Kaffee!

[enismirdal]

Hello all!

My wonderful magical festive Spekulatius Coffee, from Frankfurt, has all run out now.

I need new magic coffee! So, I need recommendations for good, ideally slightly unusual coffees.

The criteria are:

• Up to about £3 for a 250g packet, but that depends on how magical the coffee is. (Spekulatius was actually only £1.25 or so.)
  
• Must be ready-ground - I don't have a coffee grinder
  
• Suitable for a boring, simple filter funnel - I don't have any fancy percolators, cafetieres or espresso machines
  
• Not too bitter (Starbuck's coffee I find rather bitter)
  
• Decaf doesn't count

Any recs?

Comments

[edith-the-hutt.livejournal.com]

I take it you've sampled both the man on the market and the Cambridge Coffee Company?

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

I haven't tried the man on the market except for coffee I've sampled at Oblivion - I don't know where to start! (Does he sell ground coffee too? I remember beans...)

Cambridge Coffee Company rules. Best Brie and Bacon Panini in the universe...

[edith-the-hutt.livejournal.com]

He'll grind it then and there for you.

[ilye-elf.livejournal.com]

Boring old Co-op own brand stuff is actually pretty good - AND it's fair trade (always important in my books).

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Monmouth Coffee might fit the bill. They mostly buy off co-operatives, but have no explicit FairTrade affiliation. The coffee itself is superb.

Er, there's a reason they don't display prices.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

But if you got some decaf, you could invite people over who don't consume caff. :-)

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

True, I guess! (Not that I tend to have visitors for non-CTS-related reasons anyway, of course!)

[luin77.livejournal.com]

A while ago I saw on TV a chef recommending something that sounded quite yummy. He took regular coffee and put a couple of cinnamon sticks into the coffee box and then just let them in there.

And also I would ask Finarfin... he should have learned about all the different kind of coffee brands by now! :)

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Mmm, that sounds so good!

Hee, maybe I should! He is probably quite an expert these days!

[lauand.livejournal.com]

OMG!!! YOU NEED A NON-ELECTRIC COFFEE MACHINE!!!! (FILTER FUNNELS ARE THE DEVIL!!!!) In Spain we call them "Italian coffee machines", maybe it's what you would call "cafetiere", I don't know, my English is not so good... The coffee tastes infinitely better that way! (Well, at least for me... I'm an Italian-coffe-machine-whore...)

I could recommend you my favourite coffees here in Spain, but I suppose this is of no use for you... anyway, have you tried coffee with Bailey's? Maybe that's blasphemy for you, but I find it really delicious!

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I LOVE coffee with Bailey's in. One time, [info]girlofthemirror and I sneaked a little plastic bottle of Bailey's into the local Border's bookshop, got coffee from the Starbuck's there, and then "improved" the coffee a bit ourselves, whilst reading their fiction and sitting on their chairs.

That was a GOOD evening!

LOL Yeah, I suppose I'm a bad person for making all my coffee with a filter funnel, but I honestly can't taste the difference between that and coffee from a cafetiere (I take it we're both referring to something like this (http://www.lasemeuse.ch/shop/images/accessoires_bodum6.jpg)?)

Perhaps I need more practice at sampling coffee!

[lauand.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... that model seems a bit alien to me. The image I had in mind (and the device I have in my kitchen) looks more like this:



Yes, coffee is maybe as good as a drink as it is as an excuse to spend a good time with friends.