Recommend me some Coffee Beanz!

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Nevakonaza

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Hey!

Been fed up with instant coffee often tasting like crap these days, Treated myself to an entry level coffee machine (Cuisinart One Cup Grind And Brew DGB2U)

What coffee beans would you guys recommended that are not bitter and still pack a decent punch?

I had a coffee from M&S the other day and it was probably the best coffee I've had in a very long time, But I'm not sure exactly which one of the ones of the bags of beans you can buy from them it was, As their house blend seems to be "Ground".
 
Nevakonaza said:
not bitter
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This is mostly down to the temperature of water you begin with, do you even get any control of this with a machine? i only drink coffee out a french press and tried beans from aldi/lidl costco ect you can make a nice cup of non-bitter coffee with any beans as long as the water isn't boiling.
 
Stay away from DARK Roasts.
Go for the lightest roasrs from any supermarket beans, nothing higher than 3 out of 5 in their rating.
Don't use boiling water, wait couple of mins after the kettle has boiled before pouring if using pour over with a normal kettle.
 
Considering the daft price of a single cup of Coffee when you pay someone to make it for you, you may as well just try a few high end ones and see what your prefer.
Its personal taste, I like monsoon malabar coffee but some people really hate that coffee.
 
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dave28 said:
Considering the daft price of a single cup of Coffee when you pay someone to make it for you, you may as well just buy some of the best Coffee beans in the world like Jamaican blue mountain and find a high end Columbian one and a few other countries to see what you prefer because its personal taste.
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Speaking of expensive coffee, ever since I bought beans from Green Coffee Collective, I have eben getting their newsletter when new beans arrived and this time, it is something call Racemosa and it costs....£250/kg. That is not a typo, Two hundred and fifty pounds per kilo. For GREEN beans. That is going to be like 850g thereabouts after roasting.

That works out to about £60 for 210g bag of Roast beans, at COST.

I would not want to buy this at a specialty coffee shop, per cup.

greencoffeecollective.com

Racemosa coffee: introducing the ‘World’s Rarest Coffee’

Racemosa coffee, native to Mozambique and South Africa, is among the world's rarest. Its low caffeine content and unique flavour profile make it a prized choice
greencoffeecollective.com greencoffeecollective.com

I know what you are thinking, rare does not equal good and I agree. There is no way this will live up to the expectations for the price.
 
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Kin ell! And you don’t even get much caffeine by the sounds of it! Having roasted my own beans before it’s not easy, imagine messing it up! And it can take a few shots to get a new coffee dialled’ into your machine but at like £5 a shot you would want to get it right sooner rather than later!
 
Brazo said:
Kin ell! And you don’t even get much caffeine by the sounds of it! Having roasted my own beans before it’s not easy, imagine messing it up! And it can take a few shots to get a new coffee dialled’ into your machine but at like £5 a shot you would want to get it right sooner rather than later!
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Totally, I still can't get an 100% even roast from my machine, it's very likely the way my machine move the beans by hot air and ultimately it is not as consistent as a little metal sweep arm inside to stir and from a 150g green batch I would go through and throw out about 5g of beans with burnt ends most batches. Sometimes less if i am lucky.

With these Racemosa, even if you get it perfect, You get 11(.6) shots out of 210g at 18g per espresso, first You will be lucky if you can dial it in 3 cups lol.

£60 for 8 espressos, £7.50 if you are doing this at home. I imagine it would be like £20 in a shop.
 
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