Everything to do with Coffee

[BLachance75]

What is everyone's preferred way of storing coffee?


I've been portioning the beans in vacuum sealed bags and then storing them in a cabinet. When I open the vac bag and put it in a mason jar and scoop out of there. I generally have 2 or 3 mason jars of different beans going at a time which is about a week or 2 worth of coffee for me.

I picked up 5 lbs of Ethiopian Yirgacheffe from a local roaster the other day. They give a discount when you buy 5 lbs at a time and it is enough out of the way that it makes sense to buy 5 lbs at a time instead of 1 lbs bags. It is also a coffee that I really enjoy so that helps.



The guy was pretty generous when he bagged it and I ended up with almost 6 lbs.

It was time to bag up more coffee and I noticed I was running low on food saver bags so I decided to look for other options.

I ended up buying actual coffee storage bags with the 1 way valve on Amazon and it is a way easier process. Add coffee, seal bag, squeeze out the air.



I opted for 8 oz bags but they also had 12 and 16 oz bags and a rainbow of different colors. The bags I bought are 0.54$ each

I already had an impulse sealer so it made the process easy and not as expensive. Not that impulse sealers are overly expensive. This is what I have. It most likely came from Amazon.




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[BLachance75]

I've been wanting to try some anaerobic processed coffee for a while and finally found some locally while at a brewery. The brewery also roasts coffee and makes cold brew in cans.




It has a pleasant fruitiness while not being over the top.

I picked up a Orea V3 dripper. I dialed in my recipe for medium and darker roasts but am still working on light roasts. I'm losing all acidity when I brew a light roast in it.

[Jonnydread]

Very cool!

[chrislognshot]

wrong since soy sauce or teriyaki poured in make aloof

[Jonnydread]

wrong since soy sauce or teriyaki poured in make aloof

Ummmm, what?

[BrickHaus]

Trying something new this morning. Went to the Wacipi ( pow wow) yesterday, and one of the vendors was selling this coffee with pinion seeds in it. All flavors had a toffee r cinnamon smell to them.

I had to try one.. brewed a basic pour over and it has strong notes of toffee, and cinnamon on the tongue. Almost like I've been dipping my cookies in my cup all morning.

Pretty awesome. Ill have to cold press some for the wife.

[Jonnydread]

That sounds very interesting. I’ve always liked regional coffee additions like how they do the chicory in the South.

[flyweightnate]

I've seen a handful of portable, manual espresso makers. I'm thinking of one for camping/ work travel. If it uses Nespresso pods, that would be ideal.

What do you all recommend?

Wacaco, Staresso? Something else? Specific generations to buy or avoid?

[pirhana92]

While not necessarily espresso, I've been using an Aeropress for backpacking/camping this year and it's been fantastic.

[flyweightnate]

Definitely crossed my mind, but I'd rather grab some pods from the drawer than bring my grinder and a bag of beans.

[bellicose]

Second vote for areopress. That is what I take camping. I'm not a fan of Nestle, so I stay away from them as much as possible.

[BrickHaus]

As part of my Birthday gift, my wife got me this limited Edish Duet coffee that comes in a glass jar. It's a collaborative blend between two coffee houses. Onyx brew labs AND Proud Mary coffee.

It just showed up a couple of weeks late, so I'm having a mid day cup.

[BLachance75]

Picked up some coffee for myself and Jonnydread from a local roaster.

5 lbs of Ethiopian Yirgacheffe and 1 lbs of a natural processed Brazilian for me and Jonny got 1 lbs of Ethiopian and 1 lbs of Kenyan.

[Jonnydread]

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[OpusX]

Putting our vintage Corningware 9 cup percolator to work.

[Spider!]

I'm kind of suspicious that perks make better store bought coffee because perk grind is more coarse and holds it's flavor better than fine filter grind. I could never duplicate my father's Maxwell house from his Faber-Ware percolator.

[OpusX]

I hand grind my beans, at a course texture. Ten minutes at perk and it produces a strong cup.

[CrowsFeast]

Thought I had posted to this thread already but apparently not!
I've joined you guys in yet another expensive hobby: espresso. For my birthday last year I received a Breville Barista Pro. A nearly $1000 'beginner' setup.
Of course I had to add/change a few accessories in short order: IMS portafilter basket, bottomless portafilter, tamping stand, better tamper (more comfortable and more 'heft'), knock box, handleless milk pitcher, WDT (with magnetic holder to go on side of machine), stainless dosing funnel (tamp through design) that locks onto the portafilter and fits the grinder.

