/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I have an idea, why don't we post local coffee roasters from our city or state(or whatever people across the pond say). Bonus points if you have tasted any of them first hand. The only requirement is that they roast the beans themselves; not bought pre roasted.

I haven't tried any of these yet, but this is what I have found.

Lineage Coffee
https://www.lineageroasting.com/

Trilogy Coffee
https://trilogycoffee.com/

Nalu Brew
https://www.nalubrew.com/

Orlando Coffee Roasters Inc.
https://www.orlandocoffeeroasters.com/

Axum Coffee
https://axumcoffee.com/

Foxtail Coffee
https://shop.foxtailcoffee.com/

Blessed Bean Coffee
https://blessedbeancoffee.com/

Downtown Credo
http://downtowncredo.com/

Geisha Coffee Roaster
http://www.coffeefundraiser.org/

Fontana Coffee and Tea
https://fontanacoffeeandtea.com/

Island Coffee Roasters
https://www.islandroasterscoffeecompany.com/home.html

Coffee Roasters Alliance
https://www.roastedlocally.com/


Not 100% sure the ones below roast as the wording is vague.

La Floresta
https://laflorestacafe.shop/

Veterans Coffee Co.
http://www.veteranscoffeecompany.com/

>go to new coffee shop
>self-fill drip station
>go back for more after my first cup
>"sir, refills are 50c each"
>mfw

Why would you have a self-serve refill station if refills cost money? It just adds additional transactions to a situation that is supposed to be simplified by the self-serve.

>>12966668
The espresso coffee vending machines suck anymore, they give literal sink shots. I need to start taking coffee to work with me. I need a tumbler/thermos suggestions and I need suggestions to what to put in it, I have it in mind to start taking "coffee,instant" with me because I have access to hot water at work, but it would be better to take it from home already done. is pic related really any different than any other tumbler?

>>12967218
Why the asshurt, friend?

>>12967565
That line of yeti products are fucking hilarious. What kind of retard needs a yeti wine glass? The appeal of your pic related is probably just the camping aesthetic.

>>12967565
No, the only decent thing they do is coolers. $30+ for a fucking tumbler(that doesn't even screw on) is stupid. Literally any $12 vacuumed double wall thermos/tumbler like Buba brand will do.

The benefit of bringing coffee verses instant is more variety, and more brew methods, at the cost of morning prep. Instant has less decent options and less diverse for less prep time.

>>12967599
my main concern really are poly/bpa/teflon films on the tumblers and thermos I see around there, all that stuff is pretty much made in China with who knows what materials. I have seen the glass tumblers which aren't very expensive and with glass being inert I'd feel safer with it but glass has no insulative properties, so you win some and lose some.

>>12967616
>The benefit of bringing coffee verses instant is more variety
Then I may go with instant for now. I just gotta have something that is drinkable, our machines really really suck.
What's the recommended sea kay ratio for instant to water?

>>12967629
>sea kay
I don't know what that means. I would follow the directions on the package then adjust from there. Also if you want to avoid weird chemical shit get coffee that was already prebrewed then freeze dried. I hear pic related is good if just a bit weak.

>>12967695
>I don't know what that means
sea kay = ck
>Also if you want to avoid weird chemical shit get coffee that was already prebrewed then freeze dried
that is literally how all instant coffee is made

>>12967720
*Google's it*
Well im stupid. Apparently freeze dried is better than spray dried though.

>>12967732
I say stupid shit all the time to, no problem bambi. I'm gonna look into getting something like a keepcup, maybe something cheaper.

>>12967565
I've got a bunch of yetis. I can tell you I use my 30oz yeti way more than my 40oz rtic. I've got a few painted variants of both. Yeti uses a much higher quality paint, rtic uses standard glossy autopaint.

>>12967565
Zojirushi is the only acceptable travel mug, those Yeti pieces of shit are just Hydroflasks for boomers

>>12968459
Or pay half the price for a contigo. Only zojiroshi you should be buying are rice cookers and break makers.

>>12968582
I'm convinced my phone's autocorrect is getting worse.

