Official Coffee Thread

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chicken

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NS. What do you do to make the best cup of coffee. We all know there is no right answer here (although plenty of wrong answers).

Discuss beans, grinders, machines, etc...

go!
 
free coffee from my job usually french vanilla black, and a few adderalls- gets me through on those tough dayd
 
I have a Keurig machine thing.

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Anyone who's been to Seattle knows that pretty much any of the local/independent coffee shops are the greatest coffee around. Including but not limited to

- Bauhaus in cap hill

- Solstice in the U dist

- Cafe Vita in cap hill

- Zoka (multiple)

- Ladro (multiple)

- Vivace cap hill

- Javista in maple leaf

- Fuel in wallingford

- and many many more I'm forgetting

As for best coffee drink, dry cappuccino hands down.
 
If you're looking for quick energy, and don't really care about taste, just drink an energy drink.

Coffee should be reserved for those who care about flavor. It's an art, not a tool to get you wired.

For regular coffee

Gotta get a good fair trade medium roast. If I'm at home I'll use my parents coffee machine. It's decent, but it has a tendency to overheat the water and add some bitterness in.

Best way to make brewed coffee is by doing a pour over. It's sorta like camping coffee, where you just pour hot water through the grounds in a good unbleached filter.

French press is good as well, the lack of a paper filter allows for more of the coffee oils (crema) to be released, so you get a lot more caffeine.

If you're gonna drink espresso.

Do not go to Starbucks or any other coffee shop where they use an automated machine. Find a shop where they manually grind the coffee, and manually tamp the shots. If you get a good look at the machine when they are pulling the shot, make sure it takes 20 - 30 seconds for the shot to run out into the glass. If you get lots of liquid in like 14 seconds, you're probably having sex wrong... Er.. I mean making the espresso wrong.

When steaming the milk. There shouldn't be a loud screaming sound. Actually, if the barista knows what they are doing, you shouldn't hear much at all except a change in frequency from high to low as the milk thickens up. The milk should have uniform texture, and it shouldn't look like soap bubbles (starbucks). Really, the milk should be quality enough that you can draw art with it, or rest a shot right below the foam and on top of the steamed milk (macchiato style). Lots of people make fun of yuppy latte art, but if you get a rosette on top of of your latte, it's likely been made well.

White chocolate flavoring is like putting ketchup on a steak. It's bad. Mocha's are acceptable, but you have to remember that they date back to an ancient tradition of putting chocolate into coffee to mask poor quality. Coffee from Mocha was very high quality, and traders used to add chocolate to their mix and call it Mocha to sell inferior product.

Vanilla or hazelnut lattes are a good choice if you don't believe that the coffee shop is competent. The flavor will help to mask bad shots and sup-par milk.

If the shop really knows what they are doing, get a Caramel Macchiato. Not the starbucks kind, but a well made one that is a good balance of coffee and caramel syrup.

The first picture is a Caramel Macchiato made at a local shop in Tacoma. The espresso is locally roasted, and it's probably the best macchiato I've every had in my life. The shop is super consistent, and I can always count on them.

The second is either a cappuccino or a latte that I got in Vancouver. I'm pretty sure it was at caffe artigiano. It was pretty damn good, but I had been driving for three days by the time I got to Vancouver, so anything would have tasted good at that point.

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Sorry for double post. A dry cap is very acceptable, and it makes you feel like a man when you walk into a shop and order it (at least it did when I was 15).

I don't make it up to Seattle much, but I've always had decent coffee at Solstice Cafe on the Ave at UW. I'll have to try some of those places. If you ever get down to Tacoma, Parkland to be specific, check out North Pacific Coffee Company. It's amazing. But really... Just don't come to parkland. It's not a good place to be.
 
I mostly use my Nespresso machine (because i'm lazy) but when i want to brew a truly great cup of coffee I use this:

A Rocket Espresso Giotto Premium Plus:

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Combined with a Mazzar Mini Electronic B:

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With this Coffee:

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If prepared correctly it's like a million angles simultaneously jizzing on your tongue whilst powersliding in mini Aston's.

 
Pretty freaking thorough post about coffee man! +K for sure.