I'd still like to put a nicer handle on the steamer switch and get the single dose hopper with anti-popcorn weight and bellows.

Found a local roaster that's got some good beans to try out (Black Sheep Coffee Roasters). Dialed in a few times though now I mostly just make lattes so I get my pulls to 'good enough' rather than really dialing in. Latte art is... challenging. I've watched a bunch of videos and tried a bunch of things but I still seem to have stagnated. I'm really inconsistent. Sometimes I can't seem to get it to 'float' and other times the milk is too frothy it floats too much to design with.

[BLachance75]

Very nice. I almost bought the Barista Touch on Black Friday but I resisted.

[Siress]

Unlike me in my younger years, I now have to balance my desires out with the rest of the household. As such, nothing can take center stage on the counter unless it's a super simple push-button operation.

While I probably should have gone with one of carafe/cup brewers with a built in grinder, I decided to take a risk on what maybe the cheapest superautomatic espresso machine on the market... it doesn't even have a model number, just the brand name: Tchibo. Coming from the Vertuo pods, this thing is estimated to pay for itself in 4 months of use.... because hot damn are those pods expensive.

So far, I'm astonished these things can be had for so little... ($370 after tax, with $50 coupon that randomly popped up on Amazon) It's not a luxury barista experience with no upkeep, though. It does make quite a mess internally and I can foresee how not cleaning it at least once a week could lead to mold in the catch tray and around the brew stack - as it does a terrible job of ventilating these areas where the hot water vapor condenses. I suspect I can fix that with some mods to improve ventilation. That said, it works... it beats the pants off the taste of the vertuo pod foam coffees. My wife and I were sick of the foam... this machine produces a modest but very real crema that I have long missed. It also doesn't accommodate some of the taller mugs. The tallest it can handle is about the average mug size in the US, and even that requires tilting to get it under the spout.

The best news, though, is that the water tank is just big enough to handle one of those cheap float valves - so I can automate the task of filling the water tank.

[flyweightnate]

My wife told me to get a "good" (enough) espresso machine when my bonus comes in this year, because, as Siress said, Nespresso pods are expensive (even the original size) and I started roasting beans.

Recommendations? Definitely less than $1000, preferably half that. Grind and brew... I couldn't care less about milk. I looked at a Breville (a friend has one), a Gaggia... not sure where to start but not sure I could keep up with the maintenence on the Tchibo without losing my mind. I'd come back from a week on the road to find a petri dish growing in my absence.

[CrowsFeast]

I'm quite happy with my breville. My girlfriends brother has a higher end breville and it's been working for years. Do the occasional flush, even more occasional descale, and all should be good for a long time. I would avoid the barrista express though unless you plan on an additional grinder. The grind size steps on my barrista pro are just small enough, but the steps on the express are twice as big.

[flyweightnate]

Hmm. That's an interesting point on the grinder, going to have to check the price of a Bambino plus grinder vs the Pro.

[Siress]

Recommendations? Definitely less than $1000, preferably half that. Grind and brew....

If you're interested in what my limited research turned up, the Tchibo is the only one I'd get under the $2-3k price point as I didn't find any other with a removable brew group - which is absolutely necessary. Even the nice Jura units have mold and mildew issues that you can only catch if you have access to the brew group. So, my backup plan is this unit.

edit: I forgot that doesn't have a grinder (as I still have that same old one I can bring out of retirement). This is the more suitable backup if you're giving up on espresso: https://a.co/d/gixgIYE

[flyweightnate]

... I didn't find any other with a removable brew group - which is absolutely necessary.

That's shocking... even my old office's nice Meile took a ton of work to keep clean, and that whole brew unit came out to go in the dishwasher. But as you said, $3k.

I'm gonna have to dig through some of the Gaggia and Breville specs to see if there's a way to maintain, or if they're just a time bomb.

[minimag03]

for regular coffee i like a French press, heard its better because filters take some of the oils out of the coffee.

I also have an embarrassingly cheap espresso machine, but it works for me lol