OT: Coffee Thread

[Fenway]

Starbucks overcharges man more than $4,000 for two cups of coffee

An Oklahoma couple says that Starbucks mistakenly took thousands of dollars as a tip.

www.wcvb.com

 

[McGarnagle]

Starbucks overcharges man more than $4,000 for two cups of coffee

An Oklahoma couple says that Starbucks mistakenly took thousands of dollars as a tip.

www.wcvb.com

I keep seeing this story pop up and it always seems to leave out the fact that the only way this could've happened is if the father punched in $4444 when he was trying to leave a $4.44 tip on the card processing machine.

 

[nickyb]

Great Thread......I am a year round iced coffee guy......I'm also fairly thrifty and brew my coffee at home and store it in the fridge after brewing......after traveling to Hawaii a few years ago i got hooked on their Koa Coffee brand and usually brew that while mixing in a less potent blend to even things out, otherwise I get too wired/jittery........it definitely helps me stay focused at work though!

 

[smithformeragent]

Flavor of the month at Donut Fresh Express is Milky Way.

I’m lobbying hard to make it a permanent menu item.

 

[smithformeragent]

Make mine a large iced Milky Way black with DayQuil.

 

[ODAAT]

not a big coffee guy, typically have 1.5 cups in the morning and that`s it, more a hot chocolate guy

 

[Spooner st]

I've worked for Starbucks for 19 years, and one of our perks is that we get a free pound of coffee beans every week. My wife makes sure I bring my pound home and we brew a lot at home. My tastes are simple: I like good black coffee (no cream/sugar/flavors) and I prefer African coffees or a good aged Sumatra. I buy beans from competitors all the time, and some are really great. As far as espresso goes, I'll either drink a Macchiato (espresso + foam) or dry Cappuccinos. That's about it. In the afternoons, its iced black tea for me. Pretty boring, I know, but I like simple drinks done well.

Pretty much spot on, except for a few details.

Roast coffee hsa short shelf life, the added chemicals in the vacuum bag helps it but once you open the bag quality drops big time. It's easily noticeable if you brew your coffee in a chemex (carafe). Once you add the portion of grind coffee beans that you just grind for that coffee and you add a little bit of water to hydrate the fresh grounded coffee beans will bloom opening its pores to accept water to pass through it. That's where you know your beans were fresly roasted.

I used to order coffee a pound at the time, they would roasted at my liking... Dark roast always. I drink 4 cups a day. After the 4th day the bloom would slowly diminished.

So now I buy green beans 25 pounds at the time. And I roast them myself 325 grams at the time which is enough coffee to last 4 days before the best of it starts dropping. Yes, coffee is a serious business. If I'm drinking coffee I want to drink the best.

I now only drink Swiss Water process decaffeinated at 99.9% I use Colombian Supremo and Guatemala SHB depending on what's a valuable. I usually use between 17 -18.6 grams of freshly grounded coffee for 375grams of water. The difference between the quantity of fresh grounded beans depends on the roast... every new batch of green beans are a little different and react differently while roasting that's where I adjust the coffee taste. The rest is always the same... including the grind which is at the setting 20 on my burr grinder. Consistently great coffee.

Also it's a myth that you have less caffeine in a dark roast. There's 4 different methods to remove caffeine and they all include water. No one uses water to roast coffee.

 

[McGarnagle]

Make mine a large iced Milky Way black with DayQuil.View attachment 669398

Why does a half dozen cost more than 6 individual bagels?

 

[McGarnagle]

As much as I would like to try more good coffees, my schedule makes it non-conducive.

Like, I don't have access to a grinder or equipment at work (I guess I could bring my aeropress but the grounds would lose their freshness overnight). If I make a cup when I get home after work, then I risk having the caffeine keep me up at night, and there just is no time in the mornings - I'm always rushing out the door last minute. I could have a couple cups on the weekend I suppose, but even then I get dragged around places on weekends half the time.

If I worked from home I'd really be getting into trying different beans, but I'm frustratedly unable to at the moment.

 

[chizzler]

5:45am , time for coffee from Hawaii. Kauai coffee. Love it. Went in vac on my honeymoon and went to three isles. Kauai was one of them. Talk about coffee plantations there. Incredible. Years later, they come out with K cups. Perfect. Both of us get it. Problem is that not every market has it. Starbucks and Dsonuts are expensive and their coffe sucks IMO. I blame my wife for drinking coffee. I was not a coffe drinker before I met her. I still can’t do black though. Small splash of milk.

