How Do You Brew Your Coffee

Steve Williams

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I am spoiled as I use my automatic Jura-Capresso for individually brewed coffee. Prior to that I would use a coffee press which I also believe to be an excellent way to brew individual coffee. My least favorite is the every day percolators.

As for coffee preference I always go for the bold coffees.

What do all you coffee lovers use to brew your brew.

BTW in terms of how it is served, for me "black as midnight on a moonless night"

And the first to guess where that line was spoken without googling will know his stuff:cool:
 

jadis

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I still like the French Press. I gave up the perculators years ago. It just doesn't taste good to me.
 

MylesBAstor

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French press.
 

ratmice

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Even though this is an old thread, I have to put my vote in for the Aeropress. It makes a fantastic cup of coffee, especially using the inverted technique. I'm going to get an auto drip maker soon, two contenders are the Bunn Trifecta ($$$) and the Bonavita BV 1800. Anyone have any experience with these?
 

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Either a FrenchPress, a Moka or a Capresso drip. Local roaster, I prefer his light roast varietals. Great citrus overtones lost with longer time in. Not that I don't enjoy a darker roast at times. He has a Celebes that's dynamite....beans look quite dark under normal light, but at the light, but by the roaster, hi intensity, they are just very dark brown and still have a fair amount of oil....a little longer and it would be too dry and the brew would be bitter, in his and IMHO.

http://www.kingdavidcoffee.com/
 
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puroagave

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i use a cuisinart drip machine exclusively (cheap) and a paper cone filter. home ground Peet's Garuda and Guatemala. i stay clear of bold (burnt?) beans that resemble licking an ashtray. ive spent considearble amount of time in many coffee growing regions of central and so. american and never tasted anything over there as bad as starbucks.
 

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Peets ad copy:

"Garuda Blend is one of our first blends, created by Alfred Peet. This blend is crafted from superb coffees originating from Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Each coffee has distinctly different flavor characteristics—the result of unique approaches to coffee production on the various islands in the archipelago. Some of the coffees are produced in the semi-washed or wet hulled method, providing full body and nutty, earthy flavors; other coffees are fully washed, bringing acidity and a more refined flavor to the blend—culminating in a big, satisfying cup. Garuda Blend is named for the great bird that carries the Hindu god Vishnu, guardian of the world.
 

RBFC

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Here's the Freiling coffee press we use:

http://www.amazon.com/Frieling-Fren...I8IO/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1330836584&sr=8-4



Excellent build quality and easy to clean.

Lee
 

JackD201

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The best coffee I've ever had was from a Brazilian classmate that threw his freshly ground beans in a pot of water on a stove and poured it through this thing that looked like a net ball hoop with a stocking. Beans were just Starbucks but I never had Starbucks coffee that was as silky and aromatic. You could actually see little oil globules on the surface. Probably not healthy but neither is Wagyu and Toro Sashimi. LOL.

Me, I'm lazy. I drink coffee out of necessity. While we do have a Seaco, the Nespresso gets far more use.
 

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the limits of nespre..

The best coffee I've ever had was from a Brazilian classmate that threw his freshly ground beans in a pot of water on a stove and poured it through this thing that looked like a net ball hoop with a stocking. Beans were just Starbucks but I never had Starbucks coffee that was as silky and aromatic. You could actually see little oil globules on the surface. Probably not healthy but neither is Wagyu and Toro Sashimi. LOL.

Me, I'm lazy. I drink coffee out of necessity. While we do have a Seaco, the Nespresso gets far more use.

While I do not rant against Nespresso, i would like to call for restraint: Nespresso is good for all those places where there is no indigenous coffee culture, like almost anywhere in the world, where the barrista cannot be bothered (in the best case) or the whole idea of coffee does not make sense (until a few years ago England)

As i posted some posts ago, I use a scala butterfly with its grinder beside, and initially was astonished how bad our coffee was, until i started to get a feeling for grinding, pressing and length and chain of temperature..
My favourite at the moment is the Tre forze http://kaffeezentrale.ch/d/shop/treforze.cfm

The reason for my posting is to say, however useful nespresso is for a coffeedrinker in a world of dishwaterproducers, it can hardly be called "the best"
..wasn't this the title of this forum?
 

JackD201

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Well, I didn't say it was best just convenient. Like my iPod. I said what was best in my experience. A guy who knew what he was doing and did it with nothing more than a grinder, pot, stove and what looked like a stocking.
 

JackD201

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:)
 

Tmij

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I enjoy espressos! I roast my beans on a Gene Cafe, grind manually using an OE Pharos, then pull on vintage levers only.

 

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