Coffee time general /ctg/

[Anonymous No.16595560]

All the coffee in Brazil edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTbJBnkRkFo
Previously >>16546731

Going to get a coffee and croissant from the local bakery tomorrow morning. What do you like with your first cup of coffee?

[Anonymous No.16595573]

Is Chestnut C2 good poorfag option for hand grinder? Any other rec would be appreciated.

[Anonymous No.16595597]

>>16595573
Just to to Walmart and get a drip coffee maker for like 10 bucks

[Anonymous No.16595633]

>>16595597
I prefer Viet style drip coffee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUs33YjmmS8

[Anonymous No.16595650]

>>16595597
>"Is this a good grinder?"
"Get this coffee maker bruh"
Retard.
>>16595573
Yes, it's fine, but an 1zpresso would be better for not a whole lot more.

[Anonymous No.16596447]

>>16595560
Hey bros,

Moving out so I need to buy a coffee grinder. Would primarily use it for french press and pour over. Would not want to spend over $100 usd. Is that enough or am I fucked spending that much.

[Anonymous No.16596456]

>>16596447
French press grind consistency doesn't matter quite so much

[Anonymous No.16596746]

>>16596447
It's enough, get a used Encore

[Anonymous No.16597171]

>>16595650
Don't call other people retards if you're the stupid faggot drinking gay fancy coffee lmao

[Anonymous No.16597257]

anyone got a bialetti brikka?
have had good results with an almost espresso grind and light tamping with 80ml of water but looking for tips

[Anonymous No.16597426]

>>16596456
what about a grinder that makes big piece and tiny powder in the process making bitter coffee particles end up in the french press coffee after filtering

[Anonymous No.16597578]

>>16595573
no. 1zpresso or xeoleo, all metal entrylevel that can even grind turkish

[Anonymous No.16597909]

The absolute state of these fucking threads.

[Anonymous No.16598118]

started my new job at a nice coffee shop on my campus. I'm happy bros

[Anonymous No.16598870]

This morning's shot

[Anonymous No.16599062]

>>16597909
Post your roast graphs big boy
>>16598118
Congrats on becoming a wagie
>>16598870
Get a bottomless portafilter dumbass

[Anonymous No.16599217]

>>16597426
paper filter your french press then
you can also immersion brew in an aeropress and paper filter it when you press it out

[Anonymous No.16599238]

>>16595560
Damn stores are still out of stock on my favorite coffee so i'm /sipping/ this for the next few days.

[Anonymous No.16599250]

>>16595560
What's a good sweetener alternative for sugar in coffee?

[Anonymous No.16599363]

>>16596447
>french press and pour over.
Any handgrinder would be fine. A good one is really needed for fine grind like espresso.

[Anonymous No.16599434]

>>16599062
Hows the aeropress? Still mediocre?

[Anonymous No.16599730]

will a 1zpresso q2 be adequate for espresso? i just have an entry level delonghi, thinking of getting an unpressurized basket soon

[Anonymous No.16599740]

>>16599434
Different anon, still rely on it for my 2x a day coffee.
Inverted method, coarse grind for about 3-4mins, then press through a reusable fine steel mesh filter.
Every now and again try some other coffee method, but always come back to the Aeropress.

[Anonymous No.16599745]

>>16595573
I use a KRUPS GVX231, it was cheap and has been running great for at least 4-5years.

[Anonymous No.16599747]

>>16599250
Maple syrup worked for me

[Anonymous No.16599778]

I only drink this.

[Anonymous No.16599785]

>>16599778
ok

[Anonymous No.16599913]

>>16599730
the website recommends that one only for pour over
i recommend the k-pro

[Anonymous No.16599932]

>>16597578
Xeoleo is only a notch more expensive here, but 1zpresso is almost double the price. I can't find any review for Xeoleo, though.

[Anonymous No.16599955]

>>16599217
>>16597426
when I was traveling for work and (foolishly) didn't bring my french press I did an immersion brew in a measuring cup and then used a paper filter to strain it

Made a mini americano from a shot that pulled too slowly this morning

[Anonymous No.16599985]

Is crema really that important?

[Anonymous No.16600052]

>>16599932
that is because Xeoleo doesn't pay for reviews

[Anonymous No.16600162]

Is it possible to get into espresso for $150?

[Anonymous No.16600168]

grinding enough coffee for coldbrew with a manual grinder is a pain in the ass

[Anonymous No.16600283]

coffee is for shidding

[Anonymous No.16600427]

>>16598870
>This morning's shot.
Same

[Anonymous No.16600435]

>>16599955
cringe

[Anonymous No.16600445]

>>16600162
Pre-ground espresso, like Illy or Lavazza, and a Nanopresso with barista kit upgrade. Use the doubleshot basket and remove the pressurized seal from the filter.
The nanopresso is really good with the upgraded basket, completely different results than from the 8g basket that comes included.

[Anonymous No.16600529]

>>16600162
No

[Anonymous No.16600539]

>>16595560
is latte art just that same exact design every time

[Anonymous No.16600549]

>>16599434
>>16600162
Yes buy an aeropress or moka pot and blade grinder, grind as fine as possible and you'll get there.

[Anonymous No.16600664]

Made a pour over to try out my new mug I picked up from Spirit Halloween.

[Anonymous No.16600719]

>>16600168
Guessing you use a javapresse?
>>16600549
And you'll still peak at .8bars of pressure. Thats not espresso.

[Anonymous No.16601852]

just ordered a cevze

[Anonymous No.16602023]

>>16601852
Copper or bust.

[Anonymous No.16602066]

>>16602023
it was

[Anonymous No.16602195]

is turkish coffee even that good? how does it compare with straight espresso

[Anonymous No.16602339]

>>16602195
i'll let u know, but i've also never had espresso

[Anonymous No.16603726]

Coof

[Anonymous No.16603942]

>>16599238
These are great
The 300mg ones are ridiculous but good over ice

[Anonymous No.16604225]

>>16599238
i miss drinks like these, japan has a lame ass energy drink selection.
>0G0SH

[Anonymous No.16604242]

What's the latest time you have coffee? I've been having one around 3pm lately and I feel like it might be affecting my sleep

[Anonymous No.16604343]

>>16604242
noon at the latest, and i sleep at 10pm. caffeine quarter life is 8-12 hours depending on your genes.

[Anonymous No.16604861]

>add instant coffee and a little sugar to 50ml water, shake the carafe around a bit to mix it
>add milk and stir
>tastes creamy and strong, start sweating from the caffeine kick
>made cold brew
>mixed it 50:50 with milk and sugar
>tastes like watery milk with no caffeine flavor
why is it not possible to make good cold coffee without a machine? It's just impossible to get strong coffee from grounds otherwise.

