The Case for Bad Coffee

[s0me0nesmind1]

I use cream but don't put sugar in my coffee. I put a touch of sugar in my espresso though.


I have that but don't use it because you lose the convenience factor, esp. because you have to grind the coffee much more exactly than with a regular brewer. If you grind it too coarse or too fine, it doesn't work right.

Note though that I don't actually drink coffee every day, only consistently on weekends, and occasionally during the week.

Also, I don't use a Keurig 2.0 setup. I believe those are essentially locked to Keurig approved products. I use an older Keurig and PC brand K-cups, which don't actually look like K-cups.mg]

They also admitted it was a HUGE mistake to try to prevent users from using at-home solutions. Their stocks plummeted as a direct affect of the K2.0.

Also, coffee has a consistent brown/dark color. coming out the color of dirty water is no longer coffee. I'm curious how much of the actual caffeine makes it through since that's why most people drink it anyways.

 

[WelshBloke]

And if you like an "imperial" anything... you are fucking lying, you hipster fuck.

Russian Imperial stout is fucking awesome.

 

[slag]

I bought some of that 8 oclock stuff. Thanks

 

[soulcougher73]

Agree, except with the bolded part. Why?

This stuff is delicious.

mmmm So true

 

[MongGrel]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003GV7JFE?keywords=8 oclock&qid=1446571090&ref_=sr_1_2&sr=8-2

I still haven't tried out their French Roast, but the Original we always have some and the wife likes the Colombian Peaks and I like the Central Highlands.

It's hard to beat quality wise for the price.

http://www.eightoclock.com/coffee-varieties

 

[Eug]

They also admitted it was a HUGE mistake to try to prevent users from using at-home solutions. Their stocks plummeted as a direct affect of the K2.0.

Also, coffee has a consistent brown/dark color. coming out the color of dirty water is no longer coffee. I'm curious how much of the actual caffeine makes it through since that's why most people drink it anyways.

Not sure how consistent the output is but if the machine is working correctly, the final cup tastes the same as a cup of coffee from a regular brewing machine. In fact, for my regular brewer, ideal is 6-8 cups. I have a hard time making it consistent with the 4 cup setting.

BTW, if anything, the PC branded filter-type cups work extremely well, despite being not approved by Keurig. They're a bowl shaped filter filled with coffee. If anything they may work more consistently than the regular K-cups, which are a plastic cup, half-filled with coffee.

 

[soulcougher73]

I still haven't tried out their French Roast, but the Original we always have some and the wife likes the Colombian Peaks and I like the Central Highlands.

It's hard to beat quality wise for the price.

http://www.eightoclock.com/coffee-varieties

I cant seem to find 8'oclock at the stores anymore around here. Was very good stuff for the money. I might order some from amazon though.

 

[vi edit]

He woke up and decided he was a poseur. The blog has less to do with coffee than it does with knowing himself.

Exactly. I thought it was a wonderful editorial. Just shut up and enjoy the moment is the take away. There's all sorts of subtle cues and reminders from different things in your life. For him he realized the many of them were centered around "bad coffee".

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Not sure how consistent the output is but if the machine is working correctly, the final cup tastes the same as a cup of coffee from a regular brewing machine. In fact, for my regular brewer, ideal is 6-8 cups. I have a hard time making it consistent with the 4 cup setting.

BTW, if anything, the PC branded filter-type cups work extremely well, despite being not approved by Keurig. They're a bowl shaped filter filled with coffee. If anything they may work more consistently than the regular K-cups, which are a plastic cup, half-filled with coffee.

Hit the large cup brew and take a video of it coming out, close-up. Post it here.

2-3 seconds in on the "initial look" that most people see, it will come out a normal color. After that, it's basically pure water. You might as well just add water.

 

[waggy]

Also, I don't use a Keurig 2.0 setup. I believe those are essentially locked to Keurig approved products. I use an older Keurig and PC brand K-cups, which don't actually look like K-cups.

My wife looked at getting me a Keurig 2.0 since i only drink 2-3 cups of coffee. I'm against since it has so much waste and you couldn't use your own cups anymore.

