Coffee - Your Current Brew
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Plastic? I'm surprised.I keep my ground coffee in an OXO too!
Ours is a smaller model though I think.
It just sits in the pantry though.La Rocca Thompson St. Blend; couldn't even drink it, I dumped the whole bag of beans in the compost. The worst tasting coffee I've ever had.
Old or just nasty?
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Sour, as well as a horrible aftertaste and terrible mouth feel.
Sour, as well as a horrible aftertaste and terrible mouth feel.
Folgers
Cafe' La Llave for Nespresso. Reminds of my visits to Cuba and their cafe' fuerte!
I got kicked out of the "best low cost" coffee thread so here is what I'm drinking:
Guatemalan "La Flor del Cafe" roasted to a good medium or a little bit darker than medium, brewing with our new Lelit Mara X espresso machine that we've had for a couple of weeks now.
https://www.coffeebeancorral.com/www/Products/Guatemala-Antigua---La-Flor-del-Cafe__GUATANT.aspx
Coffee has been a point of contention, with how expensive beans have gotten in the past couple of years. We have strayed from our normal Colombians due to cost. This Guatemalan is pretty good though. It's not my favorite bean ever, but I do feel like our coffee game has really never been higher. A really good coffee machine makes every bean taste better. Our old Jura made good and convenient espresso, but it's amazing me just how much of an improvement there was to be had with a real espresso machine.
Guatemalan "La Flor del Cafe" roasted to a good medium or a little bit darker than medium, brewing with our new Lelit Mara X espresso machine that we've had for a couple of weeks now.
https://www.coffeebeancorral.com/www/Products/Guatemala-Antigua---La-Flor-del-Cafe__GUATANT.aspx
Coffee has been a point of contention, with how expensive beans have gotten in the past couple of years. We have strayed from our normal Colombians due to cost. This Guatemalan is pretty good though. It's not my favorite bean ever, but I do feel like our coffee game has really never been higher. A really good coffee machine makes every bean taste better. Our old Jura made good and convenient espresso, but it's amazing me just how much of an improvement there was to be had with a real espresso machine.
I have never tasted a coffee this bright in my life.
First of all, the (local roasted) beans are super super fresh. The crema is amazing. It's medium roasted at best. Dry, like no evolved oils.
The flavor is acid forward. Citric-key I could say, smells sweet so I tried way under extracting - and MORE acid. Well very interesting coffee that pairs quite well with chocolate and pure heavy cream and a little tiny bit of sweetener. I actually maybe wish a little more roasted but low oil, who knows.
It makes a good espresso cup but not straight up, maybe better for pour over.
Thoughts welcome!?!
I blended the beans with my homemade blend. Much better to my taste. I do love custom blending. Makes the best coffee!
Have had this several times before. Always good. Just tore into this bag this AM. I think it would make a great espresso in my Gaggia Brera. It was on sale at Costco.
@Cropduster172, I will get some to give to my FIL, to try in his super automatic 
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Daughter brought me some coffee from Cuba. Back during the short time Americans could vacation there she hurried to check it off here countries visited list. The beans were in a used coke bottle and tasted like dirt. But it was authentic, Cuban grown, roasted, bottled, and sold on the street.
Tried that and didn't really care for it. I was hoping for a stronger dark roast taste.
I have a similar story. I made the mistake of buying coffee at the duty free on my home from Cuba many years ago, it was ground, not whole bean and tasted like soil, I tossed it in the compost. Not that buying whole bean is guaranteed to be better, as I also recently found out (see post # 2064).
I’ve gone full half caffeine!
Basically so I enjoy 3 shots in the AM. I mixed my custom blend with Major Dickason decaf 50:50
Basically so I enjoy 3 shots in the AM. I mixed my custom blend with Major Dickason decaf 50:50
Illy Classico Whole Bean 100% Arabica. I pulled the seal tab on the vacuum sealed tin yesterday and poured a few servings worth into the bean hopper. Nice aroma, roast and crema with no bitter aftertaste, but @ $60/kilo, I've had better espresso for less. Would I buy it again if it's on sale? Yes.
We have gotten a new supermarket here in the Charlotte area called Lowe’s Foods. Not the hardware store!
Their house whole bean coffee, called BoxCar, goes on sale at $7.99 every Friday (per pound). All we have been drinking lately is excellent.
https://www.lowesfoods.com/boxcar
Their house whole bean coffee, called BoxCar, goes on sale at $7.99 every Friday (per pound). All we have been drinking lately is excellent.
https://www.lowesfoods.com/boxcar
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