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Confessions Of A Failed Coffee Snob
There is something I do before I ride my bike. Every day. Hell, I do it even if I'm not riding my bike. It is the first order of business at the beginning of every single day. I drink coffee. The day does not start until this is achieved. So, if I am going to be riding bikes, then it also stands to reason that drinking coffee is a crucial first step of the whole bike riding ritual.
And drinking coffee means that water must be boiled, beans ground, and... this is where things get a bit slippery.
"Failed snob" is probably throwing the wrong sort of shade on my coffee aspirations. What I need, in the silvery light of dawn, is efficiency and simplicity. Decent beans. And as little waste as possible. I'm not obsessive enough to hand grind, I don't subscribe to any coffee of the month deliveries, and I am enough of a philistine to admit enjoying maple syrup and oat milk with my morning brew. So, really, I'm not even reaching the bottom rungs of coffee snobbery's long and questionably stable ladder. But then again, I have tried French presses, stovetop percolators, mini-espresso machines, chemex, paper filter pourovers, and just about everything this side of Keurig machines (and fuck them and the garbage scow they floated in on anyway) to try and get that caffeine into me. Shit, I even own an Aeropress.
Efficiency and simplicity came calling a few months ago when Pete gifted me this 45 USD Stanley Pour Over Kit.
Stanley has been on a bit of a tear with the home goods lately, and I am not entirely sure how to feel about this. Ever since the previously unremarkable Stanley Quencher mug became the must-have unobtanium of the Barbie era, I've felt a little at odds with how workaday sensibility can become commodified into modern consumer crazes. I went through the same thing with Carhartt double front pants, and am warily eyeing the horizon with suspicion as far as snap button Wrangler shirts are concerned. I mean, more power to any brand that latches onto the comet of compulsive consumer trend buying, but it still feels a bit weird when it happens to "our" personal labels.
As far as Stanley is concerned, my first widespread exposure to the venerable brand was synchronized with my first regular exposure to coffee drinking as a morning ritual. Working construction at a job requiring us to be pounding nails by 6 am sharp, I would ride in on my motorcycle shivering with cold to be met with a tiny cup of steamy hot black rocket fuel/grinding paste poured from a battered Stanley thermos by my boss, Columbus Phipps. Back then, everyone in the trades had Stanley thermoses, not much different than the one patented by William Stanley Jr. back in 1913.
Stanley still makes thermoses and lunch pails, as well as coolers, insulated cups, just about any size or shape piece of barware you could imagine, flasks, those gigantic multi-hued sippy mugs called Quenchers, as well as this here pour over kit. I'm not bagging on the Quencher, by the way, but just to get a read into how trend culture works, that thing redefined Stanley. When the Quencher was launched in 2016, Stanley was a $70 million company. The Quencher languished at first. But influencer culture found it, Stanley slapped on some new colors and performed a bit of clever market repositioning, and it was off to the races. Stanley's annual sales are now over $750 million.
The basics. Just add hot water...
In the midst of that bonkers growth, Stanley quietly brought this pour over kit to market. It is real simple and I love it. There's a metal pour over cup with a removable, reusable filter threaded into it. You put the grounds in there around the filter, place it atop the matching, insulated mug, pour hot water over the grounds, wait, drink. Eat. Then poop. Then ride bikes. At least, that's how it happens at my house.
The filter cup holds 20oz, and the mug says 12oz but it really holds 16 if you fill it to the brim. The cups are made from 18/8 stainless steel (yay dishwasher, beware microwave!) and finished in that wrinkly textured paint that will immediately make anyone over the age of 40 think of roll your own cigarettes and shag carpet. The filter is easy to remove and clean. It's all easy to clean. The pour over mug is stable and fits over just about anything. The camp mug comes with a lid, even if the mug itself is a little too girthy to fit in car cupholders. If you don't want to drink out of a Stanley cup (cue NHL jokes here), the pour over mug and filter is available without a matching cup for 26 USD. For those of us whose aesthetic sensibilities are not mired in the Eisenhower era, there are several other colors to choose from other than Hammertone Green.
Personally, I am fine with that color. It reminds me of duck and cover drills and goes well with my Wrangler snap button shirts. There's a certain submariner charm to that green hue. It calms my soul. And it makes my Aeropress look like a cheap used sex toy.
