Anyone Into Coffee?

Will have to check Kona. We have some good roasting happening here on the West Coast. I drank Nescafé instant powder in England for years so really appreciate good coffee now.
 
gusgranite said:
Will have to check Kona. We have some good roasting happening here on the West Coast. I drank Nescafé instant powder in England for years so really appreciate good coffee now.
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Hate to tell you how they make instant coffee! :(
 
Myles B. Astor said:
Had the worlds' best coffee this AM. 100% Hawaiian Kona Mountain Ka'u Coffee we brought back from our honeymoon. Sold by the Kona Mountain company, this medium roast coffee is ultra-smooth and nutty tasting without any nuts. You could drink tons of this without blinking!

Kona Coffee from Kona Mountain Coffee

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Here's another source for you:
100% Kona Coffee : Hawaiian Coffee - 100% Kona and 100% Hawaiian Coffee | Maui Coffee Roasters Fresh Roasted Coffee

BTW, I heard that you had time to stop in at HiFi Hawaii while you were on your honeymoon.
 
I love Timmy's! Hope it comes here with the merger.

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As far as relatively affordable coffee makers, this one is fantastic. Mine gets used every morning with some yummy coffee beans from Second Cup.

 
Dan you probably know about the Maui coffee farms. They have a nice little retail outlet in Lahaina where you can sample their different varieties.
 
mauidan said:
Here's another source for you:
100% Kona Coffee : Hawaiian Coffee - 100% Kona and 100% Hawaiian Coffee | Maui Coffee Roasters Fresh Roasted Coffee

BTW, I heard that you had time to stop in at HiFi Hawaii while you were on your honeymoon.
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Hi Dan!

Thanks for the coffee suggestions!

Yes I did! Hung with Shane for a while and had a nice time. The store though still really isn't up and running yet.

And hit Hungry Ear (they'd been open for three weeks then) and met Dennie and Jim. Both nice guys and picked up a few LPs in the store too! Also got a few of those wooden signs for my LP racks! :)

Is Chinatown as seedy as it seemed?

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hoosiertom said:
I buy green beans ( Ethiopian Harrar or Yirga Cheffe) either from Sweet Maria's in Oakland CA or locally from Frank @ Chazzano here in MI.
I roast them and grind them myself. Gotta tweak it.....
It's as fresh as it can be.
The whole process reminds me of the ritual and rewards of cleaning and playing vinyl :)
All the best,
Tom
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WHERE do you roast your coffee? RoastING coffee [not roastED coffee] smells horrible, actually very much like sawing wood with a dull out of round circular saw blade. I did it once in the kitchen and stunk up the house. The next time I did it in the garage and after that, the patio. After that, I just got it at Zabars or Fairway where they roast daily and whatever I buy is just roasted anyway. I usually decide what to buy by taking two beans from the barrel and chewing and tasting them which usually surprises the sales people. I never found the mail order places to be better than the local shops that roast daily.

We have found the quality of Jamaica Blue Mountain has gone WAY down over the years. 30 years ago it was excellent. Today, I would drink just about anything else. I generally prefer Central or South American coffees. I weigh out 110 grams for a two quart pot and grind my coffee just before brewing in my Bloomfield with reverse osmosed water.

I drink regular coffee after work during the week and all day on weekends. During the week, I have decaf during the day because my work depends on my having a steady hand.
 
Lots of good coffee here. I just buy generic Safeway brand, and mix it 50/50 with other ground coffee selections they sell, such as Sumatra, etc. Yes, I am cheap, and saving my money for stereo gear. :)
 
BlueFox said:
Lots of good coffee here. I just buy generic Safeway brand, and mix it 50/50 with other ground coffee selections they sell, such as Sumatra, etc. Yes, I am cheap, and saving my money for stereo gear. :)
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And cat food! :)
 
Mark Jones said:
As far as relatively affordable coffee makers, this one is fantastic. Mine gets used every morning with some yummy coffee beans from Second Cup.

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It's funny you should mention this one. We have this in the apartment and like it but a year after Gail got it, she wanted me to get another one for the house. I wouldn't take the Bloomfield out of the kitchen, so the other Technivorm Mocamaster is new in the box in the basement. I can't help thinking she wanted me to buy it purely so she could cannibalize it for parts should that become necessary.
 
Costco / Starbucks whole bean burr-ground to order each morning + Chemex & Chemex filters is all we do and is quite satisfactory if not excellent:
(tastes COMPLETELY different than Starbucks coffee purchased at a Starbucks = It's actually very good & not bitter but smooth brewed this way)
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I started roasting 3 years ago this coming January with a modified hot air popcorn popper. After a year I moved up to a Behmoor 1600. The Behmoor folks are great. They just updated the 1600 to allow more customization and they are making the upgrade available as a kit. I roast 2 lbs a week, one for home and one for work. I buy my beans from Bodhi Leaf Coffee Trading Co. as they are great people, have killer single origin beans, and are local. They sell on line as well. I use a French Press or an Aeropress with the Able Disk instead of a filter. If I'm able to go to the next level of roasters it may be a Huky 500. My advice to beginners is to standardize your brewing method* so that time and temperature are fixed. Then the variables are the coffee and the grind. Once you get a decent burr grinder (I have a Baratza) then just the coffee and your roasting technique are the only variables. Keep a log and have fun.

Ditch the auto drip as they don't get anywhere near 185-200*F which is the required temperature for serious coffee brewing. French Press, Pour-over, Chemex, Vaccum pots and aeropress are all way better than any auto drip below the the $200 Behmoor Brazen level.
 
Awesome that we have some people on the forum who are way into coffee. I would love to try roasting beans if I could get a good source for quality beans that you could trust. A friend of mine recently bought one of those starter kits that includes a popcorn roaster and several bags of beans. Something about a popcorn roaster doesn't appeal to me and it's probably based on bad memories.

Years ago before there were Starbucks every 5' on any street, there was only one place I could buy fresh roasted beans and it was a little dive restaurant/coffee house that existed to serve freaky clientele with even freakier servers. They had a popcorn roaster there. I used to cringe every time I went in there to buy some beans because I knew I was going to get weirded out. All of the women that worked there were hired based on how freaky they looked. Shaving your legs or armpits was absolutely not allowed. Your face/ears/head had to look like someone took a nail gun to it on full automatic.

So now when I think about a popcorn roaster, all I can see in my head is one of those freaky women pouring my beans in a bag while I'm seeing this huge bush under their arms.
 
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