I pour about 1500 ml water over about 50 grams of coffee. It’s fine. It tastes good for some time.
What makes coffee taste especially bad is just sitting out. It gets sour and real bitter.
I'm a Coffee Roaster: Here's What You're Doing Wrong That's Ruining Your Coffee
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#22Does tap water really make that much of a difference? Anyone tried side by side?
Really depends on the tap water and might be mostly due to chlorine. As someone who drinks distilled water almost exclusively, it's surprising how apparent the chlorine is when I occasionally have to the drink tap water in my area. Chlorine is basic while coffee is acidic, and chlorine is just pretty reactive in general, so it would be surprising if chlorine didn't affect the flavor of and in a negative way.
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#23Does tap water really make that much of a difference? Anyone tried side by side?
That really varies. Tap water in new york. yea I'd prolly go with that. Down in central Florida, the tap water tastes like a donkey's butthole (high sulfer content). I have to use bottled water down here to make a coffee thats remotely drinkable.
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#24Does tap water really make that much of a difference? Anyone tried side by side?
Also curious to know the answer to this. That's one I hadn't seen before. I'm guessing the author would recommend distilled?
Definitely not distilled. Most of the best coffee cities around the world have tap water with dissolved solids around 150ppm. If you’re in a place like mine in Phoenix, the tap water is like 500+ppm, so we use RO and demineralize with something like Third Wave Water (or you can make your own for cheap). It’s super fussy, but the taste difference is real.
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#25I've tried fresh beans. Roasted and fast couriered to door to be consumed within the week. I'm not sure I care that much about the difference in taste. If you enjoy this sort of thing great, but I'm pretty happy with my stale beans and cheap espresso machine.
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#26I'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?
Is that where if the pot gets cold they pour the coffee back into the tank and brew it over? Because I can tell you they do that in the US Coast Guard.
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#27Does tap water really make that much of a difference? Anyone tried side by side?
Really depends on the tap water and might be mostly due to chlorine. As someone who drinks distilled water almost exclusively, it's surprising how apparent the chlorine is when I occasionally have to the drink tap water in my area. Chlorine is basic while coffee is acidic, and chlorine is just pretty reactive in general, so it would be surprising if chlorine didn't affect the flavor of and in a negative way.
I thought that distilled water is bad because there are no more micro elements?
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#28I'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 was the same for years until I had a pourover at a coffee shop in NYC that knocked my socks off. I still enjoy bad coffee but the pleasure I’ve gotten from making better coffee over the years has been worth it IMO.
Incidentally, it’s entirely possible to enjoy good coffee without becoming a total snob, just like it’s possible to use vim without being a dick about it :)
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#29IMO beans make the biggest difference
If you just get some fresh locally roasted beans and make French press you’re already mostly there
It’s diminishing returns after that point
Highly doubt anyone’s going to notice a difference with tap water
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#30Drink the coffee the way you like it.
If you like to experiment, try different methods of brewing - French Press or pour over are easiest. You can try single origin beans, or blends, ground or whole bean that you grind with a propeller grinder gasp.
I consider myself a coffee snob and even I buy pre ground beans sometimes because I'm a lazy old codger. Frankly I sometimes don't want to go through my coffee ritual in the morning and just want a simple, quiet, pour over to get me going.
Absolutely nobody should be knocking the way you take your coffee.