Coffee

Monofletch said:
The Dragon System is over $300!!!! :eek:
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That's nothing compared to what I see people pay for mills and brewers. A Technivorm Moccamaster costs about that and to some people, I'm sure that $300
is a cheap price to pay for the privilege of fussing and obsessing over their cup of Joe. :D

Heck, some people pay a lot more for a pocket knife that they will never use.
 
Monofletch said:
I swear officer......it's a coffee maker!
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:D

Here's another coffee maker. It must be for making coffee. I can't imagine what other use it could have.


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I ran out of coffee last week and went to Whole Foods on a whim. It's been about a year since I was last there. I wanted to see if anything had changed. No, still a monumental ripoff. I paid $27 for a pound of coffee. The coffee is good, actually it's awesome. I'll buy from the distributor next time.
 
A lady on my mail route gets me a bag of it every year for the Holiday Season. It is really good coffee. Smells up my mail truck all day.
 
sixspeeddreams said:
picked up a chemex
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Some fun looking toys you have!:thumbup:

alfred mcdougal said:
I ran out of coffee last week and went to Whole Foods on a whim. It's been about a year since I was last there. I wanted to see if anything had changed. No, still a monumental ripoff. I paid $27 for a pound of coffee. The coffee is good, actually it's awesome. I'll buy from the distributor next time.
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That must be some gourmet stuff.:eek: $27.00 a pound costs more than a lot of the fresh roasted specialty coffee. Nice to know it tastes great.:thumbup:
 
PrimitiveEnergy said:
Some fun looking toys you have!:thumbup:



That must be some gourmet stuff.:eek: $27.00 a pound costs more than a lot of the fresh roasted specialty coffee. Nice to know it tastes great.:thumbup:
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full price from my local roaster is like 14-20 bucks a bag, do you still have the bag the only way i could justify spending that much is if it was a gesha
 
PrimitiveEnergy said:
Blade and Brew of the day!

Three Sisters Forge Beast and Sight Glass Colombian El Meridiano, Tolima.
Location: ASOCEAS Cooperative. Herrera, Tolima.
Altitude: 1500-1900 masl.
Varietal/Processing: Caturra and Typica. Washed.
Tasting notes: "Notes of apple, fresh cherries, and balanced by flavors of red grape and ripe plum."
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I just have to ask. How do you get the taste of apples, cherries, grape and plum out of a cup of coffee? Or any of the other variations you have described?
 
David Stifle said:
I just have to ask. How do you get the taste of apples, cherries, grape and plum out of a cup of coffee? Or any of the other variations you have described?
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Yeah you haft to acclimate your platte a bit, but generally you can taste differences, more so in certain methods then others. Pour-over your going to get very strong very different flavor profiles, espresso straight will have differences too, milk of any sort will cut the really intense flavors though
 
David Stifle said:
I just have to ask. How do you get the taste of apples, cherries, grape and plum out of a cup of coffee? Or any of the other variations you have described?
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I always wondered that too. Personally, if I wanted fruit salad, I would buy fruit salad. What I really want is a good cup of Joe.

The same goes for wine. To me, it's just sour grapes. :D
 
David Stifle said:
I just have to ask. How do you get the taste of apples, cherries, grape and plum out of a cup of coffee? Or any of the other variations you have described?
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The tasting notes in quotes are what their companies official taster, cupper, roaster, or owner says what their bean extraction/drink "remind" them of. My opinions are the ones not in quotes and sometimes with certain beans I can reproduce some of their roaster's profiles .

I am forgetting a lot but some factors include:
1. Beans: Varieties, altitude, country, location, farm, lot, farmer, season, ripeness, process washing and drying, storage.
2. Roast: Roasting at different times and temperatures.
3. SO or Blends: Single origin beans which is 1 bean from 1 farmer/lot roasted the same way every time or a blending of several beans which can be roasted at different roast profiles for each kind of bean.
4. Grind: Grind particle size and distribution will have a big effect on flavor and extraction.
5. Brew/Extraction: Combining many steps to produce the profiles you want, which include dose amount, grind size, porta filter preparation, BAR pressure, brew temperature, extraction time, extraction amount.
 
UffDa said:
I always wondered that too. Personally, if I wanted fruit salad, I would buy fruit salad. What I really want is a good cup of Joe.

The same goes for wine. To me, it's just sour grapes. :D
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A lot of people turn fruity espressos into cappuccinos which I guess taste like a dessert drink.
 
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