[Anonymous No.16605089]

>>16600445
Never heard of nanopresso before. Is it actually real espresso or is it imitated espresso like a moka pot making a slightly pressurized strong coffee extract?

[Anonymous No.16605093]

>want to try coffee from Burundi
>nobody has Burundi coffee near me

[Anonymous No.16605241]

>>16604861
>dilute coffee with milk, water, and sugar
>why doesn't it taste like strong coffee???

[Anonymous No.16605422]

>>16605241
Except it's strong as fuck when I use instant. Clearly I am not extracting the coffee efficiently from the grounds.

[Anonymous No.16605895]

How does french press work if I'm only brewing for myself? I just leave the remainder of the coffee in there, soaking the beans further, while I drink the first cup?

[Anonymous No.16605906]

>>16605895
Yeah you can leave it if you want. Unless you add more water, it will stop extracting at a certain point so it won't get more bitter or stronger or whatever

[Anonymous No.16606209]

>>16605089
Its a hand powered delonghi. You'll wear your thumbs out pumping that plastic piece of shit up to 18bar.(2-3x what you should be pulling espresso shots at.)

>Thanks to its high pressure extraction of 18 bar, Nanopresso takes full advantage of the larger filter basket and surpasses the extraction quality of most home espresso machine.

[Anonymous No.16606244]

>>16605895
just get a mug big enough to hold all the coffee

[Anonymous No.16606642]

For the past year and a half I have been getting coffee beans for free: my brother and sister were working at starbucks and they got a free bag of beans every week. Uni's back in person and they no longer work at starbucks so the free beans is over.
My favorite starbucks bean was the Blonde Veranda blend, is there anything else like it but cheaper?

[Anonymous No.16606964]

>>16600539
No but it's easiest one to do. >>16599363

[Anonymous No.16607000]

>>16599238
I haven't been able to find the Kona Blend flavor of this stuff for months

[Anonymous No.16607008]

>>16606244
yeah boy
I personally use a big 22 oz Bass Pro Shops mug

[Anonymous No.16607034]

>>16605422
How long are you letting the grounds steep, and how often are you stirring them?

[Anonymous No.16607126]

>>16607034
I stir it once and store it in the fridge for 12-14 hours. All the cold brew guides said to give it a long time in the fridge for maximum extraction.

[Anonymous No.16608669]

>>16604343
I always read it was around 7-9 hours but I felt like that was an underestimate.

[Anonymous No.16608837]

>>16608669
i usually hear 7-9 hours cited as the half life, so you still would have half of the caffeine in your system after that time. even after 10-12 hours you still have a quarter of it

[Anonymous No.16608903]

>>16608837
Ah yeah, that makes more sense.

[Anonymous No.16608967]

>>16606642
Starbucks to me has always tasted burnt. My regular is a South Wales roasting company, they sell beans by the kilo. Bit expensive (and hipster) but nice.

[Anonymous No.16609305]

Why can't I get my milk textured properly?

[Anonymous No.16609307]

Anyone have any recommendations for a cold brew system? I bought one off Amazon a while ago and while it works fine, the damn thing leaks when I pour a cup so I'd rather not keep going with it and waste coffee anymore.

[Anonymous No.16609361]

>>16609307
When I use to make cold brew I just used a big french press. When I want to make cold coffee nowadays I just make ice'd coffee with my v60.

[Anonymous No.16609369]

>>16608837
7-9 hours as the half life means 14-18 hours is the quarter life

[Anonymous No.16609630]

>>16608837
not how half life works.
7 hours: 1/2
14 hours: 1/2 ^2 (1/4)
21 hours: 1/2^3 (1/8)
...

[Anonymous No.16610465]

Are expensive grinders a meme?
Or do I seriously have to drop $60 on a grinder?

[Anonymous No.16610476]

>>16610465
I just dropped 1600 on one. You won't get very far on $60.

[Anonymous No.16610481]

>>16610476
Is it automatic? I was thinking of hand grinders

[Anonymous No.16610517]

>>16610481
Its an electric version of the hand grinder I was going to buy for a grand(weber hg1). Then they updated the hand grinder and made it 1500(weber hg2). Then I preordered the electric one so it was only an extra 100 for the motor instead of 500+.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQC6WZvt5X0

https://weberworkshops.com/products/hg-1

hg1 is what I originally planned on after helor got bought out and they cancelled the Stance manual(pic related)

[Anonymous No.16610683]

it's here

[Anonymous No.16610709]

>>16610683
Did you install the sand tubes plumbing yet?

[Anonymous No.16610718]

>>16610683
Hell yeah. Brew some up and report back. I've been fucking around with longer extraction time melodrip pourovers. I think I like this little meme showerhead.

[Anonymous No.16610967]

>>16610718
it came out alright. i used 4g of sugar cause i had a feeling i'd fuck it up somehow and i think i let it come to the boil a bit too many times. i ground the beans myself so it probably wasn't as fine as it should have been either since i only have a shitty blade grinder.

[Anonymous No.16610988]

>>16610967
Now that you've got the cevze, play around with this a bit. Regrind boulders, remove microfines with a papertowel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y7d-5KWHCU

Here's a little printable grind reference for you to gauge off of.

https://www.kruveinc.com/pages/downloads

[Anonymous No.16611002]

>>16610481
I got the basic bitch boy hario and got the mod to make it more stable. It worked well enough for years but I finally had to bite the bullet and get a proper grinder because I was gifted a flair espresso maker.
Now the hario is my pepper grinder and it works great at that too.

[Anonymous No.16611102]

>>16610988
should i bother just ordering some ground turkish coffee?

[Anonymous No.16611259]

>>16611102
Yeah probably. You're basically training your palate, so comparative tasting is pretty useful.

[Anonymous No.16611261]

>>16611259
thoughts on cardamom in it?

[Anonymous No.16611322]

>>16600162
bialetti brikka with a cheap hand grinder
not quite espresso, but better than a moka pot

[Anonymous No.16611453]

>>16611261
We have different tongues+I don't have a cevze. Ymmv. I'd stick to straight coffee while you're learning the ins and outs of the brewer, or if you're intent on adding cardamom, why not fuck around with infused simple syrups?

[Anonymous No.16611609]

>>16600168
Does it even taste much better than preground?

[Anonymous No.16611724]

Give me suggestions for decaf beans that aren't routinely stale or 300% markup.
I've tried a half dozen or so over the last couple months and I can't find anything that falls in the middle.

[Anonymous No.16611798]

Is coffee good for you?

[Anonymous No.16612019]

are there any good japanese grinders for espresso? anything imported here is 2x the price, so breville and sage etc are all out of the picture

[Anonymous No.16612168]

Would you get a place with a built-in espresso machine?

