What Drives Your Coffee Preferences?

[Artman]

The best flavored coffee: Seattle's Best "Cinnabon" with cream, no sugar.

It can be a little strong, but YUM!

http://www.seattlesbest.com/products/Product.aspx?productID=8"

 

[mathwonk]

you must be buying the cheap stuff ivan, the high end 100% kona reserve, or whatever, was $40 on maui last summer. in the lahaina coffee shop downtown. or you have a good source.

kona reserve is offered by amazon at $260 for 5 lbs.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

you must be buying the cheap stuff ivan, the high end 100% kona reserve, or whatever, was $40 on maui last summer. in the lahaina coffee shop downtown. or you have a good source.

kona reserve is offered by amazon at $260 for 5 lbs.

Huh, I guess the price has gone up a lot since I was there last. I'm sure that we have never paid more than ten bucks a pound. My cousin brought back a few pounds for me this year but I never asked what he paid for it.

Of course, everything on Maui is expensive. Maybe you should try out a cheaper island.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

My favorite is a Dark Roasted Sumatran from Sivetz coffee (A local Roaster). I have also drank a lot of Kenyan roasted by Allan Brothers..

I really like Sumatran and Kenyan... in fact I need to buy some.

 

[mathwonk]

as you probably know better than me, there is part kona, 100% kona, and 100% kona peaberry reserve(?). and i myself never bought the peaberry until last summer, and its the expensive one, and the best, but still no better to me than good 10$ coffee available almost anywhere, like starbucks, seattle best, espresso royale,...

maui is my favorite island, and has the best wine store too, where the wine is no more expensive than in atlanta. but maybe the coffee is more there. i suspect kona coffee is the beneficiary of good marketing and small supply, and the general popularity of the islands.

but i feel the same about pricy african coffees like "blue mountain" or whatever. being an italophile, nothing beats a hot espreso from almost any coffee shop in italy, and their top brand is lavazza, available for $10, or $20/lb even at ripoff tourist markets like pike place in seattle.

i used to proudly use a bialetti too at home, and had several sizes, but once one of my italian friends sampled my fare and pronounced it "horrible". It took many years after that to admit it, but now that I have my own espresso machine i know what he said was true.

 

[mathwonk]

ok here is the royal kona website offering 100% kona peaberry at only 13.95 for seven ounces which people on this site can chnge to poundage at about $32/lb i guess.

http://store.hawaiicoffeeco.com/Royal_Kona_Coffee_100_Kona_Peaberry_RK078114.aspx here it is for $27.50/lb, b

http://www.koacoffee.com/peaberry-dark.html but still that is triple what i have been paying for years for excellent dark roast coffee with less cachet. i think its a ripoff unless you are rich and addicted to it. for $45 i have been getting 5 lbs of good beans and a free cup of coffee. and that's less per lb than instant poison.

wrt price on the other hand, i know lots of peiople who claim that $40-$50 a bottle is too much to spend for wine, but they always drink it when offered. so ill just have to come to ivans house for kona and sumatra i guess.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I had assumed that this is just a supply and demand diddy. After all, the Kona coast is not that big. In fact, I am wondering if the price might have jumped due to internet sales. Not that long ago Kona coffee was virtually exclusive to the islands.

I don't know if we have tried the Kona peaberry but will watch for it in the future.

 

[arunbg]

Only a very limited range of cofee varieties is available at the local market here.
Of all I have tried so far, my personal favourite, which happens to be the most popular as well is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_filter_coffee" .
The rich aroma, strong flavour and the distinct sweet taste are trademarks of India's favourite coffee.

 

[mathwonk]

peaberry apparently means that only one pea instead of two, of coffee, is in the pod, which occurs only for 5% of the crop, so this stuff is much higher than standard kona, and supposedly more intense.

 

[Dr Transport]

We have been drinking the half-caff from Trader Joes, but if I had my way we'd drink Starbucks morning blend all the time.

