I made coffee using actual coffee beans. Don’t know which kind because someone already pre-grinded them. But it tastes like an actual drink you’d serve a human being, and not sour water with a hint of coffee flavor that is instant coffee
I’m still tired though, so the caffeine content is weak.
FYI the darker the roast, the less caffeine makes it into your cup (it is burned out in the roasting process)! lighter roasts tend to have fruitier, more sour flavors though so I like to take the middle path with medium roast. about a tablespoon of coffee per 5-6oz water is also best IMO but have fun playing around with it!
holy crap my worldview is shattered. my brain always went dark = caffine
drip coffee and french press actually have higher caffeine content per liquid volume because extraction is based on heat + time, espresso is fast, tasty and less caffeine due to the short extraction time
https://schoolsforchiapas.org/store/coffee-corn-and-agricultural/zapatista-coffee/
If you want cheaper communist-cred coffee, Equal Exchange is a coop that only sources beans from other coops.
Yeah they were supposedly donating 1% or something profit to the above org. I don't think they are officially connected though.
vast majority of things see 80% improvement with 20% more price, and 20% improvement with 80% more price
There’s a decent brand called Mount Hagen that isn’t as harsh as like Nescafé and others. I’d recommend it if just for baking (chocolate flavor enhancer) or in a pinch
get yourself some whole beans and a cheap burr grinder
itll blow your mind
If you don't mind a little elbow grease you can get little hand-cranked ones for like $20
Agreed. Ground coffee goes stale in like 30 minutes. Grinding yourself right before the brew is the single most impactful improvement one can make to their home brewed quality.
Unfortunately, no, you need a coffee grinder to get those beans nice and fine. Blenders and even spice grinders won't get you there.
If you're able, find a local coffee roaster or two and try some bags. I jumped straight into single origin stuff (basically treats coffee like a wine--each farm has its own unique taste) but you might wanna experiment first.
What do you use to brew coffee right now? There are some really good, super cheap options that might help you in your journey towards delightful bean juice
Whenever i know someone is going to cuba, i get them to pick me up a few bags of coffee beans. Infinitely better than the sludge that comes from a can.
really more of a north american whites thing, specifically. Yeah europeans have coffee but they don't go around pounding 30 oz coffees 3 times a day.
Finns are Asian and they drink more coffee than anyone else
I mean ok, but like, ask someone from like Ethiopia or Eritrea if coffee is important to their culture. Or like, Brazil, or Turkey, or Jordan, or Vietnam or Thailand or the Philippines.
I mean, yeah, white people drink a lot of coffee, but don't deny the cultural and historical importance of coffee in other places.
Sheesh, nobody gets the reference, eh? Wow, how times change.
https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/18/1-coffee/
You can read the whole blog. Yes, this is back before Twitter, when people had these "web logs" that they posted stuff on. Weird, I know.
I like medium roast but that's all up to taste. You're choosing to taste either the beans or the roasting process, in a gradient from light roast to dark roast. Also from more caffeinated to less.
The greater the ratio of beans to water, and the shorter the brewing time, the less bitter/caffeinated it will be. Cold brew is an exception because it's watery and takes a whole day to make, but isn't bitter at all.
it tastes like an actual drink you’d serve a human being, and not sour water with a hint of coffee flavor
I had a similar epiphany when I started roasting my own beans. There's so many flavors you can create depending on how you roast the coffee!
Unfortunately they're mostly just different levels of bitter, sour, grass, sweet, and charcoal.
A whole bean light roast prepared with an aeropress, pourover, or French press. A couple shakes of Ceylon cinnamon. That's the perfect cuppa. Really good coffee has so many fruity and floral notes that preparing it properly makes it an entirely different drink. Even without the cinnamon there's no bitterness, burnt taste, or bad aftertaste.
Big fan of doing pour over with something medium roast and whole bean. Plenty of good options for fresh roasted coffee these days too.
Piñon (pine nut) coffee is great.
The Nutty Coffee that Fuels New Mexico | Saveur
Piñon nuts make a better brew than any hazelnut latte.
I was going to make a New Mexico "I'm in the meth trade" joke but then I realized that the FBI guy in his cubicle reading this thread might get too excited.
I wonder if the poor schnook even has to pay for his coffee. If so - it's liquid pooped into a paper cup by horrible coffee vending machine.
