Coffee a shit. Drink tea. Quality loose leaf tea is a fraction of the price of equivalent quality coffee, lasts longer and won't make you a caffeine addict yes yes, tea still has caffeine, but the overall stimulant effect is more minor and drawn out.

>>6
I'm the OP and I drink both.

I see coffee autism as necessary sperging because most coffee disgusts me: everyone I know seems to keep their coffeemakers or carafes filthy, and my first cup from a brand new Chemex was so unlike everything else I had before it that I want to know how good it can get.

On the other hand, even low tier tea is usually drinkable. I've been cold-brewing iced teas with loose leaves for the past two years. Right now I have cold-brewed high mountain oolong in the fridge.

>>8
>I see coffee autism as necessary sperging because most coffee disgusts me: everyone I know seems to keep their coffeemakers or carafes filthy, and my first cup from a brand new Chemex was so unlike everything else I had before it that I want to know how good it can get.
Fair enough. I'll admit to having never tried particularly good coffee.
>On the other hand, even low tier tea is usually drinkable. I've been cold-brewing iced teas with loose leaves for the past two years. Right now I have cold-brewed high mountain oolong in the fridge.
Maybe we need a tea thread also.

>>12
>I'll admit to having never tried particularly good coffee.
If you'd like to try it, you can brew it yourself in any sparkling-clean carafe, even if you can only get Folgers or another ground supermarket coffee. Everything I've brewed in the completely clean Chemex has been good; when it's not, it's because I fucked it up via temperature, residue, grind size, and so on.
>Maybe we need a tea thread also.
I just made >>18.

>>12
>>20
Oh, and if you'd rather try making the kind of drinks that people order at Starbucks, then you can get a moka pot. I did everything in this video minus the grinding at a friend's house, and having wiped out his moka pot, I ended up with pretty good coffee: https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=rpyBYuu-wJI

Espresso coffee culture is everywhere in my country and many people in my area are competent baristas, including myself; so I find it difficult to discuss coffee online with those that are only acquainted with manual coffee. Flat white best.

I grind my coffee beans finely with a mill, put it in a cup and fill with boiling water. It's simple and doesn't require a lot of utensils.

>>8
Depending on what parts are kept "filthy" and what sort of coffee maker you mean, it's probably because people believe that the buildup improves the flavor, whereas the soap ruins it. That being said, I have no clue either way.

Someone on 4/ck/ had suggested that I grind cardamom with my coffee. So I did. This is my first spiced coffee.

I ground two green cardamom pods in a blade grinder as I ground 25 g of Chock Full O'Nuts' medium roast in a burr grinder, then brewed it in a Chemex. It's not bad. You taste the cardamom first and the coffee second.

>>121
I seriously doubt that anyone wants to taste the soluble decomposition products of the rotting insoluble residue unless, and only unless, it were carried out in a controlled, repeatable way that's understood to taste great. From my understanding that coffee residue tastes metallic, as expected from rancid oils, and I don't want to taste that. Throw the fucker in a dishwasher and hand dry it if you must.

>>216
Correction: you taste the cardamom first and the coffee second when you sweeten it. Drinking it black, I only smell the cardamom.

What do you guys think about barrel aged coffee? The local coffee shop where I live had some bourbon barrel-aged coffee for a while, and I enjoyed drinking it iced as a cold brew.

Is there anywhere I can get a good barrel-aged coffee online? Is the barrel-aged coffee going to end up just being a meme? I really like it, especially because I don't drink alcohol normally.

UK anon here looking for reasonably priced coffee recommendations. GF really likes coffee but I can't stand the stuff. What's a good coffee to drink black? Preferably something already ground.

I don't know shit, I don't really want to know shit, just want a good christmas present for her.

>>286
Depends on the specifics. Based on what you're saying, I'd recommend you buy her a grinder instead of a bag of coffee.

Find out what equipment she has, and if she's missing a grinder then get her a grinder (Hario's Skerton is a decent hand grinder and costs the same as a bag of coffee).

If she has that stuff, then ask again after saying what coffee gear she has.