 

[GlenFeatherstone]

5:45am , time for coffee from Hawaii. Kauai coffee. Love it. Went in vac on my honeymoon and went to three isles. Kauai was one of them. Talk about coffee plantations there. Incredible. Years later, they come out with K cups. Perfect. Both of us get it. Problem is that not every market has it. Starbucks and Dsonuts are expensive and their coffe sucks IMO. I blame my wife for drinking coffee. I was not a coffe drinker before I met her. I still can’t do black though. Small splash of milk.

My wife and I went to Hawaii for our honeymoon as well. Got to see the coffee fields as well as their process. Amazing. Some of the best coffee I ever had was those two weeks in Hawaii.

 

[bwunderlich]

Spent three and a 1/2 weeks there on honeymoon in the late 90's.

It's where I started drinking coffee. Before it became too pricey, I would get 5 lb bags of Kona shipped in vacu-bags straight from the farm. Each islands' coffee was/is unique.

I still remember the look on my in-laws faces as I gleefully opened the package one time.

To alleviate the skepticism, I simply transferred all the beans into 1lb bags

Drinking Kenya AA this morn. Lived in Brooklyn for a time and Porto Rico Import Company was my coffee shop on Bleecker St. I still get their coffee's shipped to me.

 

[Spooner st]

Didn't see this mentioned in the thread. One very important detail on brewing your coffee... is the temperature of the water.

With the full Boil of water, the effect on your tongue is quite damaging for your taste buds. The ideal temperature is 95 Celsius or 203 Fahrenheit. Having a kettle with multiple settings or where you can manually input the temp.

Most kettles specialized for brewing tea have those options since tea depending on the variety has to be brewed at different temperatures. The wife's not a coffee fan, her thing is tea. So we have multiple varieties that need brewing at different Temps. Just give her a regular earl grey and she's a happy camper.

Also to keep your coffee beans fresher, this is your best option, it protects it from light and air.

Airscape Stainless Steel Coffee Canister | Food Storage Container | Patented Airtight Lid | Push Out Excess Air Preserve Food Freshness.

I usually buy them from Amazon.

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

kinda double in this thread and the TV thread but fits better here:

History has a series called "The Food that Built America" episode was the backstory between Dunkin' and Starbucks

 

[eightspokedb]

Biggby Coffee is big around the Cave....their iced tea with a Blood Orange shot is the nectar of the Gods....

 

[RoccoF14]

Make mine a large iced Milky Way black with DayQuil.View attachment 669398

Jesus, you'd think that whoever owned this joint would invest in some new menu boards? The inserts are dirt cheap, often times free from the parent franchise......That's just embarrassing. Brand damaging, embarrassing....

Makes you wonder what else they're trying to save a buck on......

 

[weaponomega]

Nice thread.

I do enjoy a couple cups a day. We have a coffee subscription where we get a bag a month of various origins and roasts.

I got an espresso machine for Christmas. It's been a lot of fun customizing my coffee, finding the right grind and ratios.

 

[smithformeragent]

Jesus, you'd think that whoever owned this joint would invest in some new menu boards? The inserts are dirt cheap, often times free from the parent franchise......That's just embarrassing. Brand damaging, embarrassing....

Makes you wonder what else they're trying to save a buck on......

The place is something else.

It’s an old Taco Bell building, and it looks like an absolute dump from the outside, but the coffee is amazing.

 

[RoccoF14]

The place is something else.

It’s an old Taco Bell building, and it looks like an absolute dump from the outside, but the coffee is amazing.

I'm gonna take your word on that. No way I'm eating the food there, however. That looks like an operation where the motto is "it ain't old until its sold....."

No kidding, they probably could have saved more money replacing the menu boards, than they spent on office supplies & labor modifying the old one....

 

[smithformeragent]

I'm gonna take your word on that. No way I'm eating the food there, however. That looks like an operation where the motto is "it ain't old until its sold....."

No kidding, they probably could have saved more money replacing the menu boards, than they spent on office supplies & labor modifying the old one....

If you go after noon time, they give away any unsold doughnuts from the morning!