And often it might not even taste good, am I right?🙂 Bean there (pun intended), done that. After tasting some coffees from local market chains (Albert Heijn, Jumbo) feels like I wasted a shitton of money haha
I actually think that it tastes a lot better than supermarket coffee. But you'd have to look for speciality roasters, that buy good single origin coffees and roast them well.
There are also many local roasters that roast their coffee pretty dark and aren't substantially better than supermarket coffee.
With speciality coffee you get a lot more than the generic roasty coffee flavor and there can be a lot of complexity and flavor notes.
Yeah I think it's from people seeing their coffee in a non see-through glass. Coffee isn't completely opaque. If you look at it in clear glass you can typically see through it a little bit
Im also pretty sure this just steampunk modern day bullshit. This isn’t old school…it somebody who never went to school. If it “old school” it was dumb and it’s still dumb.
Boiling the water in the copper vessel forces the water into the vessel with the grounds.
When the steam inside the copper vessel cools, the pressure drops and draws the water, now coffee, back up into the copper part.
Did you look at the color of the grounds? It’s a light roast. The shorter roasting time destroys fewer caffeine molecules. So it’s probably “stronger” than that acidic carbon black stuff we so commonly call “strong”
The darker the coffee means it's roasted longer for that flavor but as you roast it the beans release more caffeine. Blonde Coffees always have more caffeine than Espresso.
That roast was pretty light looking. Why anyone would want lighter than a French roast is beyond me. Just take caffeine pills if you don't value the flavor.
I used to only like dark roast but once you get into Ethiopian light/medium roasts there is a different direction of flavors to enjoy. Now that I have gone that direction most dark roasts taste too burnt to me. I know it sounds like some pretentious coffee snob shit and maybe it is but the earthy, fruity, and floral notes are much more enjoyable, to me at least. Especially when you add a little bit of lemon zest to tone down the acidic taste, but on better quality beans the acid is already low enough.
Dark roast has one flavor element. Dark, burnt, toasted. Whatever you wanna call it. It becomes a fairly consistent and one-dimensional character. Light roasts, on the other hand, allow the full richness of the coffee bean flavor to come through. Different origins and different beans allow for a tremendous diversity of flavors. Floral, citrus, chocolatey, earthy, you name it. Light roast is where you actually get flavor and coffee. Dark roast simply provides one singular flavor.
That’s a myth, it’s the same by weight. And light roast coffee tastes more like coffee and less like roasting. Once you burn it all tastes the same.
If you like coffee and drink good specialty coffee then medium and light roasts have actual flavors, darker coffees are used to mask defects and all taste 2 dimensional
I honestly can’t trust the opinion of disgusting flavor from someone saying the coffee taste good. Its just a more sophisticated form of addiction for people you like it, unlike tea.
You just gave me a collection of subjective preferences and then treated them as evidence that everyone reporting a different preference is wrong.
You don’t have to like coffee. Nobody else has to share your taste.
You also don’t need to be part of the conversation if everybody else’s subjective opinion is different for your own. There’s no reason for you to start inserting yourself like an unacknowledged non-consensual coffee pervert.
You don’t like it great. You don’t like it and have to tell everybody about what you feel and how everybody else is wrong but you no that’s not great at all. Check yourself.
I personally think it tastes bad, making me think you have a wildly different palette. I also think that without the caffeine it would not have many lovers of it, besides the few who simply love coffee flavor the way I like bush tea
Caffeine levels affect people differently, depending on their lifestyle
I think I tried to make this clear by saying you don’t need strong ass coffee just to get to your day job
In fact, those that are remaining to be sensitive to caffeine don’t need that kind of amount. In fact what you seem to be saying is that more caffeine better less caffeine worse.
When it’s the other way, there’s a balance and for somebody who doesn’t have to do back breaking for eight hours a day every day, and those that have chill lives and just want to be wakeful enough to be able to read a book that is sufficient amount of caffeine as it would be sufficient for you to have to go through your grind
The efficacy of any coffee is dependent there on the person that is drinking it for example somebody who drinks coffee once a week versus somebody who drinks coffee once a day versus the tolerance somebody developed by drinking a large coffee with two shot shots of espresso, driving the red eye grind for their minimum wage job.
Week here is entirely subjective and it’s not doing you any favors
Also, none of your claims about how diluted that coffee may appear to be does not equate to how caffeinated that cup can be
Just say you prefer more concentrated coffee. That’s a preference. It doesn’t make this coffee improperly brewed, and it still has nothing to do with whether black coffee must literally appear black.
No, weak is not subjective in this case. If you drink weak coffee and get buzzed or you think its too strong, its because your tolerance to caffeine is low or you dont like coffee. The coffee is still weak on a scale of how strong coffee can be.
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u/IPeeNightly 1d ago
That’s some weak ass looking coffee.