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

Posted by: Richard Lord on 12 March 2013

I have several options, including Nespresso.  But I have recently re-discovered the art of percolating the coffee. Still experimenting with grain size and brands.  

 

What's your preference? 

 

Richard

Posted on: 22 March 2013 by Tony Lockhart
Phew. Another instant lover! I do like 'proper' coffee, but when I can't be arsed, or for work, this'll do:
Posted on: 09 November 2013 by osprey

My current favourite:

 

The charter of this coffee is one of maximum sweetness, well rounded by full bodied, caramelized, nutty and chocolaty aromas. Best enjoyed as an espresso. 

 

Facts:

 

Farm: Fazenda Sertao
Producer: Nazareth & Jacquez Dias
City: Carmo de Minas
Size: 800 hectare with 246 for coffee
Altitude: 1325 meters above see level
Verity: Yellow Bourbon
Process: Pulped Natural

 

  

... enjoyed at Johan & Nyström

 

Posted on: 09 November 2013 by Tony Lockhart
I've given up with all the aggro. Nespresso for me, and life is easy.
Posted on: 09 November 2013 by Quad 33
Originally Posted by Tony Lockhart:
I've given up with all the aggro. Nespresso for me, and life is easy.

What Tony said...

 

Graham.

Posted on: 09 November 2013 by Kevin-W

I like Illy coffee, which I first had in Italy as a teenager - as someone who grew up on Mellow Bird's instant (remember that?) in the 1970s it was a revelation.

 

Got a Nespresso machine at home which is nice and easy. I like the black capsules.

 

For when guests come, I usually put some Lavazza, Waitrose own or Taylor's in the big cafitiere.

 

Not a big fan of instant but I do keep a jar of this handy for those days when you really can't be bothered. Pretty good.

 

I've also got a one-cup stovetop coffee maker which I don't use that often - but it does create a lovely smell round the flat in the morning.

Posted on: 09 November 2013 by Ebor

I was terribly proud of my La Cafetiere in the mid-90s as an undergraduate - they had just become achingly cool in the UK. I used to grind my own from the Tayllor's shop in York. By the time SWMBO smashed the glass jug, we had a Krups espresso maker which we used with Illy to make some really good stuff. Eventually, though, it developed a leak and I gave up on that sort of thing because children were around by then and there wasn't time for complicated coffee procedures. 

 

I don't know whether it's age-related laziness, but I've been a great fan of my cheapo filter machine for years now. I'm back to grinding my own - I've found that you can grind to a fine powder to make it go further, and the filter papers are good enough to mean you get no grounds in the mug. Going back to an espresso machine/cafetiere seems like far too much faff.

 

I've tried the aluminium stove-top jobs and nespresso machines several times whilst self-catering on holiday: I can't get the former to produce anything other than a very weedy bitter brew, and the latter just seemed way too expensive for what you got.

 

I'm about to get shot down now, I'm sure...

 

Mark

Posted on: 09 November 2013 by Kevin-W

Slightly off-topic, but by far the WORST coffee I ever tasted was back in the USSR, when I spent a month or so there in 1987. It was awful stuff, made of acorns, horribly bitter. Most people drank tea (strong, black, lots of sugar) which was much more palatable. Coffee in the old GDR (East Germany) was foul as well.

 

Oddly enough, one of the nicest cups of coffee I've ever had was in Poland about 10 years later. It was in a cafe in Poznan run by some Ethiopians.