Coffee

I first started drinking coffee when I worked at a car wash in the winter. We would just hold it like a hand warmer. Then one day I put the cup to my lips and I drank some. That was 15 years ago. Dang.

ttystikk said:

Is not quite as aromatic and all, but it holds my milk and sugar okay and wakes my ass up.

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I'm not a coffee snob. It just hast to tasted good. I like diner coffee too if it tastes good. Coffee geek, yes, coffee snob? No.

neosapien said:

I first started drinking coffee when I worked at a car wash in the winter. We would just hold it like a hand warmer. Then one day I put the cup to my lips and I drank some. That was 15 years ago. Dang.

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Lol

Fuckin stupid mistake that was, eh?

Hookabelly said:

No, but as I said in my first post: I use beans within 1-2 weeks of the roast date. What is not computing? LOL

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Thanks for the tude dudess, but you never said what you claimed and kept omitting a roast date. You are very specific about ratios and precise temps, so it wasn't difficult for me to guess what was missing. I'll add, because I've been trying to help you, that you may not be inclined towards the full-dark-roast profile and may want to steer towards city to full-city roasts, which u may find sweeter in general. Perhaps the french press/dark roast isn't desirable to your palate. Cheers and happy near year hooka.

Hookabelly said:

I live in Seattle, so yeah, all of us are required by law to have a coffee IV drip at all times. I agree with you, when I tasted fresh ground coffee from the roster brewed correctly I turned coffee geek too. My preferred method to date is pour over: 12:1 ratio. Getting the grind just right was the challenge for me. But yes, all things coffee for me.

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Hookabelly said:

I have seen it, but not tried. have you? I use the hario type of cup for pour over. Didn't like chemex. 12:1 is a matter of taste for me. I usually buy all sorts of beans from local roasters round the PNW. Mostly I like the mellower brews. I can see a 16:1 if you're using a more robust bean. When I was first learning pour over technique, the actual rule of thumb was 10:1. Too strong for me. But it was the first time I tried black coffee and it wasn't sour or bitter. I was hooked man! Now it's all I drink. Believe me, I've got more coffee gadgets, grinders, scales, vessels, etc. I worked on pulling shots for a while, then hand grinding, now I got a conical burr grinder for Christmas I'm playing around with. LOL I'm an addict.

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abe supercro said:

Thanks for the tude dudess, but you never said what you claimed and kept omitting a roast date. You are very specific about ratios and precise temps, so it wasn't difficult for me to guess what was missing. I'll add, because I've been trying to help you, that you may not be inclined towards the full-dark-roast profile and may want to steer towards city to full-city roasts, which u may find sweeter in general. Perhaps the french press/dark roast isn't desirable to your palate. Cheers and happy near year hooka.

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I prefer breakfast blend style light roast coffees, I find a dark roast tastes scorched. How would I go about getting the most out of such coffee beans in terms of where to find it fresh, what fineness of grind to use, etc?

Breakfast blends are typically full city roasted, however they tend to blends of multiple varietals.

You might prefer single origin beans. There are a couple roasters in Denver that do a great job:

Novo Coffee
Corvus Coffee

Bodhi leaf coffee traders is in California and also online. They ship and are pretty reasonable. All city or full city roasted if looking at single origin beans ( 1 varietal, 1 farm).

Fineness of grind is dependent on your brewing method. I would reccomend a hand burr grinder Ala HariO

https://www.amazon.com/Hario-Mini-Mill-Coffee-Grinder/dp/B001804CLY

It's my go to when not home. Steady use for 3 years now. I've broken / ran through 2 different electric conical burr grinders. The hario is always ready to go.

@ttystikk

Jp.the.pope said:

Breakfast blends are typically full city roasted, however they tend to blends of multiple varietals.

You might prefer single origin beans. There are a couple roasters in Denver that do a great job:

Novo Coffee
Corvus Coffee

Bodhi leaf coffee traders is in California and also online. They ship and are pretty reasonable. All city or full city roasted if looking at single origin beans ( 1 varietal, 1 farm).

Fineness of grind is dependent on your brewing method. I would reccomend a hand burr grinder Ala HariO

https://www.amazon.com/Hario-Mini-Mill-Coffee-Grinder/dp/B001804CLY

It's my go to when not home. Steady use for 3 years now. I've broken / ran through 2 different electric conical burr grinders. The hario is always ready to go.

@ttystikk

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I've been addicted to this thread like my morning cup, but I must've missed the specific definitions of all city and full city roast?

It's more of roasting term. City is lighter, full city a little darker. The three roasters I mentioned pretty much exclusively use those roasts in their single origins.

Medium for sure. The beans won't have that shiny look you get with darker roasts.

Edit: city is pulled during the first Crack of the beans.

Full city is pulled at the end of the first Crack but before the second.

Jp.the.pope said:

It's more of roasting term. City is lighter, full city a little darker. The three roasters I mentioned pretty much exclusively use those roasts in their single origins.

Medium for sure. The beans won't have that shiny look you get with darker roasts.

Edit: city is pulled during the first Crack of the beans.

Full city is pulled at the end of the first Crack but before the second.

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Beans on Crack?

When you roast green coffee it cracks a couple times (sounds like a cracking noise) during the process.

I like to do a mongrel roast where I will split a pound of green beans into three roasting sessions, each one roasted to a different degree.

This doesn't work well with all varieties but on those it does it is a way to taste the full spectrum of the beans' flavor profile in one cup.

HelpHub said:

I like to do a mongrel roast where I will split a pound of green beans into three roasting sessions, each one roasted to a different degree.

This doesn't work well with all varieties but on those it does it is a way to taste the full spectrum of the beans' flavor profile in one cup.

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A fascinating idea!

I don't care enough about the vial potion to be bothered to make the Mrs. a cup in the morning.

She likes Kona coffee if she orders premium beans. Ground and brewed 1 cup at a time.

First pen.....i mean coffee of 2017....

Jp.the.pope said:

Fineness of grind is dependent on your brewing method. I would reccomend a hand burr grinder Ala HariO

https://www.amazon.com/Hario-Mini-Mill-Coffee-Grinder/dp/B001804CLY

It's my go to when not home. Steady use for 3 years now. I've broken / ran through 2 different electric conical burr grinders. The hario is always ready to go.

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I live in a woodsy rural area that gets a lot of trees down when it storms; Some rip power-lines apart. Fortunately electricity is usually restored within a few hrs and I'm back up and running. Folks that have an electric stove know nothing is cooking during an outage, without a generator, but I can manually light my gas stove (to heat water) and be able to do an emergency pour-over coffee. The only thing, the damn electric grinder won't work!! Been toying w idea of getting a manual crank burr-grinder for some time now, so I really appreciate the recommendation on the Hario brand.

Ya gotta love Amazon one-touch purchasing. Within 5 seconds of seeing your endorsed grinder link, I had already completed ordering it. Thanks Jp!

While I was at it online, I decided to peek around and nab some other coffee paraphernalia and another stash from a regional roaster.

bodum is making these 34 oz pour overs. the glass is thin like their presses. works w, or without, #2 cone paper filter. similar to a chemex, only diff shape, faster extraction, and big savings on readily avail filters.

abe supercro said:

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bodum is making these 34 oz pour overs. the glass is thin like their presses. works w, or without, #2 cone paper filter. similar to a chemex, diff shape and big savings on readily avail filters.

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Didja buy one?

Jp.the.pope said:

Didja buy one?

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did i need one, no heh. i'll take it for a spin later. i'm all wound up on diner coffee at the moment.

Interested to hear how you like the end result compared to a chemex