piranha-bro2
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Paul Marx said:
You obviously haven't been to a place such as Melbourne in the last 15 or 20 years Paul. It's a reverent science here these days!
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You obviously haven't been to a place such as Melbourne in the last 15 or 20 years Paul. It's a reverent science here these days!
Legs
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Can't beat having a cup of freshly roasted and ground Blue Mountain coffee before starting work in the plantation processing factory.
mcnicol
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See, I have this thing about coffee, I think it should taste like coffee with all sorts of subtle flavouring twists. But just about everybody has allowed themselves to be trained to say that they like the taste of dark roasted coffee. Greek, Italian, Cuban, probably lots of others, the beans are black and smell burned before you grind them, and then after you grind them all you can taste is charcoal with a (faint) hint of residual coffee flavour.
I was in a coffee shop in San Francisco and was trying to select some beans to take home. EVERYTHING was burnt black. So I asked the proprietor did he have any beans that weren't dark roasted. He got really excited and invited me into the back of the shop where he had his roasters set up, and showed me a few jars of roasted beans that were a delicate light brown colour. These were beans he had roasted for himself and a handful of select customers who actually understood that coffee is supposed to taste like coffee, not the ashes of a fire.
Ken
I was in a coffee shop in San Francisco and was trying to select some beans to take home. EVERYTHING was burnt black. So I asked the proprietor did he have any beans that weren't dark roasted. He got really excited and invited me into the back of the shop where he had his roasters set up, and showed me a few jars of roasted beans that were a delicate light brown colour. These were beans he had roasted for himself and a handful of select customers who actually understood that coffee is supposed to taste like coffee, not the ashes of a fire.
Ken
Legs
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Properly roasted bean should be light brown with a slight oily sheen.
For the ultimate caffeine fix, chew on a mouthful of green bean
For the ultimate caffeine fix, chew on a mouthful of green bean
lavgert
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Gerald said:
... Vienna has a long tradition in coffee culture, but compared to italian bars, the coffee brewed in the classic Viennese "Kaffeehaus" is hardly drinkable. Today you'll find a lot of small coffee houses in Vienna with nice quality espresso.
Ciao, Gert
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I guess the palate of a tourist visiting Vienna perceives the expercience of a coffee, like a large "Brauner" a bit different than a local. In any case better than what they serve here in Germany, to include Starbucks who seem to have mastered the skill to burn coffee. Now back to the nice vintage espresso machines
piranha-bro2
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Paul Marx said:
In the land of vowel thieves!
LJ-2 said:Paul Marx said:Well, my sister lives in Llwynfwydd, Nantmel, near Llandrindod-Wells.
They don't do things like that.
Paul
Coffee is terrible at Baskerville ,every year I ask and every year it is the same Paul
Do the ILOC rally in Italy. The International in Laverda Owners Club.
The Amicale 750 Laverda did a rally in Breganze organised with the Moto Club Breganze.
Great memories. The coffee and the wine, and the Grappa were good.
Paul
78jotadave
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Do any of you in OZ remember buying coffee in a tube, yeah just like toothpaste? It sounds disgusting eh. I can remember some mid 70's motorcycle camping trips packing a tube and camp stove then squeezing coffee into a cup, just add hot water.
Tasted bloody great when I was freezing my arse off in a leaking pup tent during torrential rains in the Blue Mountains. You can still buy the stuff. (Toothpaste with a kick)
https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/43136108901366522/
Tasted bloody great when I was freezing my arse off in a leaking pup tent during torrential rains in the Blue Mountains. You can still buy the stuff. (Toothpaste with a kick)
https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/43136108901366522/
Yeah I remember that , it was good stuff, but the main ingredient is condensed milk which is why it tasted so good.
If you want a good cup of instant coffee just make it with condensed milk, mmmmm so yummy. For that extra kick when its cold, add a slosh of rum, A sailors favorite, especially out at sea when everything is looking dark.
Singapore also does coffee and tea with condensed milk, it is the bomb.
If you want a good cup of instant coffee just make it with condensed milk, mmmmm so yummy. For that extra kick when its cold, add a slosh of rum, A sailors favorite, especially out at sea when everything is looking dark.
Singapore also does coffee and tea with condensed milk, it is the bomb.
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When Mareeba (FNQ) coffee started up they came around to restaurants with free samples of their "ready to go" coffee, came liquid in a squeeze bottle. They reckoned a teaspoon for a good cup of coffee ("good"!), but it took about ten teaspoons to even taste coffee and the squeeze bottle dripped and ran when used, a marketing disaster and I reckon they would never have got an order. They sold better with their fresh roasted coffee that they ground for you on the spot at Rusty?s Markets.
Dellortoman
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I used to carry that sweetened milk coffee in a squeezy tube on bushwalking trips. I like my coffee with milk and sugar so it was convenient.
It was a bugger if the tube got punctured while in your backpack though.
It was a bugger if the tube got punctured while in your backpack though.
chrisk
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TC said:
Gunfire breakfast. After our driveway service tomorrow at 6.00am
Lest We Forget
Legs
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I'll be doing exactly that tomorrow morning but neat 'Pusser's Rum', to good to pollute.