Great mug, sir!
What's your coffee today? What brew method? Photos
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It's Saturday so I'm splurging.. second Yeti 30 ounce rambler full of 43gram Don Pablo Signature blend coffee beans..... ground semi-coarse in a lovely KINGrinder K-1.
So good.... !!!!
So good.... !!!!
That's sadly true of a lot of coffee sold out there!
EclipseRedRing
I smell like a Christmas pudding
Time for the Moka pot, this time with 100% robusta from a farm in Luzon, Philippines. Very strong so some hot water added.
Good morning, coffee crew.
Starting on the new bag of Mad Priest Sloth Dispelling this morning with the french press. I ground some of the beans before bed last night.
It's 27° in Music City right now with a high around 41° today. Three Canada Geese have been hanging out by the bird feeder. They show up every year around this time. They were a little late this time around as they usually arrive in late February. At least that's been the pattern for many years now.
Have a blessed Sunday, crew.
Starting on the new bag of Mad Priest Sloth Dispelling this morning with the french press. I ground some of the beans before bed last night.
It's 27° in Music City right now with a high around 41° today. Three Canada Geese have been hanging out by the bird feeder. They show up every year around this time. They were a little late this time around as they usually arrive in late February. At least that's been the pattern for many years now.
Have a blessed Sunday, crew.
Happy Mug Ethiopia brewed in the Clever. 22° F in East Tennessee this morning, warming to a balmy 36.
it's a balmy 45F here at the moment.... high today? 59F... 91F a week from today.... Such is the Florida weather.
I added 2 grams more coffee this morning.. so 45g to around 900g of coffee... That's 20:1 if I did the math correctly. And they said we'd never use Algebra in our adult lives.
I added 2 grams more coffee this morning.. so 45g to around 900g of coffee... That's 20:1 if I did the math correctly. And they said we'd never use Algebra in our adult lives.
Superb pic, my friend.
Thanks! Sometimes I do fear I post pics that are too similar, too often. It’s been a little while so I went ahead this morning.
What glass is that? Its really nice! It makes me want to go back and get that other espresso glass I was looking at, but forget the name. It was like a whisky glass. In fact... I bet a whisky glass might even be cheaper.
Anyways a shot of the papua new guinea beans:
Into an americano in my Nescafe mug. "You're just advertising for the company" says the wife... but I enjoy the mug.
Update: I had to look it up, it was bugging me: "notNeutral vero cup"
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Snow flurries in Nashville right now, crew. 
Yep, that's the one. I have a few different colors. The rose has been sold out for a while.
Chock Full O Nuts after Mass this morning in the French Press. No math for me this morning. 2 TBS and 12 ounces of water. A touch weaker than normal in the FP but still better than the drip.
Not much sleep last night but what I did get was good. Broke out some tea for the nightcap and was wide awake until midnight. Upton's Yunnan TGFOP. Pretty good stuff but not going down that rabbit hole (again).
Not much sleep last night but what I did get was good. Broke out some tea for the nightcap and was wide awake until midnight. Upton's Yunnan TGFOP. Pretty good stuff but not going down that rabbit hole (again).
That second pic looks delicious. Wish I could figure out the "finicky-ness" of my Moka pot to make good coffee. Maybe one day.
I bought 2 Swiss Gold pour over cones maybe 25 years ago in the US. I don't think they currently are available here. I use them occasionally, but my regular daily way to brew coffee is a Kalitta Wave dripper, which makes great coffee and is widely available in the US and abroad. The key thing to great coffee at home is to buy freshly roasted whole beans and grind them daily.
EclipseRedRing
I smell like a Christmas pudding
I grind the beans just before use, use a medium grind, level the grounds but do not tamp them, boil the water before adding to the lower chamber, and use a low and slow burner heat. That is what I read on the web and it seems to work. I do not weigh the beans and just judge everything by eye - to be honest it was far too strong - I have been buzzing all day
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This is where I can't get it right. I have an old electric coil stove and have actually read that this type of burner can increase the finicky-ness of the pot- which it apparently does in my case. Mine will never boil if I use anything lower than medium. Tried that and it sat for 20+ minutes with no noise at all before I gave up. Then tried to compromise with a higher heat until it started to rumble and then bring it down and again, it just sort of quit. If I use strictly medium heat, it actually boils and doesn't come out of the spout as a nice trickle but spurts out and makes a mess if I leave the lid up to watch it. I'm convinced my old stove just goes from Boil to Quit regardless what the knobs say.
Was in a Tru by Hilton in Kansas all last week. They had free urns of Lavazza coffee downstairs. Not bad, as urn coffee went. But, I needed good stuff today.
So, I ground some La Colombe Afrique in my Javapresse grinder + made a cup in my Keurig w/an EZ Cup. Turned out oh so nice.
-Z
So, I ground some La Colombe Afrique in my Javapresse grinder + made a cup in my Keurig w/an EZ Cup. Turned out oh so nice.
-Z
Hey crew, have any of you tried this? I do enjoy the Extra Stout and the Foreign Extra from time to time, but I've never had this one.
I bet it has balls in it(snicker)! Anybody remember those, are they still a thing? Oh, it's 4% ABV, yeah that's an Irish breakfast right there!
