I got this coffee thing straightened out for youins'!

bpost

Coffee is a popular drink and we all have different tastes for it. Well, those of us that drink coffee do, tea drinkers are for another thread. Tea drinkers use little cups that require you to hold your pinkie finger out making you look foolish, so don't drink tea.

The water used to make the coffee has a huge impact upon the final result in your cup. Take your favorite brand brewed in your water and it will be as you expect. Go somewhere else with different water sources, hardness, chemical treatments and supply pipes the coffee will not taste the same.

Now, onto the bean choice. Coffee beans from different sources, including an elephants behind, this will of course impart different flavors to the bean and combined with the source water result in a different flavor for that brew in your cup. There are exotic beans imported from the four corners of the earth. All of them are coffee beans but due to climate, harvesting conditions and soil each will have a different flavor, it is to be expected.

Roasting also has a huge impact from mild to bitter burned. Take the same bean and roast it differently and your result is a coffee that is totally different from the one you just tried.

Now to the nitty-gritty. I buy Kirkland 100% Colombian Supremo bean Dark Roast fine ground in 3 pound cans, six at a time from Amazon. It is the proper coffee to buy, period. I only use reverse osmosis water to brew it and like it a bit on the strong side.

I use a five cup Hamilton Beach $15.00 coffee drip brewer. It makes perfect coffee every time and keeps the carafe at the proper temperature for a long time. However, all coffee should be consumed within one hour of brewing for best flavor.

Of course you may use a different water or even a different brand or type of ground coffee but remember this my friends. You are doing it wrong. I have now taught you to make proper coffee and trust me your life will be better for it. Now, go forth and brew.

nononsense

I went to the Costco website for Kirkland coffee and indeed found your choice, $10.99/3lbs.

I also scanned the rest of that page and saw a Costa Rican coffee and a coffee from Rwanda. Lots of other brands I’ve never seen so I may make a stop there at some point to do a little looking.

There are custom roasters as well who will take your beans and roast them specifically to your taste. Just be sitting down when you ask the price...😉

Best.

hillbille

so you are saying if I was to pee in ricci's coffee it may taste better????????

CaneyRiverDog

Coffee is like pinto beans..... its better on the third or fourth day

Grunt2

Dazbog coffee?

pingjockey

Wife and I have been drinking that coffee for quite a while now but we just use our rocky mountain well water. It's a just about perfect 2.5 to 3 grains hard. We only have a couple of hay fields between us and Missoula, oh, and a hundred or so miles of national forest. You are right, it's great coffee.

Brookwood

I mentioned earlier in some coffee post that I didn't drink coffee until I was in my late 30's. Well, that may not be entirely true. Whenever I would visit my dear departed grandma, we would sit together at her kitchen table and she would always treat me to a cup of her coffee that was always brewing throughout the day.

A nice hot drink and a good long chat about many family subjects from long past to present. Great memories and some very good stout coffee. Chase & Sanborn brewed along with egg shells in the basket of her massive coffee percolator.

She also enjoyed a good smoke and always had a Camel burning. She made it to the ripe old age of 87 and is very much missed by me to this day!