Coffee wankers thread

Its going to join the box o'stuff on the shelf. Slightly selfishly, Ive taken over the peninsula in the kitchen and made it into an actual cafe.

Ive put a backboard up with hooks to hang milk jugs and whatnot on and Ive got all the daily drivers out on it: espresso machine, grinder, gooseneck kettle, scales, v60, melitta filter machine and a velvetiser.

Above the peninsula is a box where the aeropress, hand grinder, mokka pot and so on live and I think the cold brew will be joining them.

Sounds good. There were worse things to do when you couldn't go anywhere for a nice coffee!

The Mizudashi has gone to its new home, where it'll hopefully arrive in one piece.

I'll be jettisoning the V60 as soon as I've used up my current stash of filter papers, so if anyone wants to preemptively snag it on the same 'cover postage costs and it's yours' basis, feel free.

Lastly, I'll probably pop the moka pot on eBay tomorrow evening if no-one here fancies it - I doubt I'll get much, but it's worth a shot.

The coldbrewer just arrived, cheers. Annoyingly, just after my 'no coffee' cut off point, so i'll give it a whirl in the morning.

Yep, all seems pristine. Going to fill her up after dinner.

I always assumed that the "acidic" elements of lighter roasts would play merry hell with my acid reflux, which is one of the reasons why I shied away from them until recently; however, that hasn't proven to be the case at all.

In fact, the only coffee-induced reflux I've had came from some very dark roasts - notably Darkside from Divine Coffee, and Hot Lava Java from Taylors of Harrogate - so maybe I've had it ass-backwards all this time.

Tomo

I really liked it - a pleasant acidity and some nice fruitiness.

Would I be right in assuming that I don't have to use Gaggia-branded descaler to descale a Gaggia espresso machine, and that any descaling product will work just fine?

That was my thinking, but I wanted to open it up to the FG coffee wanker brain trust before I caused more problems with the Gaggia than I already have

Yes, I use filtered water. Just a Brita jug - nothing fancy - but it has to be better than the hard water we get straight from the taps.

Going to London tomorrow, 5am start. Looks like Prufrock have that fancy vintage Italian machine James Hoffmann bought so I suspect there might not be room for me to call in for a very quick brunch after my train but here's hoping. Looks like they're doing a limited edition blend too which I'll try to pick up on the way home later in the week.

Yeah, I think the combo with it being new and the bank holiday weekend can't have helped. It's on the way either way so I'll pop my head in and see if they've got room.

Yeah, I won't be too choked up if I can't get their fancy egg sarnie tomorrow as I'm fat enough and there are plenty of good places for a quick bite in the City, but I'd really like to be able to pick up some of those limited edition beans with a cake on the way back on Thursday. Their banana and chocolate loaf looks terrible but tastes great.

UE do a good banana loaf. Must be a coffee wanker thing.

Oh, I'd definitely not be in any kind of state to try and identify a coffee at that point, I'd be happy with the stuff from their standard machine as I wouldn't be able to 'properly' enjoy it. I've been perfectly happy going through a bag of a local (Flat Caps) basic espresso blend lately as it's so easy to make good coffee with it.