Coffee Appreciation

mattty: Is that your office setup? Mine is never that clean!

tommy: I still drink instant. No snobbery here, Chop.

mattty: Is that your office setup? Mine is never that clean!

Yep, from one of our Californian offices, where I was holed up the past couple of weeks. Beans were from 4 barrels, a local roaster: very nice stuff.
Software engineers can be pretty picky about their coffee...

Hand grinder and a cafetiere works for me, as long as the coffee is good.

My first espresso machine was a second hand Gaggia classic that was apparently broken. £2.50 on a new group head seal fixed it. Id say thats what probably wrong with your machine, but I guess woolworths group head seals might be slightly harder to come by.
I used a CKS manual grinder, and apart from the time it took, I was happy with it. Easy to adjust and got fine enough for espresso.
The Gaggia classics are sturdy enough and replaceable parts easy enough to find that a second hand buy shouldn't be a worry.

Yep, from one of our Californian offices, where I was holed up the past couple of weeks. Beans were from 4 barrels, a local roaster: very nice stuff.
Software engineers can be pretty picky about their coffee...

A girl who used to work at Monmouth moved back to the states and works at 4barrel, I hear they do a real nice job. San Francisco innit?

Gaggia Classic for sale too, in the public area and located N. London

http://www.toomuchcoffee.co.uk/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=8564

I go for the simple ground coffee in a bean-can approach albeit using an enamel steel pot and a bunsen burner - dump some molasses sugar in if you like it sweet and about 3-4 heaped tsps to an average mug - bring to boil a couple of times and allow to settle before pouring

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A girl who used to work at Monmouth moved back to the states and works at 4barrel, I hear they do a real nice job. San Francisco innit?

yep, it's in the mission, i stopped by there. Their roast is very good, but they pull their espresso quite short in house. Maybe it's an American thing.

A friend gave me a stovetop espresso maker last night. What a coffee, good and strong and simple, only took a couple of minutes. Easy, cheap and very enjoyable.

Hah! Just saw this, i'm still practicing them, got the whiskers looking nice and thin now =P

Teach me master.. I need to do this for Mrs brave

Step 1: Find cute bunny
Step 2: Make miky coffee
Step 2a: Read step 3 with a Cockney accent, ala Lock Stock
Step 3: Drown the fucking bunny in the fucking coffee

Sorted

He really is a bellend sometimes. I'll kick him all the way to the town hall if he doesn't.

Would this be a Brixton market license, by any chance?

A lot of good american places, and now a good few in London, pull their shots real short and gloopy using big doses (think Fernandez & Wells style). I like those big sweet flavours and heavy body, wouldn't want them all the time mind.

shots that make your eyes water :-)

and put hairs on your chest

shots real short and gloopy using big doses

yup, perfect description. made for an interesting cup, but not sure I'd want it all the time.

Well, Lewisham, don't know if that's covered by Brixton. He didn't trade again in the end, went to Wales for the Weekend. Couldn't kick him to the town hall from there.

good merging.

For those who would like some rather patronsing tutorial......

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How to Free Pour a Cafe Latte[/ame]

A lot of good american places, and now a good few in London, pull their shots real short and gloopy using big doses (think Fernandez & Wells style). I like those big sweet flavours and heavy body, wouldn't want them all the time mind.

Talking of strong and sweet, something I encountered training in Lanzarote was a super strong shot of espresso on top of a "shot" of condensed milk. Sort of looked like an inverted tiny pint of Guinness. Perfect mid ride as you get a hit of caffeine and sweet energy from the milk. It was called one thing in Lanza and when I was in Majorca the next year and tried to order it I had to describe it and it was called something else. Either way it was and is fucking 'lish!

baby guiness

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b52's, hubba hubba!

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