Thread: Are you a Coffee Snob as well?

Coffee was my first AD. I have equipment for preparing coffee in just about every method known. I am lucky as where I live has a coffee roaster and coffee house.

As for Charbucks...well, it's better than 7-11. Dunkin' Donuts coffee has improved over the years and they do have a policy of throwing out the pot ever 20 minutes or so. Still, freshly roasted, freshly ground is hard to beat.
Has anyone posted the CoffeeGeek site yet? www.coffeegeek.com

I like fresh ground French roast or darker, made in a Chemex or a glass vacuum pot.

Grinder-
Tranquillo Cafe model (tall, like in a cafe...made in Spain)
QuickMill Anita Espresso machine (and a custom tamper)
La Pavoni Europiccola (and a custom tamper)
Bialetti stove top espresso machine
Neopolitan "flip" stove top
Chemex drip
White Cross vacuum pot (vintage)
Hario vacuum pot
Bodum vacuum pot
2 French Drip pot (looks like a teapot with a cylinder on top)
Melitta cup-top filter holder (for when you need a cup NOW!)
Copper Turkish/Greek coffee pot (stove top)
3 French Presses
Automatic drip (for coffee as I run out the door...not an issue lately...still looking for work....)

Preferred Beans:

Brazilian/Columbian blend used by Crow Foot Valley Roaster here in town
Ethiopian Yirgacheffe
Ethopian Sidamo
Indonesian Sulawesi
Rwandan Arabicas (Nkoma is one)

I want to start roasting.....but not a priority at the moment.

No flavored coffees (flavored oil dumped over beans.....heretics!). On the rare occasion I do want a flavor, I will shave orange-laced Valrhona chocolate into the frothing pitcher as I make a cappuccino. Mmmmmmm.

Here's a quandary....

Would you sell shaving stuff to buy coffee stuff? Or vice versa?

Me a coffee snob!? Heck no, my favorite coffee was what I got well I was in the Army out in the field doing the grave yard shift. It was usually the urn that had been steeping all day long and most of the night. The old saying, if a horse shoe will float on it, then it's ready, is just right for me.

Truly spoken. The french roast coffees have a great strong flavor but caffeine is leeched out in the process. I have some Jamaican Blue mountain here in front of me that is a light roast that will send you to the moon. Peaberry rocks.

Originally Posted by pilothaz

Everyone keeps talking about STRONG STRONG coffee for that added caffeine. Though you all realize that the milder coffee's are the ones that have more caffeine in the beans per cup ... Just so you actually know the truth.

Originally Posted by pilothaz

Well as much as we love using the straights for shaving, we scoff at the people below us.

I was just wondering if any of you are coffee snobs as well. I know at my work they have instant coffee here, which I don't want to use myself. So I went out to a couple garage sales with my parents at the cottage and bought myself a french press (or in the UK used for plunger coffee). It is nice to just have a fresh brew coffee bean in the morning if I need it instead of the drab instant.

There are places around my work somewhat for me to go and buy a cup, but why bother with transit in my car when I can have this on my desk and at hand whenever I want.

Is anyone else like this? I know the coffee in the states especially at Dunkin' Donuts (which should be spelled Dough nuts lol) is pretty awful.

Maybe a little late to this conversation but I also have the french press on the desk. I couldn't do the galley swag that is in every office at the Navy Yard here.

Originally Posted by WireBeard

Are you not getting the froth you want? Have you tried putting the pitcher in the freezer and taking it out just before you start the frothing? I get froth that will support a teaspoon of sugar (until the sugar starts absorbing the froth....).

I'm not getting micro bubbles consistently. They end up too large at the end of the pour. Will try freezing the pitcher, had not heard that one before. The pro's don't do that, but perhaps it will help with a home machine. Thanks!