/ck/ — /ctg/ Coffee Time General

>>22060133 (OP)
PISS
OUT
MY
ASS

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>>22060133 (OP)
this morning i made an espresso with my robusta :)
18 in, 50 out. but i forgot to start the timer.
i did get the flow rate which was a little slow at 0.7g/s(actually i guess you can use this + the other parameters to get to... 70 seconds?)
but it resulted in a pretty tasty cup
i was going to take a picture of the crema but i stirred it before taking a picture so i took it of the side instead.
rich, toasty and some sweet notes.
i hope other anons have an espresso as good as mine today :)

>>22060189
Just read this in Hoffman's voice.

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I went on r/pourover. What an insufferable place. I have never felt more like pic related

>>22060395
did you say something stupid and get downvoted?

what the fuck is the point of cowboy brew? it doesn't taste much. i cook till boiling, almost, dann i put grounds in. i let that brew 5 seconds, 5 minutes i wait and wa la i get coffee.
but it tastes watery desu

>>22060399
Not even. Just general gear obsession, consooming and page long reports on how some coffee was brewed

>>22060386
thats the greatest compliment I've ever received

>>22060421
bro your Tetsu Kasuya 10-pour brew?

just brewed some chicory coffee.
taste is a lot like dandelion desu desu. but i like dandelion coffee. a very bitter flavour, but in a pleasant way.

>>22060409
are you a cowboy?

>>22060435
nah i measured it with my refractometer and the tds came up a bit short i probably need to buy a new grinder to replace my comandante and make better water

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P87lspsAvmU
new neo

>>22060189
Very nice. A really good robusta tastes like liquid dark chocolate. Feels pretty underrated, lemon juice shots have been dominating speciality coffee for so long...

>>22060562
great robusta can be half the price of "equivalent" arabica so i wouldn't be surprised if it gets more popular just because its more affordable
also i have been seeing more "boomer shots" than nordic squirt fests recently.

i think the only thing i actually dislike about the convex basket (and i dont think can be improved )is i never get a clean puck.
its always messy.
whereas a normal basked is perfectly clean knock out 9/10 times
and most of the time i dont need to even knock it, it just falls out on its own when it turn the basket upside down.

Is 350€ a good price for a second hand Jura E4?

are jura coffee machines worth it?

>>22060613
what do you mean by that?

>>22060421
Something else is that there’s a lot of talk about getting the flavor notes right, as in getting exactly what it says on the bag and making big efforts to chase that. Just a whole bunch of unnecessary complexity.
I could just ignore it though

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Do people bother to vary their coffee according to what they're having for breakfast?

For example, with a savory Taco Bell breakfast, I'd want a sweetened coffee. But if I'm having a doughnut or something, I'd prefer black.

>>22060616
like the price is quite high and idk would a bambino plus be just as good

>>22060641
I would do the opposite honestly. I intentionally avoid drinking coffee with sweets because it will probably ruin it.

>>22060641
I don't drink coffee with food and I don't eat breakfast.

>>22060645
Super automatics do not make the same kind of coffee as semi automatics. You get a jura for convenience and good enough coffee at the press of a button, you get a bambino for autism.

>>22060395
You went to the land of coffee artists and found out you weren't one of them. What's the problem.

>>22060688
autists*

>>22060409
Did you listen to the master Kent "nigger killer" Rollins?

>>22060639
>tasting notes
You get that shit in the cigar community all the time. Now I get that everyone's pallet is different but the base flavor is always going to be tabacco and not fruit or something dumb like that. Just like with coffee the base flavor is always just going to be fucking coffee, and maybe occasionally you'll get the ghost of a memory of something else.

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>>22060592
Yep. Ive heard its god tier for cafes though. Just blast the shit clean with a cup/pitcher rinser and you're good to go.

>>22060703
ive heard these are decently cheap
also arent there ones that have a spinny brush and water?

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>>22060699
Drink better coffee. Smoke better cigars.
>tabacco
>>22060707
ye.

>>22060699
As someone who made an active effort to understand tasting notes, it’s not entirely intuitive. When someone said they tasted berries in their coffee, it took me a while before I understood they didn’t mean berry sweetness but more the sourness or the other flavor components remind them of berries.

It’s also important to remember the people who write tasting notes have consumed enough that the base flavor is more of an afterthought. Someone who tries shrimp for the first time might think it’s quite stinky or fishy, but someone who is used to that funk could comment on the sweetness or relative freshness. So tasting notes do exist, but should be put into context and aren’t something people have to pursue.

>>22060726
>he doesnt taste blueberry bombs in his ethiopian geisha

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No tasting notes. No gearqueering. Just shitty coffee.

>>22060645
>because it will probably ruin it.
How so?

>>22060757
retard

>>22060758
That's hardly an answer.

