Coffee Drinkers

The Seattle mountain coffee mountain blend used to be really good for a bulk coffee at Costco, but last couple times I've been there they haven't had any.
 
Local roaster here in denver Daz Bog (russian immigrants) is pretty good.

I can do anything and on the weekends I use a hand crank burr grinder to grind for an individual cup. Use distilled watter heated to 197-204F and a stainless pour-over filter for no paper taste. Even better than a french press.
And yes I have a couple of those for home and camping depending on number of folks.

Most mornings I just use the Hamilton Beach combo machine (both full pot and single cup) for a single cup. I used to drink a full pot.
 
Man, just reading this fagotty thread, ought back memories of my 1SGT dogging me out with hundreds and hundreds of push ups for cleaning his coffee ground encrusted electric peculator that was never cleaned before, he said I ruined years of seasoning and fucking made me do push ups til he got tired for two goddam weeks.

1st Sgt Kilday, great great leader and veteran of Hamburger Hil RVN, died 18 months later multiple cancers at one time, later we would figure out that agent orange caused it, checked himself out of the hospital cam back to the unit to say goodbye then went home and died a week later at his quarters. was a sad time.
 
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That La Palina is a nice little smoke...

Coffee snob here.

You need the proper way to make it as well as good water. It's the obvious, yet completely missed thing for most people. Just by changing these two things, the same coffee you make now will taste different/better. It's like saying I have a custom build rifle and am not getting good groups shooting bulk ammo out of it.

I could suggest a bunch of coffee to you guys but its like cigars, liquor and women where its a total taste kind of thing.

What I would do is look in this direction:

- Grinder: This is where I differ from a lot of other coffee snobs in that it isn't THAT important. As long as you are grinding for the coffee process you are using, especially if using a French press where the grounds need to be course, you are GTG. This doesn't need to be a powder trickler that makes exactly the same kernel of coffee constantly to the exact weight. There's $40 grinders and $400 grinders, I don't notice any difference outside of not using the correct grind size and not grinding before you're going to use it (i.e. dont make a batch and store it)


- Coffee Maker: Obviously don't buy a Kuerig lol If you have a water dispenser that heats to certain temps or you want to measure temps of boiling water, a French press is bar none the best overall way to make coffee. If you don't want to screw around with measuring temps or fucking around with boiling water, look at something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004JIQQK2/ref=emc_b_5_i


- Water: The damn coffee is basically 95% water. The taste depends more on the water than it does the coffee. Sure, you can use tap water or bottled or whatever. Just for the hell of it, get some distilled water and buy these capsules which balance the minerals in the water (the #1 thing that effects the taste): https://www.amazon.com/Third-Wave-Water-Enhanced-Optimizing/dp/B071XRR95R?th=1


Try some of your BRC coffee and some nicer coffee made the correct way with good water and you'll realize its probably all just some over marketed Columbian garbage. My coffee suggestion to you is a type of coffee that I initially did not like, but ended up making my favorite. It has a distinctive taste as it is grown in volcanic soil in a region of Guatamala. You're welcome: https://verterecoffee.com/collections/single-origin/products/guatemala-shb-ep-laurel

Oh, but I also mentioned cigars? https://www.cigar.com/p/la-palina-goldie-cigar-cigars/2008986/

$20 per cigar?? Go be poor somewhere else.

I may actually try and finally get a Jura machine this year, but we shall see.
 
I love me some black coffee.

3 or so cups a day not too heavy.

Not a Starbucks fan.

Best coffee tends to be served up in a typical diner served hot in a thick white china mug.

For some reason that perfect cup of diner coffee eludes me when I brew at home or buy commercial Dunkin Donuts or gas station coffee.

What is the magic of diner coffee?
 
I love me some black coffee.

3 or so cups a day not too heavy.

Not a Starbucks fan.

Best coffee tends to be served up in a typical diner served hot in a thick white china mug.

For some reason that perfect cup of diner coffee eludes me when I brew at home or buy commercial Dunkin Donuts or gas station coffee.

What is the magic of diner coffee?

Pay that waitress to let you "steal" that white China cup.
Take it home and try your coffee in it.
Magic will happen.
My dad did the same thing when I was about ten years old. Coffee was always better tasting out of that cup.
He broke the handle off his cup and continued to use it for another ten years. That is until my ex broke it for good. Fuckin bitch.
 
Pay that waitress to let you "steal" that white China cup.
Take it home and try your coffee in it.
Magic will happen.
My dad did the same thing when I was about ten years old. Coffee was always better tasting out of that cup.
He broke the handle off his cup and continued to use it for another ten years. That is until my ex broke it for good. Fuckin bitch.

We have some nice white china mugs at home.....something about the Bunn coffee maker, the bacon, the eggs, and the fact Im only ever usually in a diner early in the morning and on some sort of vacation, adventure, shooting trip...

The Green Mountain "Our Blend" Im pounding right now came from a Bunn but in its paper cup/plastic lid and fact Im working....it lacks the magic.
 
There's also something magic when you just sit down and a coffee appears in front of you. Ten minutes later a full breakfast shows up and the only work you've done for it is to get out of bed, get dressed and drive to the diner...

Green Mountain is decent coffee although it's a bit earthy and smoky.
I drink most of my coffee out of this Starbucks mug.
It has a ceramic lid but I rarely use it because it just kills off the taste
I drink mine really hot and rarely let a cup cool down before it's gone.

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The book I found last week. My daughter already owned it, so she gave it to me yesterday.
 
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Not exactly as cool as Nighthawks, the '40s sure were a swell era, but Alice is certainly fitting of my despair comment. Flo was the MILF of the 70s, I'd kiss her grits for sure.

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Hopper is the man when it comes to art.

I vacation where he painted and his ability to capture the essence of light makes you feel the sun on your skin, smell the baking house paint or the salty smell of the sea when you look at his work - Art in its greatest form (to my opinion).

Wish he would paint me a cup of diner coffee.

and yes even Vera would be bangable.

Wasnt Mel a WWII vet?
 
Mel was a Navy man, can't remember if a WWII vet in the series, but the actor himself was way too young (b. 1930) to have made the war. Been way too long since I've seen a rerun of that old classic.

Vera was a babe, but I like my ladies more feisty and less dimwitted.

Hanging type artwork has never really been my thing. Of course I've been stunned by some of the most renowned pieces and frescos, but if it's not something by Da Vinci or the likes, I'm just a clueless gawker.

I've been to some of the most famous art museums and churches in the world, where I spend more time admiring the architecture of the buildings than I do the pictures hanging on the walls, especially the old museums in France or Italy. Those old school bastards knew how to build a cool building...
 
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I probably am guilty of drinking too much coffee. But I don't try very many different ones. I appreciate a good cup as much as the next guy but I've drank too much lousy gas station and truck stop coffee, I guess. We drink Folgers here at home. Some of those pictures sure look interesting!

Now, beer is another thing! I'm big into craft beer and try as many different ones as possible. I have a dedicated commercial coolen in the garage just for beer. I travel out of town and out of state to attend beer festivals. My Wife calle them beercations.