Coffee Appreciation

V60 jug has just cracked. This makes me sad.

Sorry it’s doaskid

I'd be interested to do a taste test with Brita water, which definitely improved our home coffees a fair bit.

When we blind A-B our filter coffee between straight tap water and RO it’s either unanimous or only just short between the staff preferring the RO brew. We usually expect about 60% when we open it up to customers.

Hoffmann did a video of this (of course)

Didn't know who that was. Thanks. Will watch.

steveissexeh worked earlier here!

Haha

The main reason we started using a water filter for our coffee was because I always made good coffee when at my parent's house in Suffolk but could never recreate it at home in London. After ruling out the coffee itself and making sure I was using same grind, quantities and timings, water was the only major variable left. A Brita filter isnt a magical solution but it has certainly helped.

Forgot to say, the weird thing is that the water at my Mum and Dad house is much more chlorinated than London tap water. Being a coffee pleb, I expected the chlorine to affect the brew more than I found it did. Perhaps most of it gets boiled off

Assembly, round hill, James gourmet. Three best roasters in the country imo.

Also caravan, Rave, Colonna, Climpsons, plot, curve, hasbean are all very good

It will be close, but the peak should have more clarity of flavour and acidity with better sweetness

Your tap must be fairly low in tds/minerals then, or the mix on your RO is quite high?

Yeah it’s very volitile and dissipates quickly. Still best to filter that and other flavour taints out

Ah awesome, I'm going to knock these off one by one. The only one I've tried is hasbean!

Exactly what I was after. Thanks

Bailies in Belfast have some great coffees too. They also do the beans for Coffee Angel in Dublin

Any non glass alternatives to glass pour over servers? I've broken 3 now. I've got the Hario Heat Resistant metal one as well, but it's a pain to clean.

So looking for something easy to clean, that a V60 will sit on top of and serve coffee from, bonus if it looks nice.

I had the same problem looking for a commercial solution. This isn’t that helpful but I got a potter to make these ceramic carafes. The heavy clay and narrow neck keeps it warm, the rim is the right size for a v60 cone.

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Good shout @StevePeel, glad I'm not the only clumsy one here :D

By putting away the £ I used to spend on shit coffee and bacon sandwiches in the cafe at work and falafel wraps from Falafel King on Euston Road on a Friday I think I’ll have a £200-250 budget for espresso grinder to use with a Gaggia Classic in a few more weeks?

Is the Sage for £175 going to be bettered by anything?

I did not know that. And I've been drinking both for years

For that money I'd keep my eyes open for a lightly used Eureka Mignon. The sage is ok but it's pretty plasticky. Mignons seem to come up for sale a lot as people buy them as a first 'good' grinder then upgrade quickly once the bug bites them.

Should I have added “without resorting to coffee forums”?

Is that too bitter a pill to swallow?

I think I got my Sage "Smart Grinder Pro" for closer to £100 than to £200 so maybe search around for a deal or wait for a 20% off eBay code or something. I like it because it has a nice screen and as a total novice it's handy that I can quantify what I'm doing. But I couldn't say whether the actual coffee is any good...