Expensive Coffee

I usually drink UCC 114 or 118 if I can get hold of it, but Nescafe Gold or Select is nice too. UCC also make nice canned coffee, with milk and all and they also sell 1 liter bottles of brewed coffee.

The darn nicest coffee for me is:
http://ipohhomescafe.com/product_detail.php?pid=4
This really beats any other hazelnut coffee I've ever tasted. Even the ones with Torani Hazelnut flavouring (ghastly :( ).
 
fxit_man said:
I bought half a kilo of the above mentioned Blue Mountain Jamaican coffee beans..

Delicious, but I kinda never cleaned out the coffee machine and they went stale pretty soon after that :/
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I use the site to mostly get various Furi***e. Nothing better than that, on steamed rice. :) De-li-cio-us!!! Bonito-nori is my favourite.
 
I enjoy Blue Mountain coffee - but only when people buy it for me. I'd love to give Kopi Luwak a try but at an additional R300 per kg over the price of the Blue Mountain it's unlikely to be any time soon. :o
TheREV said:
Er, yes, well, I have my own blend specially roasted by Gourmet Coffee. What can I say? We do love our coffee!
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What do you pay for the privilege?
 
PeterCH said:
Japanese rice seasoning. It's called Fu-ri-ka-ke. It changes dreary rice into delicious oishi-ness!!!
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Rice is not dreary.

It has become very expensive to buy basmati, though. Approx. R 32/kg as opposed to normal rice @ approx. R 15/kg.
 
DJK said:
Your average yuppie says the same about wines. But blindfold them and 90% couldn't tell the difference between a red and a white wine, let alone a quality red for example. Seen this experiment done in person before. I bet you the same applies to coffee...
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This can't be true. Maybe they struggle to taste the difference between different cultivars of white or red but anyone who has drank red and white wine knows the difference.

It is also not that difficult to taste the difference between Nescafe and decent coffee.
 
BrendanD said:
This can't be true. Maybe they struggle to taste the difference between different cultivars of white or red but anyone who has drank red and white wine knows the difference.
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I thought the exact same thing, but once you remove the insight of perception, the boundaries between them start to blur a little. Try it for yourself - put some wine into water bottles and get some people to taste - the tannin in the reds is easier for most to pick up on, but many people are clueless. I first saw the experiment on John Cleese's wine show on BBC Food...
 
Has anyone tasted Kopi Luwak ?

Kopi Luwak (pronounced [ˈkopi ˈluwak]) or Civet coffee is coffee made from coffee berries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) and other related civet populations. The civets eat the berries, but the beans inside pass through their system undigested.

Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, selling for between $100 and $600 USD per pound,
 
Yeah, I guess my coffee taste is a little cheaper. I pay around R200/kg but never keep coffee for more than 10 days after it's roasted.

Also, I'll be able to tell you which region a coffee came from during a blind-test. It's all about acidity and after-taste when it comes to coffee. That said, puring me a few cups from a filter coffee machine won't help. It has to be pressure brewed otherwise you lose the character.
 
Nocturnity said:
Yeah, I guess my coffee taste is a little cheaper. I pay around R200/kg but never keep coffee for more than 10 days after it's roasted.
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The joys of living in PE - one of the finest, most well established coffee roasters in the land at our disposal . . . and at half the price. :)
 
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