Simulated kopi luwak. Tastes chocolatey and amazing. Really pricey though unless you can get someone in Vietnam to send it to you or pick it up on holiday or something.
JBM is most pleasant. Use fresh water and don't allow to boil. 80-85C is about right. Ideally, drink it black. That's a reasonable price for a very decent coffee.
One of the best things about our company is that they let me spend seven grand on a coffee machine from La Marzocco. Lovely thing, which makes it worth coming in early in the morning. Dear Green send us fresh beans every few days.
It’s a one group La Marzocco Linea B. A nice big shiny steel thing. We ordered it customised with digital shot controls for inexperienced users. So long as we keep it clean inside and out, it’s pretty much bulletproof. Takes a beating every day from people who don’t know how to use it properly and still pulls perfect shots. If anyone ever needs to specify an espresso machine, I highly recommend La Marzocco.
We do interior design as well as branding etc, and have designed a lot of coffee shops, bars, etc over the years. These are the best I’ve found, so when we cancelled our rental of an Elektra machine I was allowed to buy this one.
Yeah I fucking despise these cafes that don't maintain the innards of their machines- badly affecting the crema and taste. Worse when it's a high tier bean waterboarder, it makes me want to cry.
"Better than a tech demo. But mostly a tech demo for now. Exactly what we expected, crashes less and less. No multiplayer." - BnB NMS review, PS4, PC
I'm pretty happy with my Delonghi Magnifica, although I've found the best beans for that to be Taylor's Espresso. It doesn't do justice to good coffee, I stick with aeropress or moka when I've got decent beans in.
Anyone with a coffee grinder and espresso machine tried cocoa beans yet?
Thought about that years ago, and that's exactly what Hotel Chocolat do in their cafe's in London.
Doesn't seem to have taken off. Perhaps because people expect cocoa/chocolate to be sweet.
But even pure cocoa powder with no sweetener is less bitter than straight coffee. Odd really. People drink coffee black but won't drink straight cocoa tea/cocoa powder with no sweetner etc.
I have a little delonghi grinder, but since you pretty much can't access the grinder mechanism most of the time, anytime I would grind cocoa in it I would be getting traces of it in whatever I grind afterwards for weeks probably.
Would love to try it though and see what the results were.
"Let me tell you, when yung Rouj had his Senna and Mansell Scalextric, Frank was the goddamn Professor X of F1."
Coffee drinkers of the world: got some moka pot woes: www 1.5 cupper is perfect every time, 4 cupper just won't conform. Coffee splutters through for an age, tastes burnt and ugly. Am I packing the grind too much? Not enough? Is the pot just busted? RIP mornings with pals.
Just get a french press if its coffee with pals. Much less hassle. I realise that it is no way a helpful answer. Come at me online SF5 if you don't like it.
"Let me tell you, when yung Rouj had his Senna and Mansell Scalextric, Frank was the goddamn Professor X of F1."
I agree. About the french press, not SFV. Can’t play that on my Xbone.
If you’re drinking it black, filter coffee is probably the way to go for groups of people. Cafetiere/french press at home is the winner. You can pick up a lot of subtleties in different blends (or single origins) when preparing them so simply. Worth trying a bunch of different coffees until you find a favourite – or even signing up to some sort of ‘roast of the month’ deal on mail order for a bit of variety.
Protip: add a tiny pinch of sea salt flakes to your ground coffee before pouring the hot water in. Really brings out the flavour.