Coffee Making, Latte Art, Barista Skills

Nerfherder said:
So keen to try one of those. I like the style, I know the internals will look the same but I just want to see.

My old one got messed up in the dishwasher and is just not great
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Will keep you posted - new kitchen should be in in about 2 weeks time till then im researching away.

Will had this to my espresso machine, chemex, pour over, french press, aeropress et always nice having many methods each with a different result
 
Snyper564 said:
Will keep you posted - new kitchen should be in in about 2 weeks time till then im researching away.

Will had this to my espresso machine, chemex, pour over, french press, aeropress et always nice having many methods each with a different result
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couldnt beat this offer from Beanthere

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Snyper564 said:
Will keep you posted - new kitchen should be in in about 2 weeks time till then im researching away.

Will had this to my espresso machine, chemex, pour over, french press, aeropress et always nice having many methods each with a different result
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Nice, I have most of the same.

We should have a "show your spread" thread, to compare gear.
 
Nerfherder said:
Ye - they always measure them in espresso style "cups"

60 ml is not a cup of coffee.

I think you are suppose to make an Americano out of it by adding water.
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I found that if you follow a lot of the advice online - such as stopping the pot before it sputters - you get even less out.
 
Nerfherder said:
Ye - they always measure them in espresso style "cups"

60 ml is not a cup of coffee.

I think you are suppose to make an Americano out of it by adding water.
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Well to be honest, 60ml isn't an espresso either... :p

Espressos are typically 1:2 by weight coffee to water, so if you use 18g coffee, you have 36g espresso coming out. If you pull to 60ml, you have a lungo. Not that there's anything wrong with a lungo, I quite enjoy a lungo, but it's not an espresso by technical terms.

EDIT: That being said, Americano from a lungo is one of my favourite ways to drink coffee. It's the complete polar opposite to what I usually drink, and every now and then I have a craving for an Americano from a lungo.

To me it tastes like coffee tasted growing up. Overextracted, slightly bitter, a bit watery, and nowhere near what the coffee can taste like, but it tastes like home and I love it. That's why I really like my Nanopresso. The coffee that thing makes immediately makes me see my mom's yellowed filter coffee machine that came out on Sundays when people came to visit, with Douwe Egberts dark roasted ground coffee from the Tupperware tub in the freezer. It IS home.
 
So the other day I found myself in the unfortunate situation of almost running out of beans. Popped into supermarket and looked for the best beans I could find. Managed to find a bag of Terbodore beans that seems to have been roasted only 4 weeks prior, so fairly fresh. I took it. R95 for a 250g bag isn't cheap, but I hoped for the best.

Enter Terbodore The Great Dane. It's supposed to be a dark roast, and the notes are "A tribute to our original Great Dane, Sultan. With this blend we’ve created a lingering dark chocolate flavour with a smooth and structured finish."

Dark roast it is. I set up my grinder to grind a tiny bit coarser and let it rip. First cup was so-so, and after dialing in I managed to get a good espresso pulling 1:2 in 26 seconds.

The coffee though, it's so flat. I'm not sure if it's just me, but the flavours are flat. They mention "dark chocolate" flavours, and I have to say they got that right, but that's also about it. It's an obvious blend of beans, not bad quality, and slightly darker than I like my dark roasts even, but still, the coffee was a bit flat for me. It also has a weird powdery mouthfeel, and I'm not sure if I like it (at all).

And that's saying a lot, coming from someone who likes things quite quickly and easily. I've bought their flavoured coffees before (like English Toffee and those, because my wife LOVES it) and they were better, didn't have this weird powdery mouthfeel. Anyone know what could be causing that?

My latest cup of that I mixed a pretty lekker teaspoon of homemade dark butter caramel into the espresso before adding the steamed milk, and that was quite nice. The caramel added a touch of creamy bitterness that rounded off the chocolate notes well, but that's about it.
 
Toxxyc said:
So the other day I found myself in the unfortunate situation of almost running out of beans. Popped into supermarket and looked for the best beans I could find. Managed to find a bag of Terbodore beans that seems to have been roasted only 4 weeks prior, so fairly fresh. I took it. R95 for a 250g bag isn't cheap, but I hoped for the best.

