Coffee Appreciation

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Site hard to read on mobileternet but looks similar subscription service to Pact

http://thelab.mysupadupa.com/collections/coffee

Cheers, will probably give one a go.

Cheers! Back down south now. But will make a note of those for next time.

Made it to Brewlab and Artisan which were both great.

I can only assume a reeeep but is this serious? geargrinder.co.uk/

at £350 I'm assuming they are deadly serious..

Like speciality coffee? like craft beer? Need a job?

http://www.gumtree.com/p/jobs/staff-wanted-for-exciting-new-project-in-central-bath/1079207164

Naked portafilter and double basket.

Unused and brand new.

Fits Gaggia Classic and other compatible machines

£30 + postage.

PM's please.

In a bid to start saving for a holiday, I've decided to downgrade on my coffee beans for aeropress.

Any recommendations for supermarket ground coffee? Have got some Saintsbury's TTD to have a go on in a few days, but as it's a year long saving spree, I'm gonna be trying a fair few...

^^^ give the Sainsburys Taste the Difference Tanzanian Peaberry a try.

£3.30 for 227g or 2 for £6
Some revews at coffeejudge

Is meant to be good. Also a few people (myself, MM included) have had good results with Waitrose beans

For good value give Waitrose Kenyan AA beans a go
£3.29 for 227 grams. I use it daily at work, and make sure to open a fresh bag saturday morning for weekend perks. I can't justify paying double for anything else as it's simply not enough difference
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Also for Berlin people: http://vimeo.com/50434456

I'm thinking of selling my La Spaziale Vivaldi Mk2. It's a plumbed in machine, temperature controlable, with separate stem and brew boilers (you can turn off the steam boiler when not in use). It's a great machine and has served me well for 2 years but I'm finding the plumbing in a bit of a PITA as I'm renting at the moment.

Details are here:

http://www.xpresscoffeeuk.co.uk/product.php/292/la-spaziale-s1-vivaldi-ii

I think they retail around for around £1600. I'm selling mine for £500.

Feel free to PM me any questions.

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Looking for a mobile coffee vendor to come and sell good coffee to a bunch of SE London dog-walkers and friends, for a few hours on Sun 5 Oct. Would be good to give someone other than Mouse Tail a gig...PM me if interested.

The plunger fits inside the chamber, and the scoop, paddle & a stack of filters (sealed in a sandwich bag) easily fit inside the plunger. Wrap it up (with a small grinder if you like) in a Domke/Calumet protective wrap, and it's no bother whatsoever. Leave the funnel at home, use whatever drinking vessel you can find on the road.
Aeropress is the perfect travel coffee thingy, imo. You just have to get up extra early to make your coffee in case some other fucker asks you to make them one.

As per ^^

Still on the hunt for a mobile coffee vendor if anyone can help? Cute dogs guaranteed :)

Shame you can't hold on to it. What's that tamper?

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This.

And the ability to 'reply' to oneself. < Shit, that sounds really lame written down.

This thread has a disturbing lack of coffee information. I am an Australian barista/trainer and coffee person. There is literally so many wrong opinions in this thread it saddens me.

Firstly, more expensive coffee IS WORTH IT. From the farm to the cup coffee has hundreds of hours of labour involved, and it is your privelage to have such readily available coffee. Each bean is hand picked and sorted!

Generally the more expensive the coffee, the better. This is true and measured on a scale of "cupping" scores out of 100.

Of course it doesn't matter too much I if your roaster over cooks it, or you don't have any idea how to brew it.

Let's have some brewing basics:

Step one:
Get a decent brew device. Home espresso machines aren't worth it. Stick to filter.

Step two: buy micro scales and a grinder, essential for any kind of brew if you want to get a decent extraction.

Step three: tasting. Generally speaking, sour is under extracted, bitter is over extracted. Somewhere in the middle it's sweet and balanced. Adding sugar will cloud this away till you have no idea.

Step 4: ratios and brewing:
There are many exceptions to these rules but here's some good starting points.

For filter brewing, a ratio of about 1gram coffee for 18 grams water is a good starting point.

Use water at least 90 degrees, and grind as course as your grinder can without producing too many fines (finer grind particles)

Adjust your brew time based on tasting sour or bitter, and try to always use the same water source and temperature.

ALWAYS GRIND FRESH and coffee should be between 2 days and 2 weeks old for filter. (7-14 days for espresso)

As a closing note to this post, cheap coffee will generally be roasted darker to caramelise the coffee more and make it sweeter. This also masks the natural flavours of the coffee and makes it extract faster. It is acceptable in lower quality coffees but higher quality coffees should be roasted lighter to preserve be natural complexity and acidity of coffee.

If you have more questions I encourage you to seek out information from well know specialty coffee businesses. I suggest The Nordic Approach, square mile (mainly for the blog) seven seeds (Australian), Koppi, the coffee collective, Barn.

Please feel free to pm me for any recipes on filter coffee, cold brew, or espresso advice.

Let the roasting begin.
First crack anyone?

@Lukemdfree

Hello.

Why don't you tell us what you really think?

Seeing as I learnt most of those things from this thread and knew it all already - what have you been reading?

Coarse.

would rep

Care to elaborate on these saddening wrong opinions?