Coffee: Does anyone else treat it as more than just a commodity?

[st0ne]

Ahh,

Just what I need, another expensive, elitist hobby!

Kidding aside,
A very informative thread.

I will now continue my studies!

 

[AKDrifter]

Absolute coffee fiend here!

I always liked coffee, but once I traveled to the Pacific north west, and ended in Alaska, I became a fiend. I like a an online roaster, ancora coffee roasters , your beans are usually roasted 24-48hrs prior to shipping. Very fast and fresh. I dig Ravens brew also, there coffee is in lots of shops up here in AK, dead mans reach is good or three peckered billy goat for their espresso roast. Ancora's page has lots of great info on coffee as well.

I love coffee from a french press, but for convenience I have a whiz bang super auto at home. A Solis master 5ooo, spendy but worth every penny. I figure the coffee shops charge way too much for a cup of coffee, at home I can do far better for about $.50 per triple shot coffee drink, made with my favorite fresh beans. I have had it for going on six years now, so it has paid for itself many times over.

Love the coffee...coffee girls kick ass too!!

 

[Bobby Stainless]

I drink coffee all day till about 4-5pm, than I start to drink beer or wine.

Can't do much till I get a pot down in the morning with a few bowls.

I get my beans local, from a roaster here in town. Great coffee.

 

[Paranoid Blunts]

just yesterday i was thinking about the impact a day without coffe would have...lots of call outs for jobs, road rage.

 

[foaf]

just got a 10 lb sack of kenyan peaberry. E african coffee is expensive this year, but it is a unique and complex flavor. home roasting rocks

 

[christen23]

I LOVE COFFEE!!! Grew up in costa rica drinking it ALL THE TIME! now i have a cona coffee pot and use it every day, it was like 250 shipped but well worth it.. best investment for coffee, like a sheldon black/RooR or volcano for green.. peace
~POE~

 

[FLoJo]

vietnamese coffee.. 1 part cafe du mond with chicory, 1 part trung nyuen or however you spell it.. brew it.. 3 parts coffee, 1 part sweetened condensed milk... heaven

 

[mark0]

I am a hard coffee toker too...
I like it black, cooked the turkish way or good italian expresso (the Italians really know how to bake the coffee beans). My favorite turkish coffee brand is slovenian Barcaffe and favorite expresso brand is Italian Illy...
I've never tried "extra special" coffee brands...

If you ever find yourself at slovenian coast, you are kindly invited to a coffee at my place.

 

[Mezz Mezzrow]

I hand grind mine and use a french press. It's always organic an is usually what is on sale at the co-op. Used to own a cafe where people went wild about everything we made. It was $1.75 for all you could drink of our pretty decent coffee. We got the beans from a small company in town that I thought did a good job of roasting.

 

[minds_I]

Hello all,

I cutmy eye teeth on Denny's blend.....

Have not looked back since...circa 1972-72, I was 13 and a wild uncontrollable youth...
Damn those where the days.

minds_I

 

[mean mr.mustard]

Espresso!!

 

[hawaiiOG]

I live on the Big Island of Hawaii and I drink Kona Coffee and when we are out of coffee and need some more I will wait till I get the good stuff that is for real's. I have a krups coffee maker and it's the best I have ever used with the gold filter real nice. The starbucks coffee is like Crack I swear they roast Cocane with there beans lol

 

[Capt.Cannabis]

coffee is a necessity at my place. i drink on average 12 cups of black mixed with a lil' milk but its just as essential as cannabis to me. in my opinion, the two go hand in hand.
oh yah - colombian supremo is my favorite variety.

 

[xmobotx]

 

[Snagglepuss]

Im an expresso drinker..I only like the strongest darkest expresso in full cup.Lately ive been looking at the expensive brands in an attempt to replicate the cuban ,cafe con leche i get sometimes at the local places.It has a certain taste ,which im sure is because of the bean type..If anybody has any high end expresso types ,they would recommend ,i would love to hear about them,for my next purchase..

 

[-=KwarE=-]

Re: Coffee: Does anyone else treat it as more than just a commodity?

Light roasts rock. The Beloya I'm drinking is a light roast (City) What a lot of people don't realize is that the darker you roast, the more you lose characteristics of Single Origin beans. Do you want to taste the bean or the roast? Personally I'd rather taste the bean. Quite often I have heard people say light roasts are weak, but they don't have a clue. If one really want to experience the flavors that a bean has to offer, don't over-roast. I, as well as many others, consider it undesirable for the roast characteristics to be more prominent than that of the beans themselves.

I'm a bit of a coffee nut myself. Own a roastery and mobile espresso van. Light roasts are my favorite. Not only do they have more character but they also contain more caffeine. Ethiopian Yirgacheffe roasted to city+ is my favorite, but I've been digging this Costa Rican Tarrazu roasted to full city as well. I roast in a Diedrich IR12, its a 25lb roaster with infrared burners and a sealed drum.


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[StRa]

here in italy coffee is a ritual..........for me the best coffee is the one made with 100% coffea arabica and we call it the gold quality!!! and what a pleasure after a good espresso smoking a good and fat joint!!!

I don't remember well ......but the sp. robusta have more teobromine than caffeine in it.....

 

[amannamedtruth]

Pretty jealous of the siphons here. I like a good Chemex brew

Heart Coffee out of Portland is my favorite roaster right now...

Buddy of mine just rigged up a small cold drip, takes about 3 hours for a serving, but so good

 

[xmobotx]

just have to say i love the glass and the trappings of coffee as a hobby! teas can be fun too/had one of those all glass deals w/ the slotted diffuser so i could brew the blooms and watch them open up -sure bummed me out when it broke

 

[s13sr20det]

i usually either drink columbian or kona coffee. currently drinking kona peaberry