>>16610683
Ready to pound hot sand? Haha.

>>16611798
Everything in moderation unless you're a USAian who only think in black or white.

[Anonymous No.16612345]

>>16605422
If you want that kind of wretched intense flavor that comes through with instant, just grind your cold brew beans super fine and over extract (I'm taking 30+ hrs), and, finally, don't dilute your resulting concentrate with water. You'll get bitter sludge, which would be considered massively flawed in a standard setting and which I would not recommend generally, but given what you're after (intensity) sounds like what you're after

[Anonymous No.16612352]

>>16607126
You can easily add 10 hours to that extraction time

[Anonymous No.16612380]

>pull a perfect shot that's extremely fruity and sweet, literally zero bitterness, best espresso I've ever had
>try it again, same settings, it comes out completely different, just okay, almost no fruit

why have the espresso witches hexed me

[Anonymous No.16612394]

>>16612380
This has been me for 3 years, but with filter coffee. It's like I've been held-back in the 4th grade 3 times.

[Anonymous No.16612578]

>>16612380
Whats your setup?

[Anonymous No.16612829]

is kopi luwak a meme? i just bought some to try

[Anonymous No.16613373]

>>16612829
I've never had it, but yes. Indonesian coffees already aren't my favorite, and the whole gimmick is invalidated by mass farming since the civets do not pick the ripest cherries from inside their cages. I tend to buy really good green coffee at fairly high (fair) prices from little village co-ops. A lot of people say kopi luwak tastes like a boring commodity-tier Colombian. Brew it up and report back. I'm pretty curious.

I'm much more interested in finding some rare dry process Indonesian coffees.

[Anonymous No.16614626]

>>16612578
Rancilio Silvia + Sette 270
I left it on to warm up for like 45 minutes rather than just the 10 it takes for the PID to say it's at temp, gonna try doing that again

[Anonymous No.16615655]

Yeah I was thinking about temp stability. Try just flushing some more hot water through the empty basket before your second shot or bump up like 3 deg between shots.

[Anonymous No.16616819]

Coof

[Anonymous No.16617167]

>>16612380
espresso is subject to Heisenberg uncertainty

[Anonymous No.16617986]

>>16612380
did you change the beans? Remember to clean after every shot.

[Anonymous No.16618285]

why does every fag on reddit have a niche zero and some 3k espresso machine

[Anonymous No.16618849]

>>16618285
they don't that is just marketing using the fear of missing out

[Anonymous No.16620629]

I really need to clean the "esspresso" maker part if my drip machine to see how bad it is.

[Anonymous No.16620694]

>>16612829
It used to be a good way to get good coffee back before specialty coffee was the big thing it is these days. Now that more care is put into picking the ripe cherries and etc the stupid weasel things aren't picking noticeably better coffee to shit out.

[Anonymous No.16620866]

>>16618285
hoffmeme

[Anonymous No.16620980]

>>16620866
Its literally the sprometheus setup.

[Anonymous No.16621411]

Anybody know of a good coffee roaster in Indy? Been trying to find something ever since I moved away from Michigan and haven't had much luck.

[Anonymous No.16622982]

coof. Just popped out the shower screen on my f58 today. Not sure how I like it. Def seems worse for the tea portafilter but espresso may be a different story.

[Anonymous No.16623827]

Nice cafe you have here. Would be a shame if something happened to it....

[Anonymous No.16623858]

>>16623827
No, it's cool

[Anonymous No.16623924]

>>16612829
Apparently they force feed these animals coffee cherries because of the high demand, a lot of them die from it. Not a good thing to support but I have no idea if it's good coffee.

One thing I'm curious about is Ethiopian yirgacheffe, is it as god as they say?

[Anonymous No.16624293]

>>16595560
My fellow Brazilians, what are some actual good but affordable coffee? I've been mostly dinking shit like Pilão and 3 Corações and i can't drink that shit without sugar.

[Anonymous No.16624803]

i can't stop drinking canned coffee
i like my coffee cold, and other than brewing a ton at once that goes bad in the fridge i don't really have a choice
ice is fine but always seems to water it down, and if i make it stronger it tastes funky
just bought some bulk canned coffee on amazon

[Anonymous No.16624947]

>>16624803
Just get a cold brew Mason jar setup and some air tight lid. Then brew every 3-4 days. That's so much waste.
>>16610683
Based, I need to try that.
>>16611261
Cardamon makes any meh coffee instantly taste better. Take that info as you will. Rosewater and cardamom is a great combo btw. Cinnamon and orange blossom is also good.
https://youtu.be/UghjdGRhCPE
Seems like a good video.

[Anonymous No.16625001]

>>16595560
anyone here know how quickly raw cream expires? i'd like to pick some up from my local farmer's market for coffee and stuff but if it's going to curdle in 3 days i'll just get the pasteurized shit

[Anonymous No.16625505]

>>16623924
Yes. I'm sitting on 20 lbs of various ethiopian greens right now.

[Anonymous No.16625569]

>>16625001
16 day shelf life, according to
https://rawfarmusa.com/shop/p/raw-heavy-cream

cream is pretty shelf-stable even if not pasteurized

[Anonymous No.16625744]

>>16625569
thanks anon, that's what i was thinking but i couldn't get a straight answer

[Anonymous No.16626436]

>>16595560
Anyone know if homeroastcoffee dot com is a reputable site? Also what's that co-op site people reccommend?

[Anonymous No.16627726]

I spent all day thinking about the smell of coffee. I've never drank coffee before. So I bought some instant coffee. It was terrible. Bitter as all hell, even with a bunch of milk in it.

Thinking the next step up would be to get a cone, some filters and grind a bag of coffee from the store. I don't want to spend any money on this.

Is coffee even good?

[Anonymous No.16627735]

>>16627726
Grind some coffee as coarse as you can and put it in a jar, then filter it 12 hours later.

[Anonymous No.16627736]

I never realized how important fresh beans are until I got an espresso machine and tried to have consistent grinds, now I see why people freeze beans

[Anonymous No.16627741]

>>16627735
is the 12 hour period important?

[Anonymous No.16627746]

>>16627741
At least 8, anything less won't work. Sometimes I go up to 18. Cold brew takes time.

[Anonymous No.16627773]

>>16627746
I thought freshly ground was better?
>cold brew
what

[Anonymous No.16627988]

>>16626436
No clue. Greencoffee.coop is the place I shill. I left you the 15lbs of Guatemalan La Esperanza. I've had both of the brazilians on the site too and they're pretty interchangeable. Chocolately, nutty. Pick up 5lbs of either to sample.

