE is it tasty. That's my current all time favorite coffee but it's definitely not an every day drink. A classic espresso still wins in that regard.
Beethoven was a coffee fanatic. He even counted the beans per cup… I think it was 53.
When coffee was introduced into Europe it changed business dealings forever. Prior to coffee biz was conducted in pubs over drink where the participants became duller. With coffee wits became sharper.
I learned that and a bunch more from this excellent novel…
https://www.amazon.com/Coffee-Trader-Ballantine-Readers-Circle/dp/0375760903/ref=asc_df_0375760903/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=343974905238&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10924414021460556425&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1015501&hvtargid=pla-490467359177&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=69543896632&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=343974905238&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10924414021460556425&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1015501&hvtargid=pla-490467359177
Apparently coffee’s a persuasion drug.
https://www.salesman.org/coffee-makes-prospects-easier-to-persuade/
I also read somewhere that it makes it harder to persuade someone after you’ve had a coffee.
Interresting. My personnal experience with coffee is that, I'm more of a listener than a talker, but if I drink coffee, I will not shut the f$%? up.
This. I saw how they keep those cats in Indonesia - awful.
@Montreal_Music, I'm not sure it's available online where you live, but pretty much anything that Passalacqua sells is very good. If you like old-school Italian coffee, that is, because they are a family firm from Naples, so they don't do the new-school, taste-anything-but-coffee stuff. 👊
https://www.passalacqua.com/
+1. BTW, the other country where you get consistently excellent coffee, including in truck stops, is Portugal. Which may be a bit unexpected, since their big neighbour Spain does some of the worst coffee imaginable (my apologies to the excellent Spanish squad here - you guys do pretty much everything else right on the food/drink front).
Found beans on Amazon Canada, but it's 50$ for 200 gr. I hope it's good! But I'm curious. Thanks for the recommandation.
Ouch! That's robbery. You pay 20EUR for a kilo of beans in Europe.
Thanks. I did not know that about Ludwig van.
Balzac was a documented coffee fiend, but not the “50 cups a day drinker” of myth and legend.
Huge coffee fiend here. I love Pete’s blonde roast a lot. It’s not dark tho.
Also, Jamaica Blue Mountain is basically a name or mark that protects the Jamaican coffee industry according to region grown and inspection of end product. There's a wide-ish range of Blue Mountain growers.
(my wife is Jamaican)
I’m spoiled - my son is a roaster so have a constant supply https://www.monocacycoffee.com/