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Thread: Are you a Coffee Snob as well?
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02-24-2008, 04:47 PM #61
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Thanked: 4hmm, I started with the french press and a spinning grinder
The I graduated to a steam machine and a a burr grinder.
Then I found a local roasting house.
I'm more of an americano guy than an espresso guy so I haven't graduated to a better espresso machine yet and I haven't started roasting my own beans but I may.
Love my coffee and starbucks although always good is rarely excellent.
-Bob
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02-24-2008, 05:21 PM #62
I don't drink the swill. Never developed a taste for it.
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02-24-2008, 05:28 PM #63
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02-24-2008, 05:34 PM #64
I love this stuff, probably drink my weight in coffee everyday.
I get crap brewed coffee for free at work (nuclear power plant, they like us awake - go figure...).
Couple of thoughts for the Starbucks folks - barista basically means "bartender" in Italian. I typically get the stinkeye when I'm in one of those places and I order a large coffee instead of "venti".
At work, I use my own coffee, course ground brewed in a french press.
Two old school suggestions:
Cowboy coffee is still one of the best ways to enjoy coffee.
Google "chemex", machine manufactured ones are good, blown glass ones are twice as expensive but pretty cool.
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02-24-2008, 05:58 PM #65
I drink so much coffee it's insane. I used to
get Gevalia coffee but found that I still
go to Dunkin' Donuts about ten times a day,
so I just drink that now. I drink it all day
long. I switch to decaf in the later afternoon
and drink it right up until I go to bed.
John
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02-24-2008, 06:35 PM #66
Intelligentsia Coffee
Fresh ground in Rancilio burr grinder
Technivorm Moccamaster Coffee Maker
Filtered well water
Now that's coffee!
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02-24-2008, 07:33 PM #67
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Thanked: 1We too get free coffee at work, they also sell the premium stuff in the cafeteria. I like the "good" stuff, but I can't justify the expense, so I just toss down the free stuff.
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02-25-2008, 03:52 PM #68
Glad to see there are fellow roasters on here. Personally, I like my coffee like I like my women: cold and bitter...
I roast my own beans and have for a few years. I have a Frankenroaster made from an original West Bend Poppery popcorn popper, a Feuerhand lantern globe and parts from a Freshroast home coffee roaster. The thing is a tank. I still use my old Krups blade grinder, but I'm on the quest for one of the Zassenhaus grain grinders that they quit making. I brew in either a hand-blown Chemex or a 1940s vintage Cory vacuum pot. I try to stay away from brewing methods where the coffee comes in contact with plastic.
I limit myself to two or three cups of drip in the morning, and I'll occasionally have an espresso at Charbucks on my walk home from work. They pull a decent shot, but that's about all they can do. I think their drip stuff is brewed with scorched beans.
All that said, I'm no snob. When I'm out of green beans, I brew Folgers. No, it doesn't compare to my own coffee (not even close), but in my opinion, it's a lot better than the whole bean "gourmet" coffees found on the market.
As always, YMMV.
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02-25-2008, 04:53 PM #69
Relative to the average joe, prolly so. Relative to my immediate surroundings, no. My wife managed a Starbucks for 5 years. So, she is the height of coffee snobbery.
I am not kidding when I say she has an espresso machine that cost more than my first car (first 2 cars combined, actually) and regularly spends hundreds of dollars a year on tools, beans, roasting equipment, etc, etc.
So it works out pretty well, because whenever she gripes about me spending money on a fancy badger brush or whatever, I merely gesture towards the Coffee Grotto (the area of our bar that is monopolized by her java machinery) and grin smugly.
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02-25-2008, 05:02 PM #70
A few years back JR Cigars was running a
special with their Mayorga cigars. You
could get a pound of Mayorga Coffee
beans when you bought a box of cigars.
They also sold the beans separately.
I got a bag of their Nicaraguan roast.
Holy crap!! This stuff was so dark
it looked like potting soil after grinding
it. Apparently it was high in caffeine as
I was usually off the walls after drinking it.
It was good stuff.
John