What to ride, what to ride... Or in this case, what isn't broken today?
This is my preferred way to start the day now. Thanks Pete!
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Kelownakona
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Pour overs are great. They are not equatable at all to an aeropress.
I used to be a massive coffee snob and theres nothing better or more purist that a good pourover. Pre rinse filter paper get the grind and the temp right, run the ground beans first through to rinse them and break surface tension- its an art. Something light and slightly acidic (Ethiopian) and with a small amount of coffee you extract an amazing flavour.
Anyway I cant drink coffee or any caffeine anymore due to a bladder problem so that really effin sucks. I feel like Ive lost a limb! Try getting up in the morning and starting you day with a mint tea :(
Reading your article was like finding a lost photo of a dead relative
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BarryW
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Mmm, love a cup of mint tea.
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LAT
2 weeks, 4 days ago
I respect your opinion, but that’s the morning beverage equivalent of bringing a knife to a gunfight.
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neilBar
2 weeks, 2 days ago
I know the bladder feeling! Can you manage a decaf. Some good Columbian decaf around.
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cxfahrer
2 weeks, 4 days ago
I need 1ltr filtered coffee at least in the morning before going out.
No insulated coffee mugs, never!
My Melitta set is not pink, it is white - but if I ever find one in pink or light blue... (sorry for the size of the image)
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Dave Smith
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Techivorm MoccaMaster is lord - it even comes in Stanley green
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BarryW
2 weeks, 4 days ago
This is the way.
Best part is they’ve been in business for a long time, and make ALL the replacement parts for it so they are legitimate lifetime machines.
If you know you know.
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Dave Smith
2 weeks, 4 days ago
I'm on year 12. Might be buried with it.
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Perry Schebel
2 weeks, 4 days ago
i don't consume enough drip to justify such a device (i just rely on a minimalist hario pour-over rig for such needs), but that's a damn sweet machine.
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PowellRiviera
2 weeks, 4 days ago
I have joined the moccamaster club.
So good, bought a used one on eBay that came without carafe or filter holder. Substituted a kalita 165 for the filtering duties. It’s been an amazing coffee upgrade.
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elw
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Waaaaaaat? These things are made 250 m down the hill from me. No idea they made it out of my obscure village, let alone pond.
(Long time lurker here, just had to respond)
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Ken Kienow
2 weeks, 3 days ago
These send near-boiling hot water through a plastic filter basket, don't they? Trying to limit my "hot water run through plastics" exposure for long-term health reasons is the only reason I don't have a Moccamaster.
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PowellRiviera
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Ken, I bought a stainless steel filter basket
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Dave Smith
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Stainless basket option is out there
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Jordan Yard
2 weeks, 1 day ago
The water comes up through a copper coil, down a stainless steel channel, and the water drips directly into the coffee in the paper filter. The coffee does permeate the filter and drip through the bottom of the filter at that point, but it's not directly on plastic for a brew phase. Not the way I see it working. Aeropress is another story. I have used a Mocca Master for six years and it makes a really great cup of drip coffee. It is an exceptional product. Like an AXS Reverb dropper post.
With all the micro plastics and industrial seed oils and pharmaceutical toxins and pesticides and all the desecration of the natural world I am happy to have the Mocca master and the fine cup of coffee it brews.
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Cr4w
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Can someone walk me through how this differs all that much from a traditional coffee percolator given that the cone is still plastic. I think it's a lovely piece but fundamentally it seems like a traditional machine.
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DanL
2 weeks, 3 days ago
I got the chance to use one for 10 days solid 2-3 times a day last year at someones house and it appeared to me to be - and you longer term users please chime in - a very well made, user serviceable drip coffee machine that returned the same output based on the the same input day after day. Bikeyoke vs Reverb to make a bike analogy
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Dave Smith
2 weeks, 2 days ago
I drink 1-2 pots a day. My belief is legion.
It's not a traditional drip coffee maker. It's more like an automated pour over where the water temp is always perfect and bloom is timed just right to produce a perfect pot almost every time. Most of the serious coffee roasters/cafe owners I have met over the years had one of these hidden in the back which is what motivated me to get one.
I'm also a design nerd and have a great appreciation for the industrial design which is especially nice with the stainless carafe. I also like that the company has been around for a very long time and every part is replaceable if and when anything breaks.
