Coffee Appreciation

Aim for 18-20g of coffee in the portafilter, ground fine enough so that it extracts on 25-35 seconds.

A soggy puck probably indicates too little coffee or ground a bit course.

Talk to me about cold brew.
I have a 1 ltr bodum press, was thinking 80g coffee, half fill, stir, top up with water, put in the fridge, stir after a couple of hours, leave it for 24 hrs, plunge, drink.
Sound about right?

Sound about right?

I go for 7:1, so 100g coffee, 700ml water then brew it for about 6 hours. I’ve found that you can overextract cold brew if you give it too long, you get a flat papery aftertaste.

Think forum advice is 60g/l? (Edit, missed ^ reply, @StevePeel knows coffee much better than I do!)

I leave mine out of fridge in cool place for the brewing overnight not 24h, don't plunge just pour v.slowly through v60 filter then refrigerate.

I also found that the coffee tasted good anyway so stopped worrying about it.

This!

Anyone want a Rhino Hand Grinder for £20?

Its barely been used in anger, I bought it to use at work, but it wasn't ideal for our small open plan office so its sat in a drawer for months.

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@danslecarton?

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14200786/

@mmccarthy thanks, I'll happily take it!

I let it brew for 24h and it was quite nice. But I don't know how proper cold brew tastes so who am I to judge?

Send me a PM and we can work it out

Hahaa! I've killed two birds with one stone. Been after a better/quieter grinder than the isomac for a while and also wanted an espresso machine for our family summer house. Had a lazy look at the local classifieds and boom! Lightly used rancilio silva + rocky for not much money. Setting the silva up at the summer house with the isomac grinder and taking the rocky grinder + stainless base with knock box and drawer back home after the weekend. No more crap coffee when we're on holiday 👍

Don't worry about it.

A wet puck is no indication of a quality, or not, espresso.

Decided not to worry about it. Thanks. I've also just learned that naively googling 'brasilia lady parts' turns up some interesting stuff.

Are you around next Saturday? If I brought in a sample of my local water could you tell me if the BWT softening system would work?

I have to be just off Whiteladies road early afternoon so was thinking of coming to your place beforehand.

I'm looking to sell my La Pavoni Europiccola and was wondering if anyone could give me a rough idea what its worth? I know there are threads for item valuation but thought it might be best just to come straight here.

It seems in reasonable condition. I don't have a coffee tamper so can't say I've ever made any decent espresso with it! I also only have a single portafilter for it.

Apologies if this isn't the right place to ask!
Cheers.

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interested pending price...

wet puck is no indication of a quality, or not, espresso.

Weirdly the era of soggyness has ended since I asked about it. New (to me) grinder and larger amount of coffee per shot may have contributed. Caved and actually used kitchen scales a few times to see if I was close to 20 grams in the basket - I wasn't. More like 15 grams.

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Ancoats boxes make ideal travel organisers...

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My office has boiling water taps that aren't quite boiling. With all things being equal - coffee, grind, equipment - I cannot make a coffee at work with an aeropress that tastes as good as I can at home where I have control over water temperature. Anything I can do with immersion time or grind to improve the coffee when the water is probably in the high 80s rather than 95 degrees or so? No matter what coffee I use it all just kinda tastes the same. At home that is absolutely not the case.

Coldbrew prep Mon for Tues etc?

Bring a small electric kettle in?

We have those - I fill up a jug first and then weigh beans, grind etc by the time I come to Bloom the grounds I feel like the water has decreased to a reasonable temp. Could use a thermapen for more accuracy

@HatBeard did you say you had tools for the Vario barataza?

Yeah I think this is gonna be the only option but it's a bit much, ha.

@Tenderloin I wish it was that way around.. the water is too cool not too hot unfortunately.

We have one of those at work as well. I've found that increasing volume of coffee and/or steep times helps but ours comes out fairly hot. Have you tried different beans? I find that some beans work well where as others never give a good cup but I guess if your water isn't that hot you're always going to have trouble.