Sedgemop 

A friend of mine is a roaster by trade. He uses fair trade beans bought from collectives in different parts of the world. His roasts are medium to dark and I typically really enjoy the results. I use a french press and have been using this technique lately with good results. the outcome is a smooth as promised.

SurferRosa

Like Buddy Hackett!

Sedgemop 

joesch

Yes!
Everyone should know there is a breakfast coffee stout that could start and end your rides.
And why not add some chocolate as well

BREAKFAST STOUT

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE COFFEE OATMEAL STOUT

https://foundersbrewing.com/our-beer/breakfast-stout/

ascherer 

I’m holding back so I don’t expose the true depth of my affinity. I didn’t mention my scales or ratio calculators. Or my vacuum brewer, 3 or 4 French presses, or moka pots. My espresso maker is an old Gaggia and I have a dedicated Mazzer grinder (this has been the summer of espresso tonics!) Lately I’ve been having fun with a sock brewer that someone brought me from Brazil. Oh, and my son is a barista. To my credit I am avoiding buying a refractometer, getting into roasting, or blending my own water.

I found an upstate roaster in Mt. Tremper, Heavyfeather, who gets high quality single origins and roasts on the lighter side which is my preference. My roaster in Manhattan is Plowshares. Lately I go to a cafe near Grand Central Terminal that stocks coffees from top toasters around the world. It’s like having a subscription service without an actual subscription.

I’m interested in the Clever but I prefer to avoid plastic brewers. The Aeropresses (yes I have two, one is the newer mini travel size) are an exception.

All that said, I usually have one or two coffees daily!

ascherer 

Good numbers! Thermal Kleen Kantern fits perfectly in a standard water bottle cage. I brew my coffee at home and bring it to work with me.

dmarkun

For those looking to lower caffeine intake (and acid) without giving up their coffee routine, this coffee alternative mixed half and half with your favorite fresh ground coffee makes a very nice beverage.

AdventureManCO 

You just had to take it too far, didn't you?!

AdventureManCO 

Bonus points if you take the vacuum on the road. Extra bonus points if it's glass

ascherer 

Triple bonus for using the original alcohol burner?

Mr. 66

I try to wait at least 30 minutes after roasting before making a pot. Lol

Fresh roasted is pretty good, but is the bean fresh? I like my fresh coffee freshly roasted. I try to make sure that the bean I buy is freshly harvested. I hear that the green bean has a flavor shelf life of a couple of years, if it is stored in proper conditions. In general I don't buy beans older than 6 months of harvesting.

Some of the beans I buy are quite common. All I buy is arabica, One common that I buy is Columbian Supremo. Tastes good at many different levels of roast. I advoid Brazil coffees, though they do taste well, due to farming process. Yes that is two face getting the lumbo but I draw the line there.

Robusta bean is available if one likes coffee of lower altitude about to 1000'. The arabica grows at a higher altitude but not more than about 4000'.

I usually buy bean of small farming communities, co-ops. I like the names/origins like Guatemala Huehuetetango shb ep mam, and Costa Rica shb ep Dota Tarrazu Santa Maria washed, Ethiopian Guji organic natural grade #1 Kayon Mountain Shakiso, and Peru FTO Cajamarca Lima Norte top lot. Indonesian coffee can be good. One thing I do try to advoid is getting coffee from origin of countries in civil war.

I buy only the green, not just of single origin, but of single farm, and self roast.

Signed
Coffee Ho

zandoval 

Any body remember Guard Duty Coffee?

Punch a small hole in each packet. Then One goes in the front lower lip and the other two on the cheeks. As they slowly leak and mix... Ya got your coffee!

I wonder how many of us this method has allowed us to survive. Falling asleep on guard duty has always been deadly no matter what service your in...



US Army Rations Packets

AdventureManCO 

Quadruple if that and pics!

bikingshearer 

Yup. It's what I do.

MooneyBloke

Puts me in a mind of one very hot afternoon when I was 30 miles into a 40 mile ride and somewhat dehydrated. A friend handed me a beer (old school 6% totally unlike modern high proof IPAs) that I eagerly quaffed. The alcohol hit like a brick to the head. I think I'd just as soon avoid boozy drinks when I'm not well hydrated to begin with.

Chr0m0ly 

The Radler, or Radlermaß, is a drink that is half beer and half lemon soda. The story is that a tavern owner didn't have enough beer for a group of cyclists or Radfahrer who had stopped in for some refreshment. A bicycle is a Fahrrad, literally “traveling wheel". The cyclists loved the semi-hydrating beverage and so a new drink was born.

LV2TNDM

Cool story, I never knew that. I learned about this drink visiting in-laws in northern Germany. Hadn't learned about it in the south. Thanks for sharing.

"Guter Rad ist teuer!"* (Punch line of a German joke.) I always crack up when I see the word "Rad!" bandied about within the bicycle community. I'll point out the fact that "Rad" is basically "bike" in German. (bicycle/bike, vs Fahrrad/Rad, technically it is "wheel") In fact, I came across a YouTube video of a cool midwest vintage BMX bike show and some middle aged guy being interviewed was wearing a shirt with "RAD" on the front. Wanted to point out the meaning, but then learned that "that guy" was none other than Bill Allen, who played the star character Cru Jones in the movie "Rad!" Ha, ha! I decided to bite my tongue.

