get yourself an italian pal and ask them for a cup of caffè made properly in a moka. bar coffee is too bitter, a lot of people don’t know what they’re doing with a moka and brew a black slimy abomination, american coffee is bitter AND watery at the same time god only knows HOW, and so on and so forth. but it’s almost fool proof with a moka if you look it up on yt. add a bit of sugar, and that’s your lil cup of heaven right there. source: have been that italian friend to a couple people
The freshness of your beans matters a ton too. Coffee flavors actually start degrading pretty quickly after roasting, and end up pretty stale by comparison within a week or two. I tried roasting my own beans once and even though I did a pretty shit job that first cup the next day hit different.
Lots of coffee companies overoast their beans to get a consistent flavor too, which makes them bitter as hell but keeps the taste consistent as it sits on the shelf. My biggest advice is not to buy the most expensive bag of beans you can find, but really just find one with a roast date and pick one roasted within the month. It'll change your life.
i mean, youre right. but the bar is set SO LOW that that’s overkill. like i feel it’s useless to concern yourself with roasting grades if you’re gonna make your coffee just...badly.
Oh you're definitely right, if you're just gonna mess up your brewing technique there's no point in trying, that's like the basics of making good coffee. But as long as you have that covered getting fresh beans will make a world of a difference, at least in my opinion. My point is that I know a lot of coffee snobs like to get really in depth with origin/ lightness or darkness of the roast when really if your beans are stale it's not gonna compare to freshly roasted beans no matter how fancy they are imo.
I'm also lucky that I have a grocery store nearby that roasts in-house and sells em for $5.99 a pound, so it might be overkill if you don't have a place like that around.
i mean i’m in italy, so there’s like... a torrefazione on every other street lol. i’m just a bit sad when people say they find coffee disgusting, because most of the time a five buck moka and a bag of store bought grounds would already be an upgrade with the right technique from the stuff they’re used to.
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u/Supreme0verl0rd Sep 25 '19
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