coffee for mags - a coffee roasting trip report (& free mag coffee)

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Originally Posted by jackattack

Yeah dude! Let me know how it goes.

Church day
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okay for those that don't know, jackattack just posted a picture of the tasting room/coffee shop of Royal coffee (aptly named "The Crown"), which is widely considered to be one of (if not the) best greens distributors. That tiled wall of the cafe is famous among roasters because that's where Royal shoots videos cupping and discussing their finest coffees ("crown jewels") so he's pretty much coffee royalty at this point

also shroom your French press looks delicious and I can smell it from here

is this the general coffee thread or is that the espresso one? Anyway, I need a new kettle because my fellow stagg started tripping breakers. I liked it fine, but it's too expensive to only last three years. Any recs for electric kettle and/or an induction-friendly gooseneck? I'd like temperature control (or a thermometer on a stovetop one) but don't need degree precision.

I know it's just a thing that heats water and there are a bazillion of them available, but I like well-designed and durable shit for daily use. Also too many of the bazillion look like a kong toy and I'm not into that.

I used an Oxo Brew at my BILs and it was solid.


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Originally Posted by caulfield

is this the general coffee thread or is that the espresso one? Anyway, I need a new kettle because my fellow stagg started tripping breakers. I liked it fine, but it's too expensive to only last three years. Any recs for electric kettle and/or an induction-friendly gooseneck? I'd like temperature control (or a thermometer on a stovetop one) but don't need degree precision.

I know it's just a thing that heats water and there are a bazillion of them available, but I like well-designed and durable shit for daily use. Also too many of the bazillion look like a kong toy and I'm not into that.

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For small pour-over batches the OXO Gooseneck is ok. I'll often make 75g of coffee (~40fl oz) and the 0.9L capacity meant I would be refilling it and waiting for it to come up to temp several times. Stagg is also 0.9L though so if that worked for you, the OXO will too. It's got good temp hold, good features, I used mine daily from about 2018 to a month ago, it died (button broke).

Bummer OXO doesn't build things to be replaceable though, and I wasn't super stoked on their customer service. I did get a 25% off coupon for contacting support (brings it down to what Amazon sells it for all the time) but would have loved to just pay for a replacement electric base since my kettle was fine, or even the button which seems like a simple enough part to swap out.

I just bought a Moccamaster and it makes as good of coffee as I ever did with a pour-over setup, plus a million times easier.

My partner used this one for about a year before we moved in together and it's honestly excellent:

Bodum 11883-259US Melior Gooseneck Electric Water Kettle, 27 Ounce, Matte Black https://a.co/d/10WoVBY

Can't speak to the long term durability, and the size is a little small, but honestly, for the price it's hard to beat.

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I'm gonna get flamed for this, but I needed a solution for my wife's addiction to coffee shops so went with a superauto at home. Combined with some
Lavazza Super Crema light-Medium Espresso beans, I've honestly been really impressed with the Americanos. She likes it too. Going to better/different beans is really just gonna be the sprinkles on the top from where things stand now. Researched a bunch of machines and decided on Philips. Was onsale just before Xmas.

https://www.usa.philips.com/c-p/EP43...resso-machines

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https://www.amazon.com/Ferrero-Pocke.../dp/B00O87K1AU

This is coffee related so I think Im safe posting this here. I found a coffee/choc snack that is pretty damn good. Dark german choc with a praline wafer crust with a liquid espresso center. The shot inside is 20 mg of caffeine so 1/3 of a shot? A great dark choc (ferrero) taste then coffee! Awseome bite sized mini buzz.

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I'm gonna get flamed for this, but I needed a solution for my wife's addiction to coffee shops so went with a superauto at home. Combined with some
Lavazza Super Crema light-Medium Espresso beans, I've honestly been really impressed with the Americanos. She likes it too. Going to better/different beans is really just gonna be the sprinkles on the top from where things stand now. Researched a bunch of machines and decided on Philips. Was onsale just before Xmas.

https://www.usa.philips.com/c-p/EP43...resso-machines

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lol I'm not gonna flame you except to say ESPRESSO THREAD JONG

but hmu when you're ready for some good beans

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Superauto's are popular at hotel breakfast bars and cooperate events, but the rabbit hole of keeping up with the machines seems more tedious than classical espresso tools.
https://www.reddit.com/r/superautomatic/

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https://www.amazon.com/Ferrero-Pocke.../dp/B00O87K1AU

This is coffee related so I think Im safe posting this here. I found a coffee/choc snack that is pretty damn good. Dark german choc with a praline wafer crust with a liquid espresso center. The shot inside is 20 mg of caffeine so 1/3 of a shot? A great dark choc (ferrero) taste then coffee! Awseome bite sized mini buzz.

