Mmmm, anyone for Coffee?

Felt bad about hijacking a newcomer’s thread over the past few days where he asked about using coffee as a stain. I think the consensus of opinion was that it would work, even if using decaf and that got me thinking about what people reckon is the best coffee?

I prefer to drink it but have tasted many ones that were more worthy of being used as a stain instead. This is what I use when making my own drop of coffee and if using instant The Green one does taste better than Moccona and costs about the same plus supposed to be better for you too.
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For you folk in Perth or South West WA if you haven’t been to Yahava give yourself an uppercut as they have the best coffee I have tasted anywhere in this country and you are seriously missing out on some home grown goodness operating in your own backyard.

Interested to see what others reckon is their favourite coffee?

We did get a few degrees off course there didn't we? :(

After seeing a doco on how a lot of instant coffee is made I have refused to drink the stuff ever since...
Here in Perth we have a great coffee roasting company called Brasiliano.
I am enjoying a double shot espresso as I write this. :D

The inner west of Sydney has great coffee, unfortunately it is also overrun with "Coffee Culture" which has seemingly become more important than the actual coffee. I don't care if the Flat white or long black I ordered is single origin Guatemalan rainforest friendly picked by natives and roasted by descendants of Mayans (who happily now live in Annadale?!?!) why does it take 14 minutes to make?

Campos, no fuss good coffee, fewer variations on OTT marketing doublespeak.

Yeah, whats with this whole "deconstructed" coffee thing?
If I am paying $6 for a cup of coffee, I want it to arrive in one cup not coffee in one cup, milk in another pretty little jug.
Next thing is they will expect the customer to pick the beans, roast em, grind em and make a cuppa themselves and charge $20....

can't drink instant coffee out of a jar... I actually but a pretty good take away from the concourse of Flinders St Station in Melb...

nespresso pod machine at home - some say it isn't real coffee, but tastes fine and gives very consistent results

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Yeah, whats with this whole "deconstructed" coffee thing?
If I am paying $6 for a cup of coffee, I want it to arrive in one cup not coffee in one cup, milk in another pretty little jug.
Next thing is they will expect the customer to pick the beans, roast em, grind em and make a cuppa themselves and charge $20....

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Yes, we appear to have reached Peak Pretentious Wonk in many parts of the country. Sydney and Melbourne especially so.

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can't drink instant coffee out of a jar... I actually but a pretty good take away from the concourse of Flinders St Station in Melb...

nespresso pod machine at home - some say it isn't real coffee, but tastes fine and gives very consistent results

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I like the fact that the pods can be cranked up to 11 and 12.

I used to work in a coffee shop but I'm not a snob. I really couldn't be bothered making brewed coffee, I'm yet to have one of those pod things that tasted any good, I just drink instant Moccona Expresso. I drink more tea than coffee really. I discovered coconut milk in matcha (green tea) and that's my go to day time drink (after breakfast which is just a cup of coffee)

We tend to drink the Moccona Classic at home and having spent 50+ years in IT it's fair to say I have a habit.

One of the guys on my car club forum is the man behind the Aldi coffee, he won the Australian barrista awards a few years ago and finished 4th in the world in 2014.

As an aside to his day job he used to play drums for James Morrison, his name is Craig Simon and has a bit of stuff with his trio up on YouTube

Coffee here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nceSPvwG_00

Craig playing drums here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLDKEESm2tg

Just Moccona in our house. We used to have one of those pod machines but we turfed it.

Yes, I think we are becoming a nation full of obsessed coffee snobs.

Totally agree about some of the over the top places taking longer to make a coffee than in does to consume it. Just means you have to get more of your fix via aroma therapy whilst you wait.

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After seeing a doco on how a lot of instant coffee is made I have refused to drink the stuff ever since...
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Happy for you to enlighten us who may not have seen that documentary.

I am aware of some expensive coffee beans that have been retrieved from animal excrement and not keen to sample any of that as I presume it will just taste like s#$t!

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Happy for you to enlighten us who may not have seen that documentary.

I am aware of some expensive coffee beans that have been retrieved from animal excrement and not keen to sample any of that as I presume it will just taste like s#$t!

