Coffee

Though: double-chocolate Tim Hortons doughnut 4ever

I would sooner drink a cup of upside down french press coffee than a cup of timmy ho's signature cigarette-butt-kombucha that they call coffee

xp but yes 2 that & also the cruller

I wish the company behind Nespresso wasn't evil, I'd like an espresso pod machine in my office for afternoon caffeine injections.

They're great get one.

just get an aeropress

Doesn't give you that lovely kick of evil in every sip

I don't really like Aeropress coffee, it's too much like a regular cup of coffee. I pretty much just drink double espressos or cold brew concentrate without watering it down.

The other problem with Nespresso in the US is that you have to mail order capsules (unless you have a Nespresso shop nearby, the closest to me is ~45 minutes), so if you run out without replenishing you're just SOL.

ya but even when you make it acc to the official directions (like only a few tablespoons of water per scoop of coffee)?

Pretty sure I never tried anything but their basic directions and it was still too 'cup of coffee'-like for me.

At home I have a Crossland CC1 machine that's pretty good but fiddlier than I like and occasionally get wonky with the electronics (forgets settings, etc.), thinking of selling it and getting a lever machine.

ya, timmy's coffee is disgusting

their chili is pretty good, though. and you can't go wrong with timbits

Some people are putting in coffee bars at comic shops, which is interesting but I'm extremely slow at making espresso for myself at home, can't imagine trying to do it for real or training others.

lolol one of those just opened near my coworker and he says it suuuuuucks, like decent comics but the coffee is a total afterthought

like in 2016 why the fing f wd you make ANY sort of cof shop, hybrid or otherwise, and not strive for great cof? There is no room for so so cof anymore.

i wonder by % how many timbits sold are being brought to offices by people trying to bribe and/or apologize

i moved to Canada on the 4th of July. a year later on Canada Day I had yet to visit a Tim Horton's so I went and got a double double and a box of timbits and had them at home listening to the tragically hip

then you went outside and saw the constellations reveal themselves one star at a time?

sick trag hip ref will m *HIGH FIVES SELF*

I did listen to bobcaygeon yes

i moved to Canada on the 4th of July. a year later on Canada Day I had yet to visit a Tim Horton's so I went and got a double double and a box of timbits and had them at home listening to the tragically hip

― Cornelius Pardew (jim in glasgow), Friday, February 26, 2016 8:19 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i literally lol'd at work here

coulda been the willie nelson...coulda been the wine

didn't have any of that good cof today :(

i bought a bunch of lil canned cofs to drink before i work out, cof life

wait the coffee/comics thing is supposed to be new? we had one of those over a decade ago, then they relocated and lost the coffee business, and have already relocated a second time and have both again. and some sort of cronut-like thing.

what is the best canned cof, are you buying illy or something

ya i bought the illy idk whats the best it tastes fine if a lil sweet i dont usually take sugar just wanted something to get some quick caffeine cldve gone w an energy drink or diet coke i guess but i thought hey why not some cof

they're great for awhile until you realise that all the capsules taste the same, no matter what color they are, and you're stuck with that flavor forever. plus the evilness and waste obv.

er that's a big ol' xpost

tbh i'm already looking forward to tomorrow's cof, wake up, grind a bit, have some cof, look out the back porch

have some cof, look out the back porch

that's living, tbh

doesnt get any better folks

yes, and to do so in the evening with a beer

(ime)

ah the morning and evening drugs the perfect balance the yin and the yang

The afternoon bowel movement

i just looked at the stars while drinking that good beer, all wearing a bath robe my friends' three year old gave me for xmas (the secret is that they gave it to me but its cool he can get the credit)

sometimes u just got to accept what the universe is offering u know

univ: u like that bath robe?

me: yeah dude, can u believe a child thought of that, what a cool kid

univ: he had nothing to do with it man he's three

me: whatever, thanks for the robe man it fits great

univ: u know it

*french press*

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haha gotta have that cof

haha gotta have that cof
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“Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.”
-- Terry Pratchett

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― lag∞n, Friday, February 26, 2016 10:48 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

My costco stopped carrying my starbucks via and I ran out of them, so I bought some Irving Farm coffee beans AT THE FUCKING AIRPORT on the way home from a work trip which is the lamest thing ever. Anyway it wasn't that good, nothing special.

lmao xp

Mail ordering beans is surprisingly cost effective. Fresh roasted from Intelligentsia or similar costs less per pound than buying from Whole Foods or the local shops/roasters I've found, plus they're almost always fresher. When I get Intelligentsia, the roasted on date is usually the day before I order and they arrive two days after that via Priority Mail.

I was trying to search for this but couldn't find anything - is there any real evidence that beans roasted x days before grinding and brewing are better and that there's a rapid decline at some point?

Like with espresso everyone claims that ~4-10 days is imperative, but having access to beans that freshly roasted is new and I still see a lot of European espresso brands selling bagged beans roasted months ago or even ground espresso.

enjoying some of this. your basic dark roast, nothing exciting, but it was free.

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Here's where I buy my beans:
https://andersonscoffee.com/

They are quite good, fairly inexpensive, and also do mail order.

guy at a local coffee shop told me espresso beans aren't good for aeropress, that i want, what, a non-espresso roast i guess? it was busy and loud and i didn't get all the info. dammit!

Espresso beans are generally just a kind of blend (rather than single source or whatever) from what I understand, most shops I've looked at list multiple forms of brewing instruction for 'espresso beans' - pourover, Aeropress, etc.

"Espresso beans" doesn't even really mean anything. There's "espresso roast" which is basically just a dark roast. Espresso can be a blend or single origin though and pretty much anywhere from medium to dark roast.