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Handbrewing Coffee
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#2I understand this guy. Five years ago, I calmly could drink americano in a terrible coffee shop. Now I can not imagine my day without aeropress or chemex. My favorite grains are from Kenya and Congo, because sourness is felt in them. If you really love coffee, then you will like the hand-brew.
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#3I understand this guy. Five years ago, I calmly could drink americano in a terrible coffee shop. Now I can not imagine my day without aeropress or chemex. My favorite grains are from Kenya and Congo, because sourness is felt in them. If you really love coffee, then you will like the hand-brew.
Chemex is just an expensive, proprietary coffee pot.
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#4I've thought for quite some time about ritual. I've been learning to make lattes for the last month or so, and I'm really enjoying it. For me at least, there's a mindfulness to focusing completely on the task at hand. No thinking about other problems, no worrying about email, and most of the time I turn off the music I'm listening to. And after all of that, I have a tangible result.
I enjoy ritual though. Maybe I just need more mindfulness in my life.
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#5I understand this guy. Five years ago, I calmly could drink americano in a terrible coffee shop. Now I can not imagine my day without aeropress or chemex. My favorite grains are from Kenya and Congo, because sourness is felt in them. If you really love coffee, then you will like the hand-brew.
Right there with you on the beans from Kenya -- my local roaster has a Kenyan "Kifahari" that has a nice tartness to it. I can't drink it all the time though, as it gets to be a bit much, so it is more of a treat when I get it.
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#6Let's not make this some sort of big deal. It's not. "Handbrewing" coffee makes this sound like a studied method--I guess it is--but there is little to think about once you know how. It's no different than using any electric coffee maker. Just slightly more manual in that you need to boil the water in something and buy whole beans and grind them in a grinder. Most of that time is just wait time, not thinking or doing anything else. No big deal.
For years, I roasted my own beans. Now that would be something to talk about. Not this.
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#7Personally not a big fan of filter coffee. I have an Aeropress and know lots of people rave about it, but it isn't for me. I was hoping this article would be about a hand (or battery) pumped portable espresso device, e.g. Handpresso, which I don't have although have thought about (primarily as a way around the electrical safety compliance restrictions at my current workplace). BTW, I don't mind the awful free coffee from the machine at work (because it's free), and don't mind periodically paying a small fortune for a good one from one of the few coffeeshops that actually consistently make good ones - I just hate paying a small fortune for a rubbish one, and would prefer to make my own low cost good ones.
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#8I guess it depends on why are you drinking coffee. I can see the ritual side if coffee is like one of the things that you do every day as a routine... But for many of us coffee is more like a tool to help ourselves wake up, do stuff, take a break from work, etc. This way people are more likely to use easy-way because is no ritual it's just one of the daily self-given tasks.
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#9I understand this guy. Five years ago, I calmly could drink americano in a terrible coffee shop. Now I can not imagine my day without aeropress or chemex. My favorite grains are from Kenya and Congo, because sourness is felt in them. If you really love coffee, then you will like the hand-brew.
It sounds like you lost a neutral or even positive while gaining a negative here: lost is the ability to drink a common beverage without feeling bad about being uncultured, gained is a dependency on commercial brands - Aeropress and Chemex - and related niche products - in this case African coffee - as well as a related ritual - 'hand-brewing coffee'.
In both cases you satisfied your thirst for caffeine, the difference is that the lost method allowed you to do this more or less anywhere and at more or less any price which the new method makes this more hard to come by and carries a much higher price.
To put all that in two words: carpe diem
In a few more words: enjoy your fanciful coffee but try not to create too much ritual around it as that only builds walls where no walls need to be.
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#10I understand this guy. Five years ago, I calmly could drink americano in a terrible coffee shop. Now I can not imagine my day without aeropress or chemex. My favorite grains are from Kenya and Congo, because sourness is felt in them. If you really love coffee, then you will like the hand-brew.
It sounds like you lost a neutral or even positive while gaining a negative here: lost is the ability to drink a common beverage without feeling bad about being uncultured, gained is a dependency on commercial brands - Aeropress and Chemex - and related niche products - in this case African coffee - as well as a related ritual - 'hand-brewing coffee'. In both cases you satisfied your thirst for caffeine, the differen…
Hey that describes pretty much any food preference? We should all learn to live with terrible cooking too?
On that note, I had two total lunch fails last week. Food delivered to the table, that I couldn't eat. Is it the phase of the moon? The political climate? The cold weather?