A review that explains it all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD6X72bdc7c
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Cr4w
2 weeks, 1 day ago
So, respectfully, it is basically an old school percolator done right?
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BarryW
2 weeks ago
Not even a little bit.
In a percolator the coffee is cycled over and over through the grounds until you get to the desired strength. Leading to less exact and controlled extraction.
This is a perfectly temp controlled pour-over with also perfectly temp controlled carafe. Very different and of any 'automatic' coffe maker it usually rates as either the best of the best, or right near the top.
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tashi
2 weeks, 3 days ago
That’s a very cool looking coffee maker!
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jddallager
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Mike: Excellent! But now, thanks to this article, Stanley annual sales will be $800 Million! :-) Ride on! Brew on!
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Koelschejung
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Certain circles in Germany, where I live, buy high-end, shiny chrome coffee machines for several thousand euros and experiment with pressure, temperature and beans pressed out of cats' asses. I am also a connoisseur, but I prefer to invest my hard-earned money in my bikes and holidays and have therefore sworn by the great Bialetti espresso machine for many years. The thing is cheap, easy to use and a real design classic. It can be found in every Italian household and they know how coffee works.
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fartymarty
2 weeks, 4 days ago
I've just got back into using my little Ilsa stovetop espresso maker. Italian, stainless steel and relatively easy to use although getting the mix right is the tricky bit.
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Vincent Edwards
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Part of my MTB travel routine involves that morning cup of coffee. Somehow it just tastes better when sitting outside with a beautiful view and a big ride ahead. Last spring I camped up on Fourmile Creek Rd… that was a damn good coffee.
My go-to has been an aeropress- I have a hand crank grinder that fits inside. While it takes a minute to grind those beans by hand, I always enjoy the process.
This little Stanley looks like a great travel companion.
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tashi
2 weeks, 3 days ago
I know that you enjoy the process, but If you’re looking to speed it up and you have a then you can put a drill on the end of a Hario grinder.
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Vincent Edwards
2 weeks, 2 days ago
That sounds like fun! Thanks for the tip.
You got my imagination going… now I’m thinking up a 3D printed adapter that would let me grind my beans by pedaling my bike.
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tashi
2 weeks, 1 day ago
I think there’s a coffee shop in Portland where I’ve done this.
The most Portland of Portland gimmicks.
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GB
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Iike a good cup of home brew and I like riding to a cozy coffee shop.
I remember saying with a strong dose of sarcasm: one day coffee will be 5 $ a cup. I was joking ! Somehow reality caught up to my cynical predictions.
26$ US . So about 40$ Canadian?
That's 8 cups of coffee at a coffee shop.
Absolute bargain .
I prefer a gold plated wire mesh filter for pour overs . Paper adds flavor .
Love anything stainless steel for cooking and beverages.
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Jotegir
2 weeks, 4 days ago
> I prefer a gold plated wire mesh filter for pour overs
NOW we're talking coffee snobbery!
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ShawMac
2 weeks, 4 days ago
I am a true coffee addict, not a coffee snob. Sure, I can differentiate flavour, but I am not going to go out of my way to either avoid or seek a cup of coffee based on that. Will I start my morning with yesterdays coffee heated in the microwave so I have some while making the days fresh batch? You bet your ass I will!!
My primary driver in coffee production? Pure volume. I don't want to be left wanting for more and have to go back to the grinder. For that reason, I despise aeropress. What a ridiculous, spilly way to make not enough coffee in my opinion. This pour over looks a lot simpler, and easy clean up is great, but for me needs to be about 3 times the size.
When it is just my wife and me, its a stainless insulated french press that I can whip up about litre in short order, and clean up is simple too. When guests arrive, out comes the Black and Decker drip machine.
I am not picky... percolator, pressed, drip, espresso... I'll drink it.
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BarryW
2 weeks, 3 days ago
You sound like me when I'm having coffee. It's more a commodity than a luxury.
And one of my brothers is actually doing videos for a Kona coffee grower and I'm missing the blind tasting for said video ms this weekend because I went camping. Oh well. Like you said, I can tell, I can appreciate but I honestly can't bring myself to care. Usually if I'm drinking coffee it's because I've gone to breakfast (I'm a long time regular) and my Irish coffee just automagically shows up in front of my on any weekend I show up. THAT'S how I like my coffee best . . . Boozy!!! And yes, that's my pre-ride morning most times I go riding.
