Coffee Appreciation

I'm one of the few who has mentioned clevers. I use one with a mini porlex. They're a really robust method and hard to go wrong with which is a big win for me.

Been using the 70 degree setting on my kettle to heat water for the aeropress. The coffee is a bit cold but the taste is better.

Yup, we sell Upper Cups at Brooklyn. It's great as it's double walled, so will keep the coffee warmer. However the lid is more like a takeaway lid, with no closure at all, so the dregs problem is worse, if anything.
I've got one of the glass keep cups and don't find leaking to be a problem? I don't know if it's the newer lid design. I wouldn't put a full coffee in my bag, but dregs seem fine, and I use it a lot to transport yogurt/fruit breakfast (on foot, not by bike)

Nothing beats a good old fashioned thermos :)

I think the main use of Keep Cups is for the people that get a take away flat white from independant coffee shop on their way to work. They would usually get it in a paper cup, drink it on the way to the office then bin it. This way they carry the cup with them and aren't throwing a paper cup away every single day.

Yeah I get that - but it just becomes an inconvenience to carry it around after.

@dan

then this is the one for you..

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/goat-mug/goat-mug-original-goat-story-crafted-into-a-coffee

muy ridiculo

Why not buy one of those thermos desk mugs?

Or drink from a proper mug or cup, while sitting, at a table, in the cafe, as God intended.

^ this - or standing if it's cotto

Cheap digital thermometer from nesbetts is a £5...good little thermometer. It is what I use, handy in baking also. Edit - the offer has finished not so its not as cheap any more.

http://www.nisbets.co.uk/Hygiplas-Pocket-Thermometer-With-Dial/F346/ProductDetail.raction

I agree on the clever. Really rather hard to fuck up hugely, and great for getting really consistent results.

@jdp Caffenation mainly, with a few others in mind for guest!

Any users of steel Aeropress filters on here? Considering giving one a go

We use the able disk in the shop, it's let'sore fines though which works well with some coffees.

Just had this brainwave after being (a) jealous of @mmccarthy's pentagonal socket bit to attach his porlex to his drill and (b) shocked by how expensive it is. Got any of those security skewers lying around? Works puurrfect.

^ ace!

I know right. And you get three of them for £15 if you haven't got a spare skewer.

@Digger thought of it to be fair. I was skeptical that they'd be the same.

Awesome!

Top work.

^^^^^ The most LFGSSxCoffeeThread post yet!

Had a double espresso from my gaggia this morning that totally banjaxxed me. I was woozy with caffeine rush for nearly an hour. Mental.

Same dose as always, same beans. Only difference was that the boiler had been on for ages so presumably was at peak temperature.

So wobble, such whizz, wow.

I've been using an aeropress at work for ages, I love it. My colleagues think I'm nuts but it's worth the hit every morning. They say it looks like a penis enlarger. Blah blah blah.

At Collona & Smalls, had a very nice tasty Rwandan. The brew method name escapes me but it looked like a long tea strainer into a wine carrafe, fair bit of sludge got thru which encouraged very careful drinking. Amazing cakes too.

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