Yes brewing at home can be fun, though I am no Kirkland Coffee fan.
Lately I’ve been fooling around with beans picked up during my recent travels, including a bag of “Allpress Espresso Blend” roasted in Melbourne. It’s a medium roast consisting primarily of beans from the Americas, and with slightly cooled down water poured into a Bodum / French Press, it yields a pleasant sweet cup.
None of the options apply to me, so I didn’t vote.
Rarely an iced latte from Cama. Probably more often now that summer heat is coming around.
But otherwise almost always coffee is made at home with a French press, usually from the various Costco organic varieties (wife really likes organic …), occasionally from Partner Coffee, a small chain that I believe is only in Danshui.
Oh and the instant Starbucks sachets in my office once in a while.
Despite the content of my post above, I actually voted for Louisa, with a particular shout-out to the rare locations scattered about with white signage serving white bagged beans, which can be brewed in the shops, providing some of the wildest fermented high notes I’ve encountered with the Colombia and Panama beans. Cost: NT$105 per cup. Crazy stuff!
I got the nicest looking tin at Carrefour to start, and can either keep that full out of my large Kirkland 3lb tins or get random beans as I go to top up the tin
I was gonna dump the grounds in my office trash can to get that cafe scent and then rinse, but have always just sent the grounds down the kitchen sink and that’s what I’ve done so far
In my early days, I also followed this technique, thinking that those sinks are set up like the ones in Canuckstan. One day I saw that the sink I had been using was out of service, with the cheap plastic drainage pipe broken off from the weight of accumulated coffee grinds dumped by yours truly. :yikes:
Eh, as @afterspivak just suggested, that may be a bad idea, and it’s certainly not what I do at home. Plus the nearest kitchen sink is five floors away.
I’ve tried washing up in the bathroom sinks that are on my floor, but the grind I use for the French Press is too coarse for that. They’re not even going down the drain unless I unscrew the plug.
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