I just love how pure the dry cap is. No additives or anything to dilute the strength of it. You really get to taste the uniqueness of the espresso at each place, and the delicious creamy foam on top compliments it perfectly. I think I'm gonna go get one haha

Cheers
 
wow that is a radical set up.

for me though I'll stick with my hand grinder and french press. Makes a pretty damn good cup of coffee for less than $200!
 
I am a barista in a cafe in australia.

While in america on holiday are always try and find a decent cup of coffee. I have yet to have a good one. Your cappucino's are just plain wrong as the milk is frothed to fuck and you guys don't even make flat whites. No offense your coffee is shite but thats the only critism i have of america when visiting.
 
i use this coffee:

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with one of these:

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although i prefer to use a machine, gives it a much smokier, chocolatey flavour
 
when im at my flat at uni : found an awesome coffee blended near where i live and then use a caffetiere (french press) .and at home: we have an awesome coffee machine that does coffees straight from the bean and gives that awesome coffee caramel from proper coffee places and we use columbian beans from our local deli.

dont usually drink coffee out much but if i do its from independant stores.

fuck starfucks and their over-roasted sour coffee and poncy drinks and attitude.
 
I am not the biggest coffee guy but there's some pretty good cafes in Portland. I usually just throw some cinnamon in a dark roast and call her good.
 
Tim Horton's large double double.

Tastes like watered down sugary coffee (which it is) and to many of you it tastes like piss, but this is my favourite coffee ever. I don't know why, I don't know how, but it just is.
 
Well I'm in uni, so pretty much the cheapest bag of whole bean coffee, maltilda usually. A few weeks ago my $12 walmart coffee maker died, so I upgraded to a $30 Canadian tire model, so happy with it. I'm now in love with the programmable automatic start, adds 10 minutes of sleep to my morning
 
Parents friends own this place, coffee is unreal. They own the farm in Zimbabwe then bring it to Canada for roasting. Super nice people, awesome coffee
 
You are wise in the ways of coffee sir. I am a coffee addict/fan myself haha, and usually make my own, using good quality beans, grinding them myself, and using either my coffee machine or french press to make it. Love good espresso too.

Where I disagree-when I get Starbucks I love white mochas haha, but per your analogy, I wouldn't put ketchup on a steak but I don't feel bad putting ketchup on hamburger meat ;) though I wouldn't get the coffee there-pike place tastes terrible. I accept that I'm getting candy flavored espresso when I drink starbucks though.
 
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Any one else into Iced Vietnamese Coffee?

Some next level shit right there....highly highly recommended.

 
Those things are so fucking legit! They had a tent setup and Keurig was giving out free coffee/tea/hot chocolate all day both days last weekend. So fucking legit. Plus there was this super hot spokeslady which made it even better.
 
Haha, yeah. If I ever go to a Starbucks, I'll get a steamer or hot chocolate with some flavoring in it. They do know how to mix sugar and milk well. Fairbanks didn't get invaded by Starbucks early on in the coffee game, so a bunch of local shops got all the best locations and footholds on the market. Starbucks would have a really hard time competing with the local roasters for customers. In short, I got really spoiled. Now that I'm living in Washington, Starbucks is EVERYWHERE. It breaks my heart to think of generations of children who will never taste good coffee growing up.
 
Just love pouring water over a brand new bag of beans and seeing that inch-thick bloom instantly develop!

 
my mom has a french press and some good coffee. its really fast and easy.

i dont drink coffee much so i used to hate Tim Hortons, but after working early in the morning this summer it has grown on me. I now prefer it to McD's which i used to favor

anyway, sometimes just cream/ milk. sometimes milk and just a little sugar. too sweet = kindof gross
 
i used to use a french press everymorning, but it kind of became a bitch waiting for water to boil and then for it to sit for 5 mins. so i just use a keurig machine because if not id be late to school everyday. but i usually use it on the weekends
 
How big is your press pot?

For a small press pot a two or three minute steep time would suit.

For a larger model, stick with the four minute steep.

That extra minute isn't really going to add anything, only bitterness and other negatives.
 
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