Posted on 11/28/2025 9:42:10 PM PST by thecodont
With Nick Bosa’s on-field career on pause as he recovers from an ACL tear, the defensive lineman has found a new calling as of late: coffee influencer.
Since Nov. 8, the 49ers star has posted videos on TikTok of his journey in learning how to make the best possible (read: most expensive) homemade espresso drinks. Each post follows a similar aesthetic-heavy style, showing each step of the process, from spraying the beans to reducing static electricity to tasting the espresso and, of course, attempting to create the perfect heart shape with the milk.
The account is named @bosabearbrew and has what appears to be an AI-generated profile picture of a bear reading a book while drinking coffee. It’s worth noting that this profile is distinct from his personal TikTok page, which goes by the same handle he uses everywhere else. Like any good influencer, most of Bosa’s five coffee videos have some soothing music in the background, but he also made an ASMR-adjacent — the volume of the audio would not exactly qualify as traditional ASMR — video that was focused on the sound effects of his morning creation, just like any good food influencer might do.
His most recent post has since garnered around 530,000 views in three days.
The comments on his posts are a fun mix of 49ers fans, or perhaps football fans in general, being pleasantly surprised to see a former Defensive Player of the Year dedicating an entire page to coffee, and others being upset to find out the 28-year-old has a girlfriend — or, at the very least, a woman he’s romantically involved with who appears in some way in multiple coffee videos. That woman appears to be Ella Ailiff, who is the lone person the coffee account follows on TikTok.
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FYI, kids, Nick Bosas is the great-grandson on legendary Chicago mobster Tony Accardo aka “Joe Batters”
Re: Ella Ailiff
Laz would hit it!
Do your own image search, too lazy to do the post.
I’ve been making my own lattes for around 15 years now. Compared to overpaying at Starbucks or even Dunkin, I’ve probably saved on the order of $15,000 or $20,000. Plus all the time I wasn’t wasting driving to a store and sitting in a drive thru line.
They still make the espresso machine I bought back then, it’s around $1k now. I think I paid $600. Another $200 or so for a quality burr grinder. $100 for a milk frother back then, when it died I just started using a Pyrex measuring cup in which I nuke the milk, then froth it with a battery milk frother wand.
This stuff isn’t that complicated.
Got a latte recipe?
Nuke about 2/3 to 3/4 cup of milk for about 45s. I use the organic whole milk from Costco, not because I’m an organic everything person, but because it froths up nicely.
Dump into an insulated Tervis cup and froth with wand. I use this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Zulay-Original-Milk-Frother-Handheld/dp/B09D8T11YS
Make a double espresso. Dump into the top.
Enjoy!
Oh, and I nuke the milk in a 2 Cup Pyrex measuring cup.
Take it a step further and roast your own beans. You can make a really good roaster out of a flour sifter and heat gun. Takes about 10 minutes for me to roast my Mexican Chiapas into a barley French roast. I roast about 10 days worth but I’m the only coffee person. Unroasted beans now about $10 per pound with the 10% tariff from a good supplier.
Yeah, I should probably do that. Link for the bean source?
Where do you get your beans? I’m craving some Jamaican Blue Mountain, assuming they weren’t all destroyed by the hurricane.
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I’m waiting to see if Trump’s lifting of the tariff on coffee will cause the price to go down (doubt it!).
Coffee is fast becoming a luxury item, it has jumped so much in price.
Take = TASTE
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