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Ah the infamous Kopi Luwak coffee.... the coffee cherry is eaten by a Civet and then umm......deposited.
The workers collect these recycled beans and off they go to cleaning. One hopes.
To paraphrase Billy Connolly on the subject of cows and milk
<'S goat a wee braw scots accent frae here y'Ken biguns? "Who was it that discovered you could get coffee from Civet crap? And what was it He though he was doing?! Nae moor scotty frae here>

Here are some of the brands of ground coffee I have tried recently:

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On the left is Robert Timms Italian Espresso Style, the middle one is Robert Timms Royal Special, and the one on the right is Lavazza Crema E Gusto, all are pretty good tasting, much better than the instant coffee I usually buy, I'm currently making myself a cup of the Robert Timms Royal Special coffee.


There's also another Lavazza brand ground coffe packet I sometimes buy, it comes in a Gold coloured packet and is called Lavazza Oro, not bad tasting at all, but definitely gives you a good kick and wakes you up.

I also sometimes buy packets of Chai, Chai is basically an Indian spicy tea, I think one of the spices in it is cinnamon, definitely very tasty to drink on a cold day, must buy some more of it.


I know, I'm a bit of a cosmopolitan, aren't I?....hahahaha...

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Ah the infamous Kopi Luwak coffee.... the coffee cherry is eaten by a Civet and then umm......deposited.
The workers collect these recycled beans and off they go to cleaning. One hopes.
To paraphrase Billy Connolly on the subject of cows and milk
<'S goat a wee braw scots accent frae here y'Ken biguns? "Who was it that discovered you could get coffee from Civet crap? And what was it He though he was doing?! Nae moor scotty frae here>

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I know they have oppressive drug laws in that country but I wonder what the dude was on when he decided you could make coffee out of the chunky bits in civet sh1t

Instant coffee tastes like dirt. Doesn't taste anything like coffee. You won't find a jar of it in our house. It's a pity, because some of the jars are handy.

If I go into a cafe and the barista looks too young for my liking, I try somewhere else.

I don't like the 'Nespresso' machines for ecological reasons. Those used pods don't all end up in landfill and it can't be good for the environment.

We use Lavazza Oro, or Rosso, and a simple coffee plunger. Half a cup of milk in the microwave and voila, almost cafe grade coffee. We buy the small packs and keep it sealed in the freezer to keep it fresh.

Last week, the missus was given a bag of Columbian coffee beans from one of her Columbian students (I wonder what else she can provide... ;-). So we grind just enough for a plunger in the spice grinder and it makes a niiiiiice cuppa coffee.

One of the things to buy on my shopping list is a new Dripolator Coffee machine, I had one a couple of years ago but my younger brother nicked the glass jug from it so he could use it as a Coca Cola glass, I also need to buy a new microwave oven cause my current one doesn't seem to be cooking the food I put in it even though it says it is cooking on the front panel, I'm suspecting that the Magnetron in it has carked-it, so the Microwave is getting replaced with a new one.

I like Robert Timms coffee bags. I lived in Melbourne for long enough that I can't stand the cheap instant I grew up with anymore. Don't like the pod machines for the reasons Muzza pointed out above. Baristas can be hit and miss, if you find a good one, keep going back.I find coffee bags a good compromise for home. 2 sugars, cream and vanilla essence if your being good, something stronger if its a bad day.

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I like Robert Timms coffee bags. I lived in Melbourne for long enough that I can't stand the cheap instant I grew up with anymore. Don't like the pod machines for the reasons Muzza pointed out above. Baristas can be hit and miss, if you find a good one, keep going back.I find coffee bags a good compromise for home. 2 sugars, cream and vanilla essence if your being good, something stronger if its a bad day.

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When I buy instant coffee I usually get stuff like Moccona, or International Roast, or Nescafe, but I'm really liking the taste of coffee made from coffee grinds, so I'm going to start buying Coffee grinds more often from now on.

I had a really nice 50's Helca coffee percolator for years until the ex left it switched on with nothing in it and cooked it. It made a nice coffee. I was most upset when I threw it away, was a bit sad about the percolator as well.

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I had a really nice 50's Helca coffee percolator for years until the ex left it switched on with nothing in it and cooked it. It made a nice coffee. I was most upset when I threw it away, was a bit sad about the percolator as well.

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That's understandable, cause that coffee percolator must have been worth a bit, have you been able to find a good replacement for it?

To answer the question re cheaper instant coffee...
They use dry cleaning fluid in the process!
Moccona and a few of the more expensive brands are freeze dried.
The thing is, regardless of the process most of the aromatic oils are lost resulting in a cup of brown water...

