What is your favourite coffee and how do you brew it?

i've become addicted to Mexican beans that are sold through Ruta Maya of Austin, Texas. But I am now feel starting to feel just a bit guilty about using an automatic grind and drip brew coffee maker.  Beans of this quality deserve better treatment!

Hook

Ruta Maya and the farmers in Chiapas adhere to these principles and goals: to produce organic, shade-grown coffee among and in rotation with other food crops, which enables farmers to sustain and replenish the land for future generations while helping to promote conservation of natural resources. And also, to help identify, distinguish and empower the Mayan farmer as a viable economic force within the community.

At home just one of those jugs with a plunger, the coffee varies a bit but is often one of the Percol ones eg Nicaraguan, Honduran or Machu Pichu, I like to vary it a bit.Every time I find a favourite it gets discontinued. At work I just put grounds in a cup with hot water, stir it and let it settle drinking the coffee off the top, always black without sugar.

An aluminium stove top left rinsed and unused for a while develops some unpleasant white deposits. I use one if I go camping but the first cup is wasted, somehow just boiling it with water in doesn't condition it properly.

The old m/c got blocked up so we recently got a DeLonghi Lattissima+  Nespresso, comes with an attachment that does the frothy milk....great for a cappuccino (did I spell that correctly...,).

And those nespresso capsules are real convenient ...however we have to recycle them over here..

BR

Here they collect your old capsules when delivering the new order. G (God, It'll be knitting patterns next!)

I've been using a stove top maker since about 2000. It's a stainless steel version, and even after boiling dry due to my being diverted it comes up as good as new after a trip through the dishwasher.

Every couple of years I consider buying a machine of some sort, but those in the know advise me to stick with what I have. 

I treat myself to a complicated coffee while I'm out and about, and that usually clears the urge for a few weeks,

Hmmm, the ex-girlfriend is getting her hair chopped about next Saturday, so 3 hours on my todd in Cambridge..... coffee and camera!

Tony

Hi Graeme

thats good service - its along way from Scotland to Switzerland though...

BR

Already looking forward to the new set of photos. Trust there will be an obligatory student on a punt !

BR,

    Just be careful with the wipe down / cleaning of the frother, they are a great source to harbour the Legionella bug !

Hi

good point, there is a 'clean' option that steams the internals, and a recommendation to put the milk frother unit in the dishwasher each week....green tea seems an easier option...

BR

always buy beans...sometimes special ones.......

Good advice.  I thought I was buying beans today, then found I had bought three packs of ground!  Stupid boy, Pike.  They were on offer for £2 in Asda.  Their own brand of 100% Arabica Fairtrade Ethiopian Mocha Limu.  I was gutted when I got home.  Then I tried it in the percolator and I was very pleasantly surprised indeed.  I have poured the opened pack into an airtight container and together with the other two unopened packs, it is in the freezer.  I was worried the finer grains might fall through into the coffee, but all is OK.  

Richard

I don't drink just any coffee

I drink S&M coffee 

With "whipped" cream !!

The best coffee I ever enjoyed was served up by Alex Twyman on the verandah of his house which was cantilevered out overlooking his coffee plantation above Newcastle in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.  The best of times.  Mild flavours but glorious.

Back in blighty I still reckon it's worth the effort to grind beans and brew the coffee through an expresso machine.  I'd love to have one of the 'proper' ones but the coffee from my Gaggia tastes great.  Still a real faff clearing up after.  A bit like listening to vinyl I suppose!!

Peter

We have one of these and a matching Cuisinart burr grinder. It has been a good option. We've had it years now, and it gets daily use.

Cafetiere and 

Last colombian coffee I had,  I was awake for 4 days. Strong s**t. Should I have filtered it?

LOL Tony,have some camomile tea then

Cheers, Fabio. Will do!

All this talk of coffee makes me keep filling the pot.  I must have drunk gallons of the stuff.  Is this stuff addictive, or what?

You are obviously not making it strong enough. More than 2 cups of mine and you're . 

Hi Steve, that is the same as mine.  I never use it.  I had so many problems during the Warranty, when the 5 year Warranty ran out I stopped using it.  

However, the good news is my Bialetti Venus arrived at 0730 this morning and I have made several pots of coffee in it.  I made it far too strong at first, but gradually getting the hang of it.  Lovely coffee maker, so thank you, Fabio.  Very much appreciated.   .

Richard

Richard,you're welcome.

Ethiopia Mocca Sidamo has a rich taste and a long after-taste. Malongo and Julius Meinl offer one of the best quality. And here is the Koetsu of the coffee machines. It uses rosewood and makes a special 'analog' coffee home. Coffee grinder and water in use are equally important.

La Pavoni Stradivari

The best coffee I've tried is Jamaica Blue Mountain, but it's hard to find a brand with a constant quality.

Oh no!  I have just bought both a 6 cup (not big enough) and a 10 cup stove top, exactly as recommended by Fabio.  I have to say, this Italian designed piece of excellence makes truly wonderful coffee.

Doesn't La Pavoni Stradivari require the skills of a true Barista?  Please excuse my spelling, I cannot speak Italian.  But I saw somewhere that to make the best espresso requires a lot of skill.  

Richard

The sweepings off the floor for me : )

I don't like coffee too strong, and i still value my kidneys.

Plus i spend too much disposible income buying music.

However, the Kenco Rappor is very satisfying for a instant : )

Debs