Best Coffee?

[Stoner4Life]

the true quality has more to do with who's roasting it than its origin to begin with. that being said you need to eliminate the truly inferior beans/roasts & try simply to just please the tongue.
Darker roasts have a more robust flavor & generally contain less caffiene as it is lost due to the longer roasting process. Somewhat easy to make a bitter pot/cup of joe accidentally.
Light roasts on the other hand tend to have a bit less potent flavor but contain more caffiene than dark roasts. Tough to make a bitter pot or cup imo.

I actually prefer a slightly stout and acrid cup of dark roast, drunk black no sugars.

I pay just $23.00 for a big 3 pound bag wholesale. Alakeef beans, roasted over in Duluth, MN.

 

[Americangrower]

anyone ever check out bocajava.com??

Yes Boca ...good beans...you can try it from Eight O'clock beans in the 1lb/12oz bag only.. real good for the $$

 

[nycdfan042]

colombian... or cuban....either way you aint sleeeping

 

[Nubie Biatch]

colombian... or cuban....either way you aint sleeeping

Cocaine or Coffee?

 

[British_Bulldog]

I live in Italy and it's generally accepted here that Illy is the best all round coffee, not the most popular as it's quite expensive (the most popular brand in Italy is Lavazza), but the 'best' in terms of all round reliable taste and it not being bitter. A quality coffee for sure, and I like it a lot, but of course it's personal preference.

 

[Boxy Brown]

Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, nuff said.

 

[trouble]

I prefer a good Colombian Coffee and like Cuban Coffee as well. However, if you want to try something really exotic for the Holidays get some Kopi Luwak. It's from Indonesia and the beans are from the shit of a little cat-like animal called a Palm Civet. They eat only the ripest beans which are the very best and processes them through their digestive system and excreat them out whole and undamaged. The last time I was in Hong Kong the beans sold for up to $500 lb. and as much as $40 a cup.

I will stay with the Colombian Coffee's myself.




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[Boxy Brown]

I prefer a good Colombian Coffee and like Cuban Coffee as well. However, if you want to try something really crazy get some Kopi Luwak. It's from Indonesia and the beans are from the shit of a little cat-like animal called a Palm Civet. They eat only the ripest beans which are the very best and processes them through their digestive system and excreat them out whole and undamaged. The last time I was in Hong Kong the beans sold for up to $500 lb. and as much as $40 a cup.

I will stay with the Colombian Coffee's myself.




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FYI those beans that are shit out by a marsupial are usually sold by people who lock the poor things up in cages so they can force feed them beans, which is why you see the very unnatural turd made of beans.

 

[Sheriff Bart]

**** coffee
yerba mate is the supreme caffeinated beverage

give it a try
and do it right if you are going to do it, i.e. no teabags with a bit of yerba in them, get loose leaf, a bombilla and maybe a gourd and really enjoy that stuff

 

[trouble]

FYI those beans that are shit out by a marsupial are usually sold by people who lock the poor things up in cages so they can force feed them beans, which is why you see the very unnatural turd made of beans.

I wouldnt know anything about all of that. I only know what I was told when I asked why it was so expensive by locals while in Asia. I could care less about how they get the beans because I'm not buying any. However, if what you say is true I dont advocate cruel treatment of any animals. The way I understood it was the palm civet will not eat just any beans, only the best ones which is why it's so expensive.


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[Boxy Brown]

I wouldnt know anything about all of that. I only know what I was told when I asked why it was so expensive by locals while in Asia. I could care less about how they get the beans because I'm not buying any. However, if what you say is true I dont advocate cruel treatment of any animals. The way I understood it was the palm civet will not eat just any beans, only the best ones which is why it's so expensive.


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yea supposedly it eats nothing but the ripest berries which in the wild is true but because they only eat a small amount the people who sell the coffee found it more profitable to just force feed the things.

 

[Kaos!]

I buy My beans green, then roast them Myself.
Beans, even the highest quality are reasonably cheap, if You can get them green.

Alot of good home coffee roasters available, and well worth it.

I Myself prefer a light/medium roast.

Kaos!

 

[Boxy Brown]

its actually not too hard grow coffee here, Iv all ways wanted to but couldn't justify growing something completely useless to me (because I don't know how to roast the beans).

 

[dbuzz]

ah man, having great coffee isn't as easy as it seems! heh. great input guys, sure i can find something good out of all the replies.

turd coffee beans anyone?

 

[Boxy Brown]

^^ you can thank these guys for those beans

 

[Sammet]

I don't drink coffee, but I heard of this Kopi Luwak coffee, which is supposed to be the bee's knees.

A small cat like creature called a Civet, (lives in Indonesia) eats the outside of the coffee beans. The beans pass right through it's digestive system undamaged where they are picked up off the forest floor and washed. The Civet only chooses the ripest bean pods to eat, ensuring the beans are of the best quality and therefore one of the best coffees.

Here's more info:

http://www.animalcoffee.com/

$110 for half a pound And a link to the process of making it:

http://www.animalcoffee.com/process.php

No one seemed to notice this when I first posted it, so here's more stuff about the coffee from the Civet.

I haven't been to Indonesia, but from what I gather, they aren't forced. They simply pick up the big lump of beans off the forest floor. I hope they aren't forced, Animal cruelty makes me sick.

 

[SomeGuy]

Intelligentsia Coffee out of Chicago

Roasted and shipped next day.

I drink the Black Cat espresso but the house blend is good too. They offer several varietals from all over the world though I generally stick with the blends mentioned.

 

[Boxy Brown]

I haven't been to Indonesia, but from what I gather, they aren't forced. They simply pick up the big lump of beans off the forest floor. I hope they aren't forced, Animal cruelty makes me sick.

they do, thats why you see those turds made completely out of beans (that doesn't happen in the wild).

 

[Guest]

the intelligentsia shit is great but their little corporate culture sucks ass over there, they really need to get over themselves imo...

 

[Sammet]

they do, thats why you see those turds made completely out of beans (that doesn't happen in the wild).

I had a look and found this:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010525.html

It says that the species of Civet that is used to make perfume is kept in slavery.

The Civet species that eats and poos the coffee beans live in the forests eating the beans from the trees. The poo is simply collected from the ground.



If I liked coffee, I'd buy Civet Coffee.