Coffee Appreciation

should turn out to be an interesting couple of weeks for me coffee wise.

expecting delivery of 1.5kg across 4 kinds of union roasted coffees today and whilst i was in edinburgh i also popped into artisan roast and grabbed a bag of this

http://www.artisanroast.co.uk/products/zamorana

and one of this

http://www.artisanroast.co.uk/products/janszoon

and my other union order is coming before christmas.

so 3kg of 6 kinds of coffee to get through

if i die of a heart attack over the holidays please ensure i'm buried with my chris king tamper please.

I'm going to keep some of my 1kg of Union in the freezer when it arrives. Did this recently when I was off the coffee due to an ear infection, and it came out as good a it went in.

does anyone here use the handpresso more than once in a blue moon? I'm safely installed in Auckland now and missing my home machine already. Wondering whether to pay out for one over the more common aeropress solution...

5 days a week, once a day. Going on 2 years now. I sound like fucking Jacqueline McCafferty.

I'm going to keep some of my 1kg of Union in the freezer when it arrives. Did this recently when I was off the coffee due to an ear infection, and it came out as good a it went in.

Does this really work? Have wondered it before myself.

Post #285 of this very thread from coffee guru bombcup

Yeah freezer is good because the conditions are totally inert. Lots of blind cupping has been done comparing beans frozen for up to 3 months with fresh beans and it has mostly been impossible to differentiate.

Freeze your beans in bags containing a weeks supply so you can just remove what you need. Allow them to reach room temp before use, standard freeze only once rule applies.

Well worthwhile if you have sporadic access to fresh beans or if you home roast. (did I just admit that?)

This really confuses me.

Tell me about it, you'd think it'd taste like shit but it's surprisngly nice.

Good to see you on here, Chuggers...
#og

#wordisbondhomie

5 days a week, once a day. Going on 2 years now. I sound like fucking Jacqueline McCafferty.

Thanks Scarlett :)

I know it's a coffee thread, but your post is missing some 't'.

needed extra caffeine boost before i left the house this morning so quickly knocked up my first cup of this from artisan roast

http://www.artisanroast.co.uk/products/zamorana

was literally the first shot out of the bag so left the grinder on the same setting i'd been using for some square mile jirmiwachu that i'm trying to finish off but despite that I got a decent coffee out of it. I didn't have time to hang about as I needed to head to work so i knocked it back without really savoring it but when i was finished I got a massive taste of toffee on the back of my tongue, for a few seconds it was exactly like sucking on one of those toffee penny sweets you get in christmas chocs (roses/quality st) looking forward to having a proper play with it now. shame 250g bags don't give much wiggle room for experimenting.

Sounds great, must be worlds apart from the Jirmiwachu. How you brewing it?

gaggia classic, 19g in double basket think i got about 38g of coffee in about 25s

will likely tighten the grind a notch or two on the micro side of my vario to slow it a little more and try reduce the output to 32g in 26s

You're using filter beans for espresso? Treat them babies to a pourover! (Unless you meant to link to an espresso roast but I can't find one)

Right- what coffee related things should I get my father for Christmas?

I got him a Porlex grinder last year (and small electric mocha pot/espresso machine thing) and I've got him 6 monhts of Union beans for his birthday (6 days before Christmas).

Right- what coffee related things should I get my father for Christmas?

I got him a Porlex grinder last year (and small electric mocha pot/espresso machine thing) and I've got him 6 monhts of Union beans for his birthday (6 days before Christmas).

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^ & ^^ is that a case of the answer coming before the question?

More beans; or some socks, or a keyring.

Maybe a biorhythms calculator.

I got him a copy of your book- maybe you could quickly write another one about coffee ?

Hi all, not sure if this is the appropriate place to post this so bear with me, I've an abundance of coffee sacks free for collection from Caravan Kings Cross coffee roastery. First come first served basis, ask for Sam, cheers!

I got him a copy of your book- maybe you could quickly write another one about coffee ?

Well, I did it. Quite an intense 20 minutes, and I'm almost taken aback by the force of the prose, but I've decided this isn't the right time to publish. Sorry.

You're using filter beans for espresso? Treat them babies to a pourover! (Unless you meant to link to an espresso roast but I can't find one)

it was intended for the aeropress at work but the tasting notes intrigued me so i thought i'd have a crack, I like lighter roasts so it works pretty well for me I think.

Reg Barber tampers are a metric fuckton better than those Rapha Chris King ones!

How good does a tamper need to be FFS?

http://shop.squaremilecoffee.com/products/jirmiwachu-espresso

opened a bag of this, this morning. very nice. the strawberry milkshake thing is spot on.

Hatbeard rating 8.5/10

just finished a bag of this, don't really rate it at all. I think I like something darker roasted than this, find it a bit weak and lacking depth of flavour.

£15, you could kill someone with it it's so hefty, it's even got a picture of a cat on it...