Coffee advice and talk

[yo soy el mejor]

Originally Posted by The exploding boy

more grownup stuff i don't like


Actually hot drinks in general, even cocoa i make it cold.

Originally Posted by The exploding boy

This is my favorite hot stimulating beverage

[The exploding boy]

ya i was just trying to make a supposedly accidental faux pas. But now you've ruined it and exposed me.

[yo soy el mejor]

oh okay

[The exploding boy]

Well i think like in french tea is tea leaves, anything else made with other kind of herbs is called tisanes, not tea or herbal tea. So i think that's the distinction shes making. I always found that confusing personally in english. that Tea can refer to a herbal drink and not necessarily to the tea plant specifically

[ilikeplanets]

I love coffee, I don't have a discriminatory palette for it, though. Black, milk and sugar, whatever. Yum.

[slunken]

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

says tea right on the box.

I saw a bumper sticker today that said "WWJD? Not tailgate, that's what!"

[slunken]

Fact: you can use tea leaves to tell the future

[The exploding boy]

Well now you've done it. I doubt if bonnie will want to touch this thread again now. Typical netphoria bullshit.

[slunken]

The future remains undetermined. Please try again.

[The exploding boy]

Fuck off and just give me a fortune cookie. At least i'll get a chuckle out of the "in bed" trick.

Goddam bullshit fortune tellers.

[Elphenor]

http://cdn1.smosh.com/sites/default/.../cookie-28.jpg

[Eulogy]

We had the bodum stovetop vacuum coffee maker for a while. Which was fun. Tasted good to me too but I've read that chemex is better.

And the carafe part broke anyway so

Daily I've been using the bottled black Starbucks iced coffee. Not very good but very convenient. Would like to replace the carafe part of the vacuum maker for weekends and stuff though.

[reprise85]

Been getting iced from Dunkin' Donuts a lot. I hate hot coffee, doesn't appeal to me at all. But iced is cool.

[slunken]

I think I can see some donuts in my future as well. The gods are pleased.

[mxzombie]

i drink coffee daily, usually black. my work provides coffee for us and they buy it from the intelligentsia shop in my building. we make it in a drip machine, but it sure is tasty. most days someone in the office will make espresso so i'll have one in the early afternoon.

at home i usually make some cafe bustelo in a stovetop cast aluminum contraption. it usually comes out pretty dark and potent--much different from espresso, and with no foam. i'll water it down and split a 6-cup pot two ways. or, mix with a boat load of cane sugar and make some cuban coffee. yum.

[kelsome]

When I visited my pal in LA, she made me french press coffee, which I don't think I've ever had before. I like it a lot. I see me not doing it, though, as it requires more effort than pushing buttons. I also tried this coffee place, The Helio Cafe. They had coffee with butter blended in, like I saw on tv once. I liked that, too.

My day to day coffee drinking is out of the "keurig on steroids" they have at work. I like a fair amount of cream in mine. No sugar.

I like sipping my coffee in the morning at work while I have my oatmeal.

[slunken]

Originally Posted by mxzombie

they buy it from the intelligentsia shop in my building. we make it in a drip machine, but it sure is tasty. .

i have heard nothing but terrible things (first-hand) about this stuff

[Eulogy]

I've had it and enjoyed it.

[slunken]

I've never had it but i'm sure its fine. it just seems like starbucks hating bandwagoning times ten - like even people who love starbucks are like omg fuck that place

[slunken]

let me consult the tea leaves brb

[mxzombie]

Originally Posted by slunken

i have heard nothing but terrible things (first-hand) about this stuff

well i can't corroborate anything like that. the people who work there dress up like newsboys or something, i think it's a part of the deal to have their shop in my building. it's historic and there are a bunch of "period" shops on the first floor, like a hat shop, barber, tobacconist, shoe repair, and travel agent

[Eulogy]

I've only been to the one near Roosevelt and Michigan (no newsboy costumes) but they sell the beans at Stanley's on North.

[butthurt]

I want to dress as a newsboy.

[null123]

Theres an intelligentsia coffee shop near me. It's okay

[ohnoitsbonnie]

Originally Posted by Belteshazzar

that's funny, because here we have a local mountain called Green Mountain and the woods there are renowned for being a Satan worshipping destination. Have followed the trails myself.

Thread was worth it

[ohnoitsbonnie]

Originally Posted by reprise85

Been getting iced from Dunkin' Donuts a lot. I hate hot coffee, doesn't appeal to me at all. But iced is cool.

This is because you live in Florida. Hey you know you can do a cold extraction and then add creamer and such at home. I've tried it and it was better coffee for iced coffee.

[ohnoitsbonnie]

Originally Posted by slunken

Fact: you can use tea leaves to tell the future

You can do this with Turkish style coffee too. Avram's mom does this all the time

[ohnoitsbonnie]

Originally Posted by mxzombie

i drink coffee daily, usually black. my work provides coffee for us and they buy it from the intelligentsia shop in my building. we make it in a drip machine, but it sure is tasty. most days someone in the office will make espresso so i'll have one in the early afternoon.

at home i usually make some cafe bustelo in a stovetop cast aluminum contraption. it usually comes out pretty dark and potent--much different from espresso, and with no foam. i'll water it down and split a 6-cup pot two ways. or, mix with a boat load of cane sugar and make some cuban coffee. yum.

I've never tried intelligentsia or even heard of it before now, but I'm not a coffee shop person I guess.

What's cast aluminum? I wouldn't use anything aluminum to make coffee or anything acidic.

[sppunk]

I wish I liked coffee.

I love tea though. Currently on a big Celestial Seasons gingerbread tea kick.

[mxzombie]

Originally Posted by ohnoitsbonnie

I've never tried intelligentsia or even heard of it before now, but I'm not a coffee shop person I guess.

What's cast aluminum? I wouldn't use anything aluminum to make coffee or anything acidic.

it's a moka pot. just aluminum, from what i can find. what would you worry about with an acidic drink in an aluminum container?