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Ask HN: Coffee Drinkers, How Do You Brew?

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Re: Ask HN: Coffee Drinkers, How Do You Brew?

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Post by chrisdevereux »

Retreads wrote: post #8

Complete coffee snob here, but I also like to think that I can find the happy medium between crazy/exquisite and important. Here are my pointers: 1. The most important factor is fresh grind of good-enough beans. Grind just enough for each brew. 2. Water temp, which you mention, makes a difference, but no need to get a fancy kettle. Take water off a boil and count 10 seconds. Good enough! 3. Good-enough beans are basi…

The trick with a french press is to grind the beans just slightly coarser. If you aim for the consistency of sand, there's enough surface area to brew well in 3-5 minutes, but it's not so fine that you end up with a mouth of grit at the bottom of your cup.

Re: Ask HN: Coffee Drinkers, How Do You Brew?

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Post by roguecoder »

French press travel mug and a kettle, with fresh beans from my favorite Vermont roaster. It's not fancy and it's slightly annoying to clean unless you compost, but it is fast and easy when I'm rushing out the door. Unlike some other folks in the thread, I've found choice of beans to be the most important feature in delicious coffee.

Re: Ask HN: Coffee Drinkers, How Do You Brew?

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Post by joezydeco »

julian25 wrote: post #4

Fresh beans - Burr grinder - Aeropress. The three ingredients you need to make a pretty darn good cup of joe. It takes about 10 minutes to reach Nirvana this way. Pretty inexpensive as well.

I think one of the things I really appreciate about the Aeropress is the cleanup time. The plunger cleans the cylinder, everything else rinses with water in about 15 seconds.

I use Cafe Bustelo espresso grind (cheap!) and I get a pretty great cup in about 3-4 minutes. Grinding beans and cleaning the grinder became a turnoff for me.

Re: Ask HN: Coffee Drinkers, How Do You Brew?

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Post by joshkaufman »

beagle3 wrote: post #16

Hack all the way: Dave Asprey's bulletproof coffee http://www.bulletproofexec.com/how-to-make-your-coffee-bulle... - I use whatever beans I can find so my coffee is probably not worthy of the "bulletproof" title, but the butter is such an unbelievable upgrade to your coffee.

+1. I've been drinking Bulletproof Coffee for six months now, and it's amazing. Aside from being tasty coffee, you benefit from clear-headed energy for hours, and I'm down ~10 pounds with no other lifestyle changes.

Re: Ask HN: Coffee Drinkers, How Do You Brew?

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Post by xauronx »

I use a mocha pot. You can get them for like $15 or so, makes really great espresso (its a high pressure kind of clever system). Use espresso beans with a pretty fine grind. I love the concept behind it and it yields great espresso without the expensive machine.

Re: Ask HN: Coffee Drinkers, How Do You Brew?

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Post by smartician »

Inverted AeroPress [1] (wow, today I learned there's a World AeroPress championship, and this method was the 2010 winner!), fresh ground beans with manual burr grinder [2].

[1] http://sprudge.com/aeropress-champion-marie-hagemeisters-win... [2] http://www.amazon.com/Hario-MSS-1B-Mini-Coffee-Grinder/dp/B0...

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