Yes, possibly they worry about caffeine interacting with medications. I just had no idea a few cups of coffee could have that much of an adverse affect on someone's meds.
However, zombies be easier to manage.
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Depending upon the MD and severity of the conflict, some allow and some don't. I've had two open heart surgeries, I'm still on the planet and both cardiologists have allowed me a double in the AM, however prepared and another if I visit someone used to talking over coffee. Not every day though!
YMMV
~Richard
I also, enjoy all of ritual and tastes! Just not as often! It does help me awaken and sit back and plot my day in the AM! I am lucky to be able to really good fresh ground coffees and cool machines.
~Richard
PS Coffee can often be a factor in heart arrhythmia, Tachycardia, over time.
Right, Geezer, my mom's on a pacemaker for arrhythmia and cannot drink much caffeine. Blood thinner too which takes her nutrition / diet neurosis to near ridiculous levels.
:)
Here are some pics from the Vienna Coffee Festival. My Gasthaus is adding some new coffee equipment which got us invited for the business only time. Didn't see any of the barista challenges but didn't have much of a crowd to fight. Will try and add explanations as we go but I did order a new espresso machine bring on the Slayer.
A general overview of the environment.
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My new slayer in action (I'm getting one for home and work so a three head and a single head)
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A sweet graphic showing flavor and taste profiles in conjunction with brew methods.
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My resident coffee guru who shows me what's cool at the show and who to do business with. Here he is showing a ridiculous Ethiopian that is pulled from a Lelit Bianca.
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Perhaps the coolest thing to see. After two or so years on the market the La Marzocco Leva machine in full action. to say holy crap its cool is an understatement.
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Do you need someone to help you out? :roflmao
I've read a lot about the slayer shots, I'd like to try one. I know it can be done, very carefully, with some different machines.
Also that lever machine is :tu :bow :o
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In about a month come over and I'll pull any slayer you want. The lever is going to require some different things:
A) convince the wife
B) convince the company to make a single pull machine
C) convince my wife we need a 10thish espresso machine
D) convince the company and I'll deal with my wife
You have quite the challenge before you Brother, it seems B) will be the easiest of these choices :roflmao
I have seen some amazing decaf options. I know the stigmas but trust when I say some are making good options for our brothers who can not have the caffeine. My current favorite recommendation for the deficient is Caffee Piansa Decaffeinato. I will have other options soon, but for filter and most espresso solutions, this is my best recommendation.
Mom's completely happy with Folgers or whatever top brand instant she's using. Taste is a non-factor; she tires of me badgering her to replace the lid to prevent staling. Does she listen?
:ziplip:
She does appreciate good tasting coffee but likes the convenience of instant at her age.
:shrug:
Pointless as non-alcoholic beer, but I may be seriously ignoring psychology and the placebo effect.
Guess I will cross that bridge if the time comes. I am sure by then fresh coffee beans will be perilously short in supply due to global climate change based on what I am hearing in the news lately.
Gorgeous machinery, Theoman! I passed on the Slayer and other shot profiling, variable pressure systems seeing them as far too complicated for the task at hand although definitely appreciating some of the advancements in technology. Nice to have choices for sure, but I would not care to foot the bill for maintenance of all those electronics boxed up in there with steam/water boilers. Plus, everyone seemed to be emulating only lever pulls and not much else so the feature seemed like all too much marketing and not enough R&D.
Plus, I do not care for La Marzocco after a bad GS/3 experience. I immediately passed that noisemaker along to my good friend, ordered the Speedster, he passed the GS/3 to our other mutual buddy, then got himself a Speedster within a half-year of my purchase. Now that is enabling.
Manual levers are so much like straight razors; simple and effective. I am OG like Geezer, and was drooling over Kees's Idrocompresso 2-group lever machine which ceased production in 2012 a month before I had asked about buying one. Silly for home use I know so probably better for me in the end. Just enough electronics to keep the boilers stable is all that I really want.
:p
Maybe a La Cremina some day or La Pavoni...
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Well, I've changed my mind about the Sette 30. I'm going to go with the 270, since it will be paired with a nice La Pavoni. Unfortunately this will mean I have a wait a little longer before I can afford to purchase it, but I'm sure it will be worth the wait.
