Coffee Appreciation

^^^ Austin Powers was mentioned.

I've been thinking about this... Is it real or just another hype??? What's people's thoughts?

Will do - I nearly lifted that earlier actually.

Drop coffee in Stockholm do some good things

http://www.dropcoffee.com

I plan to make it to Stockholm some weekend so will pay them a visit thanks.

Was very pleasantly surprised by the coffee place in Denmark Hill station, the other day.

Espresso, chemex, aeropress or v60 brews on offer and two guest beans from small roasters. They sell beans too.

I had an Ethiopian macchiato that was great. Would recommend.

Good thanks.

That's not really my area; the closest one I have heard good things about to where you are is Silo - facebook.com/silocoffee

That place was good. Really good.

You want to drink coffee from; koppi, drop coffee, stockholm roast, solde, Åre kafferoasteri, da matteo and Johan&Nystrøm. These are however specialty brands and might be bit hard to find in your regular stores. But im sure they have quite good websites for ordering.

That place was good. Really good.

..cool! Glad to hear you enjoyed it!
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Cheers to @arrowplum for the link to the French Press method on Serious Eats and thanks also to @dan for the Taylor's recommendation. It made my cafetiere only holiday so enjoyable I bought a Grunwerg double walled stainless for home which just made the best cafetiere coffee I've ever had. Love this thread.

I'm in Linkoping so will probaly have to order from the web. Thanks.

+1

+1 don't forget Nordic approach, they are doing most of the sourcing for these guys anyway.

Nordic approach does some of the finest coffees I have tasted this year. :)

Today I tried brewing Koppi coffee's Recent Kenyan Coffee "Gathaithi". It's one of the best kenyan coffees I've ever tasted, a huge peachy fruit bomb like coffee.

I brewed one aeropress at 15g dose/230g water and my usual method, with a few slight adjustments (I've been using the coffee for a while) and made a pretty nice cup.

I then brewed the same coffee but with v60, at 13.5g dose/230g water/95 degrees/2:30 brew time blah blah blah - made up the recipe on the spot, haven't made a v60 for a few months.

I was pretty surprised at how much more I preferred the v60, I knew I would, but the difference was pretty immense. It was so much cleaner and the flavours were more defined. The aeropress had a more "murky" flavour, with much less clarity, it was still very nice though.

Did some refractometry and they were both similar extractions, and the aeropress was obviously "stronger" (more coffee dissolved).

(note, have recently adjusted the water TDS so that's not the culprit, and the coffee was past optimal age, hence the experimentation)

I'm definitely going to keep preaching v60!

Has anyone else on here tried something like this?

Any decent coffee places Southampton way?

^ and Winchester for that matter - been there a bit lately and have been bringing aeropress due to dearth of options.

As for how much you want to spend on a grinder, I don't think that affects the quality of the result so much as the ease of use. The more expensive grinders are typically easier to clean and faster.

I was looking back at this and I really disagree with that statement. I have had a variety of grinders and the real issue between them is for espresso how adjustable it is for the finer grinds and for press pot/pourover how consistent it is in getting the same sizish grains.

You can see some differences in this old comparison post of hand grinders http://nathanpeterson.tumblr.com/post/26990944335/hand-grinder-comparisons-for-coffee-nerds

Anyone have experience of the Wilfa cgr-1?

It's £50-odd here in Sweden and get good reviews, so thought I'd give it a go

I experience the same thing as you, and 8 out of 10 times I would prefer going for v60 rather than aeropress. For me aeropress gets to oily/murky and its harder to distinguish the flavour compaired to the v60. It does however tastes alot more due to the brewing process (coffee dissolved). The flavour gets more refined, clean and for me easier to spot in a v60 brew, and If I want more coffee disssolved I rather go for a kalita brew.

Wilfa is quite nice first-time grinder to buy, if you refuse to use a handgrinder. However, I wouldnt recommend using it for espressomachines.

It'll be for v60 or Aeropress, so should be all good. Don't mind my hand grinder, but the shopper in me keeps thinking about grinders

Its cheap and it does the trick quite good for that price. I had mine for 3 years before upgrading.

but the shopper in me keeps thinking about grinders

Can't ever see me spending the current cost of the Lido manual grinders. $175...