Thread: Are you a Coffee Snob as well?

Not particularly a coffee snob but I do prefer what I make at home!! I have an old manual coffee grinder and one of those old aluminum 3 piece drip pots where you put your grinds into the middle section, pour your boiling water through the top section, and you end up with coffee in the bottom section. I usually buy a french roast or an espresso roast! Best coffee ever!

I myself am definitely a coffee snob! I'm worthless without it in the morning.
After years of fighting with stupid coffee makers i finally got a simple French press today

Originally Posted by ucliker

I myself am definitely a coffee snob! I'm worthless without it in the morning.
After years of fighting with stupid coffee makers i finally got a simple French press today

Sooo much easier, I have one for the desk at work, one at the cottage and one at home. Gives a better flavour as well because you get more of the oils and such in the brew when you are immersing the grinds with the water instead of through a drip coffee maker. Most of the oil in the drip is absorbed in the filter

Also as I stated above for people that are not paying attention, STRONG doesn't mean more Caffeine. More mellow roasted beans actually have MORE Caffeine in them.

Originally Posted by pilothaz

Sooo much easier, I have one for the desk at work, one at the cottage and one at home. Gives a better flavour as well because you get more of the oils and such in the brew when you are immersing the grinds with the water instead of through a drip coffee maker. Most of the oil in the drip is absorbed in the filter .

My particular drip pot does not require nor do I use filters. thats whats so neat about my pot!

I like the taste of manual drip best, but sometimes use my old Pyrex stove-top percolator because it's just cool to watch. I usually buy coffee in 10kg bags from farmers in the mountains of Costa Rica. The roast is usually quite light and two cups in the morning keeps me twitchy all day. Plus, I don't think I've every paid more than $2/lb. My father-in-law started growing coffee, so if he can figure out how to roast the fruit my days of paying anything will be over.

Originally Posted by b0000urns

I like the taste of manual drip best, but sometimes use my old Pyrex stove-top percolator because it's just cool to watch. I usually buy coffee in 10kg bags from farmers in the mountains of Costa Rica. The roast is usually quite light and two cups in the morning keeps me twitchy all day. Plus, I don't think I've every paid more than $2/lb. My father-in-law started growing coffee, so if he can figure out how to roast the fruit my days of paying anything will be over.

Lucky Lucky Boy aren't you. See this is also someone who knows a nice light roast that can twitch the crap out of you all day.

SteveS, pay more attention. You're only the third roaster posting.

B0000urns, roasting is actually pretty easy, depends on how anal you want to be. Check out a primer of popcorn popper roasting on coffeegeek.com main section. You can pick up a used popper for three bucks and roast for three years with that sucker. If you want to get uptight, as most of us do, you'll buy a variac, start measuring profiles with digital thermocouples, etc. You really don't need to go crazy, though, to enjoy better coffee than anyone else in town. Check out Ken Davids book, (Home Coffee Roasting) if you want some published info, or check out the roasting forms on CG for SRP-like community input.

I'm surprised I didn't see some of my Canadian countrymen commenting on our Tim Horton's coffee.

An amazingly cheap and utterly addictive blend. Always fresh- they dump the pot every 15 minutes.

It is the number one politically correct request item missed most by our troops overseas. We even sent a Tim Horton's to Afghanistan so our boys and girls wouldn't get the detox shakes.

I don't get coffee shops Second cup/Starbucks etc. that serve you coffee that was brewed in a thermos hours ago wtf?

I was surprised with how bad the non-espresso coffee was in Paris. Ruder than the waiters that crap.

I'll get an Americano instead thanks.

Originally Posted by Creel

It is the number one politically correct request item missed most by our troops overseas. We even sent a Tim Horton's to Afghanistan so our boys and girls wouldn't get the detox shakes.

Who's Tim Horton, has he been cloned, is it a Canadian euphemism or do you just have lots of people named Tim Horton for some obscure reason?

Originally Posted by Creel

I'm surprised I didn't see some of my Canadian countrymen commenting on our Tim Horton's coffee.

An amazingly cheap and utterly addictive blend. Always fresh- they dump the pot every 15 minutes.

It is the number one politically correct request item missed most by our troops overseas. We even sent a Tim Horton's to Afghanistan so our boys and girls wouldn't get the detox shakes.

I don't get coffee shops Second cup/Starbucks etc. that serve you coffee that was brewed in a thermos hours ago wtf?

I was surprised with how bad the non-espresso coffee was in Paris. Ruder than the waiters that crap.

I'll get an Americano instead thanks.

Timmy's isn't bad but do you know why EVERYONE loves it? It is their special cream (and NO not that way gentlemen). Instead of normal cream that places use 18% they use 35% Whipping Cream. So this is what gets most people when they buy a cup and enjoy it so much.