>>288
She has all the gear. I'm just looking for a side top up present not anything fancy.

>>289
Counter Culture Coffee's Telegram is a solid bean, then.

If she has a grinder, and she likes coffee, she'll appreciate having whole bean coffee rather than pre-ground coffee. It'll be fresher.

>>292
Fuck, HOLOgram, not telegram.

>>286
>gf
Disgusting.

>>286
I don't think a bag of beans would make a great Christmas gift; it's food. Get her some coffee gear that she can use every day while thinking of you instead. My gear is in the OP.

Not exactly related to drinking coffee, but does anyone here have any tips to creating latte art? I can make a coffee just fine and texture the milk, I just never really grasped the process of making latte art.

>>305
You don't buy just 1 gift anon. You buy a few gifts. Some are nice small things while others are large. Someone who really enjoys trying different coffees will appreciate a coffee small gift.

>>309
True.

Well, any good coffee ought to be good when served black. I want to try the beans in >>285.

For me, it's Nescafe Gold

It's Lavazza or Illy 100% ara for me, machinetto always delivers best quality/price without having to spend fortunes on a huge machine.

Fresh beans are good too, but cost more here.

>>439
this is an insult

I go with some generic safeway grocery store brand instant coffee.

>>439
>>444 (checked)
Steve1989 loves Coffee, Instant, Type 1 so much that I can't just shit on you for drinking its equivalent. How do they compare to the real thing?

>>468
I've never actually had anything other than instant coffee so I can't tell you.

>>468 I thought grocery store coffee was equivalent to type 2? Type 2 is freeze dried beans, like the instant stuff you get at any store. Type one is actual brewed coffee that's been spray dried.

>>4 >all that gear >DD beans I bet the beans aren't even fair trade, I prefer locally grown ones if any, roasted by a local retailer - which means the beans are always fresh unlike repacked bigcorps food whose trade is a stranglehold by the coffee mafia to some never-developing thirdworld coffee-belt country (2nd most traded good is coffee, now you know). I prefer just black. Any Arabica beans with nutty or cocoa hints but never of any "earthy" flavor as my daily driver, single origin if quite possible. The water must be drawn from underwater streams beneath the earth through pumps or over natural mountain springs (mind you some mountains have mining-related chemicals thrown over them so it means the water might be dangerous). It has minerals and is a hard water, to be softened later through a few minutes of boiling, water quality does so much and using fluoridated/chlorinated/endocrine disruptor crap that had been softened by sewer or "sewer water" treatment facilities taste like shits sour/acidic bitter. Mineral or go home my friend. Thick soup mug retains heat longer, preheat the mug with boiling Mineral Water. For the grinds, you must put them on un-oxybleached paper filter that had been "desaturated of paper taste" beforehand "by pouring hot Mineral Water over it while atop a metal mesh", dip the mesh to a surface of hot Mineral Water to avoid unnecessary degassing "which puts bubbles between the grinds causing them to float when pouring over". Again, Mineral Water or go home. This is the perfect formula, If I were to drink outside, I'd prefer an espresso to avoid excess "normie" water or maybe not at all, just order the cake and bring my own coffee thermos. Mineral Water or kys.

>>635 >Canada >locally grown beans Is that even possible?

>>642 Canadians grow cranberries and just call them coffee beans. Sort of like how they call ham bacon.

>>441 >100% ara

>>4 >Horchata with coffee Come on man, you can't be just going around adding coffee to everything. Also there's 2 types of horchata, and maybe a dozen if you count the non-mexican variants like the original spaniard recipe, the Venezuelan chicha variant, some Japanese variant with tea and from all of these the fermented and non-fermented variant. I find odd the article mentions it as a universal recipe that just seems to be served with drink in that specific chicano restaurant.

>>643 The Day cannot come soon enough.

>>643 >and just call them coffee beans What

>>653 Love her boobs <3

>>669 >Come on man, you can't be just going around adding coffee to everything. Wasn't my idea, but having tried it, I liked the combination. Does tiger nut horchata taste any different from rice horchata?