 

[Evo]

Twisting_Edge told me about this coffee a few months ago, turns out to be tru. Sorry for the wiki article, but it was the most to the point.

"Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, selling for up to $600 USD per pound, and is sold mainly in Japan and United States, but it is increasingly becoming available elsewhere, though supplies are limited. [1]"

"Kopi Luwak or Civet coffee is coffee made from coffee cherries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). The animals gorge on the ripe berries, and excrete partially-digested beans in their feces, which are then harvested for sale. This process takes place on the islands of Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago, in the Philippines (where the product is called Kape Alamid), in the country of Vietnam, and the coffee estates of south India."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Again and again one has to ask: Who first tried this, and why?

 

[mathwonk]

well i have had people to whom i bragged about my expresso roast claim it smells like dog poop, and there may indeed a certain resemblance even with the best of coffees. so perhaps this civet processed stuff is carrying that idea to its most absurd extreme.

 

[Astronuc]

$600 USD per pound,

I didn't realize civet poop was so expensive.

 

[mathwonk]

thats the asking price on ebay.

 

[dontdisturbmycircles]

Again and again one has to ask: Who first tried this, and why?

haha, yes indeed it does beg the question

 

[mathwonk]

evo, you started this. rescue us!

 

[dontdisturbmycircles]

I just ordered some peets house blend mathwonk.

 

[Moonbear]

Again and again one has to ask: Who first tried this, and why?

I'm thinking it was someone REALLY desperate for a cup of coffee.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I'm thinking it was someone REALLY desperate for a cup of coffee.

Yeah, I've probably been there.

That's funny, Jim never asks for a second cup of my civet poop.

 

[Joey D.]

For me, Blue Bean Coffee from Jamacia is the best. Grind it coarse and put it in a French Press and you have amazing coffee!

 

[turbo]

That is a good question. Two questions actually: Who came up with the idea, and who would be industrious enough to go crawling around on the jungle floor collecting civet poop just to get enough beans to make a cup of coffee?

 

[Monique]

Turkish coffee with a cardamom pod... mmmmmm It's like eating pure chocolate.

 

[loseyourname]

Some coffee stands get steamier

I found this little gem in the course of some research. Here's "the free market doing its job," Ivan.

 

[Astronuc]

I mentioned the coffees I drink on a daily basis.

Once in while, when I'm out, I'll get an Irish coffee - but it's got to be the right Whisky - single or blend - and not Bourbon.

Caife Gaelach - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_coffee

 

[Anttech]

I mentioned the coffees I drink on a daily basis.

Once in while, when I'm out, I'll get an Irish coffee - but it's got to be the right Whisky - single or blend - and not Bourbon.

Caife Gaelach - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_coffee

Irish Whiskey? Buerk...

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Some coffee stands get steamier

I found this little gem in the course of some research. Here's "the free market doing its job," Ivan.

Oh man, and I was just up there! I guess I'll need to find more work in Seattle.

 

[Anttech]

Turkish coffee with a cardamom pod... mmmmmm It's like eating pure chocolate.

Ahh.. Yes very nice... (But its really greek coffee )

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I drank a good bit of Iranian coffee while in college, but my buddy from Iran kept me supplied so I don't know what name it might have in the stores. Sold as a fine powder, it was made the old fashioned way - mix the coffee with the water, bring to a boil, and carefully pour the coffee out while avoiding the grounds. That stuff was great for all-nighters.

 

[Anttech]

I drank a good bit of Iranian coffee while in college, but my buddy from Iran kept me supplied so I don't know what name it might have in the stores. Sold as a fine powder, it was made the old fashioned way - mix the coffee with the water, bring to a boil, and carefully pour the coffee out while avoiding the grounds. That stuff was great for all-nighters.

yeah this sounds like Greek Coffee.. Too Strong for a lot of people..

How I make it is:

Put Coffee and water into *briki* then bring to boil two three or four times, then pour into Cup, add sugar to taste before you boil, and then drink and tell your future after..