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AspenHill
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Coffee
#80816 - 17/06/07 11:47 AM

What's your favorite? I prefer a really dark roast, such as a good espresso roast type but brewed as a regular pot of coffee and strong. I drink 8 cups a day on average and do add some half and half (milk and cream mix).

Once in a while I will add a scoop or two of some sort of foo-foo flavored coffee like vanilla or coconut.

Here in Vermont coffee is rather popular, there is a very large roaster right in town called Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. It's good and they offer probably 100 or so bean types, roasts and flavors. When something goes on sale the office at work briefly empties so folks can load up. Also, we can smell it roasting all day.

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Re: Coffee [Re: AspenHill]
#80819 - 17/06/07 12:15 PM

My buddy had some Ethiopian a while back from Peets that was a limited variety (not the standard yergacheffe or how ever it's spelled). Wow! It was amazing. Fixed in french press. Most complex coffee I've ever had and I've tried a lot.

Been trying to get some more.

I had some Tanzanian Pea Berry a few weeks ago that was quite good.

Thinking about getting a home roaster.

Serious coffee addict here.

Get a french press. You'll never look back (that said I also have a drip maker for my first morning cup)

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Re: Coffee [Re: SteveH]
#80833 - 17/06/07 10:53 PM

Steve,

I have a French Press, I don't like it as much as I do drip brewed coffee. Strange, I know but, hey... I actually bought the press to take on safari because getting good coffee in Africa is like finding a white buffalo. With the lower weight rules for travel I won't take it in the future and will pack instead, those Folgers singles.

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Re: Coffee [Re: AspenHill]
#80834 - 17/06/07 11:10 PM

Folger's (!?) shutter....

I hear you about coffee in Africa. Amazing as they grow some of the best and northern Africa and Abrabia are it's home.

I travel all the time, and a travel press is my best friend (great to make a cup in my room). If you get one of those lexan ones, they're not heavy. I'd rather do without an extra pair of shorts than my press.

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Re: Coffee [Re: SteveH]
#80921 - 19/06/07 07:35 AM

Steve, how do you heat the water?

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Re: Coffee [Re: AspenHill]
#81490 - 29/06/07 10:20 PM

I'm a fan of Peet's Maduro blend. We use a Capresso coffee maker and peet's maduro any time we want a cup. The beautiful part about the capresso is it makes one cup at a time and there's no real maintanence involved. Fill the bean and water compartments and push the button.

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Re: Coffee [Re: foxfire]
#81513 - 30/06/07 04:06 AM

I like a few Italian coffee blends. Usually the straight commercial Lavazza blend at the moment.

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Re: Coffee [Re: NitroX]
#123496 - 10/01/09 12:01 AM

Ann, I don't know how old you are, but do you remember the great aroma of 8 o'clock coffee when you stepped into an A%P Grocery Store. 8 o'clock 100% Columbian is still rated as one of the best coffees on the market. Get the whole bean and grind your own.
Now if you can find an Atomic stove top coffee maker , which should be easy for Australian brothers (hint hint), you will have the perfect maker!

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Re: Coffee [Re: tarawa]
#123499 - 10/01/09 12:15 AM

Guys,

Here's some really, really, good coffee made by a friend, and also is of our shooting/hunting community.

He started this company out of Idaho. By the way, he took a very nice Buck Antelope in Wyoming shortly before I did this past October.

ENJOY!! It's worth it!!

http://www.dobsoncreekcoffee.com/about.html

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Re: Coffee [Re: Der_Jaeger]
#123537 - 10/01/09 04:04 AM

I will whole heartedly second the recommendation by Der-Jaeger. Eric is a great kid with a great family and a wonderful life story. Hell, even if the coffe was horrid I would drink it. He has a very good assortment and I am currently using his Tanzanian blend whole bean. Very good,hardy morning coffee. I have shed most all of my vices with the spectre of Coffee remaining. I am hopelessly addicted and the ramifications of that are starting to show up health wise. Being very worriesome and drink a minimum of a pot of coffee a day is taking its toll on my upper GI. I have talked with a nutrientist and baring giving up coffee, not happening, she has suggest going to a as natural as possible African coffees and grinding it as needed to brew. Research supposedly states that this method will produce less acids and these coffees normally have lower acids......???????........Works for me.

We had a wonderful time chasing Pronghorn. I wanted to give him the experience of hunting them, not just riding around a shooting out the window. One set up was by a tank. They had a good road to within 500yds or so, from there he wheeled down into place and waited for the morning to unfold. The bucks didn't cooperate so he "stalked" them in his chair, great to watch from afar. On this one pictured, he wanted to "feel" it. His hands don't work all so well so I picked it up and put it in his lap. That spot in the left side of picture is a shed where the stalk started.