[Anonymous No.16628650]

>>16624803
Cold-brew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_qHWgmsPrw

[Anonymous No.16629040]

just bought whatever the hell this is on an auction for $100. should be interesting.

[Anonymous No.16629385]

>>16627726
>>16627735
yeah freshly ground is definitely better and tastes less like dirt, but it's still a bit off to me. Am I doing it wrong?

[Anonymous No.16630023]

>>16624293
Para de comprar café moído no mercado, seu macaco
Compra um moinho e literalmente qualquer café em grão em torra média/clara vai ser melhor

[Anonymous No.16630032]

>Grind sourced roasted coffee on a daily basis
>French press or percolator every time
>Go away for a weekend to see my brother
>He serves fucking walmart folgers out of a giant tub in his percolator
>It's fucking delicious
Give it to me straight, have I gotten memed?

[Anonymous No.16630033]

What roast should I use for cold brew?

[Anonymous No.16630073]

>>16630032
probably more to do with the water, water quality has a huge impact. maybe he has a filter in his house.

[Anonymous No.16630083]

>>16610465
The better (read: expensive) a grinder is the more consistent the grind will be with less chaff. If a little mud in the bottom of your cup doesn't bother you (assuming you are brewing with a method where it could even get there) then spend however little you care to. Also, they tend to be made of better parts, less plastic that can break.

If you drink coffee daily I think that hand grinding gets pretty annoying after a while, personally. The best benefits I see to it is that they are cheaper to get a good grind out of them and they are portable. So if you travel of camp a lot and want to bring good coffee with you then it is the only way to go.

Automatics are great too and necessary if you ever want to do espresso. But for three bills you can get the Ode, which is all you will need for the home anyway and the new ones you can get on their site already have the upgraded burrs now as well.

[Anonymous No.16630117]

>>16630032
anecdotally, when I was first starting off with craft coffee I was consistently underextracting but didn't realize it because it still tasted better than most mass-produced
once I got over that hurdle there was an even bigger jump in quality
you may be in a similar position

[Anonymous No.16630150]

>>16630032
Maybe you just have shit taste. Or like the others have said you could need better water or technique.

There is no single great method with how French Press or any other kind is made. There is a recommended safe benchmark and you should experiment from there.

If you liked that coffee then you should try a finer grind size, maybe let the grounds steep longer, maybe stir them (I like to, I think Hoff's FP technique is shit), maybe if you have been getting dark roast get something light instead.

>>16630073
He mentions water which is often overlooked. The water does need to have a certain mineral content too; distilled or RO water is going to typically going to make shittier tasting coffee than city water. Coffee ground require a chemical reaction with minerals typically found in drinking water.

There was even a guy that wrote a book on just the water itself and how it helped with extraction. Sadly he no longer sells the book saying it'll be updated later. Meanwhile he sells water filtration that'll make your best coffee, so he is probably never going to publish a second edition cause it is probably not nearly as profitable to give up the results of his extensive research instead.

[Anonymous No.16630231]

>>16630083
>Automatics are great too and necessary if you ever want to do espresso.
Wrong
>But for three bills you can get the Ode, which is all you will need for the home anyway and the new ones you can get on their site already have the upgraded burrs now as well.
Which is why everyone who still owns one memes and bitches about it.

[Anonymous No.16630245]

[Anonymous No.16630285]

>>16630245
phone nigger

[Anonymous No.16630304]

>>16630245
Dude the branding on that distributor makes me want to claw my eyes out.

[Anonymous No.16630325]

>>16630304
Yeah, look cheap, but it was a gift, but it's actually rather good.

[Anonymous No.16630411]

>>16627988
>greencoffee.coop
Yes! That was the one I was trying to think of! Ty anon.

[Anonymous No.16630435]

>>16630411
You forced my hand into ordering 20 of the last 35lbs of the guatamalan. You better snag that last 15 quick. Just a little coffee lore I found out from discovering that site. Back in the 90s sweetmarias had an open email list for their customers to discuss roasting. The people from that email list started homeroasters.org to organize different topics and shit. From homeroasters, some people wanted a cheaper groupbuy on beans to cut out as many middlemen as possible, so a guy from there started the coop.

[SOUL No.16630455]

>>16629040
Looks like a good piece of equipment. I'd disassemble it and clean the shit out of it, especially the corroded portion in your 5th photo.

I noticed the input voltage and plug tho. I'd have to buy some converters to even run that thing.

[Anonymous No.16630985]

>>16630455
hello fellow japanon. yeah I'm planning on doing a deep clean, any idea of what i should use to clean the corroded stuff? also planning on buying a converter once i find the right one

[Anonymous No.16632593]

>>16630455
>>16630985
man i can't find a converter for the life of me. is converting a 20a 250v to type a socket even possible?

[Anonymous No.16632681]

>Anon you should stop going to starbucks and support local canadian coffee places instead
>Tim Hortons owned by Burger King
>Van Houtte owned by Keurig
>Couple of family own coffee place got replaced by starbucks

[Anonymous No.16633613]

Coof

[Anonymous No.16634295]

flavor notes are bullshit, prove me wrong

[Anonymous No.16634665]

>>16632681
Man, I got a shitload of "3rd wave" coffee shops around where I live. My favorite and largest one shut down though, because of covid and the employees said it was because they were trying to unionize.

[Anonymous No.16634751]

any recs for small electric burr grinders? I got a hario mini and I'm already regretting it

[Anonymous No.16634828]

>>16634295
What coffee are you buying and how are you preparing it?

[Anonymous No.16634853]

Anyone tried to DIY something like the ZPM?

[Anonymous No.16635042]

>>16634853
https://hackaday.com/2021/03/04/homebrew-espresso-machine-has-closed-loop-control/

[Anonymous No.16635486]

>>16634828
He's right, but in the most uncharitable manner possible. Coffee doesn't have "Flavour" in the way you traditionally understand. It's all just varying levels of volatile acids and polyphenols. But to say notes are bullshit, can only be done in a manner that is insincere and uncharitable. If someone can't get "Blueberry" or "Raspberry", I'll ask if it's "Tart, almost juicy" Berry is just a subcategory below that.

[Anonymous No.16635558]

>>16635486
Order a few of these and tell me you don't taste muscat. Coffee tasting notes are way more on point than teas.

https://kurasu.kyoto/collections/drip-bags/products/kurasu-drip-coffee-bag-ethiopia-refisa?lshst=collection&lshst=collection

[Anonymous No.16635572]

>>16634853
Khajiit has wares if you have coin

[Anonymous No.16635574]

>>16627736
Sorry no one took your bait. Here's a pity (You).

[Anonymous No.16635996]

>>16634665
Are you near LA?

