Coffee Appreciation

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What do people do when you're in a coffee shop and you've just been served a cup of steaming mud water?

Ask for another, have a glass of water instead, or just sit and drink it, while seething internally?

Send it back!

I think the key is to try and avoid buying a coffee unless you know it won't be shit tbh.

There is a JH video about drinking shit coffee, something about helping you appreciate good coffee, but as someone who tries to keep it to 1 or 2 cups a day, I'm not that keen on wasting a precious cup on mud water!

What do people do when you're in a coffee shop and you've just been served a cup of steaming mud water?

I'd ask @Sumo or @mmccarthy to pour it away and go make me another one.

try and avoid buying a coffee unless you know it won't be shit

This. If I've any doubts I don't even try.

Yeah I think sending it back will potentially just make the staff feel like shit.
Unless it’s a good cafe that you’ve had good coffee from before and have now been served a shit one. Actually I still wouldn’t say anything.

Looool very good.

That's all you're allowed

Yeah I think sending it back will potentially just make the staff feel like shit.

What about the poor bloody customer?!? Are you British by any chance? 😆

Anyone tried any beans from Colonna?

Yep - their rare ranges are lovely. I haven’t tried the others for a while

Cafe near me uses Colonna. Always good.

Feel like there are more Niche availability each week these days!

Just got my shipping notice this morning - was expecting July, but coming tomorrow. I haven’t had an availability notice since I ordered one, which is nice of them too! They must be satisfied enough of demand to be scaling up production.

Yeah just realised mine is arriving today!

New grinder day here too. Timemore c2, £40 from AliExpress, took a week to come - seems like a great deal tbh.

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I’ve been grinding through some shit/random old beans I had in the back of the cupboard to break the new grinder in after my first cup was a bit lack lustre (had a decent layer of sludge on top) and read that it usually takes about a kg of beans to take the really sharp edges off the burrs, and after that the fines should decrease. First cup wasn’t exactly bright.

A slightly related question is, should I rinse the grounds if I want to use them in compost? Caffeine not being great, or am I overthinking it?

Everyone I know just dumps the used stuff in, their gardens don’t seem to suffer for it.

Anyone that's been wondering about adjusting the pressure off their Gaggia Classic, I can totally recommend the Shades of Coffee kit, takes like 5 mins to fit, and the 9 bar spring has made a huge difference. It's now way more consistent, with virtually no channeling, and a good amount of crema.

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Aye, but my question is really about unused grounds. I've just smashed a load of old/undrinkable beans through the grinder to break the grinder in, but it seems really wasteful to bin them, but I also don't want to shag my plants with a potential contaminant.

I'm probably overthinking it, and will likely just add a load of boiling water to them and pour off the water to be sure.

Ah sorry, misunderstood.

Good to keep away slugs, cats etc and that amount shouldn’t do much harm

New kettle day.

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