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Captain...or Skully
climber
or some such
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Aug 17, 2011 - 11:45pm PT
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I'm down with the gas station stuff. Guess I trucked too long. Ruined me for coffee snobbery. Hehehe.
Hot & black, baby. Maybe a bit of sweetness.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Aug 17, 2011 - 11:53pm PT
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At home i drink dakine.
If forced to drink gas station shwah, i have to foof it up majorly with the french vanilla " cappucino" machine, half and half, the works.
Heresy? Not when in the middle of BFE.
And the sh!t can actually be pretty strong.
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S.Leeper
Sport climber
Pflugerville, Texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 18, 2011 - 01:03am PT
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jiff
Ice climber
colorado
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Aug 25, 2011 - 01:38am PT
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dammit i need coffee...now!
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Captain...or Skully
climber
or some such
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Aug 25, 2011 - 01:47am PT
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Well, I'll make some in the A of M.
You're welcome to a cup or two.....
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jiff
Ice climber
colorado
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Aug 25, 2011 - 01:50am PT
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Why, thank you sir!
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NotIt
Trad climber
SF, CA
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Aug 25, 2011 - 10:25pm PT
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tolman -
espresso has less caffeine than coffee when consumed in the average "drink" for each: roughly 8 oz of drip coffee vs. 2 shots of espresso.
Espresso has substantially MORE caffeine than drip coffee by VOLUME.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Aug 25, 2011 - 10:38pm PT
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A question about expresso. It's been stated it has less caffeine than drip coffee. But if you make a cup of coffee in an expresso machine, does that have less caffeine than from a drip machine?
No, there is less caffeine in the coffee brewed in the espresso method. The grind will make a slight difference but not much.
Caffeine takes time to dissolve. When making espresso the water is forced through the coffee quickly thereby not giving the caffeine enough time to dissolve.
Also, the finer the grind the more surface area of coffee available to accept water which dissolves more caffeine.
So, Perc ground coffee (very coarse), brewed in an espresso maker, for one will taste terrible (since the water can't get to enough flavor components fast enough and also since there is less surface area for the water to attack), and will have less caffeine for the same reason.
Espresso ground coffee (very fine but not quite powder) Brewed in a Percolator will, for one, taste terrible since it is over extracted and will have as much caffeine as you can get out of a cup of coffee.
Remember this:
Fast brew methods need a fine grind. Espresso/Fast/Fine grind, not quite powder, grind
Slow brew methods need a coarser grind. Percolator/Slow/Coarse Grind, chunks.
Flat bottomed filters and cone filters give you a different dwell time, the time the coffee is actually involved with the water while it is filtering through.
If you make a cup of "drip coffee" in an espresso machine you have just made a crappy cup of coffee.
Although!
The sentence above is the industry standard line, if you like a cup of "drip coffee" brewed in an espresso maker, than I cannot argue with your tastes.
http://www.hoodrivercoffeeco.com
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Aug 26, 2011 - 12:05am PT
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i'm rocking this unit. pulls a good shot, and has paid for itself many times over.
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S.Leeper
Sport climber
Pflugerville, Texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 26, 2011 - 12:37am PT
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holy smokes, thats a bad ass machine!
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apogee
climber
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Aug 26, 2011 - 12:40am PT
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Dark muddy french press hot steaming morning
Smoothed with milkfat to the color of Michael Jackson's skin ca. 1989
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FredC
Boulder climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Aug 26, 2011 - 08:37am PT
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I am in central Mexico this week and it is hard to understand how a whole country can treat coffee so badly. it's enough to drive a person to tea (almost).
I like the look of that espresso machine! I have not made the leap yet.
Mr. Airport
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Aug 26, 2011 - 03:57pm PT
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I've met Juan Valdez.
He was at a coffee trade show once when Peggy and I first started the Coffee Co. in the early 90s.
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S.Leeper
Sport climber
Pflugerville, Texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 26, 2011 - 05:05pm PT
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Yes Mexicans don't understand coffee at all. But they make a wicked salsa!
My bro in laws have a restaurant in Mexico City and they have one of those restaurant grade espresso machines. Their only sin with espresso is they add tons of sugar and lots of milk in their lattes.
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S.Leeper
Sport climber
Pflugerville, Texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 29, 2011 - 05:23pm PT
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you must not be a tres leche fan, I'm not one either. el globo rivals any pastry shop here.
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S.Leeper
Sport climber
Pflugerville, Texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 31, 2011 - 02:40am PT
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phuq, i could use a double shot!
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FredC
Boulder climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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I bought a new pound of Verve coffee beans yesterday, ground some this morning and made a really great strong latte.
That super cool flavor gets lost in storage. I want to store in the freezer but people tell me that cool dark is the best.
Any coffee storage experts out there?
(Verve is a local roaster in the Santa Cruz area, very good stuff.)
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Since so many Argentines are of Italian heritage espresso machines are widely
seen even down to Ushuaia. I don't know from whence their beans come but
they generally did them justice. Some very good gelato is also available in BA.
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TwistedCrank
climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom
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Argentina has the best served coffee I've had, although many Argentines I know claim that the Spanish make the best coffee.
Or was that steak?
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