Favorite coffee

“tree is a major tea drinker.”

“I have a stereotype to conform to here!”

“"he eats the beans then throws them up and the locals grind them up for coffee?"
mapleleaf
01:49:04 PM
03/30/04
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So would they call it "Upchuck full-o-nuts"”

“I just bought some new teas down in Chinatown. I love shopping down there!

Got one of those teapots for steeping too. Cool stuff!”

“LMBO zac,”

“No, I'm afraid that coffee is "craptacular"...”

“...fresh, strong and caffenated.”

“yay! craptacular!”

“It's a great word, lyra. You should publish a dictionary.”

“well, i didn't make it up, but i would be willing to reap the benefits.”

“That IS a great word.
Best word from lyra yet.”

“Maxwell House 100% Colombian for me.”

“Much as I love blue mountain it's Starbucks Yukon blend for me at the moment”

“If you like Blue Mountain, why don't you do your budget a favor and try a pound of New Guinea Papau Estate and save $40? I tried some recently and it's plenty good.
http://www.cookscorner.net/Varietal_Coffee.html

I get all my coffee from these folks. They slow roast in small batches right on their premises. Good #&%!$, I guar-an-teeee you. My favorites right now are Ethiopian Yirgacheffe and Tanzanian Peaberry. The Sumatra Mandheling is also very good.

baume bought and liked their coffee too.”

“Anyone remember how Chester used to make coffee on Gunsmoke? Hell, anyone remember Chester? Gunsmoke?”

“Way to #&%!$ up a thread, Violin.”

“HA! i like it.”

“Snorting Blue Jamaican? Cool Mon!”

“my favorite "off the shelf" is "mocha java", from caribou.”

“I do believe Dennis Weaver played 'Chester'.... (and I bet Festus coulda kicked his ass, too! LOL)

In any event (aHem), Chuck reminded me of something that happened a couple of eons ago. We were on one of those dreaded family road trips and my mother got some coffee from a vending machine. She was in the middle of the second or third sip when there was like a small explosion and coffee went flying everywhere ---

Apparently some ants got into the sugar... and we all know there's nothing quite like a steaming hot cup of ants!”

“DeoreDX I could just kiss you! I never knew you could roast your own beans in a frickin' popcorn popper! That rocks!”

“If you spend a buncha dough on an expensive home roasting machine it's essentially just a hot air popcorn popper with a chafe collecter. I roast mine outside, the roasting process creates a bunch of smoke and unlike a roasted coffee bean the smoke does not smell that great... it smells like smoke. As far as hobbies go roasting your own coffee is one that will actually SAVE you money. Green beans can be had at 1/2 the price of roasted coffee. The absolute best coffees in the world can be had for $5-6/lb green. Plus, you can roast the bean however you liek it, and experiment. It's very little work for a lot of reward, and you'll learn a whole bunch about coffee :D”

“Yeah I noticed they say to do only 3-4 oz. at a crack so it’d be real easy to do a lot of experimenting. What’s a good bean for someone who likes the Frenchy roast?”

“Central American coffees normally take well to a darker roast (Guatemalans, Costa Ricans, Nicaraguans). Sumatras and Konas take well to a darker roast. I rarely, actually probabl;y never roast into French roast any more. A coffee bean has a unique flavor profile, and once you start roasting past the second crack you start carbonizing the pulp of the bean and what you get isremoving the bean's natural flavor profile in favor of a roast profile. While this is a good thing for the cheap flavorless Robusto beans with a high quality bean it's something I normally do not recommend. Anyways, the coffee bean has more caffine in it if it's not roasted as dark.”

“Oh yeah. Sweet Marias has a large coffee roasting library you should read if you plan on doing any roasting, it has lots of good info for the beginning roaster. They also have one of the best selections and pretty good prices on green coffee beans.”

“Out of respect for the only addiction I will never deal with this thread should be shot to the top of the heap every day. A salute to caffeine.”