[Anonymous No.16637334]

>>16610465
>That pic
Reminds me of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHmFbT8DPX8

[Anonymous No.16637338]

>>16595560
Coffee with cake/croissant is the breakfast of champions

[Anonymous No.16638367]

>>16635996
Riverside, CA. Like a mini-L.A., even have a burgeoning homeless population.

[Anonymous No.16638687]

Today was a good day.

[Anonymous No.16638701]

>>16638687
are those really dark colored green beans or really light colored roasted ones?

[Anonymous No.16638812]

>>16638701
20lbs of guatamalan greens.

>Region: Lake Atitlan

>This region encompasses all of the lands surrounding Lake Atitlan. Coffee is mainly harvested on the side of the Pacific in a region of three volcanic mountains with a high precipitation.
There are five volcanic regions in Guatemala, and the soil of Atitlán is the richest in terms of its organic matter. In fact, ninety percent of Atitlán’s coffee is cultivated on the sides of the volcanoes surrounding the majestic Lake Atitlán. There is 50 mm of rain every month in this region. Most coffee producers in this region will use water from the lake for wet processing. Instead of chemicals, organic matter is often used as a fertilizer. The high altitude (4,000-5,900 feet) results in a low occurrence of pests and diseases. Yet it’s not only the soil that impacts Atitlán’s coffee: winds known as Xocomil influence the region’s microclimates.

>Producer: Tinamit Tolinan Cooperative

>Process: Washed and patio dried

>It is a small farm they grow mostly Bourbon, Sarchimor and Caturra trees. Ben actually does the sample roasting for the local distributor in NC.

>Tasting Notes:Clean, honey sweet well balanced cup with hints of cherry/plum and nice chocolate tones.


Looks like george just put up 30 more lbs of it on greencoffee.coop so if you want some, now is the time to act.

[Anonymous No.16640173]

closest thing to aeropress that isnt made of plastic? or best alternative in general to get into make a good 1-2 cups at home?

[Anonymous No.16640310]

>>16640173
https://www.artisansmith.com.au/collections/press/products/artisan-copper-press

[Anonymous No.16640424]

>>16596746
no way u can get a used encore for 100

[Anonymous No.16640437]

>>16599250
if u really wanna go keto put a few flakes of maldon salt in your grounds/final brew.

[Anonymous No.16640444]

>>16599985
crema tells u stuff but is not itself anything

[Anonymous No.16640452]

>>16600162
your gonna hate it. i started with a standard flair upgraded to the pro 2 and got a breville smart pro grinder and it is still fucking agony for me

[Anonymous No.16640465]

>>16602195
turkish coffee is just some kind of immersion/pour over tech w/ the grounds left in, ive had it and its fine but no espresso is the roi

[Anonymous No.16640473]

This is my coffee bed in V60.
Am I doing something wrong or is it fine?

[Anonymous No.16640487]

>>16605422
making cold brew is the easiest fucking type of coffee to make on earth but if ur dead set on using instant i cant help u. if u just coarse grind ur beans and leave them in a water bottle filled with water overnight you will get the ass rippingest cold brew youve ever had
>>16605895
rediculous recipe

[Anonymous No.16640494]

>>16612019
idk but thank u for japanese iced filter coffee

[Anonymous No.16640980]

>>16638687
Cool! La Esperanza is a great coffee region. I use a few coffees from there at work.

>>16640473
You're grinding too fine, try a little coarser.

[Anonymous No.16641148]

>>16640494
i really don’t know why it’s called japanese iced coffee, it’s not a huge stretch to just brew coffee on ice.

[Anonymous No.16641438]

>>16641148
Its kyoto cold brew, but a pourover.

[Anonymous No.16641824]

>>16641438
i live 30 minutes from kyoto, where should i go

[Anonymous No.16641927]

>>16637338
>>16641438
Cafe photos vs my home kitchen photos; no comparison. *curses instagram*

Never had a cold brew before although I heard of it. How does it taste compared to an espresso?

[Anonymous No.16642078]

Time to brew some aeropress competition meme beans. I'm sure it'll taste better in my V60.

[Anonymous No.16642308]

i love my comandante and it's truly great. but i'm getting tired of grinding espresso 2x a day. it does add up after a long time.

i'm conflicted because a similar priced electric grinder wouldn't grind nearly as well. i'll probably not buy one for a very very long time, but the thought comes to mind every so often.

[Anonymous No.16642422]

>>16638367
Yes, I heard about those motherfuckers from my of my friends out there. Fuck those union busting cunts, I hope they can only drink keurig for the rest of their miserable lives

[Anonymous No.16642517]

>>16599238
I saw couple of those in market but never tried it. How is it?

[Anonymous No.16642644]

My keurig broke

[Anonymous No.16643395]

Today I had my coffee with a bit of hazelnut creamer and a piece of chocolate covered sponge toffee mixed in

>>16611798
It's difficult to say but in moderation there might be some beneficial effects while in excess there are definitely negative effects.

[Anonymous No.16643618]

>>16641824
552 Higashiaburanokojicho, Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto, 600-8235, Japan

Dunno if they have slow dripper towers set up, but thats the only shop out of japan I've ordered coofie stuff from. I'm sure if you pop in for a drink and ask, they can point you in the right direction.

>>16641927
That slow drip style (usually ice goes in the top chamber) is supposed to produce less acidity and more sweetness. Extremely slow extraction, drop by drop. Vs espresso? Completely different.

>>16642644
Praise the gods. Now throw it away.

[Anonymous No.16643630]

Human Bean fucking sucks

[Anonymous No.16644318]

Just got a cold brew iced coffee from Wendy's, with no sugar or added flavoring.

They seemed mystified that I wanted that.

Maybe I'm a freak, but I actually like the taste of coffee, hot or cold brewed.

[Anonymous No.16644957]

>>16643618
>>16644318
I occasionally order an espresso/short black when I don't feel like milk. Good to know that no one in my local blinks an eye about that.

[Anonymous No.16645454]

I wanna get into the espresso world, but im not trying to get a loan just to do so

I'm thinking of getting the Bambino and right now I have a baratza encore as a grinder, I keep reading the encore can't do espresso (or it doesn't do it well), but what do you guys think?

I've never actually had espresso before so I'm thinking I'll probrably be mostly drinking milk drinks

[Anonymous No.16645497]

>>16645454
if you don't even know if you like it, go to a coffee house and have a taste first jesus

[Anonymous No.16645625]

>>16645454
If you need a loan for a $500 coffee bar, you need to rethink some priorities.

