Rawman Senior Member Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 962 Location: SF Bay Area, CA Expertise: I love coffee
Espresso: Expobar Office Control ,... Grinder: Mazzer Mini Vac Pot: Silex Vintage Vac Pot Drip: Bodum chambord FP, Melitta... Roaster: Buzzroaster, HG/DB
Posted Sun Oct 31, 2004, 9:11pm Subject: Re: Santa Clara Coffee Meetup Monday, Nov 1, 7:00 PM
We're going to re cup some of the roasts from Saturday (The probat, the I-roast, and the BBQ roaster). I'm also bringing a vac pot so we can all check this thing out. It's pretty interesting to watch.
Rawman the Expobarbarian.. AKA the Original Jon R.
Barefoot Senior Member Joined: 6 Mar 2003 Posts: 403 Location: Santa Clara, CA Expertise: Professional
Posted Mon Dec 6, 2004, 11:51am Subject: Re: Santa Clara Coffee Meetup Monday, Dec 6th, 7:00 PM
--------------------------------- -------------------------------- So tonight we are going to be tasting a plethora of different coffees. We are going to be tasting a well known supermarket brand, a starbucks coffee and two of our coffees. And for added fun no one will know which coffee is which. It will be a blind taste test. See if you can pick the good one and which one is the best. This will be a totally informal and flippant good time of coffee craziness. So bring out your friends and family. No snobiness here just some good, bad and ugly coffee. You be the judge. --------------------------------- --------------------------------
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Barefoot Senior Member Joined: 6 Mar 2003 Posts: 403 Location: Santa Clara, CA Expertise: Professional
Posted Mon Dec 6, 2004, 8:37pm Subject: Re: Santa Clara Coffee Meetup Monday, dec 6th, 7:00 PM
OOOHHHHHHHH MMYYYYY FREAK!!!!!
If you have ever wanted to taste what pure unadulterated vietnamese Robusta stank nasty "coffey" tastes like then I got the ticket for you!
Maxwell house "master blend" is the single most horrifying "coffeey" I have ever placed in my mouth. I would not wish it upon my worst enemy. Try it you'll see. But make sure you brew it at full specialty coffee strength to get the full effect. I rated it a negative 20 on a scale of 1-10 in flavor. It has a well endowed vomitorium that has baked in a tropical sun for about 3 days and then scooped up and placed in a old gym sock and stuffed inside a burning tire that is wrapped around a seaweed wrapped dead monkey. With a tiny hint of gravedigger and just a touch of corpse thrown in for fun. and this was sold to me in good concious at $6.50 a pound!!!!!!
and the "high end" folgers is a close second at -19. also pure vietnamese robusta with maybe a kicker of low land brazil and notes of rubber hose left in the sun inside a dead skunk. again at $6.50 a pound!!!
And Millstone bed and breakfast blend at $9 a pound!!! was only BARELY better and also had a good deal of robusta and some other decidely ashtray non coffee ness.
I highly recommend these if you want to try out why no one likes coffee. No wonder we are all so screwed up! Our parents were raised on this crap!
go out and light something on fire in protest my caffeine crazed friends! THe world needs more revolution and less "coffeey" death!
Posted Mon Dec 6, 2004, 9:42pm Subject: Re: Santa Clara Coffee Meetup Monday, dec 6th, 7:00 PM
The line of the night (which Andy kept repeating to everyone who entered the store): "Do you wanna try some crappy coffee?" (those of you who know Andy and can imagine this occuring will find that hilarious)
I really didn't think it could happen: there IS a worse coffee than Folgers! That Maxwell House was just plain... well, words cannot realistically describe it. Yukk comes to mind, as do a number of other words with 4 letters, but none of them really do the experience justice.
5 coffee samples in order: Folgers; Starbucks House Blend; Maxwell House; Barefoot Metropolis; Millstone.
The problem here is that the Folgers and Maxwell so-called coffees so tainted the pallate that one could barely taste anything else, even after rinsing one's mouth out with fresh water. I seriously could not detect flavor in the Metropolis.
Everyone there was making horrible grimaces, but Andy's reactions were absolutely classic.
The Folgers had a fine and delicate nose of burning rubber, which was not as strong as one might imagine, but that's likely because of how fresh it was; it tasted about like it smelled with perhaps some salty qualities added.
The Maxwell House was clearly the hit of the night; everyone commented on the overwhelmingly skunky-poopy burnt smell; the flavor was again similar, but with the added loveliness of the sensation of hydrocloric acid slowly melting away the tongue and the entire sensation of burning flesh to go along with it. The cup finished with a slight body-odour/persperation taste at the back of the tongue (or at least the back of what was left of it).
People say they don't like coffee; I have to agree with them: I don't like their coffee either! I had to have an espresso just to get rid of the taste.
-Tim
looking for signs in the sky following ghosts, following visions
Ya know, the one good thing about it is that it makes one really appreciate their cup of freshly-home-roasted Yirgacheffe out of the vacpot the next morning.
-Tim
looking for signs in the sky following ghosts, following visions
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