Enter Terbodore The Great Dane. It's supposed to be a dark roast, and the notes are "A tribute to our original Great Dane, Sultan. With this blend we’ve created a lingering dark chocolate flavour with a smooth and structured finish."

Dark roast it is. I set up my grinder to grind a tiny bit coarser and let it rip. First cup was so-so, and after dialing in I managed to get a good espresso pulling 1:2 in 26 seconds.

The coffee though, it's so flat. I'm not sure if it's just me, but the flavours are flat. They mention "dark chocolate" flavours, and I have to say they got that right, but that's also about it. It's an obvious blend of beans, not bad quality, and slightly darker than I like my dark roasts even, but still, the coffee was a bit flat for me. It also has a weird powdery mouthfeel, and I'm not sure if I like it (at all).

And that's saying a lot, coming from someone who likes things quite quickly and easily. I've bought their flavoured coffees before (like English Toffee and those, because my wife LOVES it) and they were better, didn't have this weird powdery mouthfeel. Anyone know what could be causing that?

My latest cup of that I mixed a pretty lekker teaspoon of homemade dark butter caramel into the espresso before adding the steamed milk, and that was quite nice. The caramel added a touch of creamy bitterness that rounded off the chocolate notes well, but that's about it.
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I agree, although I were gifted a bag of ground coffee of Terbodore The Great Dane without any idea of roasting date and it really isn't great coffee. I've tried a pourover and Aeropress from it, but still don't really like it. Mostly because it
1) still tasted like it had an artificial flavour (I've also drank their Vanilla flavoured coffee in the past)
2) tastes bland!
 
So I bought a couple of bags of coffee beans on Takealot, mostly because I had ebucks to spend and I can get free delivery and trying to see if I could find a new "daily driver". Beans sounds like an easy way for me to push me over the free delivery limit :)

Mostly went on ratings on what to pick (which probably isn't great - seems to be people who like "strong" coffee with fully automatic machines), but I was more so interested into whether some of the roasteries actually mention roast dates.

Findings:
Truth Single Origin India beans - https://www.takealot.com/truth-coffee-single-origin-india-beans-225g/PLID69526112
R129 / 225g beans (was the most expensive of the lot)
- no roasting date
- struggling to get the flavours they mention from the coffee (even though it is supposed to be versatile for espresso and filter) - so may be old beans :(

Bootleggers Blend - https://www.takealot.com/bootlegger-blend-coffee-beans-250g/PLID44265010
R105 / 250g beans
- Has a "manufactured date" of 4th of July, so was about ~3 weeks old by the time I got it.
- Pretty much a well rounded blend. Works well with espresso, wife enjoys it in milk drinks.

Okja Beans - https://www.takealot.com/okja-coffee-beans-500g/PLID91514125
R169 / 500g
- Grabbed my attention due to the design and the cost
- No roast date / manufacuring date (I didn't expect it)
- Didn't expect much. What I actually got was a decaf (weirdly - since they don't sell decaf) - it has a sticker that says "Descafeinado". Coffee isn't bad - I could easily drink this as a basic coffee every day.
- Contacted them on Whatsapp about the decaf bit and sounds like it was a mistake - they are shipping me a bag of 500g normal beans too :)

KayRin Roasters Caffe Origem - https://www.takealot.com/caffe-origem-beans-250g/PLID45505226
R95 / 250g
- Says roasted July 2024 (at least it gives a month and at least it must have been 3 - 4 weeks)
- Their prices seems quite good and this one got only 5 star reviews (granted, by 4 people)
- It makes a descent espresso. Also a blend, so I'll try some of their more unique single-origin coffees in the future
- Will probably consider buying a bigger bag in the future (R275 - R299 for 1kg on Takealot)
 
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Delicious. Trying the Brazil Barbosa Gold beans from heavenly coffees. Really enjoying them.
heavenlycoffees.com

Brazilian Gold 250g/1kg

The Brazil Barbosa gold have been replaced with Brazilian Gold as we will no longer stock the Barbosa Gold. Brazilian Gold is a speciality grade coffee.
heavenlycoffees.com heavenlycoffees.com
 
So this is happening in the more civilised (😅 ) part of the country tomorrow.
Anyone been to one? What's the vibe like. It doesn't actually say anything about spectators but I assume one can just turn up?

