Favourite coffee

quaffee.co.za

Roasted or green coffee, blends and single bean, delivered to your door. They also have lots of sources, both American and African.

My "regular" is Colombian Asorganica. Medium to full flavor, 4 star flavour complexity.
This fully washed coffee is from a collective from Cauca in Colombia that grow and produce coffee under the organic certification banner. It is a rich earthy coffee with citric and coca notes. We receive this coffee 3 times a year, so it is always latest crop.
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Mastertons - beans are usually still warm when I stock up :D
 
Got myself a Jura fully automatic machine when i landed here and I haven't looked back. I don't have it in me to arse around with fancy machines. I'm using Douwe Egberts beans, good enough.
 
ekske1 said:
Which means that the bean is still 'roasting' on pickup; actually not a desired state.

Normally you would want a very quick cool down after being roasted before you remove the remaining husks if still present.
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They're going to be gutted to learn they've been doing it wrong since 1924. :unsure:
 
bwana said:
They're going to be gutted to learn they've been doing it wrong since 1924. :unsure:
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Could be, but look up bean roasting? From al the reads I've read all of them said cool down asap which will not lead to a 'hot bean' pickup. Otherwise as stated; the bean is still roasting which is what you do not want.

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Ask them about it, sure they will give a good input.
 
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So i started going to Deluxe regularly before work, as i wanted to avoid traffic i was quite early. this eventually made my nespresso not that great. got myself the Breville barista express. I find the Deluxe bean to be great, and also quite forgiving in terms of how you dial in the grind and tamp.

I also used Origin house blend, still prefer deluxe. last week i forgot to buy beans, and needed some, so found a woolies and bought the Ethepian single origin, very surprised how good it tastes.

At the moment im trying to perfect my latte' art :)

I typically prefer my coffee to most coffee shops, especially the franchises. It really has become a bit of an obsession
 
nazmo said:
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So i started going to Deluxe regularly before work, as i wanted to avoid traffic i was quite early. this eventually made my nespresso not that great. got myself the Breville barista express. I find the Deluxe bean to be great, and also quite forgiving in terms of how you dial in the grind and tamp.

I also used Origin house blend, still prefer deluxe. last week i forgot to buy beans, and needed some, so found a woolies and bought the Ethepian single origin, very surprised how good it tastes.

At the moment im trying to perfect my latte' art :)

I typically prefer my coffee to most coffee shops, especially the franchises. It really has become a bit of an obsession
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I can't praise Deluxe enough.
They are distinct in that their prices have increased only very marginally in the ten years or so I have been a customer and their quality is consistently excellent.
That consistency is priceless in my opinion. As you explore the hobby and start to invest in gear you'll quickly learn that the returns are diminishing the higher up you climb, so if your beans are not of consistent quality then that might cause you to make a decision based off of bad data.
Consistent beans mean that you can reliably assess where the weaknesses exist in your setup and what might be the best way to invest the next chunk of change that you plan to drop on java.
 
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