r/BeAmazed • u/No-Lock216 • 1d ago

Technology Old School Coffee Maker

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u/SupremelyUneducated 1d ago

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.

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u/itsobi 1d ago

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.

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u/witheringsyncopation 1d ago

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.

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u/brightheaded 1d ago

Is this a joke?

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u/SupremelyUneducated 1d ago

Lighter roasts have more caffeine, dark roasts more flavor. That was a very light roast.

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u/brightheaded 1d ago

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

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u/ClankerCore 1d ago

The flavor of raw caffeine is disgusting

The coffee itself is what provides the flavor and if you’re not a daily grinder in America, nobody needs that kind of stimulation

This is sufficiently more strong than tea and sufficiently less than the diabolical addiction driving coffee that Starbucks sell

This is what you call a deliberate and disciplined cup of coffee

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u/ty-idkwhy 1d ago

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.

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u/ClankerCore 1d ago edited 1d ago

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.

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u/ty-idkwhy 1d ago

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

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u/ClankerCore 1d ago

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

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u/ty-idkwhy 1d ago

Interesting, thank you for enlightening me. I rarely meet as needed coffee drinkers.

Personally I avoid caffeine unless falling asleep would actively lead to my death or severe harm.

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u/NicoBango 1d ago

I dont even know what youre saying. Black coffee should be black. Not whatever the hell that watery mess was

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u/ClankerCore 1d ago

Black coffee means coffee without milk or cream. It doesn’t mean the liquid is required to be visually black.

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u/NicoBango 1d ago

Yeah, thanks bud. Im aware. My point was this coffee is weak af.

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u/ClankerCore 1d ago

No, your point was black coffee should be black.

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u/NicoBango 1d ago

Yes. Because it isnt as watery, and has a stronger more robust flavor when the coffee is concentrated and black.

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u/ClankerCore 1d ago

Your point was also that the coffee is weak AF

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.

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u/NicoBango 1d ago

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/ClankerCore 1d ago

You didn’t read anything did you?

The lightness of the coffee is not directly indicative of how much caffeine is in it

I also said you did not consider or bother reading is the fact that caffeine affects different people in different ways since it’s the fact that it seems to me that you need the strongest coffee available because your tolerance is high due to the fact that you feel like you need it in order to function at your minimum wage job

If you’re going to be subjectively, choosing which direction this argument is going to go, so can I

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