The cool thing about the coffee experience is that it is so different depending on who you talk to. This goal is a lot about learning more about myself and my preferences in relation to coffee.
I think I will start with making a point form list of some things I already know about coffee, as it isn't insubstantial (it's kind of quietly one of my autistic hyperfocii):
- I think coffee roasts need to be light or medium if you're drinking them for taste, because that is the taste of the actual origin flavours. In a dark roast, those flavours have been burned out and you're tasting the burn.
- My consistent favourite coffee bean is Ethiopian, natural drying process, light or light medium roast, pref. Guji region, with blueberry tasting notes
- I most consistently order beans from De Mello Coffee Roasters
- The best coffee I ever had was a Columbian Gesha from Black Sheep Coffee Roasters
- The other bean type I have more recently taken to is from Myanmar
- Someone recommend beans from Yemen based on my flavour palate, so I want to try those soon.
- I also like really bad coffee, especially when travelling, because it makes me feel like I'm roughing it and tastes like adventure. (Therefore, I'm not the kind of coffee snob who has to take machinery and beans along with me to appreciate the trip. I'll even drink instant on hand, or a hotel Keurig cup, and call it part of the experience).
- I know how to roast my own green beans in a vintage popcorn popper from my youth. I haven't yet mastered it, I guess, because I can still buy better tasting ones.
- A coffee bean is not a bean. It's a seed from the coffee cherry.
- I didn't start drinking coffee until I was 21. When I was pregnant with my daughter, I stopped drinking coffee entirely because it was completely unappealing to me and that seems weird now. (The first coffee I drank again was a really bad hospital coffee the morning after her birth.)
- I own the following coffee devices: French Press, Aeropress, Ibrik, Vacuum, Pour Over, cloth filters for said Pour Over (they honestly make a better tasting coffee, in addition to being environmentally better), electric grinder, manual grinder (just purchased), Mocha Pot (just purchased, not yet used).
- If I had to rank the machines I own by taste preference, it would be: Ibrik, French Press, Vacuum, Pour Over, Aeropress.
- I used to just own a regular drip for many years, and then gave it away many years ago and haven't gone back.
- The best book I know about coffee is "The Art and Craft of Coffee" by Kevin Sinnott, which I keep on my counter with a select few other cooking books, and which will actually help centre me in this goal and deciding what it is I want to learn. I went first with manual grinders, and experimented with the one I bought yesterday morning. Post to follow!
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