Coffee Appreciation

Any decent coffee shops up by hampstead Heath overground. Got an early start up there tomorrow and will need a caffeine fix!

If you've got a travel card you could nip out at Kentish Town West and grab a coffee from Fields Beneath?

Fields beneath was my go to when I worked around Kentish town, was hoping there was somewhere within walking distance of hampstead Heath? Bugger!

All the coffee round there is acceptable tbh.
For amazingly strong u.s diner style filter coffee, Village Deli in Highgate is the boom ting. 85p and keeps you jittery all day.

cheers! Ordered some, so cheap!

https://www.electriccoffee.co.uk/home/referral_code/NQLM1S9MXGL0/

use my link, it's better ;)

Ordered. Looking forward to trying this. Hopefully you get free coffee shizzle due to my order.

London's best coffee http://londonsbestcoffee.com/

has come to the rescue, seems there's someplace half decent over by hampstead station rather than hampstead heath so will pass by there on the way..

http://www.gingerandwhite.com/

Ooooh

Thanks for posting.

Currently house sitting for parents in law. Have been on cafetiere/supermarket ground sludge for the last week - fucking awful, even with decent beans. Picking up my v60 from the studio today. Really missing my espresso machine.

Anywhere know if anywhere central sells these?: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hario-Decanter-Pourover-Coffee-Brewer/dp/B00755F9Z4

Bit of a dredge but thumbs up to the person who recommended the Sainsbury's Tanzanian Peabody beans as a decent supermarket bean - they nice!

How central? Bulldog Edition had some. Prufrock most likely. more central, one of the Notes maybe? I'm not sure what their retail is like.

Is anyone doing coffee shots down there? Where you draw a mugfull of coffee from a lowish coarse dose through the espresso machine. Like this. Or has that passed?

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Similar brew to aeropress or remarkably different?

How do you compress the filter to keep the grounds in place whilst your pour?

In other news @Tenderloin should be receiving his referral points soon. Both smell quite tasty. There are some really interesting options from Electric Coffee - dat website doe.

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its like you are in my kitchen right now

;) Cheers dude!

@amey samsies

I think it's quite nice and a good price to boot.

its like you are in my kitchen right now

Mebbe I am.....

Yes, similar to a long brew from the aeropress. I've been getting geeky with a refractometer today and found I'm not getting close to the very high extraction levels that are supposedly the point of this method, but still it's very sweet, nicely complex and has loads of body like a french press but without the grit. It's quite a revelation, well it was in 2013 apparently.

Did this come through the letterbox? Think I ordered mine to my mums by mistake and she's on holiday....

Nope. Someone was home. Those two bags would not have fit.

Amazing - you would think that some mail order coffee company would work out how to post their stuff in something letterbox sized. It's easily the most malleable and durable foodstuff you could post.

There's a bacon place that does this - https://www.cureandsimple.com/get-started/#Delivery

We need that. For coffee.

pact do it, and another company I can't name off the top of my head...

Googling it, seems quite a lot of companies do it.

Surprised electric aren't on that tbh.

Sounds good but likely hard for home coffee heads to replicate you think?

EK43 & commercial machine vs MC2 & Classic. Infact, I wouldn't waste my time dialling out the MC2 from where it is to get to a much coarser grind so it'd have to be Porlex hand ground instead.

Oh yes, you're absolutely right, this whole method depends on exploiting hi-tech kit. I made a cafetiere to benchmark the coffee shot against and the cafetiere was nicer.