Or, drink the cheapest, quickest coffee you can make/get for caffeine and tea for taste. No equipment needed, less of your life wasted.
I'm a Coffee Roaster: Here's What You're Doing Wrong That's Ruining Your Coffee
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#12Most higher end grocery stores in the US now carry locally roasted beans. As long as you check the roast date you will be fine.
But to expand on that point, pay attention to origin and roast style. Mass produced coffee is like any other fungible commodity, but craft coffee is much more varied. Coffee may not be as diverse as teas but it’s definitely more than dark roast arabica beans.
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#13My best advice, put just a small pinch of kosher salt in the carafe before brewing. It will help tamp down some of the bitterness, if you don't like that
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#14I've studiously avoided gaining the ability to discriminate good from bad coffee. I don't see any upsides, and the coffee snobs are insufferable.
Why is being a coffee snob worse than being any other type of snob?
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#15Pretty sensible, but it kinda implies there’s exactly one way to enjoy coffee, which I think might not be true. Starting with that ratio, I’ve found that as time goes on from the date is roasting I need to up the dose to get a good cup. Then eventually I switch over to a French press because it becomes impossible to get a good pour-over, maybe 7-10 days after roasting. At that point you’re making a different thing. Also the French press is pretty indifferent to ratio; you’re just deciding how wired you want to get.
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#16I've studiously avoided gaining the ability to discriminate good from bad coffee. I don't see any upsides, and the coffee snobs are insufferable.
As someone who drank Navy coffee for 6 years, who cares what it tastes like? The question is, does it wake you up?
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#17I've studiously avoided gaining the ability to discriminate good from bad coffee. I don't see any upsides, and the coffee snobs are insufferable.
Why is being a coffee snob worse than being any other type of snob?
It's not, it's just that I encounter the coffee snobs more than I'd like
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#18Does tap water really make that much of a difference? Anyone tried side by side?
Maybe it does, but personally, I get the most enjoyment out of coffee (or anything else) if I don't try to over-optimize. Good coffee in a french press with good enough water? Delicious!
And lets add delicious is very subjective and different folks have different standards and that is ok. But sometimes it’s good to try a different taste as we might like it more, one never knows... I personally am not interested into being a coffee purist because I cannot make much difference anyway, maybe its my taste buds, I don’t know but and find no reason to bother improving something I like good enough..
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#19Grinding the beans before brewing instead of buying pre-ground gets you 80% of the way there. If you're lazy and/or don't want to become a coffee snob, just get a grinder, grind whole beans, and call it a day.
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#20I've studiously avoided gaining the ability to discriminate good from bad coffee. I don't see any upsides, and the coffee snobs are insufferable.
I think fully actualized adults have the capability to be a coffee snob, without being insufferable clods.
I willingly share my coffee knowledge to anyone who asks and never denigrate someone for liking Folgers.