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Re: Coffee
« Reply #20 on: November 07, 2011, 07:31:44 PM »

Norondor and norn are separate people. One is in Australia!
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #21 on: November 07, 2011, 07:47:40 PM »

One of them needs to wear a hat or something.
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #22 on: November 07, 2011, 07:51:31 PM »

Norondor and norn are separate people.

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Re: Coffee
« Reply #23 on: November 07, 2011, 08:04:34 PM »

I've got one of dem aeropress machines actually! The filters aren't really an issue. The thing comes with like four thousand of them.

Supposedly there's an ideal water temperature before mixing of around 180 degrees F and an ideal aeropressin' duration of 10 seco- WAIT

actually you have to STEEP it for 10 seconds then press down for 10 seconds or god fucking help you

Still not getting a particularly great cup, though, which makes me think it's the coffee itself. Ziiro's reminded me of how good Thinking Cup's coffee was, so I might be inclined to drop $15 on a 20oz bagabeans from Stumptown.

I usually do two scoops of beans with water up to the 4 line, and it makes a dandy cup.  Bean quality is gonna be a big factor too though.
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Norondor

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Re: Coffee
« Reply #24 on: November 07, 2011, 08:20:10 PM »

Norondor and norn are separate people. One is in Australia!

SHHHHHHHHH
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #25 on: November 07, 2011, 08:20:24 PM »

tyler and norn are not separate people though
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #26 on: November 07, 2011, 08:50:48 PM »

Wait.  Which one of them is Cassius again?
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #27 on: November 07, 2011, 09:51:30 PM »

Is norn real then? Are we

was he even ever here

what's realllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #28 on: November 07, 2011, 10:05:05 PM »

I want a coffee right now
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #29 on: November 07, 2011, 11:54:41 PM »

Yo the trick to doing a sick-ass aeropress is just to boil like six cups of water and then let it sit until it isn't making steam lines or bubbling anymore. The real technique here is to use the IKEA pots that have lines inside them so you don't have to bust out the measuring cups. Then you wanna grind your beans on the spot to something resembling not-quite Turkish; I've found that actually the $15 burrrrrr grinder I got from an old housemate of ours does this really well because it's too terrible to get too small and I literally cannot overgrind those pupdogs. What's nice about coffee beans is that when you use a little scoop to get a tbsp or a solid oz the powder is actually the same amount, so don't even have a worry on that regard.

I definitely advise a good coffee to start with here. World Markets actually have really boss coffee and may be in your local metrop area under the name COST PLUS or WORLD MARKET or some combination thereof. For what is effectively a supermarket bag of nuts you get some good cups. If you live near SF go get Blue Bottle though. Otherwise try to care a lot and find some local organic importer or something. Fair trade shit is pretty uniformly delicious so long as the roasters aren't mongoloids which is rare when you care enough to think about it that much

Then you stick the damn coffee in the press. You put the water in and stir it up with the proprietary magic wand until it is smooth sailing and then look at it for, I dunno, as long as you think. Then fucking press that shit. Really get your lean on. I hope you have a sturdy mug and a solid counter because boy you are pushing your luck with this thing. Results: A+

Sometimes I like to put some cinnamon into it before I press it just for kicks.

Real talk though Starbucks is kinda shit but every single one I go to if you are nice after the first few visits your shit is freeeee or close to free. Friending my barista on Facebook was the smartest financial decision I've ever made in my life because they are letting me get away with grand larceny here. Truthfully Starbucks is way better than they once were and they still get a lot of shit for things they don't even do anymore because they improve as a business and how often can you say that? Not that I'm an apologist or anything. But beyond that Peet's is pretty boss (also for tea) and they have a lot better coffee science BTB (behind the bar) which leads to things such as: smoother lattes, more robust espressos

French presses as Norondor said require very little thought. You just grind some beans up coarse and do basically the Aeropress thing but it takes less thought. If you got grounds in your brew, it's all your fault and that's basically the issue I see when I talk to people about french presses. These people come in wanting plastic containers and bright colors and a little hole on the top to drink straight out of like it's a god damned mug and I say to them well how about a fucking hole in your head how would that be for heat dispersion and they get the glass double walls every time instead
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #30 on: November 08, 2011, 12:54:02 AM »

i actually asked tyler to come in and confuse the issue of our identity but instead he made a good post about coffee
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #31 on: November 08, 2011, 12:54:54 AM »

got distracted
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #32 on: November 08, 2011, 01:31:05 AM »

I also personally love the 'soot' that comes with a cup of French Press coffee. Not 'grounds' really, but those superfine little particles that lace the bottom of the cup? I know some people have that stuff, but I slurp it right up.
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #33 on: November 08, 2011, 05:54:43 AM »

My coffee experience TURNED RIGHT AROUND as soon as I got a French Press. When visiting a friend in California recently, I wished death upon her because she brewed from a drip.

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Re: Coffee
« Reply #34 on: November 08, 2011, 06:51:45 AM »

I was taught to drink coffee at Vietnamese restaurants with the single serving stainless steel drip brewers. I still prefer coffee prepared this way to anything else I've had, though a cursory investigation of the subject suggests that the particular flavor of Vietnamese coffee has more to do with the types of beans used and the method of roasting, as well as the fact that's it's combined with sweetened condensed milk, than the brewing process. I'd be curious to see how much difference there is between a single serving stainless steel drip brewer and a french press when using the same coffee grounds.
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #35 on: November 08, 2011, 06:58:00 AM »

I once heard my uncle say, "I like my coffee the way I like my women: black and bitter."



It's funnier if you know my aunt.
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #36 on: November 08, 2011, 07:16:42 AM »

"Oh gee, Thad. What does your aunt look like?" he said in perfect monotone waiting for the punchline.
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #37 on: November 08, 2011, 07:37:10 AM »

Well, from context you can infer that she must either match that description closely or be the complete opposite of it; otherwise it wouldn't be funny, just kind of a weird non sequitur.
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #38 on: November 08, 2011, 07:43:04 AM »

See I was going to post this

Snappy Response

But in the time it took me to switch from mobile to PC you managed to cockblock it with the driest and most obvious response possible, so thanks for that.
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