Coffee Tasting CAT..
*good / bad!*
..it's your choice.
After 20+ years of drinking Army coffee I just buy Maxwell House.
Gosh, I thought my coffee this morning tasted pretty good until I read the label and applied their criteria.
Am I going to die because my coffee is blended french vanilla from an unknown country?
What about Organo Gold?
Send flavored coffee must use the poor quality beans, using taste too cover the deficiency.
A chemist friend recommends avoiding artificially flavored...well, anything. Send the chemicals used are nasty, and soon degrade into worse (like formaldehyde).
Us poor redneck bluecoller types in Texas just pick up a can of Folger’s for the coffee pot at work.
I always hated Keurig coffee makers because they seemed so inefficient and wasteful of plastic. Also, the cost of a home brewed cup of coffee seemed too high.
Well, when I worked at Fort Knox I was forced to use one. And once I discovered Costco brand coffee (it’s usually on sale) and how good it was, I started using the thing. I became completely sold.
Then I was in Sam’s club last week and they had the “super duper deluxe” one on sale for $109 with 20 bucks worth of coffee included, so I bought one for the home. I’m enjoying a cup right now.
All I can say is this has completely changed my home coffee drinking experienc. It has done as much for home coffee brewing as the Mr. Coffee did.
You don’t realize just how great it is until you’ve used it for a while. We had a gravity feed grinder, bought all of our coffee whole baan and this makes BETTER coffee. And no more making a full put that we use over a few days, reheating with the microwave. We make only what we need and it now even makes the larger caraf if you really need it.
With the refillable filter (which we haven’t bought yet) my wife will be able to even make her market spice tea with it, though I can’t comment on how good it will be until we try it. She usually uses a french press so we’ll see. I’ll need that adapter for the 5.5 lbs of whole bean I still have in the freezer...
It’s in a Starbucks cup? ;)
Cafe Caribe espresso at $2.00 per 10 oz. brick.
Mister Coffee latte machine.
750ml of latte in my thermos.
Happy.
Number 12: A dead giveaway.
Bad coffee is made palatable by over-roasted it, which helps burn off poor quality notes and oils. Of course, this also burns off what little good notes and oils it might have had, but the result can be a net-pleasing effect if desperate for a coffee flavor. Look up the history on “French Roast” to see how this was arrived at in history.
“French roast” and “dark roast” take advantage of poor quality beans. “Light roast” and “medium roast” are the roasts capable of leaving all or most of the flavor notes in the coffee, but this can also mean bad notes from any lower quality beans are noticeable.
You should want good tasting, “light” or “medium” roasted coffee. Definitely don't pay extra for the other roasts, which would kill the life out of good coffees (as over-roasting gets rid of their flavor characteristics, wastefully so).
How do I know this? Aside from having read about this, I now have family who maintain large coffee plantations.
SVT, stress, nerves.....oh man how bad I want a simple cup of coffee right now.
I ‘splurged’ last year and bought a bag of Starbucks french roast beans.
Opened the bag and it smelled like it had mackerel heads in it.! Yow!
Normally drink Costco French Roast fine ground.
After reading this thread I might try a lighter roast though.
Eight-o-Clock French Roast was my favorite for years. Then A&P disappeared and I lost interest in it.
Huh?
If I like it, I'm not going to worry about all that.
Seattle’s Best #5; dark, intense, drink it black. Two teaspoons per cup.
My favorite coffee is Kona. However, when I see “Kona blend” coffee for sale and read the notes the package, I never find an indication as to how much of the coffee inside is actually Kona. It brings to mind the story from the Soviet Union of the meat pie made with horse and rabbit meat in equal proportions—one horse to one rabbit.