Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms Anyone for coffee?

As a tea drinker I really like the look of the tea pot - can't be a kettle surely - lurking behind the left hand coffee pot!

I know that coffee well.
It is made at a factory in Karlstad Sweden. I had a brilliant reseller there and visited a few times. It's a bit like when you used to go past Mars in Slough, the air was full of Coffee all day when they were roasting. It was very nice coffee. No great surprise that you could not get any other brand in the town! I visited the site shop and took a big bag home. Lets just say the LHR customs people inspected and put it through the x-ray machine twice. Apparently no one brings coffee back from Sweden.

The site shop told me that they had an office in England - Address: West Drayton UB7 8JD: Phone: 020 3026 7249. It was mostly wholesale so you might end up with quite a bit. I will split an order with you

I use the H.R.Higgins coffees, some of them are quite wonderful.
https://www.hrhiggins.co.uk/shop/coffees/

Galapagos San Cristobal at the moment, a lovely bright morning coffee.
https://www.hrhiggins.co.uk/product/coffees/galapagos-san-cristobal/

Bought as beans, through a burr grinder on demand and then either a french press or Bialetta Moka on the stove.

Another good reason for buying Illy is that it comes in recyclable cans rather than single-use plastic packaging that can't be recycled.

That was my first drug: Bialetti Brikka Duo. Makes excellent mocha with crema!
There is also a Bialetti Brikka for 4 cups, but it is not recommended.

After I got a taste for it, I had to buy an Italian espresso machine:



Of course, the preparation requires a little more time than a fully automatic machine or Nespresso. But the taste is also different.

The next step was to roast the coffee beans themselves. This is interesting, among other things, because it makes it possible to create your own coffee blends (similar to a cuvee in wine). The roasting machine works according to the same principle as large commercial roasters:



This roaster was developed by a group of ambitious home roasters in Hamburg and manufactured in a small series. Important was a good monitoring and control of the roasting process (during the roasting process the roaster is connected to my computer and the temperature profiles are measured and recorded).

And this is what my daily coffee looks like :



Of course we also have espresso, but it doesn't look so nice on the photo

In order to get really good coffee - regardless of how it is prepared - I recommend high quality coffee beans and grinding them immediately before preparation.

Of course drinking coffee from a homemade cup can be rather pleasant 🤓

Fascination reading the lengths you go to for a good cup of coffee, I can see I have a long way to go before I become a connoisseur.

For white coffee (no creamer) I prefer a percolator, whilst for black coffee, with a dark roast bean sourced locally, I use a stainless steel Bialetti style pot. My bean grinder is getting temperamental, so I’m looking for a reasonably priced, reliable, and good model – any suggestions.

Like Peter said, I have become concerned with the amount of un-biodegradable waste created by the aluminium capsules, the Scourge of the Landfill. And, although we use Tassimo pots for quick coffee for my son to take to work, I can see that I will have to investigate Nespresso. p.s. My son much prefers ‘real’ coffee from the percolator.

I am locked into the Nespresso system, for a number of reasons.
First, the variety: it is easy to match a coffee to my mood.
Second, it is always fresh and available.
Third, Nestle take away and recycle the aluminium and coffee grounds. I will not buy plastic pods.

Our machine, made by DeLonghi , also produces steamed milk, perfect for the morning milky coffee... usually a Latte.



But I'm with Jays, a small china cup is perfect for the mid morning strong one! I use some china tea cups sourced in Japan many, many years ago. Making my own artisanal cup is way beyond me!

Tricky. A decent coffee grinder needs to be a burr type, and they aren't cheap. On the upside a good one will last ages. We had a Gaggia type for something like 15 years, but it had a plastic receiver and was very prone to static buildup, you would take the container out and the coffee grounds would fly everywhere.

Eventually I got so fed up with it I bought a Kitchen Aid model with a glass receiver. The bad news is that it cost £160 or so. The good news is that it looks good, works beautifully, and has no static problem, so every time I use it I consider it money well spent.

I have had a Dualit for some time and find it works fine, easy to clean. It has a coarse/fine adjustment as well as volume of coffee selecter.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dualit-75015-Coffee-Grinder-Black/dp/B005VBNSJ8/ref=sr_1_10

I am afraid I cannot compare it as it has been running daily for about the last 12 years and has not one wrong!

All this talk of coffee has made me want to try coffee again after a prolonged absence!
Its out with the Spong grinder and red enamelled pot tomorrow if I can find them in the garage!