Coffee Appreciation

What are the cheapest beans you're willing to pay for? Bonus points if I can get them off the internet in decent quantities or in a supermarket. I'll have no income in a few months and want to a) save money now and b) figure out which cheap coffee I like most. At the moment I'm drinking the Lidl beans.

Sainsbury's Tanzanian Peaberry Coffee < I pick this up every now and then. Worth a shot and sometimes on offer at £2.50-£3.00 a bag I think.

Costco Columbian Supremo £9.50 / 900g?

I'm sure there's a killer 100% all the time works pourover method. And I'm sure it's been written on here.

Can someone point me to it again please? I thought it was somany grams per litre, bloom for 30 seconds, throw some more water on the grounds, done.

But I bet it's more complicated than that

Here's one:

https://youtu.be/c0Qe_ASxfNM

PLEASE! use a spoon

the hot coffee enema bit in Green Wing is one of the funniest comedy sketches I've seen. but C4 are cunts and won't let you view the youtube clip in the UK like it makes the slightest fucking difference to their profits.

S02 e07 if you want to 'purchase' or have access on one of the streaming services.

Heh. Nice method but his explanation of the chemistry of bubbles forming during wetting of grounds is dubious... CO2 released? Surely its not simply the air pockets between grounds being displaced and forced to the surface of the liquid...

I was under the impression that's proven and not just an assumption? I thought that's why you'll see many more bubbles during the bloom with freshly roasted coffee, because there's more CO2 to still be released than older coffee, where there is less.

Same reason freshly roasted coffee can almost be slightly fizzy right @StevePeel?

Edit: Or is this another of the brewing myths that's been repeated so many times it's become an accepted pseudoscience?

Well, there ya go, I'm happy to be educated!

Thanks for this.

Big double thumbs up to these - very tasty beans.

Haha so am I! So I'm curious if it's not actually true. I've definitely read it many times and been told it at cuppings etc but I'm also aware that a lot of opinions are often spoken as fact too.

oatly

without all the cuddly marketing bullshit that makes me puke

This. My wife uses the stuff with coffee, by the gallon I think judging by the number of empties I find here & there. I think the blurb on the boxes is extra abrasive on my brain because I know it's all made up by some dorky Swede(s) who thinks they're really cool and good at English.

Anyone recommend me some beans to try? Some for pour overs and some for espresso.

thnx

they finally make it to a 3rd-wave coffee shop which serves a decent looking coffee and they even say "wow this is a great coffee" only to go on to complain it wasn't hot enough

This is what my parents/mother-not-in-law do :/

Sometimes coffees are too cold though

I've been told that is often down to the shop just not being busy enough - machine doesn't get enough use to be properly hot.

Nah it'll be because coffee people prefer milk at <55C but customers often want >70C. Also less-experienced staff won’t be as good at hitting the temps consistently, and people will complain about too cold but rarely about too hot.

Lol.

Machines are either on, or off. If it's really busy they might run out of steam pressure. Not the other way around.

Fine, this was told to me by a barista of 40+ years.

Never had that happen in my experience. As mentioned above, it's possible for steam pressure to drop with too much use in a short period of time. But I can't see how a machine would lose temperature through lack of use.

I'm obviously no expert, just repeating what I was told based on my relating the experience of receiving cold coffees at places where the machines were clearly not constantly in use.
Any ideas on alternative reasons for this? It's happened to me often enough.

Argh, my little espresso machine is off to the doctor to patch up a leak and I'm dying from withdrawal symptoms here!

Always carry one of these in case of emergency

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