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Toxxyc said:
So the other day I found myself in the unfortunate situation of almost running out of beans. Popped into supermarket and looked for the best beans I could find. Managed to find a bag of Terbodore beans that seems to have been roasted only 4 weeks prior, so fairly fresh. I took it. R95 for a 250g bag isn't cheap, but I hoped for the best.

Enter Terbodore The Great Dane. It's supposed to be a dark roast, and the notes are "A tribute to our original Great Dane, Sultan. With this blend we’ve created a lingering dark chocolate flavour with a smooth and structured finish."

Dark roast it is. I set up my grinder to grind a tiny bit coarser and let it rip. First cup was so-so, and after dialing in I managed to get a good espresso pulling 1:2 in 26 seconds.

The coffee though, it's so flat. I'm not sure if it's just me, but the flavours are flat. They mention "dark chocolate" flavours, and I have to say they got that right, but that's also about it. It's an obvious blend of beans, not bad quality, and slightly darker than I like my dark roasts even, but still, the coffee was a bit flat for me. It also has a weird powdery mouthfeel, and I'm not sure if I like it (at all).

And that's saying a lot, coming from someone who likes things quite quickly and easily. I've bought their flavoured coffees before (like English Toffee and those, because my wife LOVES it) and they were better, didn't have this weird powdery mouthfeel. Anyone know what could be causing that?

My latest cup of that I mixed a pretty lekker teaspoon of homemade dark butter caramel into the espresso before adding the steamed milk, and that was quite nice. The caramel added a touch of creamy bitterness that rounded off the chocolate notes well, but that's about it.
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It's because it ships from Franschhoek. The fish smell and wind blows all the flavour away by the time it gets to you.
 
ebendl said:
So I bought a couple of bags of coffee beans on Takealot, mostly because I had ebucks to spend and I can get free delivery and trying to see if I could find a new "daily driver". Beans sounds like an easy way for me to push me over the free delivery limit :)

Mostly went on ratings on what to pick (which probably isn't great - seems to be people who like "strong" coffee with fully automatic machines), but I was more so interested into whether some of the roasteries actually mention roast dates.

Findings:
Truth Single Origin India beans - https://www.takealot.com/truth-coffee-single-origin-india-beans-225g/PLID69526112
R129 / 225g beans (was the most expensive of the lot)
- no roasting date
- struggling to get the flavours they mention from the coffee (even though it is supposed to be versatile for espresso and filter) - so may be old beans :(

Bootleggers Blend - https://www.takealot.com/bootlegger-blend-coffee-beans-250g/PLID44265010
R105 / 250g beans
- Has a "manufactured date" of 4th of July, so was about ~3 weeks old by the time I got it.
- Pretty much a well rounded blend. Works well with espresso, wife enjoys it in milk drinks.

Okja Beans - https://www.takealot.com/okja-coffee-beans-500g/PLID91514125
R169 / 500g
- Grabbed my attention due to the design and the cost
- No roast date / manufacuring date (I didn't expect it)
- Didn't expect much. What I actually got was a decaf (weirdly - since they don't sell decaf) - it has a sticker that says "Descafeinado". Coffee isn't bad - I could easily drink this as a basic coffee every day.
- Contacted them on Whatsapp about the decaf bit and sounds like it was a mistake - they are shipping me a bag of 500g normal beans too :)

KayRin Roasters Caffe Origem - https://www.takealot.com/caffe-origem-beans-250g/PLID45505226
R95 / 250g
- Says roasted July 2024 (at least it gives a month and at least it must have been 3 - 4 weeks)
- Their prices seems quite good and this one got only 5 star reviews (granted, by 4 people)
- It makes a descent espresso. Also a blend, so I'll try some of their more unique single-origin coffees in the future
- Will probably consider buying a bigger bag in the future (R275 - R299 for 1kg on Takealot)
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Nice to see there are some options on Takealot. Might use the opportunity when I don't qualify for free shipping .
 
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