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Re: Coffee [Re: Caprivi]
#123541 - 10/01/09 04:13 AM

did i dream this, or is the world's most expensive coffe made of beans that has to go through a small rodent to make it perfect. ?

peter

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Re: Coffee [Re: Der_Jaeger]
#123551 - 10/01/09 05:37 AM

Looks like he was using a lightweight Weatherby for the speedy....good for him..and agree..have also used this coffee..it is very good...

Ann---8 CUPS per day---WOW..any hypertension issues.???

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Re: Coffee [Re: peter]
#123558 - 10/01/09 06:46 AM

If so i had the same dreem, but I dont know if its true. When i heard of it it was from tv series, csi and some other crap.

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Re: Coffee [Re: 450_366]
#123561 - 10/01/09 07:08 AM

just found it again:

Most Expensive Coffee in the WorldWritten by: tom Filed Under: Food, Luxury, World on December 22nd, 2005 The most expensive coffee in the world does not hail from Jamaica or Hawaii, but instead from Indonesia.

Kopi Luwak the most expensive coffee in the world does exist, and those who drink the expensive coffee insist that it is made from coffee beans eaten, partly digested and then excreted by the Common palm civet, a weasel-like animal.

“Kopi” the Indonesian word for coffee along with “luwak” is local name of this animal which eats the raw red coffee beans. The civet digests the soft outer part of the coffee cherry, but does not digest the inner beans and excretes them.

Apparently the internal digestion ends up adds a unique flavor to the beans, removing the bitter flavor, and then beans are then picked up by locals and sold. The most expensive coffee beans can cost up to $600 a pound, and up to $50 per cup, if you can get over the fact that you are drinking such a strange brew.

You would know if you drank the most expensive coffee in the world, because the quantities of it are tiny amounts.

now that is weird

peter

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Re: Coffee [Re: peter]
#123563 - 10/01/09 07:18 AM

Quote:

just found it again:

Apparently the internal digestion ends up adds a unique flavor to the beans,

peter

Yeah, I bet it does. We have a common name for that "unique" flavor

My rule of thumb is, it came out of the bottom end for a good reason. Don't put it back into the top end!

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Re: Coffee [Re: Der_Jaeger]
#123586 - 10/01/09 10:57 AM

It is good for the spirit to learn of people like Eric.

A bout of radiation wiped out my saliva glands so I stay dry. I am a figity sort and was bad before but now I average about 6 pots a day. Keep a cup, even in the woods, yes a major pain in the but. I drink any rot gut that can be brewed but no instant. :^) I go for the cheap stuff. I pack a small coleman stove and my pot to the gun shows and hide it under the table. I get more traffic of empty cups than a drug dealer though. :^)
dale

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Re: Coffee [Re: dale]
#123598 - 10/01/09 11:40 AM

Hey Dale, with you there about packing a cup every where. Ask Der-Jaeger, I have the stanley thermos with me at all times.

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Re: Coffee [Re: Caprivi]
#123605 - 10/01/09 02:04 PM

Quote:

Hey Dale, with you there about packing a cup every where. Ask Der-Jaeger, I have the stanley thermos with me at all times.

Is that what you call it? Heck, I thought it was an I.V. infusion!!

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Re: Coffee [Re: Der_Jaeger]
#123708 - 11/01/09 11:05 AM

Just in from a gun trading trip over the mountian and it was a Thermos plus 3 stops for coffee in some favored hideaways..................

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Re: Coffee [Re: Caprivi]
#123744 - 11/01/09 10:05 PM

Well Caprivi, technically it's not really a problem or an addiction if you openly admit to your vise. My recommendation is to carry on, my friend!

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Re: Coffee [Re: Der_Jaeger]
#123886 - 13/01/09 05:03 AM

I like good coffee also. I'm lucky enough to be able to go to he Seattle Public Market once in a awhile and buy the fresh roasted beans from Seattle Best Coffee or form Tully's. No Starbucks

I bought a Cuisinart Coffee maker at Costco that grinds the beans and than makes the Coffee, all in one operation. Works great and the Coffee can't be beat.

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Re: Coffee [Re: mickey]
#123982 - 14/01/09 03:23 AM

Ha ha, no gut issues from coffee for me. I think that is my toughest body part, can't speak for the rest, especially my knees. Yes, I do remember 8 O'Clock, it was what my parents drank! I remember mom buying it at the A&P, when they existed. A&P was a grocery chain here (the Atlantic & Pacific Co.) as kids we called it the Pee & Poo.

Only a kid could appreciate that.

Green Mountain beats it though, I have come to favor their Breakfast Blend followed by their Vermont Country Blend. AWESOME.

I'll pass on the civit poo brew though.

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Re: Coffee [Re: AspenHill]
#124075 - 15/01/09 12:30 AM

Here is my favorite machine.

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Re: Coffee [Re: tarawa]
#124103 - 15/01/09 04:37 AM

It looks like a space ship.

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Re: Coffee [Re: tarawa]
#124151 - 15/01/09 03:51 PM

Quote:

Here is my favorite machine.

Will that thing make a Double or a triple?

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