 

[Eug]

Hit the large cup brew and take a video of it coming out, close-up. Post it here.

2-3 seconds in on the "initial look" that most people see, it will come out a normal color. After that, it's basically pure water. You might as well just add water.

My keurig is a small mini model. Brewing even a 10 oz cup can sometimes be problematic, since most of my cups that size physically won't even fit in the brewer. Thus, I often just brew 8 oz. (I don't drink large amounts of coffee.) Regular diner coffee cups are about 5 oz.

I wonder if that makes a difference. ie. Maybe the pods work better with 8 oz than with 10 oz. But I don't care either way, since it tastes like coffee. Even if it's less concentrated at the end and more concentrated at the beginning, who cares if the end result tastes like a regular cup of coffee?

 

[momeNt]

Looks like somebody will eventually realize why tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world, behind only water.

 

[Eug]

Tea is my preferred drink. I have it nearly every day.

 

[JM Aggie08]

To be honest, its the same way I am starting to feel about beer.. I am kind of getting sick of the microbrews and their Hop-Abortion #742 or Generic Pumpkin (or seasonal fruit) #347.. They all just kind of tasty shitty. And boring. Like overdone CGI in shitty movies. (all movies these days).

Ever notice that none of the "microbrews" make a solid pilsner or a british special bitters?
You know why? Because making a GREAT simple beer is fucking hard. It can't have a shitty metallic taste or be off on the mix.
They can't just hop or fruit the shit out of whatever tasteless grog they make.
Try some real British bitters. Its amazing how complex a simple beer can be .. yet still taste great.

Everyone wants to be their own hipster little beautiful butterfly and show how unique they are by defining themselves with their special beer or their coffee.
And if you like an "imperial" anything... you are fucking lying, you hipster fuck.

Fuck that. Give me a 12 rack of a Dad beer in a can. I'll enjoy it way more.

STOP LIKING WHAT I DON'T LIKE.

caps

 

[Artdeco]

Instant coffee tastes like ass, he's an idiot.

 

[Eug]

I don't know what ass tastes like. I guess it tastes like instant coffee?

 

[momeNt]

I don't know what ass tastes like. I guess it tastes like instant coffee?

"If you aren't eating her ass, somebody else has or will. It's that serious". Joe Rogan.

 

[waggy]

I don't know what ass tastes like. I guess it tastes like instant coffee?

yeah i heard it taste like instant coffee. I haven't had either so i'm not sure.

 

[Crono]

Most instant coffee is nigh undrinkable, but Nescafe Taster's Choice is passable. (I've mentioned this in enough coffee threads that I should be getting paid by Nestle... would accept payment in boxes of their coffee )

 

[lxskllr]

Most instant coffee is nigh undrinkable, but Nescafe Taster's Choice is passable.

Starbucks Via is very good, but expensive as hell. I refuse to pay 50¢ for a cup of instant coffee, no matter how good, because it isn't as good as real coffee, and I'm not *that* lazy, where I'll throw away 50¢ to save a couple minutes.

 

[waggy]

Most instant coffee is nigh undrinkable, but Nescafe Taster's Choice is passable. (I've mentioned this in enough coffee threads that I should be getting paid by Nestle... would accept payment in boxes of their coffee )

so if regular instant coffee taste like ass does this taste like ass that was just washed?

 

[BoberFett]

Ever notice that none of the "microbrews" make a solid pilsner or a british special bitters?
You know why? Because making a GREAT simple beer is fucking hard. It can't have a shitty metallic taste or be off on the mix.
They can't just hop or fruit the shit out of whatever tasteless grog they make.
Try some real British bitters. Its amazing how complex a simple beer can be .. yet still taste great.

You should go to better breweries. A lot of my favorite local breweries have fairly basic beers as their mainstays and the experimental stuff are small batch.

 

[Eug]

You should go to better breweries. A lot of my favorite local breweries have fairly basic beers as their mainstays and the experimental stuff are small batch.

Yup.

Mind you around here the good small breweries usually eventually get bought out by the larger breweries.

 

[Drako]

Bad coffee seems redundant to me.

 

[MongGrel]

Where was beer pertinent to the thread to begin with ?