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- April 11th, 2024, 8:32 am
- Forum: Coffee Roasting
- Replies: 5
- Views: 219
Are Royal Coffee Crown Jewels good value?
I've been very pleased with tbem. I've only ordered 2 so far but for sure they have been good value for very good beans. So far I have confidence that I'll like what I'm getting because their descriptions are good and their quality is good. My other supplier I have learned to trust is Hacea which is...
- March 31st, 2024, 3:20 pm
- Forum: Cafes and Get-togethers
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1525
Niseko, Kyoto, and Tokyo
A friend was just in Japan and brought a bag back from Weekenders in Kyoto. Very good! When I go back I think I'll have to have a better coffee plan
- March 6th, 2024, 7:14 pm
- Forum: Water
- Replies: 7
- Views: 345
Home water softnener and RO unit
A lot of us use RO water to make a gallon or 5 of espresso water at a time thanks to Pat's direction. I think this website's instructions are nice: {link} Which exact recipe you should use? Obviously there is no agreement and some of it depends on your desired outcomes. But a nice thing is you can try
- February 28th, 2024, 10:47 pm
- Forum: Grinders
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1224
Will a flat burr grinder help me like light roasts?
Explore medium roasts with your niche first. It does a fine job with them. Keep learning to distinguish the bitter vs acidic tastes. If you don't like mediums, I wouldn't think you'd like light roasts. (And what we here call medium most places would label light, by the way). Where do you get your co...
- February 25th, 2024, 3:43 pm
- Forum: News and Suggestion Box
- Replies: 2
- Views: 111
Latte Art Forum?
Subject of a how-to? Most looking for this, I'd gather, are fairly new to the site and they may have better success finding it there than buried in a forum. We tend to also have links to popular latte artist/teachers that really do the work for us: just watch these videos (if we're alright with doin...
- February 10th, 2024, 7:29 pm
- Forum: Cafes and Get-togethers
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1525
Niseko, Kyoto, and Tokyo
Yeah, the 10a thing really prevented me from trying many places. Looking forward to hearing about your experiences!
- February 8th, 2024, 11:23 am
- Forum: Buying Advice
- Replies: 18
- Views: 682
Moving on from superauto purgatory... Lever?
Yup, you'd get to learn a lot without sacrificing results if you first got a Robot/Flair/Forge or the like while you keep dreaming about your perfect machine. Lots of cool levers out there and half seems to be what you fall in love with
- February 8th, 2024, 11:06 am
- Forum: Buying Advice
- Replies: 17
- Views: 700
Buy a 1kg Home Roast Machine
Not what you're wanting to hear, but smaller batch sizes have a lot going for them in a home environment: more opportunity to try different approaches with less wasted attempts is the main one. And if you do happen upon a roast approach you want to repeat it's only another 10 minutes to do each addi...
- February 7th, 2024, 8:32 pm
- Forum: Knockbox
- Replies: 48
- Views: 2019
How to improve coffee beyond "good enough"?
Finding and learning to follow recipes was definitely step one for me. It's all I can really do cooking and baking too, and although sometimes my wife complains that I added, say, too much salt to a dish ("But that's what the recipe said!") when I find the recipes we like and the chefs and bakers we...
- February 6th, 2024, 11:12 pm
- Forum: Tips and Techniques
- Replies: 414
- Views: 24844
Blind shaker better than WDT??
007 had it right all along... {image}