[Anonymous No.16645923]

>>16645454
if ur gonna be making milk drinks just get a cheap espresso maker with a pressurized basket. when your drink is 80% milk it really doesn’t make a difference

[Anonymous No.16645946]

>>16642517
They're pretty good and comparable to vanilla flavor but more creamy I suppose

[Anonymous No.16647269]

coof. Looks like its raining for the next few days so no chance on roasting the new guat.

[Anonymous No.16647496]

>tfw made a TERRIBLE coffee

[Anonymous No.16647514]

I already feel sick.

[Anonymous No.16647697]

>>16595633
I actually just bought one of these

[Anonymous No.16647727]

>>16645454
buy nice or buy twice
your espresso will be shit unless you invest in a good grinder
you can get away with a Gaggia as long as your grinder is good
unless you're fine with manual grinders, 1000 dollars for your setup is the minimum to get good results

[Anonymous No.16648003]

>>16630455
not at all related but is internet a monopoly over there (NTT) or are there private providers?

[Anonymous No.16648226]

Cringe or based?

[Anonymous No.16648281]

>>16595633
That’s espresso

[Anonymous No.16648456]

How do I up my cold brew game?

[Anonymous No.16648874]

>>16647727
what about that time hoffmeme made what he called good espresso on a $250 budget

[Anonymous No.16648894]

i drank 2 coffees in the morning and had a double espresso at lunch and felt like i had developed agoraphobia for the rest of the day out

[Anonymous No.16649054]

>>16596447
get a solis scala, seattle coffee gear has a sale on them rn and theyre selling for $80 which is a great deal

[Anonymous No.16649086]

>>16623924
Personally i dont like yirgacheffe, but it does have a very distinct flavor making it unlike any other beans. Give it a try and see if it suits you since you wont know until you do

[Anonymous No.16649913]

Every night I look forward going to bed so I can drink a nice cup of coffee in the morning

[Anonymous No.16649960]

>>16649913
based. I get out of bed pretty quick as soon as I remember there's coffee waiting for me

[Anonymous No.16649975]

>>16649913
>>16649960
dont even talk to me until i get MY coffee

[Anonymous No.16650097]

>>16649913
I'm a night-owl. *sigh*

[Anonymous No.16650104]

>>16650097
if there was something other than cigarettes that could clear my system of caffeine and allow me to drink coffee into the afternoon I would be brewin all day

[Anonymous No.16651426]

>>16648456
what's your cold brew game like?

[Anonymous No.16651494]

>>16651426
pretty shit
>cold brew maker https://www.amazon.com/Coffee-Handle-County-Line-Kitchen/dp/B07VJJJ764/
>Mueller electric grinder
>Free beans from Starbucks

[Anonymous No.16651544]

>>16651494
honestly anon, I don't think that the cold brew "maker" really matters all that much. It's not like you're controlling heat or dosage at all with that. Either learn to use or get a better grinder than what you've got, or start using better beans - I honestly think the biggest improvement would be with the latter, as I don't think grind matters so much in a cold brew.

I dunno, try some other beans, or maybe accept that you don't dig cold brew all that much.

[Anonymous No.16651548]

>>16642078
Finally dialed it in, definitely roasted for aeropress, had to go finer than I usually do. Pretty good, definitely got that blood orange sweetness, I don't know what tepache tastes like though. Why is specialty coffee so fucking expensive.

[Anonymous No.16651765]

Didn't make coffee yesterday, though I did have a dirty chai. Just finished making today's coffee. Might try some different beans next time, I have some good shit but I've been drinking it for years.

[Anonymous No.16651940]

>>16599250
>What's a good sweetener alternative for sugar in coffee?
Buy a good lighroast/mediumroast beans and you won't need any

[Anonymous No.16652002]

>>16595560
i buy pre-ground coffee and brew coffee in my bunn speed brew. i use 35 grams of coffee per 550 grams of water. i've had exactly once batch of coffee come out tasting amazing. i could taste all of the subtle flavors, etc. the other hundreds of batches that i've made taste like nothing.

basically i need to buy a burr grinder and a pour over coffee thing to get coffee that consistently tastes good?

[Anonymous No.16652068]

>>16652002
buy a burr grinder first, you can get great results with a coffee machine and a good burr grinder. With a setup like that you should be able to taste the notes and explore the origin characteristics of different coffees.
You might want to move into pour over later to have a bit more control over the brew but for that you need a good gooseneck kettle and lots of time to practice and experiment to get the brew right
As I said earlier in the thread I'd reccomend grabbing a solis scala from seattle coffee gear since theyre on sale and and a bag of specialty beans either online or from a local roaster

[Anonymous No.16652216]

>>16602195
turkish ground is roasted to shit so it is more mellow than espresso.
it is also grounded to a fine powder; almost like flour.
so a easy drinking cofee with grounds for "texture" i guess.

[Anonymous No.16652240]

>>16648874
sure, if you can get partially broken parts off ebay and repair them, you can get good results
it's pretty much impossible to score a steal on ebay these days though, too many people trying to do the same thing

[Anonymous No.16652457]

*stops for a day*
*get headaches*
stop drinking caffeine

[Anonymous No.16652506]

>>16600162
no

[Anonymous No.16652515]

>>16652457
stop cooming first

[Anonymous No.16652654]

>>16606642
peets has some good cheap blends you can pick up at a grocery store

[Anonymous No.16654233]

coof. Roasting some ethiopian while I bump.

[Anonymous No.16654365]

>>16651548
>Why is specialty coffee so fucking expensive

1.) Specialty grade coffee is the best stuff an individual farm or growing co-op region produces after sorting and grading, thus it is rarer and buyers bid higher on the lots.

2.) You are paying a roaster's tax on roasted coffee because roasting coffee is a service and a business. You should expect to pay more per pound than other roasted coffees because of the higher cost of specialty grade coffees.

No matter which way you slice it, you can't get the best 10% of coffee crops grown every year for the same price as the rest of it. You can pay about the same for very good coffee as average or above-average coffee if you start roasting yourself though. Not everybody is into that.

[Anonymous No.16654384]

Ok, guys. I'm at a crossroads again. My current electric burr grinder just shit itself. I'm just done with electric grinders. Rec me manuals. I have $500 put aside for this. I do only pourover, medium-fine grind, 40-45g per batch. I need something that will not fucking break for 10+ years.

[Anonymous No.16654415]

>>16654384
kinu

[Anonymous No.16654572]

>>16654415
Yeah, I'm looking at those and the comandante as the two top choices. It's kind of hard to decide.

[Anonymous No.16654574]

>>16654384
Kinu m47 is a tank. The stock burrs are a bit more unimodal than its immediate competition(1zpressos and the timemore chestnut x), which may or may not be to your liking. Double your budget and you could pick up a craig lyn hg1 when they come back in stock.

