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Re: The Coffee Thread!!!
« Reply #70 on: February 05, 2014, 01:32:00 PM »
French Press for me!  I haven't used a machine in ages.

That said, I am looking into a Bonavita machine, purely for convenience when I'm running late.
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Re: The Coffee Thread!!!
« Reply #71 on: February 05, 2014, 03:16:17 PM »
I like drinking coffee slowly. The hurried coffee is prone to burn your tongue and spill over your clothes even with plastic lids.

The worst development in the past years for me has been the wooden stirring stick. First of all it is a waste of wood and second the wood absorbs your coffee and can diminish the flavour. The wooden stirring stick even invaded the comfortable indoor café/restaurant facilities :(

Just imagine a beautiful cappuccino in a shiny picardy glass on a saucer with wooden stirring stick...
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Re: The Coffee Thread!!!
« Reply #72 on: October 05, 2014, 01:34:51 PM »



Just came across Cafe Du Monde, was highly recommended by colleagues. Now I'm highly recommending it to you coffee lovers out there. Bold, rich, and never bitter. Apparently this is a place you need to visit if you're ever in New Orleans. They also have their standard "Coffee and Chicory" which comes in a yellow can.

Cafe Du Monde, French Press, and Pink Floyd's Animals. 'Nough said.
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Re: The Coffee Thread!!!
« Reply #73 on: October 05, 2014, 02:16:56 PM »
Cafe Du Monde is what the local Asian shops used to make Vietnamese coffee. Something I've never gotten the hang of doing, even though I worked in a Southeast Asian restaurant, and drank it regularly. I can't make any type of coffee consistently outside of black.
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Re: The Coffee Thread!!!
« Reply #74 on: October 05, 2014, 02:21:06 PM »
Guys/Gals: you should try South Indian filter coffee - a Chennai specialty... mmmm good...great with those dosas and idlis that you have read about/tasted (esp. in California)
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Re: The Coffee Thread!!!
« Reply #75 on: October 05, 2014, 02:38:28 PM »
Quote from: Kirosia on October 05, 2014, 02:16:56 PM
Cafe Du Monde is what the local Asian shops used to make Vietnamese coffee. Something I've never gotten the hang of doing, even though I worked in a Southeast Asian restaurant, and drank it regularly. I can't make any type of coffee consistently outside of black.

I actually buy this from a local Vietnamese shop, makes sense.
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Re: The Coffee Thread!!!
« Reply #76 on: October 05, 2014, 05:04:13 PM »
I still have a budget for a French press. I have to buy one to try it out.

Is there anything I should look for in a French press?
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Re: The Coffee Thread!!!
« Reply #77 on: October 05, 2014, 05:31:47 PM »
Quote from: Deep Funk on October 05, 2014, 05:04:13 PM
I still have a budget for a French press. I have to buy one to try it out.

Is there anything I should look for in a French press?

Nothing in particular, they're all pretty much the same. The one in the photo is this guy: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DUHACEE/

It has two screens which will help filter more grounds but also makes it harder to clean in the end, though you don't need to clean them much if you use them regularly. Coffee is acidic enough to do a fair amount of cleaning. This one is also nice because it has the metal cage that suspends the beaker off the ground. I have a different press that collects a lot of moisture below it because it doesn't have that feature.
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Re: The Coffee Thread!!!
« Reply #78 on: October 05, 2014, 09:34:11 PM »
Definitely recommend:  Hub Coffee Roasters Ethiopian Kochere.  They describe it as "strawberry jam".  Lighter roast, delicious fruit, and killer/perfect acidity profile for me.  My favorite coffee to date.  Unless you like dark roasts, call/email them and order some. I need to drink through a bunch of other stuff first, but then will be buying some more.  I see they have their e-shop up now.  But they don't have the Kochere listed.  Dang.  Hopefully they will still have some of the same lot.  Hmmm, ask if they still have the same batch that they were selling a few months ago...   


For nerds to gander at small lot beans (I believe that Hub Coffee buys from Sweet Maria's wholesale arm):
http://www.sweetmarias.com/store/



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Re: The Coffee Thread!!!
« Reply #79 on: October 05, 2014, 10:56:57 PM »
The recent SW batches of the Ethiopian Yirgacheffe has been pretty good. Last year didn't seem as good. The taste of the coffee depends on more than the beans though, i.e., roasting technique, water quality, grinding, brewing, oversampling, filtering, temperature, etc. Not too much different from DACs.
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