Eight O' Clock and Green Mountain Roast
Both are selling at the major supermarkets. Peet's, Seattle's Best and Caribou are showing up at the local markets also. Be carefull with the beans in the large plastic shoots. They may have been their since the week of the big bang.
Your grind is too fine
The paper filters may clog up if the grind is too fine. Also, some beans may have cocao or spices on the beans, when you grind them up the cocoa will gum up the filter. :cry:
Auto-Drip doesn't heat the water hot enough, try manual drip
As OurCoffeeBarn pointed out the chemex manual drip brewer makes great coffee, it you don't want to risk the 30 bucks get a melitta cone or go into a Seattle's Best coffeehouse and buy one of there manual drip cones. Heat the water to...
Depends on brand of K-Cup
My wife and I have the same keurig model. Coffee that we pick up in the store have come out decent. The "samples" that were included in the machine did have a bit of an aftertaste, especially the dark roasts. These samples may be old. I still like the machine and in a...
Should Investigate manual drip brewing on this site.
If you ask coffee snobs, some will insist on the french press or the vacuum pot. I would suggest you look at the WWW.CHEMEXCOFFEEMAKER.COM site. I like the simplicity of the manual drip mehod (NOT THE AUTO DRIP METHOD) and I believe the...
Too Much For American Tastes, but.................
Americans (Other than certain ethnic groups) have been used to light roasted coffees. Part of the reason was that mass marketed coffees tended to use robusta beans blends, which are bitter if roasted too dark and the perfect coffee was seen as...
I just got a chemex manual drip coffee maker. I''ve never had such good coffee. I want to bring a manual drip brewer to work, but would rather not spend the money for a chemex if a melitta will do a good job. Anyone out there use am old fashioned Melitta cone manual drip?
PS, Since posting...