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I use a 20 dollar GE drip coffee maker. I threw the screen filter away and use #2 paper filters. I carefully measure the water and the coffee.
I like Peet's French roast. I buy it ground from the grocery store but you can order it batch roasted, whole bean or ground however you want directly from Peet's.
It is really good. Other Peet's coffee I like are the House Blend and Major Dickinson's Blend.
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I'm a fan of the William Spartivent Blue Mountain JAMAICAN. Picked up 3 bags recently from Costco and have had it in the past few years...packaging has changed to a chocolate brown (if you look it up on line at costco.ca)...amazing coffee...
Apparently this is another Axiomoes favorite as well...
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If you can get hold of fresh roast whole beans, go for it.
Coffee quickly looses a lot of its flavour after it is ground.
I just got back from a local roaster with 4oz each of Kenya AA and Thailand peaberry. I had some Etheopian from them last week that was amazing. There was actually a hint of blackberry to the flavour. Yum!! You will never get this from a pre-ground or mass market coffee.
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I don't use not wussy grinder. I crush those fresh beans with my bare teeth so there!
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Well, don't get TOO proud.
It's not like you crush them between your testicles.
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Tried that. Teeth give a better grind for a French press.
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Testicles give better results as that area is not as warm as the mouth (heating up the coffee beans during the grinding process is not beneficial).
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Answer: six posts
Question: How many posts does it take for Lampshade's nice coffee thread to be dragged down into the gutter.
In retrospect, it never had a chance.
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Well, Chris, it lasted longer than most threads.
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Well, Chris, it lasted longer than most threads. ... and not a single mention of hatracks. Oops.
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Well, Chris, it lasted longer than most threads. ... and not a single mention of hatracks. Oops. I'm gifting it to Bob. I think he really wants it.
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Back on track. I mostly drink Peet's. I can appreciate the differences in quality and freshness between coffees, but as long as it doesn't taste watery or overly bitter, I'll drink it. I prefer it dark. My wife and I cut back a bit so we put the coffee maker away. We now make our coffee two cups at a time with a small cone filter that sits right on top of the cups. I never measure, just eyeball the amount in the filter and pour recently boiled water over it.
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We prefer light-medium roast. ~4T coffee for 2 mugs (ie ~24 oz water), ground in our burr grinder. We've (surprisingly) been really liking the 8 O'clock beans from the grocery store. Previously, we'd been buying Caribou beans. Their Columbian is really good.
Add a ton of sugar and a gallon of cream, and I'm happy.
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Add a ton of sugar and a gallon of cream, and I'm happy.
After dinner one Christmas, years ago, my Grandma (who was in her late eighties at the time) watched me make a cup of coffee. I poured a generous amount of cream and copious amounts of sugar and Grandma remarked, "You're not making coffee, you're making syrup." She drank her's black.
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I just like a little Half & Half in my coffee. The worst is having other peoples coffee and they serve you milk with their coffee or when they say we don't have Half & Half, offer you whipping (35%) cream...uh, no thanks, I'll just drink it black instead.
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I call it melted coffee ice cream.
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Absolutely! Only half and half will do, although lately I've found the 5% cream is pretty good. The 5% seems to be available only in Canada; I haven't found it in New York.
It's very annoying if you ask for cream and you're handed milk, or worse, that awful skim stuff.
Lately I prefer the Ethiopian Yurgachef beans, which I grind as needed. Don't refrigerate the beans, which dries them out.
Sugar ruins coffee, although I admit I used it until I was in my 30s.
I use a Krupps drip coffee maker with a reusable mesh filter. As a backup, I keep a pack of the Starbucks Instant Columbian, which is amazingly good, the only instant coffee I've found that's drinkable. It's expensive, but worth it if you happen to run out of beans.
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Espresso here. One quad shot with some milk every morning, or I go through withdrawals. I usually get my beans from Paradise Roasters. The Espresso Nuevo is the one I generally buy. They roast it and ship it out within a day of ordering, and send it in a flat rate box. http://www.paradiseroasters.com/categories/Coffee/Espresso/I am currently trying a few different beans from Stumptown Roasters. They are OK, but nothing to write home about. If you guys have not tried using an Aropress, you really ought to. Way better than a french press, quick and cheap. http://www.amazon.com/Aerobie-AeroPress-...5691&sr=8-1
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What?? No Kopi Luwak drinkers?
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What?? No Kopi Luwak drinkers? If you buy it, I'll try it. I won't shell out for Blue Mountain let alone beans that have been pre-digested. Believe it or not, my local roaster actually has some. Alan. That's the Ethiopian I tried last week. It has to be the first coffee I thought I could actually drink black. I'm hoping for similar things from the two varieties I picked up yesterday.
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I just drink black, no additives Quick Trip, or the rot gut they have at work coffee.
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Fred, yes, I've had the Ethiopian black and it's good. When I run out of half & half and I don't want to go out, I have it black. I still prefer cream with it, of course.
I don't make Espresso at home, but when I go to theater or opera in the evening I get a single or double shot on the way to the theater so I won't nod off.
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I don't make Espresso at home, but when I go to theater or opera in the evening I get a single or double shot on the way to the theater so I won't nod off.
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just made some espresso and a capp with Sumatran Lake Tawar from Green Mountain. Pretty good-dark and earthy.