>I do only pourover, medium-fine grind, 40-45g per batch. I need something that will not fucking break for 10+ years.

If you're dead set on spending $500, get the top model of the m47 and toss the pourover burrs on(+40ish). The stock burrs may produce more fines than you'd like. You could legitimately beat several people to death and go right back onto grinding. 1.2kg of steel. Looks like gear.coffee has the phoenix and simplicity in stock. Same grinder, little bit lighter. Your batch size might be slightly annoying. ~45g and I have to empty the catch cup.

[Anonymous No.16654591]

>>16654415
>>16654574
And which of the three models? I'm not dead set on spending $500, but that's my budget.

[Anonymous No.16654785]

>>16654591
They all have the same burrs and can b. m47 classic is the heaviest with the most steel, simplicity is a little lighter and the phoenix is the lightest/cheapest. I've had the phoenix for 2ish years and its great. I'll be selling it octoberish when my new grinder ships.

[Anonymous No.16654818]

>>16654785
Do you use it for espresso? What are you upgrading to from the Kinu?
I'm also seeing that the comandante c40 mk4 has just come out and it looks like you'll be able to buy those again soon. Another one I'm curious about is the 1zpresso K-plus.

[Anonymous No.16654948]

>>16654818
Yeah prolly 80% espresso. I hopped on the weber key preorder so that should be fairly based.

[Anonymous No.16655871]

Coof

[Anonymous No.16656594]

Every two or three months Google decides to send me a news story about how ALL THE COFFEE IN THE WORLD IS FUCKED BECAUSE (ecological/economic disaster) GET COFFEE WHILE YOU CAN YOU PROLE ENJOY IT WHILE IT LASTS and yet the price of coffee never seems to change.

What's up with that?

[Anonymous No.16656745]

>>16656594
>coffee drinker gets pulled into the JQ for no reason
don't read too much into it

[Anonymous No.16657415]

>>16656594
Alot of brands rely on cheap brazilians to pad out their blends. Brazil's agriculture has been fucked this past year.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coffee-prices-jump-to-six-year-high-as-brazilian-frost-threatens-crop-11627380128

[Anonymous No.16658530]

I keep drinking shit coffee because it's open in the cupboard and I feel bad about wasting food

But I might just crack open the tasty coffee because fuck it, I want a tasty coffee

[Anonymous No.16658536]

>>16658530
do eeet bro

[Anonymous No.16658843]

>>16658530
Why do you have so much shitty coffee?

[Anonymous No.16658998]

>>16658843
I bought some cheap instant stuff to try and save money but it doesn't taste very good at all, tastes metallic

Then I have some better instant, yes it's still instant, but it tastes WAY better

[Anonymous No.16659084]

>>16595560
Best cold brew maker?

[Anonymous No.16659227]

>>16659084
I like my mizudashi. Cheap, works, and the carafe is heat safe so you can toss a pourover cone on top.

[Anonymous No.16659513]

>>16658998
Maybe you can use up the shitty stuff for cooking desserts or iced coffee or something. Not that instant goes stale, so it could just be there as emergency coffee, too.

[Anonymous No.16659595]

I still don't know how to make good cuppa' coffee with a moka pot. I read hours about different methods, tried everything, from the amount of coffee, to grinding my own fresh coffee (tried coarse and fine ground), different extracting speeds, nothing helped. Then one day, after having used one for a few months already, I stopped lying to myself and finally admitted that it tastes like SHIT. Are these things a meme pushed by wannabe Italians?

[Anonymous No.16660555]

bretty much

[Anonymous No.16660568]

still waiting on my adapter to plug in this bad boy, we'll see just how loud he roars

[Anonymous No.16661533]

>>16658530
>>16659513
Agree. Save the bad coffee for ice-cream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWa8kDiLHdw
Or tiramisu but that's takes longer to make...

[Anonymous No.16661976]

>>16658530
Put spices like cardamom in shitty coffee. Fixes it for me.
>>16659595
Why kinda roasts are you doing?

[Anonymous No.16662257]

I fucked up. I thought I ordered Chestnut X, but turns out I chose Chestnut C.

[Anonymous No.16662686]

>>16662257
Not like theres a $200usd difference in price or anything.

[Anonymous No.16664116]

>>16659595
Just got my first moka pot today and used it once. I quite like how it came out, definitely bitter but still delicious.
>warmed up the stove first to medium heat
>ground them to slightly smaller than the holes in the coffee chamber/funnel
>was using a dark roast
>did not pack coffee, filled up the chamber, leveled it, made sure rim was clean
>warmed up the water first in my electric kettle (gets to boiling before it shuts off)
>pour in water, put pot on stove (mine is a regular coil element elec stove FWIW)
>watched as it came out, took it off as soon as it started sputtering
>ran it under a cold faucet, making sure to hit the chamber but not the collector
>poured, let it cool a bit, drank it black

Honestly don't see a reason to run it under cold water like so many people say to do. Just pour it out and it's all the same, right? Cooling it down seems to take longer and is more hassle, etc.

Going to try coarser and finer grinds, play with the temp some and stove setting. I put mine at just under 5, which I know gives me about 200F water. Didn't take long this way either.

But personally it was good, and I was perfectly satisfied with my first attempt at using it, much to my pleasant surprise.

[Anonymous No.16664172]

>>16596447
just get a ditting.
buy once cry once

[Anonymous No.16664224]

Wondering if I should upgrade machine

[Anonymous No.16664259]

>>16662257
Undecided grinder guy here. Curious about the Chestnut X. It looks really cool, but expensive. There's a Chinese coffee nerd video where he compares it with the Comandante c40, but it's unintelligible to me. There are some particle size distribution tests which sort of make sense. It really does seem like that at the higher tier of manual grinders they're all pretty good.

Even though I budgeted $500 for a grinder, I'm kind of surprised that all the premium-premium hand grinders cost $300-500.

[Anonymous No.16664307]

>>16659513
>>16661533
Thanks for the suggestions but I'm too lazy to cook desserts

I didn't open the good coffee in the end, even though I dislike the cheap coffee I want to use it up because I hate wasting food

>>16661976
Interesting. Can't say i have any cardamom though. Could see what spices i do have.