Good decision: It just got the "Best Value Home Use (Espresso) Grinder" from Whole Latte Love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm1TFjBK8Cc
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Now you can enjoy occasionally brushing it over your mouth too:rofl2:
This thread was pointed out to me by Dieseld. Nice to see a lot of coffee enthusiasts here. I'll have to read through the 100+ pages as time allows. I currently roast green beans on a Behmore 1600+, one of my few other hobbies.
Welcome! Behmor is a very nice little roaster. I'm successfully using it for 3 years now, and very happy about it - not even once in all that period did I need to purchase roasted coffee from someone else.
Recently I made a mod letting me measure directly the bean temperature, and I can't recommend it enough - the degree of control of roast parameters one can achieve with this relatively simple modification has brought this roaster to another league entirely.
Feel free to ask for any tips on this roaster, and Good Luck!
Saw this in the lobby of a hotel in Niagara on the Lake while I was at a conference. I do not like cold coffee, so I did not taste the end product, but the apparatus looked impressive.
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Now that is just way cool!!!!!
Thanks for posting that........now I might want one. Even though I don't do cold brew either
It seems to process coffee quite slowly - exactly as fast as the ice in the top reservoir melts. Not nearly fast enough by an order of magnitude to satisfy my morning coffee cravings.
I agree, it won't be quick. But the concept is just cool
That's an interesting contraption, and I also thought it looked like a still.
I actually love cold brew in the summer. I don't have air conditioning, so on those nights where you can't sleep because it's so hot, it's incredibly refreshing to drink a smooth and cold coffee in the morning. It's also super easy to make and lasts a long time in the fridge. But I would never set up a rig like that when a simple mason jar makes great coffee.
FWW, YMMV
Back when we were newly married, we made vacuum pot coffee and saved the used and dried grounds for cold process coffee. Very tasty and low caffeine. Saved a bit of money also.
~Richard
I haven't cared for hot coffee, maybe I should give cold brewed a try sometime.
Wow Richard, now you have me thinking........Thanks!!!
Josh you never know, it's worth a try that's for sure
Got to the end of the day at the conference and decided to try the coffee produced by the contraption. I also enlisted a bunch of other folks to try it out.
Well, it confirmed for me that I prefer my coffee hot. It did taste quite strong, but mellow. The other tasters were split bout 50-50 on how they felt about it. Those that liked iced coffee thought it was quite good while others felt as I did. I suspect I could get used to it.
One of my volunteers is a microbiologist and took a close look at the glass hardware. She said it was mostly stock labware and someone with a Bunsen burner and some experience working with lab glass could probably put one other for under $150. 6-8 cup version is listed on Amazon Canada for a around $350 CDN; 25 cup version is $625.
There is supposed to be a permanent ceramic filter at the bottom of the coffee container, but the hotel folks said they kept getting lost so they just cut up some Melita filter paper and use it instead. Not sure how that would effect the taste.
Now you know what I know.
Darn hard work to get it done.
We just used a wide soup plate with saran wrap stretched over it to allow the water/ grounds mix to steep overnight..Then poured it the next day through a Melita type filter.
YMMV
~Richard
Just as a source of info on Cold Brewed Coffee:
tag/cold-brewed/
He has another earlier article that is worth the read.
IIRC
Cold Brewed/ Sun Coffee was all the rage in the early 70's.
Have fun!
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this is how I put mine together. Built a simple frame. The top is a 1-liter stopcock on a glass chemistry beaker. The middle is the top portion of my vacuum siphon, it also filters through this piece and drops nicely into a 1-liter jar. Overall the process wasn't worth the 12ish hour wait until I modified an ISI siphon and started putting it on nitro. For me, cold brew on nitro is friggin excellent. Total nvestment about 10 bucks as I got the chemistry glass from a friend and had everything else.
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Kafgar Commercial Coffee Roaster Machine
I bought a new coffee roaster machine. I'm curious about your comments. I'm buying a product from Europe for the first time. I am very satisfied right now. https://kafgarglobal.com/commercial-...atch-capacity/
I recently bought my first coffee roasting machine. It is Kafgar Coffee Roaster Machine. For the first time I will use a coffee roasting machine of this size. I'm obviously very inexperienced. Is there a book to improve my skills in coffee roasting?
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Congrats on the roaster! The Coffee Roaster's Companion by Scott Rao is a great book - highly recommended.
Good luck!
Congrats, russiancoffeeroast. I hope you thoroughly enjoy it.
Many persons have found threads on:
homebarista.com.
They are a great source for all things coffee.
Enjoy!
~Richard