Coffee Appreciation

really? i can't say i'm gripped.

likening a hot drink to a fairly complex machine that has to cope with physical stress and speed is interesting.

you can have it chilled, too.

coffee snobbishness is for bedwetters, when Gareth Hunt got his Nescafe out I bet he wasn't thinking about filter gauge or roasting depth.

he just wanted to insert his penis into that woman's vagina.

It's not snobbishness, it's enthusiasm I read recently (DC confidential, British Ambassador to Washington's memoirs) that visiting big wigs get served Nescafe at number ten. How embarassing.

Gareth Hunt is the personification of his own rhyming slang.

Anthony Stewart Head is the daddy.

and his brother, Richard.

yeah he's still there I think. Really small place, looks like it's been there since the dawn of time? Will drop by there this week or next to get some coffee, just have to finish what I've started at home

It's still there, still roasting!

likening a hot drink to a fairly complex machine that has to cope with physical stress and speed is interesting.

Oh? And have we had a look at the insides of espresso maker anytime recently?

Popped down to Monmouth Coffee in Borough this PM to pick up some beans. Felt like a proper cunt - plenty other cosmopolitan young things hanging round drinking coffee with their fixie bikes, taking furtive glances at each other. It's not such a statement purchase in Tescos. These beans better'd be good, Bill.

Furtivenger.

Gareth Hunt is the personification of his own rhyming slang.

Anthony Stewart Head is the daddy.

I remember this silly ad, it was right after the "Les Francais adorent le Piat d'Or"
I don't think a single French person has ever hear of Piat d'Or plonk... and coffee granules, wow! what a step forward ;)

Popped down to Monmouth Coffee in Borough this PM to pick up some beans. Felt like a proper cunt - plenty other cosmopolitan young things hanging round drinking coffee with their fixie bikes, taking furtive glances at each other. It's not such a statement purchase in Tescos. These beans better'd be good, Bill.

Jim, monmouth organic espresso blend is the only thing that graces my coffee machine - - fookin gawwwjusss

Oh? And have we had a look at the insides of espresso maker anytime recently?

whether we have or whether we haven't matters not : coffee, not the machines that make it, was in question.

whether we have or whether we haven't matters not : coffee, not the machines that make it, was in question.

But coffee is only the end result. A track bike, when used for it's traditional purpose will only give you a result in a race or training session. To compare a cup of coffee to a bike is to compare an end result to a means to gain and end result.

Jim, monmouth organic espresso blend is the only thing that graces my coffee machine - - fookin gawwwjusss
On my second cup now - fuck me it's good. Nice one, cheers for the tip all.

the aerobie is pretty good, I've had one for a year now. Good clean coffee, you don't get much crema though! Also looks a bit like a wang enlarger which is a bit odd in the kitchen! Also www.hasbean.co.uk is fucking good for beans if you can't get to monmouths. Quite expensive but it's very quick delivery and the choice is awesome

some wanker at work broke my french press :(

and all this talk of monmouth beans is giving me cravings....

Living in Stoke Newington makes is pretty simple to keep up with my addiction to Turkish coffee

I had my first Turkish coffee on Monday. What the fuck is wrong with you?

I had my first Turkish coffee on Monday. What the fuck is wrong with you?

The great thing about taste is that it is subjective. What I taste as turkish coffee might be the same thing you taste when you eat a watermelon. We'll just never know. Now, just because you didn't enjoy turkish coffee doesn't imply something wrong with me now does it?

HTFU and try again.

no, seriously, what's wrong with you?

The great thing about taste is that it is subjective. What I taste as turkish coffee might be the same thing you taste when you eat a watermelon. We'll just never know. Now, just because you didn't enjoy turkish coffee doesn't imply something wrong with me now does it?

HTFU and try again.

I'm only messing with you - although the whole experience was like drinking a cup of instant coffee that someone had made with grounds.

I'm only messing with you - although the whole experience was like drinking a cup of instant coffee that someone had made with grounds.

Then whoever made the coffee messed up. No comaprison with instant nasty stuff.
****IMHO ****

The taste is there - but why do they not filter it? Like drinking grit.

Oh, and I got a brand new Bodrum caffitere in Age concern for £2 on the weekend.

Then whoever made the coffee messed up. No comaprison with instant nasty stuff.
****IMHO ****

The taste is there - but why do they not filter it? Like drinking grit.

Ben's got it spot on here - it wasn't about the taste as such (although it's definitely an acquired one) the issue was that it was as if someone had tried to make coffee the instant way, but using grounds. As Ben says, why do they not filter it?

You're not meant to drink the grounds at the bottom. Leave it to settle before drinking, then when you tip the cup the sludge stays down. Once you've drunk all of the good stuff you then (traditionally) turn over the cup and the spent grounds are used in some sort of "reading" / fortune telling kind of thing.