I've never taken to the Radler myself. When I want a sweet drink or juice, I'll go that route. And when I want Bier, I'll go that route. So I guess I'm not a true cycling German! Ach, du Liebe!!! Gott im Himmel!

LOVING this coffee discussion. As it happens, I just sat down with my "morning" quad latte and BOY is it GOOD! Best I've had in over a month. Wife just picked up some fresh beans. Was struggling with low extraction pressures, despite upping my grind fineness, and really working on getting an even-density tamp. Well new beans always change one's grind and tamp settings. And my pressures ended up at the upper end of the range. Thought I'd over-extracted but nope. Wow, what a cup today!

When on our long honeymoon in '97, the wife and I were tiring of the typical "road coffee" we were encountering. Coming from Berkeley with Peets and Cafe Roma as our standard, coffee in the midsection of the country was a disappointment (real surprise, I know). In Crested Butte we visited a housewares store and came across a stovetop espresso maker/double boiler. But we balked. Then later when in Alberta, we came across another. This time we didn't hesitate! Wow, making our favorite espresso drinks in the middle of nowhere really upped our coffee game! Never forget steaming my morning latte milk at a campsite in the red rock splendor of the Escalante river canyon when our neighbor noticed what I was doing. "You're not doing what I THINK you're doing, are you?" "OH YES I AM!!!!" It was grand.

Carry on folks. Coffee, espresso, wine, beer, Bier or cervesas, it's ALL GOOD!

Cheers, Prost & Salut!

*Yes, the article is wrong; it's "das Rad." Which is part of the joke. The old adage in German says, "Good advice is expensive," which is "Guter Rat ist teuer!" ("gutes Rad" is good bike, "guter Rat" is good advice.) "GutER Rad" makes it the play on words. Joke goes something like this. A guy shows up with a REALLY nice bicycle and his friends are amazed. They ask him all about it and he gushes about all of its amazing features, sweet wheels, and really light weight and high-tech doodads. Then he shares how much he spent on the thing. His friends are aghast and cannot believe someone would spend THAT much on a bicycle! Honestly, they think he's lost his marbles and that no sane person would EVER spend that much on a bicycle. To which he replies,

"GUTER RAD IST TEUER!!!!"

And it's funny, I heard this joke almost 40 years ago in German class. And during that time, I became well aware at the stratospheric prices of bikes. When I was little, I LUSTED after a Redline BMX bike. Riding a Schwinn and then a Mongoose, I ALWAYS looked up to the kids on the Redlines. Then as I graduated to road bikes, I developed an appreciation for the Italian road bikes with Campagnolo components - stratospherically-priced, of course! Then mountain bikes entered the scene. My two favorites at the time? Klein and Ritchey. Man oh man, did I want a Commando! Pure beauty and perfection if you ask me: that fillet-brazed frame, fork AND bullmoose bars with wonderful camouflage paint, replete with black Deore XT compoenents? OMG, could it get ANY better than that? Oh and to think I woulda, coulda, shoulda employee-purchased one back in '86 when I worked at the local shop!!! What the hell was WRONG with me??? That said, I'd have ridden that bike completely ragged and it would have been a tattered mess by the end of its "life."

Then Ti & now carbon have entered the scene and prices continued to go up. Now with bikes hitting $15,000 or more (S-Works Levo, for example), this joke is more appropriate than ever!

A good bike is indeed expensive!

Chr0m0ly 

Wow….
I remember renting RAD on VHS more than a few times, but I haven’t thought about it in forever

I found this in a Vulture article from 2020, about RAD finally getting released in a digital format.

“A Guardian investigation into 10,000 movies in the Rotten Tomatoes database found RAD to be the film with the greatest discrepancy between critical reception and fan love.”

talk about a cult classic!

madpogue 

Is it just me, or has the scope of this thread expanded radically?

rustystrings61 

If one pauses and regards all the various means and degrees of detail and precision in the simple act of preparing and consuming coffee, one might be reminded of Gen. Charles de Gaulle's comment about the ungovernability of France, a nation that produces 400 differing types of cheese. Of COURSE this thread has expanded! We could almost sell jerseys proclaiming, "Bikeforums.net C&V - But I digress ...."

droppedandlost 

Morning ritual
need a better grinder though

squirtdad

did not do that, but in the Coast Guard the mess cooks always added salt to the coffee, not sure why but the coffee was so bad hard to tell if it made a difference

The Coast Guard was where this kid from Montana learned you had to order black coffee..... in Connecticut coffee had cream unless you said black, and in NYC at the corner shops with the blue and white cups (pre starbucks) coffee was cream and 2 spoons of sugar

tyrion

I have a question you coffee aficionados might answer me this: what is the best paper filter?

(also: what is the best chain lube?)

edit: "best paper filter" to me is the one that imparts the least taste - I don't care if it lets a little grit through.