[Closed] Its a while since a coffee thread popped up

It's probably gone out of fashion.

But...I got some ground stuff from Aldi, 'Rich Java' I think. £1.99 & like it a lot, easily as good (IMO) as stuff more expensive.

But of course the coffee snobs/experts will be along soon to say otherwise, just watch...

The trend is way over now unless you run a cafe.

Nowadays I can't be arsed to grind, start up the machine just to make a cup of coffee even if it tastes good.

Nescafe Alta Rica is good enough ...

: - )

The beans i bought from an artisan roaster have a cracking smell but twice the price of supermarket stuff and I can't taste the chocolate and liquorice notes on my flat white but it looks and tastes as good as most decent coffee shops and the mug gets a minute in the microwave so the temperature of my coffee stays good unlike the £2.70 bought one

Whatever coffee you like be it instant, low grade commodity bulk roasted or specialty it’s getting more expensive and unlikely to get any cheaper. More coffee drinkers and environment changes mean prices have risen consididerably.

anyone here live in Bury St Edmunds? I was there earlier in the week at a warehouse facility that stores 97% of the specialty coffee in the UK (about 100,000 tonnes annually) that’s a lot of espresso.

I can’t taste the chocolate and liquorice notes on my flat white

That's because you smothered the coffee with milk. The tasting notes refer to black un-sweetened espresso.

I'm currently working my way through Monmouth Street Organic Espresso blend beans. An expensive treat from the recent trip to Borough Market.

I've settled on Aldi beans in my DeLonghi bean to cup machine for a nice compromise between convenience and flavour. Settled on some machine settings that produces the same coffee every time, no variation and is perfectly acceptable.

100,000tonnes? Is that all? Doesn't seem like enough. 🤔

100,000tonnes? Is that all? Doesn’t seem like enough. 🤔

Thats speciality coffee (that you buy from the likes of Monmouth, Hasbean etc) not the cheaper bulk commodity beans bought by the likes of Cafe Nero, there is probably a huge warehouse in tilbury or Felixstowe for that.

The artisan beans are nice but at twice the price of supermarket illy, lavazza etc i would not buy them all the time.  The offers are good when on, the main chains seem to rotate the offers but the best deals are in bulk at the cash and carry.

I'm pretty partial to Tesco finest Egyptian ground coffee, but they've not had it in stock for a long time now. Is there a coffee crisis in t'egypt!?

Thats speciality coffee

Ah right, that makes sense

Someone bought me a grinder and fresh artisanal beans (presumably from the remote highland forests of somewhere exotic because they were bloody expensive). It made nice coffee but I couldn't really tell much difference between it and the lavazza oro vacuum packed stuff I normally buy.  Clearly good coffee is wasted on me.

I was in Costco the other day and was happy to see that a 1kg bag of Lavazza Rosso was £8.99 compared to £14 everywhere else 🙂

So the big question is as they're promoting it at the moment, is the MacDonald's coffee any good?

MacDonald’s coffee any good?

In the opinion of my rather uninformed palate, I'd say it's on par with your average High Street coffee place, but not as good as the more specialist places. So it's alright, no brilliant but drinkable.

So the big question is as they’re promoting it at the moment, is the MacDonald’s coffee any good?

It's kinda like McDonalds food.

Comes out of a machine, not completely shit, but no flavour either.

And improvement on the burnt-milk roulette of motorway services coffee franchises and only £1.60/£2 which is nice if all you want is 'a coffee' on your way to a meeting. Pretty much as the advert suggests it's a coffee not an artisanal experience.

Not as good as costa or nero (which most of the time outside motorway services is OK coffee done well enough) and I just don't like starbucks but better than the risk of being offered instant when you get where you're going.

So the big question is as they’re promoting it at the moment, is the MacDonald’s coffee any good?

is a halfords apollo rampage any good? its got a spring at the back and nobbly tyres.

i guess it depends what your expectations are buying a mountain bike.

McDonalds is weak but inoffensive in a latte.  I find Starbucks lattes are better than the other high st ones because the coffee is such a dark roast it sharpens up the milk, which in turn takes the astringency from the coffee.  Ask for whole milk though.  If you find yourself in Starbucks and want a black or white coffee, ask for a filter rather than an americano.  It's cheaper, the till person dispenses it immediately so you don't have to wait and the end of the bar, and there's often a choice of blends or single-origin so it's nicer.

i guess it depends what your expectations are buying a mountain bike.

I guess it depends on how much of a snob you are 😉

is a halfords apollo rampage any good? its got a spring at the back and nobbly tyres.

i guess it depends what your expectations are buying a mountain bike.

Surely that's more Instant coffee = apollo (it's a bike/coffee in name and vague appearance only), McDonalds is more like Boardman, far better value than either a 'branded' bike or coffee, and certainly not artisanal, but does the job acceptably well.

That is a good analogy of buying a coffee beverage. I have a de lungi a bit like  a Vauxhall Astra, a Gaggia Classic more like a VW Golf gti the hot hatch benchmark and then there's my Rancilio Silvia a Lancia Stratos

They all make a good flat white although some much better than others

then there’s my Rancilio Silvia a Lancia Stratos

More like a mid range saloon with the alloy and spoiler option, it’s still a cheap home machine, there loads of nicer looking home machines with bigger boilers (or 2), better steam and based around a more robust group head from the likes of bezzera, rocket, londinium, isomac etc. There is also the LaMarzocco linea mini that even has the angular lines of 70/80’s supercar

I like coffee bread, like coffee icecream just more thready 😝

At work other week ran out of ground coffee for machine. No cash on me nor bank card so looked for online seller who accepted paypal. Found Rave Coffee and ordered some coffee which 'in the cup' states: strawberry laces, lime, and funk.

I can detect the flavour of strawberry laces, hesitant about the about lime, but yes it actually tastes of funk too. Wasn't too sure about it at first, but it's definitely grown on me. Quite a smooth taste. Certainly worth the price over the instant crap they gave away in Lidls a while ago.

but yes it actually tastes of funk too

What kind of funk though? P-Funk, Jazz Funk, Funk-Disco?

Obviously I'm looking for some mellow notes, perhaps Grover Washington Jr. 🙂

What kind of funk though? P-Funk, Jazz Funk, Funk-Disco?

Well it wasn't cheesy so that rules out anything Disco related.

Funky usually means it’s a natural processed coffee not washed (they leave the mucilage on the outside of the bean which results in a fermentation) they often smell a bit 'farmyardy' to me.

Ethiopian natural process coffees are my favourite.

smell a bit ‘farmyardy’ to me.

Yes, I thought it had something like that about it, didn't want to admit it though as I kept drinking it 🙂

Mucilage that would be a great scrabble or countdown word, i did have to google it thinking it was to do with nose secretions, as for all the supposed flavours certain bean give off it teminds me of that wacky Jilly bbc wine with Oz Clarke woman but then my choice of choc is either fruit and nut or silky Galaxy maybe not the purists choice