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In the light of the glorious Jimmy Dunne news and his supposedly poor taste in the coffee stakes, I thought I'd start a thread for us coffee vvankers. I buy all my coffee in bean form at The Algerian Coffee Stores on Old Compton St. The place oozes history and taste and has IMO the best coffee in the UK. particularly fond of the Organic Bolivian - high roast, strong as an ox. Two double shots in the morning - beans to cup. Difficult to beat.
At the start of this year I moved from using ground coffee to grinding the beans myself so I'm a proper coffee w@anker now. There really is a taste difference though.
I always buy Fairtrade coffee - usually Sainsbury's Kenyan beans. I visited a Ugandan Fairtade coffee cooperative 20 years ago and was hugely impressed by the difference it made to the community. As we were leaving the community a man came running up to us and explained he was a coffee farmer that lived outside the cooperative region. He begged us to get him into the cooperative but we had to tell him we were only visitors. I've never forgotten the look of disappointment on his face.
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Coffee VVankers thread... on 16:38 - Jun 18 with 2281 views
Spend far too much in one place near me but it’s where I get some me time post-gym, pre-work. Triple espresso, preferably strong enough to kill a small horse.
In Portugal recently and even in the touristy bits of Porto you can get very good coffee for around €1. Never really understood the people who go to Starbucks for what’s essentially a milkshake but then they don’t understand paying £545 for a QPR season ticket.
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Coffee VVankers thread... on 16:40 - Jun 18 with 2270 views
My Dad was a tea mentalist, It was made In the pot and poured into his mug after the milk. He'd go mad If his tea wasn't made properly, I'm talking late 50's. I remember tea bags being for posh households and me Dad wouldn't have them anywhere near the house. There's a certain smell to coffee shops equalled only by Baker shops. There's a place In Umbria, Italy we used to go and the coffee took an age to make but was worth the wait. Cappuccino anybody?
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
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Coffee VVankers thread... on 16:48 - Jun 18 with 2235 views
Very much a newbie into the coffee w@anker game as of the last few months, got given an Aeropress to play aorund with which has been a nice intro into it. Started buying ground coffee from a local roastery and then a grinder which has been a difference maker. Its ike a different drink to the instant stuff.
I am partial to a Sumatran bean. Sainsbury's do a decent one, but I usually buy them from the Coffee Plant on Portobello Road. Waitrose own brand Columbian is also delicious.
I'm sure I tried to start a coffee vvanker thread ages ago but it was ignored!
I drink one cup a day as i was told it helps with migraines. doesn't seem to, but i'm in too deep now.
i get my few remaining hairs cut on monmouth street, and always scoffed at the queue outside monmouth coffee until one day there wasn't a queue and i thought i'd see what the fuss was about.
now get all my beans there and love the coffee they make. the staff are insanely pleasant, especially given they are dealing with an endless queue of tourists and coffee vvankers like me.
Finca la Piragua are my favourite beans i've had so far from there. Colombian.
went to a coffee making talk once and the barista said that the thing that makes the most difference apart from the beans is the water. filtered water in a hard water area like London is better apparently.
never thought i'd post my boring opinions about coffee on a QPR board, and yet here we are.
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Coffee VVankers thread... on 17:25 - Jun 18 with 1987 views
Check out the book by James Hoffmann - The World Atlas of Coffee. It's a big book that you can keep on your coffee table and dip in and out of. It's a fascinating read and takes you through the history, the different types of beans, the conditions to grow and cultivate coffee etc...
Well worth 20 quid. His YouTube channel is good too!
Edit: it's on a special offer on Amazon at the moment for £17!
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Coffee VVankers thread... on 17:28 - Jun 18 with 1947 views
Coffee VVankers thread... on 16:40 - Jun 18 by ted_hendrix
My Dad was a tea mentalist, It was made In the pot and poured into his mug after the milk. He'd go mad If his tea wasn't made properly, I'm talking late 50's. I remember tea bags being for posh households and me Dad wouldn't have them anywhere near the house. There's a certain smell to coffee shops equalled only by Baker shops. There's a place In Umbria, Italy we used to go and the coffee took an age to make but was worth the wait. Cappuccino anybody?
I think my dad, fellow R, would punch you in the face if you offered him a teabag made cup of rosie. It's just not the done thing, although I don't really like tea but partial to a coffee.
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Coffee VVankers thread... on 17:33 - Jun 18 with 1919 views
I live in Italy the home of espresso, capuccino, moka, espressino, ice coffee, .... you name it. There are more coffee bars than people here but everyone has still got a nespresso machine at home, me too but I don't drink it (my family do). For me it tastes sickly. I drink a spoonful of the lidl equivalent of gold blend (fairtrade I'm sure) with boiling water in an espresso cup, sometimes with a drop of milk. What does that make me? .... Jimmy Dunne (I'm happy to have the same poor taste). https://www.lidl.com/
Never unknowingly wrong
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Coffee VVankers thread... on 18:10 - Jun 18 with 1787 views
Coffee VVankers thread... on 17:38 - Jun 18 by Paddyhoops
Like a nice coffee but I’d have decent cup of tea anytime. The demise of the greasy spoon has all put paid to that .
The water is never hot enough and a very overlooked thing is the milk. For my guests I boil the water ,immediatly drop in individual Barry's tea bags add a spoon of honey (got away from white sugar) then the vital full Vitimin D milk not low fat or the dreaded 2% Sadly my daily job prevents me from any chance at tea so its coffee 2 times daily normally Dunkin but never Starbucks. Really envy the people who grind their own coffee beans its very loud but supposedly incredible
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Coffee VVankers thread... on 18:30 - Jun 18 with 1729 views
I've been treated to kopi luwak a couple of times. Yes, tastes good but not at that price point! I generally try to avoid the chains - I think they over-roast to ensure condistency - and only ever drink it black.
For me, Vietnam is where I've enjoyed deliciousness,with the exception of egg coffee. When I lived in that part of the planet, I used to buy my coffee from a trader who had this blend from the Viet/Cambodian border. He self roasted and it was like velvet, cost was trivial.
So there you go: you can shower yourself in the allure of something like kopi luwak at about $1k a kilo or pay a fraction and be totally wowed.
'Always In Motion' by John Honney available on amazon.co.uk
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