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Does it truly make that big of a difference? I always feel like if you want a good coffee use really good coffee. When i was semi into trying different coffees i felt this was the only thing that really mattered. Tasted just as great out of my standard coffee pot as it did to a french press.
it does make a difference. it must not make one to you.
everyone has different preferences. i don't like french press or autodrip. i like pour over or vacuum.
a better brew method can make less good coffee better, and a crappy one can make good coffee gross.
The thing about coffee is that it can always taste better. I'm not dunking on coffee. I love coffee, and I love striving for an even better tasting cup.
The most important thing is to buy whole beans and grind them right before use. All of the flavor compounds will be fresh.
Yeah, i had a semi decent low grade grinder. Didnt spend much on it but it allowed me to control corse to fine grind and worked great. I liked being able to try all the different grinds to find what i liked best. I ended up finding 2 coffees i really liked, but they were expensive and i kind of gave up drinking coffee due to that and some other reasons. This was like 10 years ago, i really don't wanna know what it cost these days!
Bad coffee will always taste bad, but your experience of good coffee can be ruined by brewing it bad. I think coffee pros most of all want high control and small batches, and pour-over is perfect for that.
Brew method is about control and experimentation. Not a big difference, but cheap, easy and controllable. V60 is basically BIFL.
Beans>roast>grind>brew>water
Oh I think roast is primary. Too dark or light ruins any beans. I'd rather have well roasted ordinary beans than fancy beans over it under roasted. I'd rather have no coffee frankly, in some cases.
Respectfully disagree. Beans are everything. Shitty beans and you have no where to go but shitty dark roast for shitty coffee. Good beans, and you can go to amazing places depending on the roast or shitty dark roast for shitty coffee.
But an oily dark roast on good beans will taste almost identical to an oily dark roast on shitty beans.
Ultimately though, we're just disagreeing on a simple linear ordering because a simple linear ordering is inadequate to describe it.
Dark roast is what you do to make poor beans drinkable. Good beans are ruined with dark roasts.
I respectfully disagree and stand by my linear progression. My best guess is that you haven't had good beans and a light roast, so you may not even be aware.
You're not making any sense.
That's my point, you're making from me, before your patronizing bullshit. I know coffee you fuckwit. And I know that a bad roast can render the bean quality irrelevant, therefore it's more significant than bean quality. And it illustrates that the a linear progression of importance doesn't make a lot of sense.
But just carry on assuming nobody else knows anything and they're just confused, it'll probably make you happier.
That escalated quickly. I'm sorry you are offended by thoughts not your own. Maybe social media isn't your thing. Maybe you shouldn't drink so much coffee. Switch to decaf?
Water quality absolutely makes a difference as well. Where I live it's fairly hard and quite chlorinated, so I use a filter jug to take that away. Doesn't do much about the hardness, but at least I don't smell swimming pools whilst sipping
not to be chemist, but chlorine in water is volatile and goes away if you heat it.
I still seen to taste it. Could be that I only heat it to 84c?