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Re: french press coffee for life
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 10:09 am
by jfrey
fever606 wrote:stripes wrote:sometime all i want to do is drink coffee all day and other times i don't drink coffee for weeks
yeah i get that. that's what tea is for... the other times.
What other times?
Re: french press coffee for life
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 10:27 am
by fever606
jfrey wrote:fever606 wrote:stripes wrote:sometime all i want to do is drink coffee all day and other times i don't drink coffee for weeks
yeah i get that. that's what tea is for... the other times.
What other times?
when you cannot get good coffee! good tea > bad coffee.
Re: french press coffee for life
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 10:31 am
by stripes
fever606 wrote: good tea > bad coffee.
Re: french press coffee for life
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 12:58 am
by Josh Pelican
stripes wrote:fever606 wrote: good tea > bad coffee.
I can fucking back that hard. I love some nice Oolong, chai, or specific black teas (such as Black Dragon Pearls).
Re: french press coffee for life
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 1:48 am
by stripes
just had some chai with almond milk. boom
Re: french press coffee for life
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 2:39 am
by Josh Pelican
There's only two types of tea I put any "milk" in: chai and Earl Grey. Both get almond milk or a splash of Silk/So Nice creamer.
Re: french press coffee for life
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 3:32 am
by stripes
Josh Pelican wrote:There's only two types of tea I put any "milk" in: chai and Earl Grey. Both get almond milk or a splash of Silk/So Nice creamer.
lukewarm earl grey with some milk... silky delicious goodness
Re: french press coffee for life
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 7:32 am
by goroth
monkeydancer wrote: Ah well, tea is more my thang anyway
Location: UK.
Nuff said.
Re: french press coffee for life
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 7:36 am
by goroth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... per_capitaThat's us sitting pretty at number 6 on the list.
Edit: And here are Monkeydancer's landsmen kicking arse on the tea consumption front
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tea_consumption_per_capita
Re: french press coffee for life
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 10:24 am
by stillborn
Been using a chemex set up for past few months and have been pretty happy with it. Still trying to figure out the best coffee to water ratio.
Re: french press coffee for life
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 12:33 pm
by mathias
stillborn wrote:Been using a chemex set up for past few months and have been pretty happy with it. Still trying to figure out the best coffee to water ratio.
I've got a chemex. I follow these instructions pretty loosely:
http://www.sweetmarias.com/brewinstr/br ... chemex.phpI'm convinced the initial soak, called the bloom, is important. Also I like to let it bloom and stick my face in there to get all the smells of coffee goodness and awesomesauce.
Re: french press coffee for life
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 11:19 am
by mathias
My latest bag of coffee's graphics made me think of Skullservant.
Re: french press coffee for life
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 11:23 am
by fever606
that looks pretty cool, tell us how it tastes!
i am fighting a wee sore throat this morning, so earl grey is the order of the day.
Re: french press coffee for life
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 11:25 am
by mathias
umm, bit of a coffee snob. I could probably tell you what is good and bad with this particular roast for 15 minutes
It's a little more oily and darker than I'd like, compared to my favorite roaster, and it's a little lacking in complexity of character. but it gets the job done because it has caffeine!
Re: french press coffee for life
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2012 11:28 am
by mathias
This is probably my favorite easily-available coffee of all time: (Alterra is my favorite roaster, and some of their small lot / single farm coffees are really good but only existed in like 500 pound batches)
