Coffee snobbery ITT

[LightningCrash]

I'm not actually a coffee snob, but I have been drinking some really "good to me" coffee.

I smoked a crap $30 grinder and I just bought a mid-range grinder that will be here Wednesday.

I buy our coffee beans from the Oklahoma Food Cooperative, what do you get and where?

I hated coffee for so long, but Jesus Christ this stuff I've been making is good.

 

[bulbboy]

My wife turned me into a coffee snob. At the very least grind your own beans. Even Foldgers taste better when you grind their whole beans!

We get our coffee from Topeco Coffee downtown (some Reasors carry it as well) . The grow and roast their own here in town - very good!

I still want to get an expresso machine

 

[poopgiggle]

Double Shot is way better than Topeca. Get Double Shot. When CHoCS switched away from Topeca their coffee got miles better.

I used to be a huge coffee snob. Then this girl I was seeing decided to use my grinder to grind up some weed and then refused to clean it (and I could never get all the crap out of it), so I threw out my grinder and switched to buying pre-ground stuff. I realized that I didn't like GREAT coffee that much more than I liked PRETTY GOOD coffee so I just started getting Eight O'Clock pre-ground.

Hrm, maybe now that I've quit smoking and have my senses of smell and taste back I should try being a coffee snob again.

 

[Gideon]

Some relatives of mine have contacts with missionaries around the world. I just used up the last bag of Vietnamese beans I had (SUPER oily stuff, gobbed up my grinder, but it was worth it for the flavor) and the Guatemalans are almost gone.

I'm about to open a new bag of single-estate Hawaiian beans tonight, it will be glorious.

Note: I use an AeroPress coffee maker, it's a French Press style device that doesn't sear the grounds (which drip coffee makers do with boiling water, which releases chlorine into your drink, which gives coffee that bitter taste).

Also note: Burr-mill grinders all the way.

 

[LightningCrash]

Also note: Burr-mill grinders all the way.

What grinder do you have?

 

[UnSafe]

A friend at work showed me this site. http://www.sweetmarias.com/index.php

Found an old hot air popcorn popper to roast small batches. Slow, but controllable. I like my coffee. Almost the only vice left.

 

[IreneKennedy]

Now you're talking. We use a Cuisinart Grind & Brew. It grinds the beans for each pot. Dunkin Donut and Starbucks is good and available from Sam's. Got some Mayorga from Guatemala through JR's Cigar Store that is exceptional. Seems like any fresh ground coffee is a treat.

 

[wufee]

I've never had coffee like what you fellas are talking about. Is there a Tulsa coffee shop that has coffee like you're describing? Also, do you use condiments or drink it black?

 

[BadBadJohn]

Why spoil good coffee dumping sugar and cream (milk in it)?!?!? I take mine black........ all the way!!

 

[poopgiggle]

Is there a Tulsa coffee shop that has coffee like you're describing? Also, do you use condiments or drink it black?

Ooooooh boy.

Topeca is a place downtown. Their coffee is OK.

Gypsy is another place downtown. Do not go to Gypsy. Their coffee is horrible and playing "spot the piercing" gets pretty old after a while.

Double Shot is around 15th and Boston and is run by a guy who's basically the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld. Coffee is GREAT though.

Coffee House on Cherry Street is...on Cherry Street. 15th and Rockford. Their coffee is OK. The crowd is a mixture of hipsters, frazzled college students, and wacky hilarious retired people. (PS: I saw an older guy walk in there recently wearing a shirt with a gigantic GLOCK logo on it, and 3 unconcealed magazine holders. Which of you was it?)

Shades of Brown is on Brookside. The coffee is decent but be prepared to listen to 16-year-olds whine about how they feel ways about stuff and their parents just don't understand.

There are some other places like Sumatra that I'm not familiar with.

DO NOT go to Starbucks. It's expensive and the "real" coffee drinks are crap.