But that Moccamaster did ruin me for other coffee somewhat. Booze or no.
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Christian Strachan
2 weeks, 4 days ago
I think my snobbery is up one notch, for some reason I feel raw stainless adds some flavor to black coffee (I like mine black, like my labs), so it’s paper filters and ceramic or ceramic lined for the to-go. Aeropress all the way; as a 70s-80s child, the Aerobie holds such memories, Adler’s story is inspiring to me for some reason. So glad he’s hitting this out of the park.
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Allen Lloyd
2 weeks, 4 days ago
I aspire to coffee snob status, but like a cup of steamed milk with a little bit of coffee in it. If you ever get the chance to open up an espresso machine they are fascinating. I bought a cheap one and it started leaking. I pulled it apart and replaced the hose that cracked. I did this a few more times and my cheap machine has now lasted 7 years, the inside looks completely different now because I replaced every hose and gasket over time. This year I bought a new one for home and the old one went into the camper. As much as I love my morning brew I really love the adventure of taking some cheap machine and getting it to continue working.
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BarryW
2 weeks, 4 days ago
I enjoyed that Mike.
I'm not a coffee snob, no addiction here but I do recognize a good cup even if I'm happy drinking diner swill. But the best automatic coffee maker is the Moccamaster from Technivorm. Used to have one, then the ex took it. Now I drink coffee less, lol.
I'm with you though, it's been weird watching brands that exist to fill needs of usefulness become 'fashionable'. A friend of mine used to work for Lululemon and just got hired on by Stanley, some kind of website project management. Weird.
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XXX_er
2 weeks, 4 days ago
definatley a failed coffee snob judging from the looks of that coffee in the pict
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XXX_er
2 weeks, 4 days ago
I do have an aeropress for camping, I am able to put more pressure on the aeropress by doubling up on the filter paper and I don't change it after every shot
I am not really a snob but I do like my Rancillio Sylvia, i'm calculating > 15000 shots thru that bad boy with a little support from Esspressotech in Vangroovy
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XXX_er
2 weeks, 4 days ago
I was just hearing coffee prices will go up due to hot weather affecting the harvest
My ski bro was a good skier but he liked instant coffee and coors light
no accounting for taste or lack of
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bushtrucker
2 weeks, 3 days ago
That Aeropress line got me haha. Still it’s all I ever fuck with these days.
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AndrewR
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Jura A1 for home
Aeropress for the road (with brass hand grinder).
Calgary Heritage Roasting Company Grizzly whole beans for the daily (and until bed time for me) and Ace Coffee Roasters Decaf (with aeropress grind) for the wife's afternoon and evening coffee habit.
The simple "I appreciate good coffee" test: make two cups, first cup is drunk black and at the proper "now" temperature, second cup is left to go cold, drunk cold it still tastes good and isn't bitter.
Anyone who uses any additives (milk, sugar, honey, etc) can offer an opinion however it is wrong and is to be ignored.
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BarryW
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Even booze is wrong?
If being right is black coffee, I don't want to be right. All about the weekend boozy coffee.
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pablobell
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Beyond asthetics, the aeropress makes better coffee.
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Mike Ferrentino
2 weeks, 4 days ago
I've heard people say that, but I am not obsessive enough to interrogate "why". Like, in this case, how is better defined?
I gotta say, for travel purposes, the aeropress is pretty damn convenient. Compact, relatively indestructable, easy to clean.
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tashi
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Better is a loaded word and I don’t think it applies to food preferences most of the time.
IME more flavour than home espresso machines, more consistent than stovetop espresso makers, stronger than French press.
Takes very little time (particularly with an induction stove) and every cup is perfectly fresh. Doesn’t make much at once. Portable and cheeeeeeep.
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Chris D
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Good explanation! The other neat thing is the level of control, kind of like tweaking espresso- time, temp, grind, filter, ratio. You can play with it a lot if you want, or just… make coffee. I bought a nice grinder to use with it, and have never had better home coffee.
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BarryW
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Can you explain what you mean for the non-snobs about 'stronger than a french press'? Isn't 'stronger' all about how much and the texture of the grounds?
