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After many years of lovign coffee, I've decided to take the plunge and open my own shop. I'd be looking to use a gaggia or illy machine. I've heard there are deals whereby if you commit to using a certain brand of coffee e.g. lavazza or illy, that they will rent to you cheaply or free of charge...

I was just served (and consumed) some what tasted like old over oxidised, over extracted and over roasted coffee. Can such coffee actually make you sick or is this just something physcological? Coffee snobbery? Anyone experienced something similar before? if so; whats the best cure for it...

yes you're right about it being a milk market, but i think that's because everyone is trying to cover up the bitter proerties of the instant coffee that they're using. If people would only try it black, I don't think they'd go back.

Here in the UK where instant coffee is the norm, I'm trying to get people to opt for the freshness of ground coffee. I'm looking to create a blend which isn't too full bodied for the every day drinker. I'd also like it to have some nutty tones to it (if possible). I've exerimented a little now...

Straight to the point... Yes! An espresso blend is a mixture of different coffees that is highly recomended for using in espresso

the idea of waiting 12 hours after grinding, sounds crazy and I would have probably advised people against it. I'm open to anything though. I shall give it a try.

I'm selling small quantities of coffee, which I've roasted myself. When coffee is roasted, you're meant to wait 2 days before cupping it right? If I roast coffee and grind it right away(before it's ready to be cupped), will anything bad happen too the coffee? would it be better to wait 2...

I've just bought some freshly roasted colombian beans. I'm going to give them a go in a couple of days. you're not meant to use freshly roasted beans right? they should be 1-2 days old?

I definatley will try some proper beans. I'm bewing the coffee with a cafetiere. The brew tastes bitter after being brewed for only a minuite (espresso ground). This isnt happening with pre-grounds. Could the grinder be damaging the flavour of the coffee in some way?

I'm prepared to write to the company. does anybody thik they'll offer me anything though?

I've got a cruisant burr grinder, which unfortunatley as stated before by other people in other posts, grinds 10% of coffee up very finely. This has in the past caused me to over-extract the coffee, leaving a bitter taste. meaning I have to ad lots of sugar, as oposed to none at all. I...

I recently invested in a Crusinart Burr grinder. My cafetiere recently broke so I steeped some very coarsly ground coffee in a cup and poured it through a sieve. Everything seemed to be finem as if the seive had collected all the coffee grounds. Finishing my drink, I found an awful lot of...

Kenco don't do ground coffee do they? Oh yes, and you forgot to mention the fact that Kenco only use "Whole Beans". This is apparently one of the reasons that kenco instant is sooooooooo good! ahhh, that advert drives me crazy! I don't think i've seen it for a year or so though

hahaha, I should have probably mentioned this, but I am talking 1930's. Do you know anything about the importation of Coffee in the 30's, I guess it would have come in via large sacs. But would the coffee be already roasted?

Am I correct in believing that coffee is NEVER roasted before it enters the country in which it will be sold? Surely if it was it would loose freshness. If somebody claimed that whilst working in the Harbours of New York, they could smell coffee, from ships that had for example come from Brazil...