>>12967485
This is basically taking advantage of reduced labor costs without eating the cost of refills. What a scam. Next time, make a worker fill the cup for you.

Bump

>>12968904
Also get a receipt every cup you drink. I'd sit there for hours piling up scraps on my table, deadeye stare at the refill station. Pay with a new $5 every cup.

Bump

Honey is such an underrated sweetener in coffee. It adds a pinch of flavor and sweetness without masking coffee flavor.
>>12971567
They look good, but pricey. Course it's in leaf land so that makes sense.

>>12972477
Always wondered about the honey they say is no good as coffee sweetener. Just because it’s no good on it’s own doesn’t mean it would be no good in hot drinks >clap clap clap clap clap woooow coffee decaff tea and hot chooocolate...

>>12972477
I usually just buy their beans and make my own but I wanted to talk to the qt working there. Also got an excellent donut.

>>12972777
Honey actually is decent in hot chocolate. I think a lot depends on the honey though. I put orange blossom in my coffee with rose water.
>>12972780
Nice

Are Brazilian beans a meme? Every kind I've tried just tastes weak and chalky, at worst they taste like really fucked up tea and at best they're just slightly less bitter than your generic columbian.

>>12972815
Brasilian coffee is commodity coffee, it’s made with volume in mind, a coffee factory, not saying their coffee is shit, but it is not what Jimmie would serve at his dead nigger storage facility.

I need someone to hold my hand at helping me to figure out what a real good cup of coffee really tastes like.
I just have no fucking clue. This vanilla wafer creamer shit can't even make black coffee taste any better. I feel like an idiot.

>>12974245
Good coffee is subjective. Also even good cups will be slightly bitter, so if life hasn't made you bitter yet, your going to notice it.

>>12968582
Sure, if you want to pay half the price for half the quality, then go ahead. Zojirushi travel mugs have the best heat retention on the market.

>>12974492
Idk man, I just feel like what you think is 'bitter' is something entirely different to me. Like, bitter isn't a flavor, it's a feel. Black coffee tastes like pure, concentrated caffeine to me - like 100 sodas condensed into a single cup minus the sugar plus the dirt and it blows my mind that people can actually enjoy it.
I smoked cigs for two and a half years straight out of highschool, and liked it. I wish I had a 'coffee addiction' like some people brag about having, just so I can overcome it but I can't even get into it because I can't stand coffee without milk, flavoring, sugar, or creamer.

What the fuck is going on in your heads? I'm trying to be open man I am lol but I can't because I have no fucking clue where to start with coffee - I've watched the Golden Rule barista coffee TED talks and that magic turkish coffee thing makes my mouth water - but I just don't know where to fucking start.

Bump

>>12974639
What type of coffee do you usually buy? How do you prepare it? I know you mentioned it tastes like caffeine, but could you try to specify what it tastes like exactly?

Bump

>>12966668
I used to try to do pour-overs, but it never came out right. It's like it gets clogged. I've tried multiple grind settings on my Baratza Encore but it seems to happen. I've tried multiple techniques, including that one where you stir it with a spoon. It still gets clogged a lot. If this happens, it invariably winds up undrinkably bitter.
What am I probably doing wrong?

Does anyone know the times Wawa reviews coffee? I want to know the best times to hit them up so the brew is fresh.

>>12977318
Sounds weird. Something to do with the filters?

>>12977656
Very early in the morning I'd assume. You're better off choosing a popular blend at a busy store during the morning rush, pretty much guaranteed it was made recently.

>>12974639
retard

>>12977318
You're probably not using good cone filters

>>12977752
>>12977901
Are there any recommended filters? I have a ceramic V60

>>12975813
I really hate saying "coffee" but just have to. Bruh I can't even do a tall cup of black or I get so fucking anxious I gotta jack off to ease up. If I were to be exact, I think I'm having trouble getting over the acidity I'm tasting. That's probably why I've always mixed any coffee I buy (typically Folgers) with a little sugar and milk.

I asked a coworker today who's a coffee connoisseur what he thought I should do and he said get a french pressed medium-roast. I'm about to go out and give it a try.

Drinking coffee.

