Coffee Appreciation

Yeah wasn’t a price thing - if it were a bigger bag I’d make the journey down but I’ll leave it to a local. Great beans tho

Ah gotcha.

No worries - hopefully someone closer by might be interested?

Apparently Dalgona Coffee is the new internet craze. It's equal parts instant coffee granules, sugar and hot water, whisked for a couple of minutes and it goes weirdly frothy. Texture-wise it's a bit like a cross between nicely foamed milk and angel delight. You then spoon it on top of hot or cold milk. I tried making it and it does work, but the end result is just a super-bitter, slightly sweetened, not-very-nice coffee foam. It's drinkable with enough milk, and might work as an interesting ingredient (in a semifreddo maybe), but generally worth giving a miss.

I haven't had instant coffee in my house for a decade at least.
Sounds awful though, thanks for the review

Yeah, I keep some in for decaf, because I can't be bothered having 2 different bags of actual coffee beans and wouldn't get through them fast enough. Dalgona isn't even a good way of drinking instant though.

I'd imagine that the barn don't roast particularly dark even for espresso so they'd taste pretty damn good for filter anyway!

Probably by most standards but I find a fair amount of supposedly "roast for filter" stuff a bit on the dark side for my tastes...

Can't bring myself to drink real top end beans which I find overroasted.

I tried this today with Lavazza instant, made a mess, didn't froth. Tried again with mother-in-law's Lyons, frothed, but results just as you describe. Will not bother again.

I know a way you can make those beans into a super-bitter, slightly sweetened, not-very-nice coffee foam

Ha. Although do you really? I read your drink as requiring instant, not this analog unground bean stuff...

Sorry it wasn’t me, just copypasted that line as I found it quite funny.

It's ok!

I didn't want to make it anyway.....

I want to drink this but can't find a UK seller. Any suggestions?

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So I got the Hario Mini Slim Pro Plus.
Perfect size for my needs, but beyond that I wouldn't recommend it at all. Annoying, tinny little thing. You can't replace the burrs so when it looses it's grinding power the whole thing will need to go into the recycling.
The actual burrs are pretty good though so I'd still be open to considering other Hario products.

Here’s a question. I’m running out of “‘coffee water’” that my local coffee shop would give me (just tap water thats been run through R.O with something like 20% bypass). I could buy some bottled water but I don’t really like doing that. Or I could buy a filter, which I might do at some point. But I have water butts in my garden that have been collecting rainwater. Obviously…this water is not drinkable in its current form, but I have some time on my hands (…) what would I need to do to it to render it drinkable? Boil it for a few minutes? A google suggests this would work but am I overlooking something? (yes, I am overlooking something; the kitchen tap, but aside from that)

Can't help with that particular coffee liqueur but I know the Whisky Exchange stock Mr. Black which is a similar product from Australia.

I've never owned one, but have friends who do and worked in a place that sold them. Always felt a bit low-quality to me. I've got a few other Hario products (kettle, siphon) and they perfectly fine, but the plasticy grinders always felt a level below in terms of quality.

If you're looking for a replacement, I'd go Porlex.

Is anyone else drinking a buttload of coffee at the minute? wfh means I have access to nice coffee and I'm drinking @CYOA levels rn!

I'm conciously doing the opposite. Controlling my intake to a v60 a day so I don't go mental and drink it all. So far, so good. It probably won't last thought!

tbf I've cut right down. I now do about 30-35g in the morning and have it in a flask (think it's 400-500ml - can't recall. Klean Kanteen thing). And, generally, that's it.

If Dani fancies a cup I'll do enough for an extra cup and foam some milk for her. Very occasionally if we're exhausted by kiddo we'll do another 35g in the afternoon and share it but certainly a lot less than the old litre in the morning followed by another brew later. The main revelation has been using my flask indoors rather than a mug - keeps it perfect temp rather than the Technivorm which, although it doesn't do a bad job at insulation, definitely only really has 2 hours absolute tops of nice drinking temp. There was definite wastage if I forgot about it. My flask meanwhile is bang on for the 4 hours or so I sip it over. After this time I tend to switch to water only.

csb

Going through a bag of cheapo Aldi beans in less than a week here. 2-4 coffees a day.

More of a problem is the amount of oat milk we're getting through

get a bwt mg+ jug and use the tap

You watched that bon appetit video too?

What espresso makers do people use? New to this so want something easy to use, small footprint. Don't need anything fancy at this stage.