To make a good cuppa, an espresso machine is a must.
Preferably a good quality machine such as Saeco or Jura.
The water temp is also critical. Anything over 95-98 degrees centigrade will destroy the bulk of the aromatic oils.

I am with Muzza on pod machines. Apart from the ecological dramas they make a very ordinary cuppa.

Cafe Lombok... pooed out coffee beans...
Came about when the folk working the plantations started to collect the poo beans as they could not afford coffee otherwise.
Having passed through the Civert, it is naturally de caffinated....
And now because it is trendy, the workers are denied thier coffee!

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To answer the question re cheaper instant coffee...
They use dry cleaning fluid in the process!
Moccona and a few of the more expensive brands are freeze dried.
The thing is, regardless of the process most of the aromatic oils are lost resulting in a cup of brown water...

To make a good cuppa, an espresso machine is a must.
Preferably a good quality machine such as Saeco or Jura.
The water temp is also critical. Anything over 95-98 degrees centigrade will destroy the bulk of the aromatic oils.

I am with Muzza on pod machines. Apart from the ecological dramas they make a very ordinary cuppa.

Cafe Lombok... pooed out coffee beans...
Came about when the folk working the plantations started to collect the poo beans as they could not afford coffee otherwise.
Having passed through the Civert, it is naturally de caffinated....
And now because it is trendy, the workers are denied thier coffee!

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Funny thing is, that pooed-out coffee is supposed to be the most expensive type you can buy, or so I've heard, from the sounds of it I don't think I want to give it a try.

Thanks DB, that was a great yarn and explanation. On the same team in relation to pods. Very hard to find a decent one and so much waste in the packaging.

Also agree with an expresso machine as we have one, but only a relatively cheap Sunbeam one that does the trick for making up to a few cups at a time. Mostly used just by myself on weekends or days off.

Ordered some of the Yahava stuff already ground and it ended up too fine for the expresso machine and used it in a plunger instead. Best tasting plunger coffee I have tasted as most of the small block packs are ordinary at best.

Yeah Doc, I have heard figures of $50 a cup in trendy USA establishments...

Has anyone here been to the USA and tried the coffee?
Very ordinary... thats why Starbucks failed miserably here.

They didn't fail miserably. They failed SPECTACULARLY!

Would have to of been the worst tasting coffee I ever had the misfortune to drink....

That must be the reason why they had so many flavoured syrup up-sell options.

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Would have to of been the worst tasting coffee I ever had the misfortune to drink....

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I take it that comparison doesn't include instant? I think you and I have already ascertained that it's not REALLY ​coffee, so doesn't count.

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Yeah Doc, I have heard figures of $50 a cup in trendy USA establishments...

Has anyone here been to the USA and tried the coffee?
Very ordinary... thats why Starbucks failed miserably here.

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$50.00 a cup?, that's outrageous, that's way more than what I'd be willing to spend on a cup of coffee, the packs of coffee grinds that I buy usually end up costing me just under Au$12.00, considering that each contains about 200g of coffee grinds, that's usually enough to make quite a few cups of coffee.

Just saw this one - I'm usually a tea drinker, but have in the past gone down the self roasting path - a mate built a coffee roaster using a breadmaker and heat gun that works pretty well - a great way to pass an evening with the odd brown ale. I'll see if I can drag it out of the shed tomorrow and get a photo or two...

I can't believe that we're up to four pages on the subject of coffee, must be a lot of builds drying!

Either that or there are a lot of coffee addicts among us...

yeah sure must be some coffee addicts Frankie and DB, To me as long as its not instant and got some flavour I'm fine with it.
When it comes to beer then there is a whole new level of snobbery (if that is a word !) haha

Righto.

First up, lets get this out of the way, instant coffee isn't coffee.

The stuff in it might have once been coffee, or it might once have been in the same chemical plant as some coffee, but it is not coffee.

So the question posed was "Interested to see what others reckon is their favourite coffee?".

Well I don't reckon, I know.

I even used to import the stuff at great expense, until they got an Australian distributor, who sells it to me (at great expense).

It is the Dark Roast from Tanna Coffee in Vanuatu.

http://australia.tannacoffee.com/

:)

It even suffices out of a plunger...

Thanks Rabz, will definitely give that one a try on my next order.

I don't drink coffee. I don't drink tea. Makes Sydney business meetings (let's meet for a coffee....) a bit of a drag.