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tashi
2 weeks, 3 days ago
My simple understanding is basically that I’m getting the full range of flavors but more of them by brewing the way I do with an Aeropress.
Probably a lot of factors go into “strength” - more contact time makes for stronger flavour, finer grind makes for stronger flavour but brings bitterness.
What I’ve settled on is freshly ground medium dark (espresso) roast (Fernwood 1936), very fine grind, and about a minute of time to steep before I flip and press. Seems “strong”, like I’m getting a lot of the full “flavour profile” (is that a thing?) of the bean and not bitter or burnt, neither of which I like. Some Coffee snobs I know think it’s weak but they prefer dark roasts so that makes sense. Their weak is my burnt
I also enjoy my French press a little on the fine side, and a long steep.
At lunchtime I also like the stuff in the percolator that’s been cooling since coffee break and is cold now, as long as the roast was good. Just for context.
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Vincent Edwards
2 weeks, 2 days ago
I haven’t tried one yet, but they’ve come out with an even more portable AeroPress Go:
https://aeropress.com/products/aeropress-go-travel-coffee-press
The AeroPress plunger creates a seal- that air pressure during the brew process is a big part of why it makes such good coffee.
I also love that the inventor also created the Aerobie. They also make the best dog frisbee. [the Dogobie]
https://www.aerobie.com/products
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taprider
2 weeks, 4 days ago
So how well does the Stanley make coffee?
compared to a paper cone filter or aeropress
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Mike Ferrentino
2 weeks, 4 days ago
I do not think I am sophisticated enough to really say, in terms of nuanced flavor. Probably best to defer to Pete, or Deniz, or Cooper.
Using the same beans I can't tell a flavor difference between this and the aeropress. But then again, it is rare that I drink my coffee black, so I'm already swimming in heretical waters. The Stanley prefers a coarser grind than the aeropress, and there's usually a very small amount of mud that makes it through. Some people may not like that.
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JSW07
2 weeks, 4 days ago
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tashi
2 weeks, 4 days ago
My coffee snobbery has landed me at aeropress, and I’m happy to discover that they have a travel friendly solution similar to the Stanley setup, as well as XL models now.
https://aeropress.com/products/aeropress-go-plus
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albert03
2 weeks, 4 days ago
And now there are cold brew coffee makers that have fans. Inexpensive; my friend just bought one at Canadian Tire for $16 CAD. Loves it.
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Jotegir
2 weeks, 4 days ago
My cold brew 'maker' is a giant juice pitcher. I think it might have even been from Dollarama. Given how cold brew works, you aren't really getting a dramatic benefit by using a nice contraption or quality beans. That's one of the best things about cold brew: it makes even the crappiest of (non-instant) coffee taste great.
I will say though, giving up drinking caffeinated coffee in the mornings was one of the best quality of life improvements I've ever made, so most of what I drink these days is cold brew decaf when I feel like it or caffeinated coffee for specificu purposes.
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BarryW
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Out camping at Hobuck Beach this weekend and I just woke up and made my coffee using my French press.
I'm certain a coffe snob would turn their nose up, but as previously noted. Once the Irish cream is in there I don't really care.
Happy Saturday morning beverage rituals NSMB folk!
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XXX_er
2 weeks, 2 days ago
the most memorable/ worst/ best cup of coffee eva was 7am skiing for 18 hrs about to hit a wall needing coffee bad, the urn borrowed for the event from macdonalds was dead but had 1 cup of cold evil shit so i chugged down and kept going, I was happening again in 50 M ... so i can drink anything and IME even really bad coffee has caffeine
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Tjaard Breeuwer
2 weeks, 2 days ago
49 year old here, so yes “reminds me of roll your own cigarettes and shag carpet” strikes true.
I just realized this, is the carpet named for the or vice versa? Growing up, in Holland we called loose tobacco for hand rolling, “shag”. Never made the connection before.
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fartymarty
2 weeks, 2 days ago
While I've got almost the coffee snobs gathered in one place can I get opinions on a good affordable hand grinder. I've never had a grinder before but am keen to try one.
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neilBar
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Wilfa Svart (electric) cheaper than as a nice hand Grinder.
Low cost - Hario make the Skerton hand cranked device. Good value but pretty uneven result.
