what do you prefer to do? cream? sugar? are you picky about preparation?
don't have it often but can reccomend condensed milk vietnamese style :uncle-ho-2: if you haven't tried it. can get vegan condensed milk in the uk now too, not sure about elsewhere
Put enough instant coffee to cover the bottom of a mug. Pour boiling water on it.
I just eat the beans. When I want to get real fancy I buy espresso beans that are chocolate covered. :meow-cactus:
I was gifted an AeroPress right after my drip coffee maker broke, so that. I either drink it black or with Oat Milk in it.
Black no sugar because I’m cool. As a treat maybe soy milk once in a while. Oh this is in Australia so it’s like, real coffee, not whatever Satan’s piss Americans drink.
As for beans or whatever I don’t know what I like specifically but when I taste it I know if it’s good or not. Lol.
i like james hoffmann's french press recipe
dont know how the fuck it does, but somehow leaving the grounds in for 11 minutes makes it taste good
no cream or sugar for me
there's a handful of brew methods which are basically "underextract for a longer period of time" which people swear by
Yeah, it's an easy way to make a sort of foolproof method when you have little control over other variables. When you're doing any kind of extraction from a solid to a liquid there's basically three variables you can play with: temperature, time, and surface area. If you choose go for a longer time and get roughly the same amount (not the same flavor necessarily) of extraction, then either lower the temperature or use a coarser grind size. With immersion brewing like french press (or aeropress to a lesser degree), the fluid dynamics are almost negligible, unlike espresso or pour-over, where the way the water flows through the coffee bed affects the flavor a lot.
So yeah, keep your coffee brewing for a long-ass time in order to get better extraction. My only issue with the James Hoffmann french press method is that my coffee is almost tepid by the time i get to pour it
not picky, but i use a french press and i like it black
French press and sometimes Moka pot. I grind my own beans with a cool hand grinder. I usually take it black but sometimes I put a little soy milk in it :soy-chill:
Have you watched the moka pot video series James Hofmann posted a couple weeks ago? it improved my moka coffee game immensely.
I think I watched it awhile ago before I actually owned one and it inspired me to get one. That guy rocks, his channel is a great one to binge watch if you're just getting into coffee
When i brew at home i try to use single origin beans that I buy from a roaster i'm friends with, french press or aeropress, 18 g coffee/250g water. When i can afford it and want to treat myself -not that often unfortunately-, i either go to a local specialty coffee shop or get some filter coffee from a very basic, unassuming coffee shop i'm a regular at.
