The Coffee Thread

[la szum]

How Does Colour Affect Taste and the Way We Eat?

Colour plays an important role in how we perceive and experience foods. But does colour affect taste and the way we eat?Click to learn more.

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It's fascinating. We eat with our eyes, too.

 

[Deleted member 472]

A must watch for any coffee nerd:

 

[Jarick]

A must watch for any coffee nerd:

Came here to post that! It's so well done I think non-coffee folks would be pretty interested.

 

[SonVolt]

I've officially switched to Japanese iced-coffee for the remainder of the summer.

 

[iaresee]

A must watch for any coffee nerd:

That was great.

We had a pair of Clovers in the office I worked in a decade ago. They were pretty cool to use. Seemed like mechancal engineering marvels. And were frequently broken.

I just ordered an April brewer to try out. The Chemex is great but I drink a lot more coffee with it since I always do a full brewer of coffee which is 400 g of water. Small brews in the Chemex definitely show the paper taste from the filters prominently.

 

[Deleted member 472]

Seemed like mechancal engineering marvels. And were frequently broken.

That was my first thought when he showed the parts diagrams. An enormous amount of parts involved for single cup brew.

 

[Deleted member 472]

Not a good year for Washed Ethiopian but my plug managed to get some of this in:

 

[iaresee]

Not a good year for Washed Ethiopian but my plug managed to get some of this in:

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This is amazing if you dig on B&W roasters. One of the few coffees I truly enjoy black.

I have become a hard core B&W Roaster fan. Much to the shock of my wallet.

 

[Aelred]

As an old Aussie living on he other side of the planet ... what on Earth is the Clean - Funky thing about?!?

I have never thought of my coffee as Funky in all my years drinking the stuff. Light - Dark I get.

 

[Deleted member 472]

I have become a hard core B&W Roaster fan. Much to the shock of my wallet.

Yeah, their stuff is fantastic. I've been ordering from them exclusively for the past two years.

 

[Deleted member 472]

As an old Aussie living on he other side of the planet ... what on Earth is the Clean - Funky thing about?!?

I have never thought of my coffee as Funky in all my years drinking the stuff. Light - Dark I get.

It's a metric Black & White uses to distinguish their roasts from say a washed (clean) to a co-ferment (funky). Clean would be closer to your traditional coffee whereas funky would be the more modern, experimental, and advanced fermentation/processing methods.

 

[Deleted member 472]

I'll also add that this particular market of coffee can be categorized into the "third wave" of coffee. A very quick watch:

 

[Jarick]

Complete overkill hotel pourover setup I'm putting together for my trip next week, but I love coffee and do not want the nasty hotel crap. Road trip, so shouldn't be too bad to pack.

Will grab a bag or two of good beans on the way out of town and then a couple gallons of filtered water along with some groceries when we get there.

Small electric kettle, this one is only about 8" tall:

Hario Switch with Mugen plastic cone. I had the Switch but got the Mugen last week. Now I have a shatter-proof Switch.

1ZPRESSO JX hand grinder which I haven't used much lately, but works great:

Timemore Basic scale which I use daily:

Enjoying a cup with this setup now and it's fantastic. Super smooth and tasty.

 

[la szum]

Nice! I have taken a Pour Over setup camping with me. Non-negotiable.

 

[iaresee]

but I love coffee and do not want the nasty hotel crap

I use it as a reason to go out and check out the local scene. Hotal coffee is uniformly putrid. Even the Four Seasons in SF served shit coffee. And a Nespresso in the room which is awful stuff.