Those are the only 2 I’ve tried 10 secs in the Svart v 2 mins cranking to get 15 grams is a big advantage - travelling but not long grind at home and keep airtight
Have a look at coffeehit (uk).
Aeropress gets my vote too. An expert pourover is a finer cup for sure but gets costly with that special kettle.
Adding milk guys?
Just do it anyway you like. Hard to get the advantage of fine crafted coffee diluted with milk. Seems like a lot of a nice latte’s quality is down to expert frothing and maybe a “super milk”. Visit Ikegacoffee.brighton near the rail station for that. Or a lovely pourover.
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Velocipedestrian
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Affordable is a slippery term, but I've got one from Altura that's $105NZD which I've been en
joying for six months.
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araz
1 week, 2 days ago
I'm late to this, but I've been very happy with a Timemore hand grinder I got a couple of years ago on sale for something like $40 US. Solidly made, grinding is smooth and fast (maybe 30 sec for a cup's worth of beans), and seems to be well regarded as a decent budget grinder by the true coffee nerd types. It's really nice to have for travel, camping, etc. Definitely a big step up from a blade grinder or pre-ground beans.
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Heinous
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Non consumable filters rock. I spent a long time travelling for work to places that didn’t do coffee (yes, even Kansas) and a wee hand grinder, Swiss gold filter and some good beans was like taking home with me.
I’ve even had house those crappy pod machines in motels to get the hot water, at whatever point those became more expedient for hoteliers than a kettle.
Much like bikes, the best coffee is the between your paws / legs.
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Couch_Surfer
2 weeks, 2 days ago
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Kelyn Mcintosh
1 week, 3 days ago
Stanley also makes an insulated french press that's awesome. Keeps warm for hours
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neilBar
1 week, 1 day ago
Ooh. Decent grinders with 15% off UK. Anyone using ground? It’s an amazing upgrade to home grind fresh beans.
https://www.coffeehit.co.uk/collections/electric-coffee-grinders?filter.p.vendor=Baratza&utm_campaign=Sale%3A%20Baratza%2015%25%20OFF%20-%20Email%202%2F3%20%2801J7X6YC937EZQAQKSE7E3YN32%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Retail%20Subscribers&_kx=q4qQCfAoWIu9ih_w1QiVtSxxCZzxum5wVn1L5NRqeC0.QtJfPy
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Peter Appleton
2 weeks, 4 days ago
nothing like north americans telling us all how to make coffee...
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fartymarty
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Maybe we should ask the Fins or Swedes as they drink the most coffee in the world per capita (first and second respectively).
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Frorider
2 weeks, 2 days ago
IME they’re into quantity not quality. In Finland I kinda felt the same vibe as truck stop coffee in Nevada or Idaho.
I’ve had decent home espresso machines for so long I’ve definitely become accustomed to that delicious and consistent flavor profile. I bought an Aeropress when those first came out for mobile / camping coffee, and after trying all the tricks got some reasonable results but nothing spectacular.
The coffee snobs on dedicated forums will gladly explain why any steel mesh filter (pour over, aero etc) is inherently inferior to paper ;).
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neilBar
2 weeks, 2 days ago
You might like the April Aeropress method. It’s a light tasting result. They make a nice pourover cone too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUsHI7jdX1k&t=53s
I’m also liking the Corretto 1 MESH Pro Reusable Aeropress filter. Very fine. Less waste is good. Of course it necessitates the inverted method
The plastic comments are making me think about a glass Aeropress. The seal / piston is inevitably plastic tho. What a plastic world we live in. I suppose the bags we buy beans in are “plastic” lined
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fartymarty
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Sweden isn't bad - we generally buy Swedish coffee for our drip filter machine at home. I'm getting into my stovetop atm tho. Will check out the coffee snob page.
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neilBar
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Horsham Coffee Roasters have some excellent beans Martin.
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fartymarty
1 week, 6 days ago
Thanks. Have tried Copper Coffee Roasters which is up my way but dont get on with their roasts - they only do a medium and I like it dark.
neilBar
1 week, 5 days ago
Martin. You might get a roast you like from Kontext in Monmouth. Run by my friend Katja who is the wife of Geometron company co owner Marcel. Great quality stuff. You’d have to ask about dark.
https://www.kontextcoffee.com/
tashi
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Boring and lazy trolling attempt, 0/10.
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