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Coffee fuggup
Apr. 2nd, 2012 09:07 amThe counter-culture-coffee-cupping taught me I like coffee that tastes like dirt more than acidic coffee, AND that coffee from central-amer is usually more dirty because of the high rain. African blends tend to be more fruity and acidic.
This AM I realized I'm a twit - I stayed home and ground coffee, and realized I may have been doing coffee pressing wrong for a while. I've been putting only 4 tb in 24 oz instead of 6...I think. It's sort of hard to tell when I'm working pre-coffee. BUT this would explain why I was leaving it in for 6 mins instead of 4, for the turn to bitter would mask the overall weaker coffee. With 6 scoops and 4 minutes this morning's mud was candy-like and barely required sugar.
I may recognize the difference between good coffee freshly roasted, ground, and pressed compared to starbucks or donut coffee. Intellectually I know the difference, but am I just some douche who thinks spending time and money on something means it is good but would fail a blind taste test? I have no idea.
I also know the old trucker's myth that the super black coffee that has been burning in the bottom of the commercial coffee pot is not boiled-down strong like black Everclear, but more like the taste of alcohol in a rum cake - for caffeine like alcohol is the first thing to burn off. If that burnt black coffee woke you up, then you got high off a placebo.
This AM I realized I'm a twit - I stayed home and ground coffee, and realized I may have been doing coffee pressing wrong for a while. I've been putting only 4 tb in 24 oz instead of 6...I think. It's sort of hard to tell when I'm working pre-coffee. BUT this would explain why I was leaving it in for 6 mins instead of 4, for the turn to bitter would mask the overall weaker coffee. With 6 scoops and 4 minutes this morning's mud was candy-like and barely required sugar.
I may recognize the difference between good coffee freshly roasted, ground, and pressed compared to starbucks or donut coffee. Intellectually I know the difference, but am I just some douche who thinks spending time and money on something means it is good but would fail a blind taste test? I have no idea.
I also know the old trucker's myth that the super black coffee that has been burning in the bottom of the commercial coffee pot is not boiled-down strong like black Everclear, but more like the taste of alcohol in a rum cake - for caffeine like alcohol is the first thing to burn off. If that burnt black coffee woke you up, then you got high off a placebo.
