A place where you can buy phenomenal coffee beans.

DrLex

dhope wrote:

DrLex wrote:

Duncan,
Appreciate that, and if I wanted a regular supply, it seems ideal. However, this is a gift, so just want 4-5 packs in one hit.

Drop them an email, they're a small outfit so might do you 4-5 different bags and ship the next day still

Sadly not the case - could only suggest that I bought a gift voucher on the website, activated it to send one bag and then transferred the account to the giftee for the remaining credit... :roll:
One order placed with happy donkey and fingers crossed; might also try Stewart's of Trent Bridge.

Edit: happy donkey have already arranged dispatch; delivery tomorrow. Had also spoken with Stewart's - very accommodating- and placed an order for posting out first class today. Hopefully end up with a choice come Saturday.

ugo.santalucia

BigMonka wrote:

How do you make espresso without pressure - isn't that what makes it an espresso?

And do you think I am going to tell you?

bompington

ugo.santalucia wrote:

BigMonka wrote:

How do you make espresso without pressure - isn't that what makes it an espresso?

And do you think I am going to tell you?

debeli

May I start by saying that this thread started as a most excellent piece of trollery. The OP contained too many obvious gaffes to have been anything else.

But where to buy coffee? When I was younger and living in The Smoke, I went to an excellent shop on (I think) Old Compton Street. I imagine it is no longer there, but it was fabby; north side of the street, towards the west. Lovely smell, good staff and an excellent range.

These days, my middle-aged taste buds do little more than recognise the difference between coffee and furniture polish, so I am free of the hegemony of good flavour. The supermarkets do it for me... and I buy two or three different types at a time, haphazardly. Having a favourite just limits the possibility of pleasure. If only I could still taste the differences, I'd be onto a winner. But my family enjoy the variety and I enjoy the pretence that I can tell the difference.

As to grinding... the only way (as far as I'm concerned) is what I think of as a bosanski mlin . It's a brass cylinder whose handle folds away into the lower part when not in use. You hold it against your hip as you mill. Intended for preparing a Turkish coffee, but works with other types. Nice and tactile. Those 'leccy things are just big and noisy and smack of the aspiration to drive a Range Rover. And the poncy ones you clamp onto a work surface just take up too much room.

As to making the coffee, a Bosnian (Turkish) dzezva is jolly good but an acquired taste. Otherwise a cafetiere or a hobtop octagonal moka pot thingy. It makes a passable espresso-type coffee and can make a big mug too.

Sugar should be demerara where possible and any milk or cream should be to the drinker's taste. When in France it's nice to have the milk heated. Over here it seems a bit soppy to bother.

And instant coffee is fine. Some people even prefer it. I am right. Any dissent is immature and wrong. End of thread.

veronese68

Debeli wrote:

And instant coffee is fine.

Now who's trolling?
Instant coffee is a different drink, I don't like it. I like a short sharp shot of coffee, a mug of stuff watered down is not the same.

leeefm

Debeli wrote:

May I start by saying that this thread started as a most excellent piece of trollery.

:?

DCI Gene Hunt

Debeli wrote:

And instant coffee is fine. .

Ive killed people for lesser statements than that and you come across as the kind of guy who accuses everybody else of being a troll no matter what they say.

On another note, could one of you lot recommend a burr grinder for me as my de longhi blade type doesn't grind the beans down to the finest grade that really puts hair on your knackers.

pblakeney

DCI Gene Hunt wrote:

Debeli wrote:

And instant coffee is fine. .

Ive killed people for lesser statements than that and you come across as the kind of guy who accuses everybody else of being a troll no matter what they say.

On another note, could one of you lot recommend a burr grinder for me as my de longhi blade type doesn't grind the beans down to the finest grade that really puts hair on your knackers.

Pretty much any info (and opinions) on coffee can be found in this thread -
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