Not caring for store bought coffee, I roast my own. Once you drink fresh roasted coffee---properly roasted, de-gassed, ground and brewed, there is no going back to store bought. IAll other offerings becomes what I call "bad brown beverage" as I can not defame the name "coffee" with an attribution to the floor sweeping passed off as the product sold in markets. Inferior beans, improperly roasted, and invariably stale is not coffee. Even Starbucks, lovingly known in the home roasting circles as CHARBUCKS or CHAR$, doesn't hold a candle to home roasted coffee. Now Stumptowns or Peets does offer a well roasted, well brewed cup of Joe, but again no comparison to home roasted. I buy my "greens," as they are known, from Sweet Maria's in Oakland, Although there are a great many places to get quality beans, Tom of Sweet Maria's takes most of the guess work out of purchasing by offering his extensive cupping profiles. After the initial outlay for a roaster and a good burr grinder, most home roasters find that ther price per pot decreases significantly. First, greens are cheaper generally running for $4.00-7.00 per pound. No premium well roasted coffee approaches that price and besides all roasted coffee is stale within 4 or 5 days (at best) and ground coffee is stale in 10 minutes---vacuum cans notwithstanding. Second, you save a fortune by not drinking $6.00 per cup boutique, gas station, fast food or any other offering of bad brown beverage pawned off as coffee. Third, you get to steer clear of those punked out, twentysomething, vendi-speaking, condescending brats who think they are baristas because they know how to work a superautomatic espresso machine or an idiot proof Clover. Few of these charmers really know the difference among a ristretto, lungo, machiatto, Americano or cup of brewed Kopi Luwak. (Throw a lever espresso machine and a Reg Barber tamper in front of them and watch them whine and wince.) That's worth the price of admission right there. Once you have fresh roasted, fresh ground and properly brewed coffee (use a Technivorm) it is impossible to go back. It takes me 20 minutes every 4 or 5 days to have great coffee. Not a bad investment of time.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Life is Too Short for Bad Coffee.
Not caring for store bought coffee, I roast my own. Once you drink fresh roasted coffee---properly roasted, de-gassed, ground and brewed, there is no going back to store bought. IAll other offerings becomes what I call "bad brown beverage" as I can not defame the name "coffee" with an attribution to the floor sweeping passed off as the product sold in markets. Inferior beans, improperly roasted, and invariably stale is not coffee. Even Starbucks, lovingly known in the home roasting circles as CHARBUCKS or CHAR$, doesn't hold a candle to home roasted coffee. Now Stumptowns or Peets does offer a well roasted, well brewed cup of Joe, but again no comparison to home roasted. I buy my "greens," as they are known, from Sweet Maria's in Oakland, Although there are a great many places to get quality beans, Tom of Sweet Maria's takes most of the guess work out of purchasing by offering his extensive cupping profiles. After the initial outlay for a roaster and a good burr grinder, most home roasters find that ther price per pot decreases significantly. First, greens are cheaper generally running for $4.00-7.00 per pound. No premium well roasted coffee approaches that price and besides all roasted coffee is stale within 4 or 5 days (at best) and ground coffee is stale in 10 minutes---vacuum cans notwithstanding. Second, you save a fortune by not drinking $6.00 per cup boutique, gas station, fast food or any other offering of bad brown beverage pawned off as coffee. Third, you get to steer clear of those punked out, twentysomething, vendi-speaking, condescending brats who think they are baristas because they know how to work a superautomatic espresso machine or an idiot proof Clover. Few of these charmers really know the difference among a ristretto, lungo, machiatto, Americano or cup of brewed Kopi Luwak. (Throw a lever espresso machine and a Reg Barber tamper in front of them and watch them whine and wince.) That's worth the price of admission right there. Once you have fresh roasted, fresh ground and properly brewed coffee (use a Technivorm) it is impossible to go back. It takes me 20 minutes every 4 or 5 days to have great coffee. Not a bad investment of time.
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