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yeah, water is very important. i'm too cheap to use bottled/filtered water in my coffee since i drink so much of it. but i always use bottled/filtered water when making espressos.
Yea bottled water is definitely not a solution, but does help in trouble shooting. I personally use a dual stage filter, KDF and Solid carbon block for my water, I think it was about $90 but was a huge PITA to install.
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I'll see if it really IS me... perhaps I have tin tongue?
I doubt it, how is your palate normally? Can you taste the differences between different chocolates, or taste differences in better ingredients then cheap ones?
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I can. I eat chocolate and cook for myself sometimes, so I have to have a decent tongue. But I am unexperienced in regards to real coffee. I can taste the difference when I change the variables in brewing, but the current output is still bad overall.
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I can. I eat chocolate and cook for myself sometimes, so I have to have a decent tongue. But I am unexperienced in regards to real coffee. I can taste the difference when I change the variables in brewing, but the current output is still bad overall.
Yea probably the beans then, I've tried quit a bit of coffee over the years, some variates that rank highly with people and I just didn't care for it. You'll have to try as many different variates and discover what your favorite is. Some of my favorites are Kenya AA, Mexican Altura, Sumatra and Mocha Java. Some others that I tried and didn't really care for Colombian, Guatamalan Antigua, and most anything from Star Bucks although there holiday roast is ok.
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Its sounding like the beans, especially with the comment that they taste like the store-bought stuff. Coffee is a finicky mistress, you might've lucked out and got the dregs of an old batch. I've had similar experience: 1/2kg of one group's premium blend (AU$35/kg for perspective), tastes like dirt.
The other thing is that it might still be a bit of you adapting to the tastes of coffee. To a lot of people coffee is coffee is instant coffee is coffee, same way that all headphones just sound the same. Even if you are used to eating different foods and identifying tastes, it'll take a while for you to adapt your palate to the flavours that constitute and differentiate coffee. I tried some coffee that was receiving some really good reviews (Yemen Bani Ismail for those that know) and I wasn't impressed, it was all earthy notes; fast forward a few weeks and I've bought a very similar coffee (Ugandan Bugisu), plenty of earthy notes and all of a sudden I understood what the Yemen was all about (after giving it away because I wasn't impressed).
Don't lose heart, chalk it down to a lesson in life. If you get coffee from them again and it taste bad, don't go back, if its good then call the first a bad batch.
Its sounding like the beans, especially with the comment that they taste like the store-bought stuff. Coffee is a finicky mistress, you might've lucked out and got the dregs of an old batch. I've had similar experience: 1/2kg of one group's premium blend (AU$35/kg for perspective), tastes like dirt.
The other thing is that it might still be a bit of you adapting to the tastes of coffee. To a lot of people coffee is coffee is instant coffee is coffee, same way that all headphones just sound the same. Even if you are used to eating different foods and identifying tastes, it'll take a while for you to adapt your palate to the flavours that constitute and differentiate coffee. I tried some coffee that was receiving some really good reviews (Yemen Bani Ismail for those that know) and I wasn't impressed, it was all earthy notes; fast forward a few weeks and I've bought a very similar coffee (Ugandan Bugisu), plenty of earthy notes and all of a sudden I understood what the Yemen was all about (after giving it away because I wasn't impressed).
Don't lose heart, chalk it down to a lesson in life. If you get coffee from them again and it taste bad, don't go back, if its good then call the first a bad batch.
this is good advice. i drink my coffee black and love the different flavors in different coffees. however, not all flavors agree with me. some might view this as bad coffee. no. it really is a matter of taste. i've done some really good roasts of origins that i didn't really care for. didn't like the taste, but not because it was bad coffee.
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It just tasted like burnt swill. I was actually drinking the numerous concoctions I made yesterday (to try and adapt my palate), and I was ready to vomiy at the end of the night. This just can't be what coffee tastes like. Oh well, we'll see in a week.
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Interesting related story. On my honeymoon in 1984 I had, what is still the best coffee I've ever tasted in my life in Jamaica W.I. It was Blue Mountain.
As soon as I got home, I went to the West Village (as in Greenwich) and bought some exotic Blue Mountain right out of the sack from a coffee specialties store but it just didn't taste the same. I went back and he told me that Jamaican mountain water is very "earthy" (ganga-like) and without it, I will never be able to duplicate the taste.
I boil my water after going through a GE filter, so I get rid of the harsh contaminates and the pesky NYC parasites. The water is tasteless and gives the coffee a chance to be all it can be.
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How many of you drink your coffee black? At the very least I have to add milk to mine, Coffee is just too bitter for me.
it could be that you haven't had properly roasted and brewed coffee, then. good coffee should not be bitter. yes, i've had bitter coffee and nothing - not even milk - can save that.
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It just tasted like burnt swill. I was actually drinking the numerous concoctions I made yesterday (to try and adapt my palate), and I was ready to vomiy at the end of the night. This just can't be what coffee tastes like. Oh well, we'll see in a week.
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