>>12980267
Nice

Can I make cold brew with instant coffee LOL

Soon

A while ago someone made a post mentioning putting some maple syrup in their coffee before brewing to give the coffee a maple syrup taste. Does that sort of thing actually work and can you mix spices into the coffee instead of adding them after it’s brewed?

>>12981290
The only way I could see that working is a French press. I feel like with most other methods it worked effect the brewing too much.

>>12967629
Just bring a pour over system of some kind. Aeropress is nice, but there are simpler setups that work just as well.

>>12981290
You can, if you grind the spice to the same degree as the coffee beans and mix it in you can use it in a french press or mocha pot depending on preference.
You'll have to experiment with what spices and how much you use but it is worth it.
If you just search up 'spiced coffee recipes' you'll find a few, usually using cinnamon, cardamom and the like.

Bump

Got this cause it was cheap and it was out of stock before.

Why is is SO HARD to find a light roast WHOLE bean coffee anywhere?? I swear, every store I go to literally only carries dark roasts, and its god's grace if there is medium roast by some chance.

What gives?

>>12981290
Add a pinch of cayenne and cinnamon to a nice south american medium roast, it's beautiful.

>>12984125
Shit dude even Starbucks has a light roast, what are you doing wrong?

>>12984666
Whole bean? And I'm not joking, everywhere I go has shit selection. When I want to treat myself I get a Kona blend.

>>12984670
In typical Starbucks fashion they call it "blonde" instead of light.

>>12984680
I had no idea. I'm not lying, the Starbucks I occasionally go to (I brew at home or if I'm on the go its Dutch Bros drive thru). did not have light roast, weird. Obviously buying online is always an option, but the prices are always higher online. Peets used to carry their Colombia Luminosa light roast, but I never saw it again. Maybe I need to go to specialty shops. Thanks though.

>>12984685
... maybe next time check the specialty shops first. A local roaster, even.

Very last cup of bustelo. Tomorrow having La Llave.

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>>12984125
Same bro. The market is dominated by dark roasts.

>>12967695
>Mount Hagen
is this stuff worth it?

Little known fact: the French Press was not invented or made popular in France. Rather, the device gets its name from the process of "Frenching" the coffee.

>>12984680
It's a brand name, nerd.

>>12987224
Never had it myself. From my own research it is decent, if albeit weak.

>>12987439
you're funny

>>12987439
It makes coffee homosexual?

Unironically, my favourite form of coffee is just black Instant coffee, I'm not sure why though.

I don't like americano style brewed coffee as much as Insant and milk just takes alor of the flavour for me.

Am I doing something wrong to be missing out on better coffee? Any suggestions?

>>12988226
You are probably retarded, so just enjoy life.

>>12988238
Unfortunately I'm retarded in the capacity that I can't enjoy life anon.

>>12988226
>Am I doing something wrong to be missing out on better coffee?
Yes, you're not drinking it.

>>12988243
Its because you are drinking shit coffee, life is too short for that. I never even really considered it until now, but is "instant coffee" even actually coffee? What are those granules, some weird synthetic coffee and sugar hybrid? lol

>>12978856
>Americano
>highly concentrated coffee, rehydrated to basically be drip-brew

What is the point!? I just don't understand at all.

>>12988278
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think it's normal brewed coffee that is just freeze dryed to Dr hydrate it into a solid powder. They they just crush it into granules and you rehydrate it with water

>>12988278
>Not enjoying the wonder of modern science that is freeze dried / spray dried coffee

I pity the dead that can no longer know such joys.

>>12988295
The way coffee is extracted greatly affects taste. I technically make americanos with my moka pot by adding a little over half hot water to 3 cup brew. It still tastes different than drip. It's basically a way to drink a smoothed out version of espresso without having to use milk which can alter the flavor more.

>>12988372
Is that a fact, I learned something today

>>12988295
>>12988412
He's being an uppity bastard. The point of an Americano is because most coffee places in Italy don't keep around the filters and machines to make drip brew, but they all have espresso makers. it's meant to appeal to travellers who are used to having more sizeable portions to their coffee.
But yes, it does have a different taste to it, and is usually fresher as espresso is often made on-order while brew is made by the batch.