>>22060759
look again

>>22060649
This.
A single shot of espresso murders my appetite for 4+ hours.

>>22060649
>I don't eat breakfast.
Doctors recommend that you do. You do listen to your doctor, right?

>>22060765
I listen to my body and my body tells me that I'm no longer a powerlifter after all my injuries and I work from home, so I'm not hungry until the afternoon and if I still had the same calorie intake I'd be a fat fuck whereas now I'm a hot injured Chad.
>>22060762
I have no idea how you guys have all these side effects like needing to shit or not being hungry or your little heart beating too fast or your teeth becoming yellow. I just drink coffee for the taste and experience.

>>22060803
You're a big guy.

>>22060822
Not really I've lost like 12kg of pure muscle since getting injured. I'm 1.9m and 80kg. Can't eat as much as I used to and can't have the same diet or I'll become skinnyfat.

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>Hario Switch
>Coffee Chronicler recipe
>1:15 ratio, 85C water
Simple as. All of the flavor, none of the bitterness.

this morning i had a coffee with what was left at the end of a bag
it was only like 10g
10g in a normal size v60 does not make for a good cup...

>>22061448
bro, your deep 27?

>>22060803
>all my injuries
list them

2pm sounds like a good time for a robusta moka
especially on a dreary day like today.
:)
what is todays weather for you, and what kind of coffee does it inspire you to make?

>>22061561
Torn meniscus, torn hamstring, shoulder impingement on both shoulders, undiagnosed lower back injury, broken heart.

update on my new springs for my super jolly, THEY WORK!
WOOOO!
i can now actually go to full espresso range, before the burr adjustment stopped at like moka range before making a metal grinding noise.
and the grinding is faster and quieter, i assume the old springs had stiffened unevenly so one side could contract more than the others leading to the top burr being unaligned and causing premature burr touch and only on one side.
but im also retarded so that could be totally wrong and not make any sense.
anyway it works and thats what matters.
well i dont know that works because i haven't made any espresso with it yet as im typing this while waiting for my machine to heat up.
but i did some test grinds and compared it to my hg1 and it looked and felt the same, it did feel slightly different but i chalk that up to differences between flat and conical producing different shaped particles or something.
well i guess ill update again after I've finished making espresso
:)

>>22061931
ok so my first attempt failed which makes this line
>but i did some test grinds and compared it to my hg1 and it looked and felt the same, it did feel slightly different but i chalk that up to differences between flat and conical producing different shaped particles or something.
very funny, i wasn't even fucking close.
i felt a difference because i was WAY off.
i went like 4 whole numbers finer and i could have gone 5.
but 4 was good enough to make a drinkable shot(and its almost 11pm so i didnt want to keep making espresso)
i remember when i first cleaned and used the super jolly that i kinda "got" why people say flat vs cone tastes different.
i was retarded(shocker), my grinder wasn't even fucking close to calibrated(so rare for me i know) so whatever i have been tasting was just way off what i should have been.
anyway, this second brew was noticeably different than my hg1 shots on the same "recipe"(convex, cherry robusta, 18 in 50 out)
sweeter, softer, nuttier.
its still not perfect, ill try again in a day or so and try to get a really gooey shot from the SJ.
sort of hints of honey and greek yoghurt if anyone knows what im talking about.
and who knows maybe ill be able to get what (You) have been telling me about the convex that i was only sort of getting up until now :)
anyway, thanks for reading my blog.

>>22061931
>>22061965
>noticeably different than my hg1 shot
Now just consider how much further you can go once you're off the blendiest 64mm burrs available.
>new springs
Or do something dumb like spend $1200 usd on alignment with a zerno 1.

>>22061984
>blendiest 64mm burrs available.
yeh i was taking my last sip thinking "i hope this doesnt awaken burr autism within me..."

>>22060712
>Drink better coffee. Smoke better cigars.
My guy in not saying that they don't exist I'm just saying it's not what most would expect. Even when smoking my occasional padron I'll only rarely get any kind of chocolate or somethong like that. And even then it's only a very fair ghost of a ghost of a hint of chocolate. Except for the oliva serie G which tastes like dirt.

>>22061996
Only good Olivas are MB3s and Melanios.

>>22060832
Same mang, I tore my midsection open and displaced my intestines doing deadlifts. And because of the adrenal and hypertensive issues it's caused I haven't been to the gym in almost 7 months. Turning into a skelly man.

>>22061999
>Only good Olivas are MB3s and Melanios.
No argument here. Nice to run into someone that actually smokes. We need a cigar general.

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>>22062006
There are occasional /tbg/ tobacco generals here but its usually patel smoking pajeets. I try not to smoke too often anymore. Should probably get around to smoking the rest of my 2014 pudgy monsters this summer.