Lets talk about COFFEE

[edinatlanta]

I’ve been on the coffee train since work from home started. Can’t recommend Black & White roasters enough, particularly if you’re interested in anaerobic coffees and more fruit note coffees. I’ve tried many brands (Onxy, Sey, Partners, Howel, etc) and they’ve been phenomenal.

Black and White sounds interesting, I'll check them out. I think it was @A Y or @patrickBOOTH who recommended the Paradise Coffee rare series subscription and one bag in and i think it was a great investment

 

[svf]

Joe Bean is still open, however they have closed the bar, which sucks. I was there picking up coffee (beans) yesterday, and they are just trying to focus on wholesale and whole bean sales which makes sense. Their cold brew cans are pretty good too and worth try.

-DL

Yeah, I picked up some of the Joe Bean cold brew cans over the summer. Less attractive now that the temperature is dropping. Fuego has a great deal on beans, both Bearclaw espresso blend and Brazilian single-order are 5# for $75 with curbside or dash-in pickup, so I've been going there for the last few months.

 

[mhip]

I’ve been on the coffee train since work from home started. Can’t recommend Black & White roasters enough, particularly if you’re interested in anaerobic coffees and more fruit note coffees. I’ve tried many brands (Onxy, Sey, Partners, Howel, etc) and they’ve been phenomenal.

Onyx was one of the very few bright spots on my trip to Arkansas. There was also a pretty good breakfast spot.
That was it...

 

[edinatlanta]

Onyx was one of the very few bright spots on my trip to Arkansas. There was also a pretty good breakfast spot.
That was it...

Crystal Bridges .

 

[mhip]

Crystal Bridges .

Yeah, honorable mention to Alice's place.
My MAGA-quag friend that I was visiting for his kid's "weddin" wouldn't stop there when I asked as we drove by.
Even though she's a Walton, a family that he worships, she is "the bad one". And a druggy.
So, in the real world she is the cool one.

 

[OtterMeanGreen]

Hello all, I recently got back into the hobby. It’s been about 4 years since I sold my Cafe & Coffee Roastry. I bought all the supplies a year ago and it sat in a cabinet collecting dust. Yesterday I decided to change that and took the plunge. This was the only type of coffee we served, so the muscle memory was still there. The results: an oily fruit & floral forward brew.

Pour Over: Bee House Ceramic dripper
Filters: Melitta #2 White
Server: Hario Glass V60
Kettle: Hario Buono Slow Pour
Grind: Fine
Coffee: Ethiopian Single Origin Unwashed
Served: Neat

 

[amiga505]

I find myself drinking coffee less and less frequently... it's been what, perhaps two weeks now since I had a cup? Few years ago I could not imagine myself stopping, especially that first morning cup, the ritualistic significance of it... But now this seems to be happening naturally, I think I am loosing taste for it. And I must say, I feel better in my stomach, digestion improved overall, and I stopped having the caffeine 'pit' - this tense, dull sensation about after lunch where all the energy seems to be drained from me. I switched to black tea completely, mostly Ceylon and Assam, sweet, sometimes with milk. Even this I'd like to cut down to a few cups per day at most.

When I did drink coffee, pour over (called in Germany 'filter coffee'), French press, Turkish or Italian oven-top maker style were at different times my preferred methods of preparation, with Maragogipe and Jamaica Blue Mountain the favourite kinds of coffee. One thing I consistently disliked was espresso from a proper big machines they have at cafes; no matter how good the coffee, the roast, the grind and the skill of the maker, this was always too concentrated for my taste.

 

[Thrift Vader]

French press Coffee is also my preferred Coffee method.
And a good Tea is an amazing thing.
Both can be enjoyed leisurely with a cake or toast.

 

[svf]

Does anyone have experience with the flow control mod for E61 group espresso machines (I have an Alex Duetto II)? I realize this may be a bit too far down the rabbit hole (I'll ask on the home-barista and coffeegeek forums as well), but I'm thinking of diving in, since for only $200 you upgrade to paddle-like control. I don't want to lose the simplicity of the E61 for the mornings when I can barely open my eyes. But for single origins, this could be a nice variable to play with.

 

[amiga505]

French press Coffee is also my preferred Coffee method.
And a good Tea is an amazing thing.
Both can be enjoyed leisurely with a cake or toast.

In my experience, even in the Ukraine or Russia, traditional tea-drinking countries, it is practically impossible to find decent cup of tea while out in the city, let alone when confined to the office building. Good coffee, on the other hand, is much easier to get on the go. In Germany the situation is even more dire (the teahouses, however, do exist, if far and in between, there's an amazing place in Hamburg's Altona district which even serves afternoon tea with all the proper fireworks). This is one of the reasons I had to limit my tea intake to home for the most part - I am dead serious about my tea. I tried to set up the whole works at the office, but somehow, I suspect the water, the same blends which produced excellent results at home were a rather poor brew in the office. On top of that, the items from my works, left in a communal kitchen, began to disappear slowly. Believe it or not, the situation changed since they introduced a new brand of packaged tea-leaves at the office, which, combined with the same water, gave unexpectedly good result. That, and the fact that due anti-pandemic measures I spend significantly more time at home, has contributed to my shift to tea I reckon.

 

[OtterMeanGreen]

I find myself drinking coffee less and less frequently... it's been what, perhaps two weeks now since I had a cup?

I can concur with you. When I operated my cafe, I was already long past drinking coffee; actually preferred to eat it instead fresh from our commercial roaster. By the time we sold it I went over a year without a single cup of coffee. I eased myself back into it, only having coffee (regular drip) on the weekends. Today I have a cup every other day, because since weening myself off the bean, it acts as a super laxative TMI?

 

[Texasmade]

I'm lazy and just use an Nespresso machine to make espressos for my coffee.

 

[Thrift Vader]

Heathen.

 

[OtterMeanGreen]

I'm lazy and just use an Nespresso machine to make espressos for my coffee.

We have one of those at my cigar lounge. From someone who use to be in the industry, I must say I liked way more then that Lavazza espresso machine we had at Ferrari.

 

[Thrift Vader]

What the **** is that?