Originally Posted By: Falken
I started a coffee roasting company when I was younger with a Toper roaster from Turkey.
I don't care what the bean was, but if you let the freshly roasted coffee de-gas then grind it up and do ANYTHING with it it tasted like nothing you have ever tried.
Filter, espresso, bodum... It was like candy, a baked good.
If you ever walk down the street and see a coffee roaster in the window that has a chimney hookup, ask when they roast.
Then buy a bag of whatever they scoop out of the cooling bin right after they dump it out.
People even buy green beans and roast them in a cast iron skillet.
Coffee goes stale in exactly the same manner as a baked good.
You can't put your fingure on why, but freshness is 99% of the flavor that is lost when you buy coffee that was roasted, say, last year.
Now that I have had the absolute best, and did it with my own hands, I now enjoy the simple compromise of Maxwell House on sale.
Instant coffee will give me a gag reflex though, when I used to like it when I was camping. So that is wrecked for me.
I preferred all the beans you could get from Africa... Nice solid flavor, such as Kenya AA.
You mixed that with any lesser bean and you had a nice blend.
Coffee keeps me up, and makes me antsy, so I stick to 2 cups a day in the early morning before work.
Coffee, beer, women. Science has yet to catch up.
great write up, loved your last sentence,,,amen
I started a coffee roasting company when I was younger with a Toper roaster from Turkey.
I don't care what the bean was, but if you let the freshly roasted coffee de-gas then grind it up and do ANYTHING with it it tasted like nothing you have ever tried.
Filter, espresso, bodum... It was like candy, a baked good.
If you ever walk down the street and see a coffee roaster in the window that has a chimney hookup, ask when they roast.
Then buy a bag of whatever they scoop out of the cooling bin right after they dump it out.
People even buy green beans and roast them in a cast iron skillet.
Coffee goes stale in exactly the same manner as a baked good.
You can't put your fingure on why, but freshness is 99% of the flavor that is lost when you buy coffee that was roasted, say, last year.
Now that I have had the absolute best, and did it with my own hands, I now enjoy the simple compromise of Maxwell House on sale.
Instant coffee will give me a gag reflex though, when I used to like it when I was camping. So that is wrecked for me.
I preferred all the beans you could get from Africa... Nice solid flavor, such as Kenya AA.
You mixed that with any lesser bean and you had a nice blend.
Coffee keeps me up, and makes me antsy, so I stick to 2 cups a day in the early morning before work.
Coffee, beer, women. Science has yet to catch up.
great write up, loved your last sentence,,,amen
