Posted on 08/02/2011 7:14:37 PM PDT by goodwithagun
"New look, same great taste," reads the slogan on Eight O'Clock Coffee's packaging. We beg to differ. The brand's 100% Colombian product, a favorite from our March 2009 report, delivered less flavor in our most recent tests. So (drum roll, please) our expert taste testers have found two new coffee winners.
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I grind my own beans. I buy PANNIKIN Whole Coffee Beans. Love it!!!!!!!!
http://pannikincoffeeandtea.com/store/home.php?cat=1
Now don’t you all go ordering up all their stock as I am running low ;)
Any grocery chain carries it now.
Sumatran, or better still Indian Monsooned Malabar, made in a French press for me.
(I have to have low-acid coffee, so Columbian and Ethiopian Yrgacheffe are both right out.)
Malabar is the best, and is a wonderful historical curiosity: the processing includes storage in leaky sheds during the monsoon season. Why? To get the real old-fashioned coffee flavor that Europeans (and for that matter Americans back to the days of the Founding) were used to in the days of sailing ships, when the beans would always get wet on the voyage from India to their destination. With the advent of steamships, some enterprising folk on the Malabar coast realized that there’d be a market among those longing for the old-fashioned flavor, and the “process” was invented.
Whoops make that Sweet Maria’s
Good coffee, bad coffee? Ain’t no.
Where I come from, coffee is coffee, and it’s usually kinda warm, beer is beer, usually the colder the better, and pricky-fussy, look-like-Mama-dressed-’em Consumer Reports whiners are pricky-fussy look-like-Mama-dressed-’em Consumer Reports whiners.
Seattle’s Best was one of my favorites. It got snapped up by Starbucks and now appears at Subway Sandwich shops.
I have a DeLonghi coffeemaker, and get my coffee from Jelks in New Orleans.
Whatever they are serving at Cafe Dumond.
But for lack of that, Dunkin Donuts or QT is good with me.
Ahem, Darks..
I still drink Eight O’Clock. Have for 50 years.
Amen. My husband and I love a good French roast in it on a Saturday morning.
I also love my little moka pot espresso maker. Here's another Bustello fan--I have two cans waiting in my cupboard.
We got it free with our dishwasher. Same business model as inkjet printers.
If one drinks a lot of coffee, one can come to find out about the stomach churning caused by coffee brewing that is what they call “over-extracted”.
It’s that feeling you get from getting countless cups of coffee out of a machine when you’re working 16 hours a day over a whole weekend. Yuck.
Most people, it must be, don’t drink enough to get to that point, or they bury the coffee (and cut the acid of over-extraction) with cream, sugar and other flavors.
Finally I discovered roasting my own. Which was the ONLY way coffee was made by normal people up until the 1800’s when the big coffee roasters started.
I don’t have the time now, but I find DD whole bean to be practical and decent if I don’t buy it too far ahead. Any port in a storm.
You haven’t had coffee until you’ve had fresh roasted, right ? People would be amazed at being able to taste the difference between different coffees. It’s great when you find what you really like.
The military guys I worked with called it "Gayzelnut." They said it was a flavor only women and gay guys should like.
(I don't like the flavor, either.)
Singer server? I don’t know what the heck that is. I meant single serve.
Stoopid fingers.
LAVAZZA!!!!!!!!
End Of Story..............
Ethiopian Yrgracheffe brewed in an Aeropress.
It is amazing - all the people that think they like coffee or know about it.
And they’re brewing stale coffee. And they can’t taste how bad it is - they think it’s great.
They don’t understand that vaccuum packed or not, once the beans degas, they go stale just like bread. You can’t keep bread in a plastic bag for 3 weeks - and then expect it to taste like it just came out of the oven.
But since so many do not roast their own beans anymore but the buy beans roasted months ago, they don’t know the difference. One has to taste the good and bad side by side in one sitting to really taste the difference.
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