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- Manveer
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Re: Coffee
I aeropressed some coffee this morning. I must've messed up, because it was unimpressive.
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Re: Coffee
I like the taste of coffee but I don't enjoy drinking hot beverages of any kind. What's the best way to get into cold brewed coffee?
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I did this: http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/ho ... ew_coffee/Hamburgerfan wrote: ↑Sat Sep 30, 2017 7:56 pm I like the taste of coffee but I don't enjoy drinking hot beverages of any kind. What's the best way to get into cold brewed coffee?
Turned out pretty good IMO. Hard to mess up.
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Re: Coffee
You have to start with great beans. A good brew method, aeropress won't make unimpressive beans or grind awesome.
1) coffee bean
2) grind
3) brew
focus on those in that priority for good coffee
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I got the beans from a coffee shop that I like. I like their pourovers quite a bit. So I could've messed up the grind and the brew. I have an old blade grinder, so the particle size distribution is pretty wide. Probably gonna get a manual burr grinder. Brew - yeah, I probably didn't do a good job. Followed instructions that came with the Aeropress just as a starting point.
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I once bought a manual burr grinder. Now I have an electric one.Manveer wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2017 10:50 amI got the beans from a coffee shop that I like. I like their pourovers quite a bit. So I could've messed up the grind and the brew. I have an old blade grinder, so the particle size distribution is pretty wide. Probably gonna get a manual burr grinder. Brew - yeah, I probably didn't do a good job. Followed instructions that came with the Aeropress just as a starting point.
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The electric is like.....THREE times bigger than the manual. And way smaller than a microwave.
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French press is my go to for cold brew. Fill it up with coffee and water, leave it in the fridge, covered, overnight, press it out in the morning.Hamburgerfan wrote: ↑Sat Sep 30, 2017 7:56 pm I like the taste of coffee but I don't enjoy drinking hot beverages of any kind. What's the best way to get into cold brewed coffee?
I'm not nearly as fussy as most of these guys, but it seems like cheaper/not great coffee turns out much better cold brewed. FWIW, I drink Bustelo out of my drip coffee maker most mornings. I use the "1-4 cup" setting even though I'm making 8 cups, which makes for more water to bean contact time. That's the extent of my fanciness.
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Yeah, your grind is probably off. Those blade grinders suck (sorry, namaste).Manveer wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2017 10:50 amI got the beans from a coffee shop that I like. I like their pourovers quite a bit. So I could've messed up the grind and the brew. I have an old blade grinder, so the particle size distribution is pretty wide. Probably gonna get a manual burr grinder. Brew - yeah, I probably didn't do a good job. Followed instructions that came with the Aeropress just as a starting point.
Try the "inverted method".
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Aeropress is nice. I personally find that using a metal screen instead of a paper filter produces a much better cup. Those oils, baby. Can't have them getting absorbed in the paper.
Also, I use the inverted methods.
The rare times I am at home, I use a battered old Cuisinart espresso machine.
For beans, my preferences run strongly to Central American wet process.
I love East African dry process stuff flavor wise, but for whatever reason, my stomach won't tolerate such beans, and it makes me sad.
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It is in fact pretty awesome to do, if you've got the space to do it. I am currently in a tiny one room-ish apartment, and even air-pop roasting isn't worth it. But roasting your own beans makes for amazing cofffee, just how you want it.SpinyNorman wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2017 5:13 pmIf it's ridiculous, them I'm pretty fucking happy to be ridiculous. It's well worth roasting your own beans.Manveer wrote: Roasting your own beans is ridiculous, right? Seems like something I shouldn't do myself.
Browse around this site. http://www.SweetMarias.com Be warned, there is a ton of cool coffee shit to buy from them. It's worth it.
I bought a behmor coffee roaster a couple years ago. It will do up to a pound at a time and is pretty easy to use.
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For manual grinders, this one is pretty nice. https://www.sweetmarias.com/product/har ... offee-mill
I bought it for my travel set up and I like it better than the other more expensive one I have. I have an electric grinder for everyday use.
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Thanks!SpinyNorman wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2017 4:47 amFor manual grinders, this one is pretty nice. https://www.sweetmarias.com/product/har ... offee-mill
I bought it for my travel set up and I like it better than the other more expensive one I have. I have an electric grinder for everyday use.
Yeah, I won't be making more than one cup at a time. Pretty much just for myself, and not even every day.
One guy in the Amazon reviews for that grinder said he hooked up a hand drill to it for larger batches. Ha.
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That's what I thought when I bought mine. Then you have several overnight guests who all want a couple cups of coffee in the morning and you can't grind AND make breakfast at the same time, so you pass the grinder to your guests and tell them they have to grind their own coffee and they look at you like you're some kind of freak and you feel like an idiot and they never visit you again and you don't have any friends anymore even though now you have an electric grinder that one time was enough to scare them away forever but at least you cook on a grill like a real man.
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So it's a feature, then.Root wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2017 7:00 amThat's what I thought when I bought mine. Then you have several overnight guests who all want a couple cups of coffee in the morning and you can't grind AND make breakfast at the same time, so you pass the grinder to your guests and tell them they have to grind their own coffee and they look at you like you're some kind of freak and you feel like an idiot and they never visit you again and you don't have any friends anymore even though now you have an electric grinder that one time was enough to scare them away forever but at least you cook on a grill like a real man.
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Ha. I'll just pick up some ground coffee in advance. Unless you are the guest. Then you can hand grind your own. And enjoy some kind of sous vide animal protein afterwards.Root wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2017 7:00 amThat's what I thought when I bought mine. Then you have several overnight guests who all want a couple cups of coffee in the morning and you can't grind AND make breakfast at the same time, so you pass the grinder to your guests and tell them they have to grind their own coffee and they look at you like you're some kind of freak and you feel like an idiot and they never visit you again and you don't have any friends anymore even though now you have an electric grinder that one time was enough to scare them away forever but at least you cook on a grill like a real man.
The other thing is I always wake up before my wife, so I can't have a loud ass grinder going. The manual grinders are quieter.
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