|OT| Coffee - Sweet Sweet Bitterness

Le Pertti

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Since we have many coffee lovers but also many non coffee drinkers here, let's have a place where we can talk about our love for coffee and try to convince the others to finally give coffee a chance!

Brewing


When it comes to brewing coffee there are a few ways to do it, I will just mention the most accessible ones to most.

Drip Machine
It's what most people have access to as it's the most common way to make coffee. It's great but it can filter out those nice oils in coffee but will give you the "cleanest" coffee.





French Press
Probably the cheapest way to make really good coffee, as opposed to filtered coffee this way you get to keep all the oils and stuff in the coffee so you get the "purest" coffee.(outside espresso) Note that you do need to have a kettle too.





Pour Over
The result is close to drip machine coffee but you have more control over the making off it, and it does look much nicer both to make and to serve! As with French press you also need a kettle.





Beans


When it comes to beans, best is to start with already ground coffee, try to avoid the cheaper ones, start at the mid tier price wise and experiment little to find what kind off coffee you like. And once you have an idea of what kind of coffee you might like then think about getting beans that you grind yourself, that way you get the most fresh coffee and get the most aromas and taste in your coffee.

Hand Grinder
To be cool, just go for a nice hand grinder, it can be a nice routine when making your coffee, makes it feel more personal!





Electric Grinder
For daily regular coffee making, sooner or later one probably wants to get an electric grinder. They are noisy but make it easy to always have fresh coffee!
 

ExistentialThought

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I love my coffee! Black or milky, but always down to try anything new.

My set up at home usually I use either pour over or Aeropress. For the pour over I use a Hario v60.


For the aeropress, I love it for quick milky drinks, but it is horribly inconsistent so I just switched to using a Fellow Prismo for more consistent brews that usually you would have to do the scary inverted method to produce.


Fellow attachment, it keeps the brew in until you plunge the Aeropress:
 
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edin

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I'm a philistine and I buy those Nespresso pods.
Which ones? I have some as well once in a while.

I love my coffee! Black or milky, but always down to try anything new.

My set up at home usually I use either pour over or Aeropress. For the pour over I use a Hario v60.


For the aeropress, I love it for quick milky drinks, but it is horribly inconsistent so I just switched to using a Fellow Prismo for more consistent brews that usually you would have to do the scary inverted method to produce.


Fellow attachment, it keeps the brew in until you plunge the Aeropress:
Fellow stuff looks real good.
 
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NarohDethan

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Which ones? I have some as well once in a while.
I have both lines of machines. For Vertuo I get Stormio, Odacio, Costa Rica and Half Decaf for the evenings.
For the Original Line I usually buy Kazaar, Tokyo and Stockholm.
 

edin

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I have both lines of machines. For Vertuo I get Stormio, Odacio, Costa Rica and Half Decaf for the evenings.
For the Original Line I usually buy Kazaar, Tokyo and Stockholm.
I haven't had a chance to try vertuo, but for the original line, I recommend looking into some third party specialty coffee house pods. Those are a lot nicer than the official stuff since they use better beans (but some don't have a fine grind so it doesn't come out as consistently minor issue)
 

NarohDethan

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I haven't had a chance to try vertuo, but for the original line, I recommend looking into some third party specialty coffee house pods. Those are a lot nicer than the official stuff since they use better beans (but some don't have a fine grind so it doesn't come out as consistently minor issue)
Unfortunately in my country there's only like two other brands.
 

LEANIJA

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I couldve sworn I posted in a coffee discussion here before ;) but maybe it was within a steam thread
I wrote then that I drink too much coffee – that is no longer the case, but I still drink enough.

At work, we have a coffee maker that a) sometimes makes okay coffee, but sometimes makes disgusting coffee and b) breaks a lot;
at home, I have a Tchibo/Eduscho Cafissimo Pure machine (could only find my specific model on a Polish site, my guess is they dont sell it here in Austria anymore), which is also capsule-based like the Nescafé system NarohDethan mentioned. Im not a connoisseur by any stretch (this goes for many areas in life btw, I have a relaxed "good enough" approach to many things).

I also just found out there is a cinnamon flavored type that I have to try now ;)
 
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LEANIJA

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I did search for coffee threads! Thought it was weird we didnt have a coffee thread yet.:D
Aye; What I referenced was in a Steam thread — of course — I just checked again having remembered basically my exact wording ;)

here:
 
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ExistentialThought

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Here are some great Youtubers on all things coffee:




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I keep telling myself I want to save up for a espresso machine. Almost 15 years ago I had a cheap machine that barely lasted a couple months and I swore off getting another until I could get something higher quality. The other issue is counter space, coffee stuff takes over so much of my counter as is, adding an espresso machine would only make things worse. Maybe some day!