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Pour Over

20g of coffee beans to 320g of water (1:16)

Measure 20g of coffee

Put the beans in the grinder but wait until water is almost boiling to grind

Start boiling water

Put filter in pour over maker and pre wet w/ hot water

Boil water to 200 degrees Fahrenheit

Grind coffee and put in filter

Start bloom pour 40g of water for 40 seconds

Spiral pour until reach 320g of water

Cup should take 3 minutes from start of bloom pour.

This makes an excellent cup so long as you are not distracted.

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I've been on the coffee autism since 2010 and it's still something I look forward to every morning.

For anyone interested, Coava Coffee has excellent quality beans for relatively cheap prices.

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How easy it is to find freshly roasted beans in the US? I live in Brazil, so it is very easy to get high quality coffee. The taste notes are definitely there, and every now and again I get surprised with a new flavor profile, but the taste reduces drastically after the first month from roasting.

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What we have is not the same as your coffee is locally grown. I am not aware of quality coffee grown in the US. Ours is imported and then roasted locally but that can be excellent. Most isn’t though whether it’s made in a restaurant or a $9 bag from the grocery store. I use a subscription service and get excellent coffee from small roasters. I imagine your experience is like what I had in Nicaragua good coffee everywhere.

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There isn’t really any place in the mainland US with the very exact type of climate required to grow good coffee. That’s why it all has to be imported.

There’s coffee from Hawaii, though.

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Not everywhere. In fact most of the coffee produced is bad. Brazil is too big to supply quality coffee for everyone. But it is easy to find good ones through subscriptions (there are a lot of those) or specialized shops, and the farms are mostly small family business, so you usually get some info on them.

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I have experimented to the point of retardation with Coffee, I have basically every thing you can use for it other than an expresso machine. I also have access to extremely high quality beans from multiple local coffee roasters as well. I just can't get the pour over technique right and it comes out extremely inconsistent, sometimes its great and other times I would prefer drip coffee to it. I have definitely experienced the same type of resentment for cooking as well, some people find it objectionable that you actually try to cook your food with any amount of technique or effort beyond the most basic methods because of the surface level association with hipster foodie queers.

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Yeah, this resentment stems from the fact that culture has been put in the hands of these queers and they do nothing but drive it into the ground. Culture has to be taken back from them and led in a positive direction and people will warm to it again. Any pioneers of this better future naturally won't share in this simplistic resentment.

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Do you have a recommended Blueberry bean? An aunt bought me a blueberry platter (Coffee, Jelly, Pancake Mix) for Christmas a few years back and I really enjoyed it. Neither of us remember the brand.

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I wonder how much the American penchant for pridefully eating prolefeed and being disdainful of quality is due to the Brazilification of the country. 50 cent gas station microplastic-estrogen coffee is the communal slop of the American slave caste.

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I do a lazy cold brew. A cup and a half to two cups of ground beans for a gallon or so pitcher. I am not a coffee autism guy but I definitely want to control what I am buying and not get cheap shit likely filled with poisons.

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I also have started doing cold brews since I moved off-grid and it requires very low-wattage to actually make. Although a hot brew is preferable on a winter morning.

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Excellent synthesis.

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Apropos of absolutely nothing more than I am milking out my second cup of drip coffee using hot water while reflecting on what I recently learned about Christian millennarianism and its relationship with Zionism, a society called Choveve Zion (Lovers of Zion) was formed 1,884 years after the birth of The Common Era, to promote Jewish colonization in Palestine. ☕

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