danimal Senior Member Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 2 Location: Muncie, Indiana, US Expertise: I love coffee
Posted Mon Nov 15, 2004, 7:13am Subject: Office Kitchenette Advocacy
I have recently re-joined the cubical community and being a lover of coffee I find it very sad what people call coffee around here. I would like to post various articles I read here on CoffeeGeek on the office refridgerator. However the articles are too long. I think it would be cool if you could create a few advocacy one pagers, with highlights from some of your articles. Here are a few topics:
* Why does the water/grind/filter/maker matter? * Why the gas station cappuccino isn't. * Why you should buy freetrade. * Support your local microroaster.
I love coffee and I would create these titles myself but I find myself short on time at this moment in my life (my wife and I have a baby on the way). So I call on you fellow coffee lovers for some help in educating my co-workers.
Water matters, because you want it to be clean enough to not taste like bad water, and dirty enough not to taste dull (no water flavor). In other words, you don't want it to taste hard (too many minerals) and you don't want there to be no flavor (not enough minerals)
You want water to flow through as slowly as possible to get as much coffee flavor out, thus a finer grind (but not too fine!) is important.
Filter matters because you want to taste coffee, not paper.
Maker matters because you NEED coffee to be brewed at proper temperatures.
Gas station cappuccinos are not cappuccinos because: (a) they don't have any espresso (b) they are larger than 4.5-7 oz. (c) you push a button to make it (d) they're powdered (e) they don't have any milk (f) they don't follow the sacred 1:1:1 ratio
You don't want to buy free trade coffee. You want to buy fairly traded (not necessarily fair trade) coffee. This is obvious: you need to support the people that grow your coffee. Coffee is a crop, there are costs that go along with growing it and if you don't pay enough, people starve.
I wouldn't say "support your local microroaster" - I'd say support the best. If your local roaster sucks, don't buy from them. If they rock, then more power to you!
> Water matters, because you want it to be clean enough to not taste like bad water, and dirty > enough not to taste dull (no water flavor). In other words, you don't want it to taste hard > (too many minerals) and you don't want there to be no flavor (not enough minerals)
I appreciate the time you took to reply to each of my topics... but I was intending to suggest a site feature, not ask those specific questions.
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