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Has anyone else tried one of these? I like a good cup of coffee but I'm too busy (lazy) to spend an hour prepping, pressing, and cleaning for it, so this could be what I'm looking for. Any other recommendations for coffee makers?
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I have not tried an Aeropress yet, but am looking forward to getting one to check it out.
For other coffee makers, Technivorm Moccamaster is a great drip machine, approved by SCAA (specialty Coffee Association of America)and the european equivalent because of the speed it brews a the consistent temperature during brewing. If you want super quick and easy, maybe try a Keurig.
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Has anyone else tried one of these? I like a good cup of coffee but I'm too busy (lazy) to spend an hour prepping, pressing, and cleaning for it, so this could be what I'm looking for. Any other recommendations for coffee makers? Steve - It is a wonderful device. Here's a few reviews... http://www.coffeegeek.com/reviews/vacpots/aeropress
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I think that a cup of fresh, hot coffee in my home in the morning is one of life's great pleasures.
Cuisinart drip machine, Solis burr grinder. Mesh filter. Filtered WA (soft) water. Plenty of Columbian beans. Black.
We go through a fair amount of beans, so we've been buying the Costco Columbian, which is about $6-7/lb. They actually import the beans and roast them in Seattle, so they are quite good and fresh.
We occasionally try beans from other places (Sumatra, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Kenya, et. al). But for The Daily Cuppa, we just seem to prefer Columbian. It's nice to occasionally get a bag from one of the many local roasters, but they rarely seem worth the premium over the Costco beans.
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has anyone ever tried A & P's own brand of coffee. they used to sell it unground or ground.
i bought a pound sometime in the late 60's, brought it home, ground some and made myself a cup.
i took one sip or two, and promptly threw everything away. it was horrible. it was a light roast and many of the beans were still green; it tasted very flat as if it had been ground and left on the kitchen counter for a week.
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I hear ya, Tom. Gotta take the pleasures where you can.
Medic8r Manor coffee also hails from Costco. We had been using the Dunkin Donuts blend until I tried the store brand medium roast. I forget where it hails from. Kenya, maybe?
We also drip brew through a mesh filter. I, however, appreciate the syrup variety of coffee - as described by Sean's Gram - and am enjoying trying out all of the different flavored creamers that mimic the Starbucks offerings: dolce cinnamon latte, peppermint mocha, etc.
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If you guys have not tried using an Aropress, you really ought to. Way better than a french press, quick and cheap. I made a linky!Hey, cool, that press was invented by the same guy who invented the Aerobie! Love the Aerobie.
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So, am I the only one who just uses a Krups K-cup?
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Yes, because none of the rest of us are crazy enough to pay a dollar a cup for home brewed coffee.
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.42¢.
Though I admit I don't like how un-green the process is.
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Yes, because none of the rest of us are crazy enough to pay a dollar a cup for home brewed coffee. Oh, SNAP! Wait, Mark returned serve already. Apparently his cost is the answer - in cents - to life, the universe, and everything.
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Joyce just corrected me.... we average about .50¢/cup.
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You found better prices than we did when I was buying for work. Then again, I was paying a ton of dough because I didn't really care. I think we might have been hitting $2/cup.
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Still, though....the prices seem artificially high (ummm....fixed) on K-cups.
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has anyone ever tried A & P's own brand of coffee. they used to sell it unground or ground.
i bought a pound sometime in the late 60's, brought it home, ground some and made myself a cup.
i took one sip or two, and promptly threw everything away. it was horrible. it was a light roast and many of the beans were still green; it tasted very flat as if it had been ground and left on the kitchen counter for a week. Problem 1: it was the 60s. Good coffee had not yet arrived in North America From there it could have been the blend of beans. A lot of the cheaper (house) brands mix varying amounts of Robusta beans (high yield, not so good taste) into the mix and roast the crap out of it so you don't taste much coffee. They also use C grade beans, not the premium stuff. It all affects the flavour Also, depending how long the beans sit for(months), they will lose a lot of of their flavour. Coffee snobs connoisseurs will tell you that 14 days post roast, your coffee has lost most of its flavour and should be thrown out.
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K-Cups are convenient, but we'd go broke. Julie and I brew a 12 cup carafe in the morning and go through almost all of it every day. Coffeemaker cups are 5 oz, right? Why is that, again? I think of my daily dose as two cups, but they are big cups.
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We used to use a Krups 12-cup brewer, but I've really tried to cut down on my coffee drinking. Joyce only has one cup and I sometimes have one, but usually two in the morning. Oftentimes I'll have one full-strength, and a second one is either half-caf or decaf.
I guess that's where the convenience of the K-cups comes in...
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Hey Mark, try the Jet Fuel k-cup. It has an orange lid, that is a good cup!
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Mark, apparently neither you nor JP need a man card.
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I earn mine where it matters, buddy!
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Hey Mark, try the Jet Fuel k-cup. It has an orange lid, that is a good cup! Thanks for the tip! I'll have to try it out! Jet Fuel coffee, huh? THAT sounds man-card-worthy, doesn't it?
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When you guys say K-cups I'm thinking of something else.
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I didn't think bra size letters went up that high.
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When I close my eyes they do.
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Hey Mark, try the Jet Fuel k-cup. It has an orange lid, that is a good cup! I ordered some Jet Fuel and really like it! Thanks for the tip!
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No problem Mark, it is my favorite so far.
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