[Anonymous No.16664588]

>>16664259
c40 seems a little strange with the glass catch cup if you're looking for indestructible. Not too many reviews out on the chestnut x, but it does look fucking sweet. Its like a $150 difference between the low and high tier kinus, with the exact same burrs. I haven't cracked my catchcup yet, but I've heard a ton of complaints about it. Cheap replacement part. You're not going to crack the one that comes on the m47 classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czjAUc1SxjM

>>16664224
Your money probably goes further just modding the fuck out of it.

https://www.schneordesign.com/diy/diy-coffee/rancilio-silvia-mega-mod-part1-intro/

[Anonymous No.16664594]

>>16595573
kino is 100 more. just get it and never have to worry about it again

[Anonymous No.16664602]

>>16664307
>>16664588
Oh I didn't see that guy wants you to pay for his pdf. Fuck him. I'll do a little googling later and see if I can't steal you a copy or just get some other helpful guide.

https://www.auberins.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=36

[Anonymous No.16664624]

>>16610517
this ad is gonna make me drop 1600 on a fucking grinder

[Anonymous No.16664707]

>>16664624
Welcome to my life. Also they're 2k now since the indiegogo preorder is over. I'm going to be pissed if I get fucked with import duties from taiwan on it too.

https://weberworkshops.com/products/key-grinder

[Anonymous No.16664770]

>>16664588
>>16664602
Ok sweet, thanks mate I’ll look into it

[Anonymous No.16665218]

>>16642078
>Wide Awake
>Push It
Can a company and product be any less google-able?
I want to check this out, but can't find anything online.

[Anonymous No.16665286]

>>16630032
>Give it to me straight, have I gotten memed?
Yes. Type of coffee, water, and the quantity you put in a filter will have a far more noticeable effect than all the random stuff people recommend in a thread like this.

[Anonymous No.16665294]

>try new beans
>get channeling out the ass, slow then fast shot
>grind finer
>channeling gets worse
>grind coarser
>channeling also gets worse

did I get stale beans or what

[Anonymous No.16665443]

>>16665294
if the beans have a diferent density of which you are used to, it might be a you problem

also,
>trusting the vaccites to roast your coffee

[Anonymous No.16665466]

>>16664588
I just talked to a sales rep at Comandante USA. She told me the c40 mk4 now comes with a "glass polymer" catch cup, which I ferreted out is a high-impact plastic, although the replacement glass jars are still available. I'm not crazy about plastic, but it's probably a good idea as a travel jar.

Right now I'm trying to decide between the kinu classic, the comandante c40, and the 1zpresso J-plus. I just don't know. I wish I could feel up all three and do a taste test on them.

[Anonymous No.16665508]

>>16665466
Oh, and I got a confirmation that all the clear and brown glass jars are completely interchangeable with the new plastic ones, as well as all of the mods like the red clix axle and knobs, etc. Supposedly the burr set is the same. Not sure though. Looks like the only change is slightly different geometry to the internal plastic frame to prevent trapped beans. Thought I would share my intel.

[Anonymous No.16665527]

>>16665466
>>16665508
My thought on this are that glass indeed breaks under impact, however there is no such thing as plastic which does not scratch or eventually become brittle. Plastics are almost always the point of failure for machines.

[Anonymous No.16666003]

Youngest sister bought me pic related for my birthday yesterday, so I'm enjoying this morning. Sumatra is my all-time fave, but this makes a nice change. I started with just a little bit of hot water in the cup, but otherwise didn't add anything.
We have a hand grinder, and an old entry-level Breville espresso machine, whose tank we fill with RO5 filtered water.

A relevant tune from an eminent bebop trombonist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTcZsW3zPZ4

>>16595560
>What do you like with your first cup of coffee?
A banana, or a slice of sourdough with peanut butter.

[Anonymous No.16666012]

>>16599250
Agave syrup

[Anonymous No.16666605]

>>16637338
>>16666003
Coffee with pastries

[Anonymous No.16666932]

>>16665218
https://wideawake.coffee/

Local Belgian roaster.

[Anonymous No.16667155]

What is the most kino way to make coffee and why is it cowboy coffee?

[Anonymous No.16667199]

>>16597171
he didnt even ask about a coffee maker nigga

[Anonymous No.16668150]

>>16664116
If its coming out bitter I'd say your ground could be a hair too fine; could be roast idk. When your have it brew you want a steady stream, but not to fast or slow.
>cold water necessary
Yes and no. If its already really sputtering out hard, putting water on it, won't change anything. What the water is better for is when you take it off the heat right before it starts to sputter. Stopping it before sputter keeps that last ounce or so being pumped out that is going to be the most bitter part of the extraction. You stopping it right before sputter, when it starts to run really translucent, might stop it from being as bitter.

[Anonymous No.16668477]

should i stir black coffee

[Anonymous No.16668907]

>>16668477
Only if it’s instant, if fresh espresso poured onto a bed of hot water then there is no need to stir

[Anonymous No.16669013]

>>16668477
checked
i usually swirl it, just to prevent the larger coffee particles dropping to the bottom

[Anonymous No.16669160]

>kinu grinder starts popcorning

[Anonymous No.16669767]

>>16669160
Yeah thats my only slight complaint. It only happens on my really light roasts, so I can't bitch too much tho.

[Anonymous No.16669857]

>>16669160
the m47? Ive been using it for around a year now and haven't had any popcorning issues, i only brew light roasts.
My big issue is the massive static problems you get if you don't give your beans a spritz of water before grinding.

[Anonymous No.16669918]

Rate my coffee bed.

For those interested I'm doing a brew of 15.5g coffee to 300g water.
45sec bloom
60sec pour
The draw down usually finishes around 3:15.

[Anonymous No.16669939]

>>16595560
My coffee pot has decided to start making sludge. My coffee coats my tongue and tastes slightly foul. Same beans I've always used, cleaned pot with vinegar to be sure it wasn't anything in there.

Any ideas what might be going on?

[Anonymous No.16669966]

fucking nerds taking pictures of coffee lmfao no one cares about your shitty coffee bed.

[Anonymous No.16669973]

>>16669939
You using preground or grinding yourself?

[Anonymous No.16670008]

>>16669973
Preground medium-fine. I have some coarser stuff I ground myself for French press, I should see how that works out.

[Anonymous No.16670012]

>>16669939
is it plastic?

[Anonymous No.16670020]

>>16669966
wasted trip dub dubs.

[Anonymous No.16670037]

>>16669939
honestly you might have mold growing on your machine

[Anonymous No.16670041]

new bread
>>16670035
>>16670035

[Anonymous No.16670081]

>>16670041
why make a new thread before this one falls off?
/ck/ is is slow as fuck, boy

[Anonymous No.16670224]

>>16670081
i thought the bump limit was 300 :l

[Anonymous No.16670990]

How not to make a coffee, Mr Bond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3UQmKiVH9E

>>16670041
>>16670224
What is the reply limit in /ck/? It's 300 in /tg/ still...

[Anonymous No.16671671]

How should I drink my coffee if I don't like it with cream or milk, but want to round off the bitterness in a similar way? I don't really enjoy cream because it almost covers up the coffee flavor.