Coffee

[Snowy]

@Sugar:

The V60 has become my daily go-to brew method over the past few months, with my aeropress relegated to second place. I've really enjoyed working on improving my technique.

I just boil water in a standard kettle and hit 2:30 on my timer while I prepare the filter and then I use a cheap goose-neck pouring kettle from Taiwan (Hario ask too much for theirs). Temperature of the water counts, but isn't as important as a decent grind and nailing the initial extraction/de-gassing in my opinion.

Sounds 90% like me! I have the Hario, and stopped timing 2:30 after a few months of doing it, as I can tell visually +/- a second or two.

First post back from China, probably shouldn't be about coffee, but eh

[Anesthetist]

I am going to try to source a gooseneck locally but if nothing pans out then I will get one online.

[mclaincausey]

Urb posted an awesome gooseneck digital kettle a whole back in here and I got it. It feckin rocks. Set the temp and let her rip. Really facilitates experimentation. Let me know and I can find the model number, etc. I got it from Amazon prine

[Snowy]

http://www.amazon.com/Bonavita-1-0L-Electric-Kettle-BV3825B/sim/B005YR0GDA/2 there's a few of them, no personal comments, but that's the starting place to look into them

[JCar2666]

Any of you coffee nuts have one of these?
http://www.madebyknock.com/handgrind-grinders.html

I'm looking to get into drinking better coffee at home.  I'm gonna start with grinding coffee beans at home and then move onto better brewing equipment.

[4c]

^those look cool. Also can't beat a little french press for home brewing.

[Anesthetist]

I ended up with the Hario gooseneck and I've probably made 5 cups so far. I'm starting to get a brighter cup which is what I wanted. It's actually a kind of fun experiment every morning.

[Snowy]

Jcar I hand grind, but have not used one of those.

Reading about it, bit over priced and is steel as apposed to ceramic. Steel heats up and is bad for the beans. I suggest a Hario Skerton hand grinder

[JCar2666]

Check this out Snowy

https://www.baratza.com/steel-vs-ceramic-burrs-and-heat-generation-the-lowdown/

I concur the grinder is a bit overpriced.

From the blog above and other online research it really doesn't seem to matter if the burrs are ceramic or steel for small batches.  Which is what i'll be doing at home.  Grinding enough beens for a cup or two at a time.

If I can get my hands on the hausgrind I'll probably buy one.  I like the look and alleged ease of use for grind settings.  I especially like the fact this grinder is all made and assembled in the UK in small batches.

[Snowy]

JCar, awesome read, thank you appreciate the education

[Chiba J.]

Did you guys see this?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/03/27/287449219/for-a-perfect-cup-of-coffee-it-s-all-a-sleight-of-hand-grind

[JCar2666]

^ Yes.  Love what Doug and Barb are doing as well.  I was having a hard time deciding which one I wanted to buy.  I chose the hausgrind because the Lido 2 has a weird mech for choosing grind size.

[jdl1279]

Was a toss up posting this here or hard drinkers

[jdl1279]

Nice collection! See hard drinkers

[Snowy]

Nice article on the inventor of the Aero Press (via Daring Fireball for those who read there)
http://priceonomics.com/the-invention-of-the-aeropress/

[Snowy]

The best coffee I've had in Japan so far, located at the edge of Shibuya. A lovely balanced Burundi single origin V60.

[xtcclassic]

Ok, who on this thread works at / has been to / is affiliated with Lady Dinah's Cat Emporium in London, because this is too weird to be a coincidence:
http://m.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-26437881

Dude in the first pic is totally wearing a Sump shirt.

[Anesthetist]

That's awesome!

[Snowy]

Love visiting cat cafes. We spent about 3 hours @ 1 last time in JP, didn't drink the coffee, just chilled with the cats

[grandmasterben]

Holy shit, next time you're there, please let me know if they have another flucky santa mug you could pick up for me….so amazing