Keurig is awesome. Coffee brewed quick is amazing at 6 in the morning. I'm actually surprised there isn't some Tassimo hatred as it's right beside the keurig, that thing is slow as hell. Oh and by the way the hillbros coffee is my roommate's.
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TeramonaConsulting Tea Specialist Best Coast! Icrontian
The biggest irony of my life is that I work at a coffee shop, and smell of coffee 5 days out of the week. So, I actually know a lot more about the stuff than I want to know. Than I ever wanted to know.
Today I had to sit through a coffee tasting of 4 different types. Straight. Just shot after shot of straight black coffee. That's like hell to me. The teas were off in the distance, mocking me with their smooth deliciousness. I wanted to cry or gag, but I could do neither. It's the closest I'll ever come to being a whore. Other than promising sex for lulz.
TeramonaConsulting Tea Specialist Best Coast! Icrontian
edited June 2013
Coffee has more caffeine than espresso. This is because the time is takes to pull a cup of coffee is much longer than the time it takes to pull a shot of espresso, therefore more caffeine will be extracted when pulling coffee. In fact, an espresso shot should be somewhere between a dark black and a mahogany brown, because you're mostly just getting the oil.
I want. The coffee badge.
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JBoogalooThis too shall pass...Alexandria, VAIcrontian
I handed him the "I'm altering the deal" Vader quote on a silver platter, and the man doesn't even step up.
How's all that working out for you so far?
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TeramonaConsulting Tea Specialist Best Coast! Icrontian
When you say stuff like, it concerns me that there might be a way for the mods to reverse lulz. What kind of damn world are we living in where a girl can't even feel safe about her lulz count?
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TeramonaConsulting Tea Specialist Best Coast! Icrontian
In all seriousness, can someone please tell me what the point of decaf coffee is? Why would someone ever drink black decaf? I can understand herbal lies, because the taste is there, and I don't feel like people necessarily drink tea for the caffeine to begin with (I don't)... But coffee? Isn't the main point the caffeine?
What do they do with all that precious, extracted caffeine?! The processes that are used to remove it involve some pretty crazy chemicals, and/or steps that almost definitely change the original taste. There's also a gene-suppressed coffee variant. I hope the scientists tending to these plants get too tired and fall asleep, so all their crops wither and die.
I've heard some drink decaf because they still like the taste of coffee but for one reason or another do not want the caffeine.
Simply enough, that's exactly the case for me at least. I was never really a regular coffee drinker though. I do love a cup of coffee ever now and then. The case with caffeine for me was getting a little out of hand so, I decided to cut it out entirely.
I've had a tough time finding an acceptable coffee roaster local here in LA. It's just so hard to pick after Chazzano. When I was up in Sunnyvale, @cherplunka and I went to a local place that seemed OK via yelp. Upon entering I noticed that I couldn't see the actual roaster anywhere, and I got a bit of a bad feelinga bout it. I asked the worker if they had any kind of tasting notes for the various roasts they had. She just sorta starred at me. So I went back to ordering from Chazzano anyways.
I found a place near my current residence in LA called Bean Crazy. It's still not as good as Chazzano, but they offer many roasts, and they roast daily (and the roaster sits near the door when you enter!) I don't think they're as careful about keeping only the freshest beans the way Chazzano does, but their beans are delicious and done right. I ran into the roaster the last time I was there buying beans and we chatted about their beans for quite a bit. I find comfort in the fact that he can talk the talk.
@UPSLynx - I know I plug them a lot, but Stumptown roasts their beans daily and mails them out fresh from the roaster. They arrive right at their prime (by my understanding anyway) brewing time. That is, a couple days after they have been roasted. Of course you don't get the feeling of supporting a local business, but still, their coffee is some of the best I've ever had. (EDIT: I just checked their website, they're apparently opening a location in Los Angeles soon...)
Also, fun fact, decaf coffee is (usually) not completely decaffeinated. It's nigh impossible to remove all caffeine from the coffee bean so it's actually just extremely lightly caffeinated.
Also, also, espresso may have a lower caffeine content for a standard serving, but if you drank 8oz of espresso, you'd be ingesting much more of that glorious sleep replacing chemical than when you drink 8oz of drip-brew.
I'll look into that @ardichoke. I've often ordered from Chazzano, but it gets a bit expensive just because of the shipping - and on one occasion, shipping issues made it harder. A rare roast I ordered got shipped to my old apartment up in Sunnyvale. I thought it was gone for good, but a month later it showed up on my door with TONS of transfer stickers. My coffee basically traveled around the US via USPS. It was kind of hilarious and kind of sad because it was old coffee by then.
We had a marketing group conducting meetings at my work and they left all of the products behind that they brought to do what ever with. There were beers, dog foods, sun screens, soft drinks and some energy drinks. They told us that what ever they leave behind we could have. Awesome. I grabbed some stuff that I haven't tried before and was just getting ready to walk out of the room when I notice a can of Java Monster energy. So I grab it thinking to myself "Hey, it's coffee flavored! How bad can it be?" Little did I know that this turd colored can would contain a substance so putrid that not even Keith Richards on a heroin bender in the 80s could stomach it. I would rather down a glass of crushed up Fintstone vitamins mixed with off brand Robitussin than let one drop of that stuff near my lips again. Avoid at all costs.
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Today I had to sit through a coffee tasting of 4 different types. Straight. Just shot after shot of straight black coffee. That's like hell to me. The teas were off in the distance, mocking me with their smooth deliciousness. I wanted to cry or gag, but I could do neither. It's the closest I'll ever come to being a whore. Other than promising sex for lulz.
I want. The coffee badge.
The processes that are used to remove it involve some pretty crazy chemicals,
and/or steps that almost definitely change the original taste.
There's also a gene-suppressed coffee variant. I hope the scientists tending to
these plants get too tired and fall asleep, so all their crops wither and die.
I found a place near my current residence in LA called Bean Crazy. It's still not as good as Chazzano, but they offer many roasts, and they roast daily (and the roaster sits near the door when you enter!) I don't think they're as careful about keeping only the freshest beans the way Chazzano does, but their beans are delicious and done right. I ran into the roaster the last time I was there buying beans and we chatted about their beans for quite a bit. I find comfort in the fact that he can talk the talk.
I love coffee.
Also, fun fact, decaf coffee is (usually) not completely decaffeinated. It's nigh impossible to remove all caffeine from the coffee bean so it's actually just extremely lightly caffeinated.
Also, also, espresso may have a lower caffeine content for a standard serving, but if you drank 8oz of espresso, you'd be ingesting much more of that glorious sleep replacing chemical than when you drink 8oz of drip-brew.
Also... That sounds delicious to me, I may have a problem