>>12981444
>Aeropress is nice

kek

>>12987447
Note there's no trademark symbol on it.
"Veranda blend" is a brand name, blonde roast is not.

>>12985025
i feel like you get through coffee quicker than i do mokabro. how many cups do you have per day and how many grams of coffee per brew? i do 2 cups a day with 8 grams per brew, it takes me an age to finish off whatever i'm using.

>>12988698
Also most "blonde" roasts are solidly medium.

>>12988680
Ain't a thing wrong with the aeropress, m8. It's good for a quick americano however you spin it.

>>12966668
love coffee but starting to see my teeth get yellow bros

>>12971567
these fuckers trying to make their logo look like belle and sebastian

>>12990551
drink water immediately after coffee.

Happy national coffee day folks. Enjoying this day with my wife, pic related.

>>12988951
I usually only make a cup a day. The brick I got was 250 grams and my mokpot uses around 20grams a brew. I also use a drip filter sometimes and put 2.5 tbsp rounded in. Takes 2-3 weeks to go through 250 grams.
>8grams
Are you using those small 1cup pots? That seems too little.
>>12990613
Same

>>12981276
So tried this today. An anon mentioned on here that it was better than Bustelo, and they were right. It's still a dark roast, but Bustelo tastes like charred beans. Llave still has that rich nutty flavor of a good basic coffee. I feel like llave is also more acidic, but I don't know how to taste that in coffee too well yet. I really need to do a taste of acidic and non acidic coffee.
>>12984388
>cyanne
Now I'm interested
>>12991075
>250 grams
Scratch that its 280grams.

>brew my cuppa
>wear my tight boxers and put on my high heels
>dance to Cell Block Tango

>>12990112
Its a gimmick for whites. You'd make a substantially better cup by just tossing them in hot water and straining.

Hump

>>12988295
gives something with a similar strength to drip with an entirely different taste

>>12974639
if you want something less acidic and has more flavor just do cold brew and heat it after and see if you enjoy that more than regular + all the sugar and creamers

>>12992284
>You'd make a substantially better cup by just tossing them in hot water and straining.
Elaborate on what the aero aeropress does so wrong that this ridiculous hyperbole could be true.

>>12994477
It doesn't do anything. Literally nothing. The .6bar peak pressure it outputs does not create a 'better', more full, or more even extraction. You're not gaining anything from the press, its just a cylinder with a paper filter.

Is Stumptown for trannies?

>>12994564
>It doesn't do anything. Literally nothing
It makes coffee.

>>12994878
Barely. It exposes grounds to hot water. The "press" does nothing. Like I said, you're better off dumping loose grounds into a mug, covering with water, straining, then squeezing the spent grounds through a napkin. That little squeeze will give you a higher % tds.

>>12994902
Absolute bullshit.

>>12994920
Prove me wrong presslet. I bet you own a microwave egg cooker too.

>>12994920
At best, you're pulling 8 psi. You can pinch harder than that.

>>12967289
I am in orlando a lot actually. Lineage is probably the best in town but if you dislike light roast fruity coffees you'll have a hard time finding something you enjoy. Trilogy owners are really nice but I haven't liked any of their coffee. Axum is pretty good and their roastery is in a neat little food hall/brewery. Foxtail is by far the most succesful "specialty" shop but is trash and everything else on this list is also trash.

>>12972815
natural processed Brazil's are my favorite espresso by far. Just have to buy good ones

>>12995400
I'll keep that in mind. Also yeah, Foxtail seems like hipster Starbucks.

>>12994902
You know what I don't want to do? Squeeze hot coffee grounds through a napkin.

Did the thought that the aeropress is simply convenient ever cross your mind?

>>12995999
Yeah, its a mediocre unitasker for whites. Its kind of like those junk egg sandwich makers you buy for college kids that never get used. But you're dumb enough to use it, over literally anything else.

for me, it's the french press.

>>12997170
The only press for patricians.

>>12997410
i also have a mesh pour over. fuck filters. mainly use the french press.
>mfw people say the french press is hard to clean

>>12997170
For me, it's cold drip brew.