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Coffee
« on: November 07, 2011, 01:26:52 PM »

There used to be an unusually excellent coffee shop a short walk from my apartment, kind of a hipster hovel with MassArt student last-minute collages on the walls and amazingly shitty stream-of-consciousness photocopy zines sitting in piles near the windowsill. It was far too small for the number of people it attracted, but this made it a pretty awesome place to hang around and eat at.

They did good bagels and breakfast burritos, but holy ducknuts did they brew a good cup of joe. Their pumpkin coffee will haunt me forever. It has destroyed the fragile illusion I once held that Green Mountain coffee was not a steaming cup of horse piss.

Eventually they went out of business and were replaced by a Wallgreens, and like huddles of crack addicts evicted from an abandoned bowling alley jonesing caffeine addicts poured into the Store 24's, Dunkin Donuts and awkward-ass vietnamese coffee houses in a futile death march, an abyssal foreversearch for what we had never appreciated enough and for what our sinner's flaps would never again taste.

As I sip a cup of shitty, bitter Starbucks via instant coffee, I wonder if it's time to just give up on this fucking stuff for good or if there is a secret brew hidden in plain sight I have overlooked in my meandering, ghastly failquest.

Dunkin Donuts is pretty decent coffee but it is wildly inconsistent and really, when I take a step back from it, it is still not very good as a drink. The best I've had since is this stuff that Parker's Maple Barn, a delightful sapping farm/breakfast joint on the NH border, sells in maple-infused baggies.

Beyond that it is all pretty fucking terrible so far.

Is there hope
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2011, 01:37:41 PM »

Well first of all, Starbucks Instant coffee is Starbucks^2 , so that's just poor decision making on your part.

Second of all: What's it like to not be drowning in coffee shops?

To answer your question: No. There is no hope. Accept Starbucks as your coffee overlords to make the transition easier to deal with.

Where do you live again?
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2011, 01:44:46 PM »

Up until my stomach tried to murder me I was in Allston, which had a lot of coffee shops until recently. Turns out Vietnamese coffee shops don't know that coffee isn't supposed to taste bland and joyless and terrible. We did have an amazing oasis called Bagel Rising whose sweet nectar I crave daily.

There was Steve's down the road, but the coffee was more of a formality than anything.

The only decent cup was this place called the Twin Donuts, which was open at 4 in the morning and helmed by the most powerfully Cambodian man I have ever met. I miss that place.

Now I'm in my hometown north of the city and it is slim pickings. There are easily 5 Dunkin Donuts and a Starbucks and one local coffee shop who you kind of want to support but all of their drinks are mediocre so it's hard to justify the trip.

I think my only option is to get some kind of ground coffee and brew it myself, but most of the major brands are not terribly good!
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2011, 01:49:43 PM »

Portland's World Famous Stumptown Coffee is what I'm trying to find for you. The "Thinking Cup" in Downtown boston serves it, but that might be kind of far. They sell some on their website, it appears. But I don't know what lengths you're willing to go for good coffee
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2011, 01:51:41 PM »

Hah! My little brother worked there for about a year not too long ago.

They're pretty out of my way but yes. They make a classy, classy cup.
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2011, 01:52:41 PM »

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Re: Coffee
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2011, 03:28:16 PM »

why not get a french press and make coffee at home? knowing how to use one of those things ensures you will never want for the delicious taste of greasy beanwater.
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2011, 04:12:54 PM »

French press sucks, though.  All coffee grounds floating around in there and shit.  It's nasty.

I have one of these and it is pretty excellent.
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2011, 04:15:45 PM »

you need to get the coarse grinds for it and also not be a derpity-doo and that's literally all you need to not have grounds in your coffee

though actually yeah the aeropress makes really nice coffee as well, with the annoying caveat of disposable paper filters
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #9 on: November 07, 2011, 04:20:42 PM »

I drink coffee like an American.
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #10 on: November 07, 2011, 04:23:10 PM »

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Re: Coffee
« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2011, 04:28:37 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.
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #12 on: November 07, 2011, 04:32:56 PM »

Okay well, alright. Apparently after shipping it's more like 20 bucks for a 12 oz bagabeans.

Do I want not-terrible coffee THAT bad
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #13 on: November 07, 2011, 04:34:06 PM »

That's probably a cheaper experiment than buying a new coffeemaker.
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #14 on: November 07, 2011, 05:10:27 PM »

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

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Re: Coffee
« Reply #15 on: November 07, 2011, 05:12:43 PM »

I drink coffee like an American.

I drink coffee like a Barbarian.


No. See, what I meant is that I spend 10 dollars a cup.
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #16 on: November 07, 2011, 05:28:00 PM »

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jesus norn you gotta STEEPEM DEEP BRO

god help you
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #17 on: November 07, 2011, 06:12:00 PM »

I miss norn, and just now you got my hopes up for nothing. Well I guess technically for Norondor.

(sorry noro)
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #18 on: November 07, 2011, 07:21:39 PM »

wait so
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Re: Coffee
« Reply #19 on: November 07, 2011, 07:22:05 PM »

is Norn Norondor

and if not why do they have essentially the same name
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