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Ooh yeah imma order some of those thanks!

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Originally Posted by Falcon3

. I'll often make 75g of coffee (~40fl oz)

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LOL. Just got done with an 8 day stint with multiple sets of the inlaws. After the first couple mornings of me making everyone coffee they offered up that they think i make coffee way too strong and they would prefer it made like my SIL/BIL. I was doing 15:1 with some good light roast in a chemex. My SIL/BIL typically do preground shit in a frenchpress so weak that you can see the bottom of the mug like you would tea.


takes all kinds i guess.

Ha, I've never had anyone complain about light roasts being too strong. Usually, it's "too fruity" or they complain about sourness but what I think they mean is acidity that is roasted out of dark roasts.

Try 16:1 or maybe even 18:1 with a medium grind in the french press and see how that goes over.

Just had a great time fucking with a scammer in Denver, Colorado trying to sell a Bullet on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/3977...0799596801054/

Unfortunately he blocked me before I could get a picture of his dead wife's tittieshttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...8a339899c9.jpg

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LOL. Just got done with an 8 day stint with multiple sets of the inlaws. After the first couple mornings of me making everyone coffee they offered up that they think i make coffee way too strong and they would prefer it made like my SIL/BIL. I was doing 15:1 with some good light roast in a chemex. My SIL/BIL typically do preground shit in a frenchpress so weak that you can see the bottom of the mug like you would tea.


takes all kinds i guess.

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yeah all junior has is Tim hortons coffee in the Keurig pods but i usually leave after 2 days grabbing a starbucks on the way outa town so the dude abides

upon writting this I wonder if they only have shitty coffee to drive me off sooner ?

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Just had a great time fucking with a scammer in Denver, Colorado trying to sell a Bullet on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/3977...0799596801054/

Unfortunately he blocked me before I could get a picture of his dead wife's tittieshttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...8a339899c9.jpg

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Haha, nice work, fuck scammers!

I've been drinking Keurig cup coffee all week at the in laws house. I can't wait to get home tonight and make some real coffee tomorrow.

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Haha, nice work, fuck scammers!

I've been drinking Keurig cup coffee all week at the in laws house. I can't wait to get home tonight and make some real coffee tomorrow.

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I'm in the same boat except it's Folgers in a drip machine. Rough.

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I bring my travel coffee setup on almost every trip. Went to the in-laws and stupidly didn’t bring it. We rotated through 4 houses and only two of them had decent setups. Drank pre-ground Starbucks Blonde and made the mistake of brewing it at about 1:18 ratio, that shit NEEDS to be watered down. No wonder so many coffee jongs like weak coffee.


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As has been said many times, a good grinder dramatically upgrades your coffee.
It's most obvious with espresso, where a grind with consistent, correctly-sized grains gets you crema and everything else doesn't.
But it's worth it with any brewing method.

People rep the Timemore hand grinders, which are great. As with everything Chinese, they come out of the same factory under 100 different brand names, sometimes none at all.
I've found what appear to be exactly the same thing for under $35 shipped.
(I got mine from a different random unbranded seller, and it's either a Timemore or so close as to not matter. Grind is excellent.)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/234977352185
https://www.ebay.com/itm/234977357107

If you're used to the $12 ceramic hand grinders, these are a revelation. It takes under 20 seconds to grind ~10-12g of beans, the grind is much better, they don't feel like they're going to break while pushing through a light roast...and unlike a motorized grinder, they don't take up half your counter space and break every year or two.

Nice! Will check that one out.

I'm getting the hang of roasting on the Bullet. For 900g batches, I've settled on a preheat temp of 527F IR that corresponds to a charge temp of ~375F on the bt "probe".
I'm excited for some bomb milk drinks from this Bolivian Espresso roast.
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Nice work. Could you post it with the IBTS ror too?


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That Bolivian that Jackattack posted is one of my all time favorite espresso coffees, it's literally milk chocolate incarnate. The profile looks amazing, too.

This is Roastmasters Ethiopian Hamasho gr1 natural, another one of their "staple" coffees that never seems to disappoint. Super psyched on how the curve turned out too.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...8877944cf6.jpg

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tgapp -- as I polish off this bag -- I think it's my fave bag of beans I've ever made on espresso. Florals and chocolates and fruits. And easy to pull even on a middling setup of a Chrono and Bambino. So fucking good.

That said, all the spro in the world can keep me from new bone-headed new dad sleep-deprived shit. Last night I left the car running, keys in, on the street for 8hrs.

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That said, all the spro in the world can keep me from new bone-headed new dad sleep-deprived shit. Last night I left the car running, keys in, on the street for 8hrs.

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This made me chuckle... :D

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Nice work. Could you post it with the IBTS ror too?


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Here you go.

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