fr33th3w33d
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i visited hawaii not too long ago and the coffee their is amazing. fresh kona coffee is some of the best i have ever had. its fresh, grown in clean air and grown by laid back people, it all transfers into the beans.
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jcsmooth
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You might have to go back to the last page ogrefugee, but yes, I think two of us have tried it.
It's nothing special really. I'll stick with my $14 cdn a pound fair trade, organically grown, and cooperatively produced beans. It's a couple dollars more expensive then stuff I could buy from Starbucks or Second Cup (a cdn. franchise), but I feel good supporting my local merchants.
JC
It's nothing special really. I'll stick with my $14 cdn a pound fair trade, organically grown, and cooperatively produced beans. It's a couple dollars more expensive then stuff I could buy from Starbucks or Second Cup (a cdn. franchise), but I feel good supporting my local merchants.
JC
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Guest
I worked for a period of time in a coffee house, I use to open that place 6:00am, man getting up early was a killer, being there at 5:30am to brew coffee but was nice being alone... couple tokes before getting ready to open. We had some jamaican blend, can't remember the exact one... but it was good.
Since I don't work there anymore... back to Folger's... 1 cup a day for me, w/cream and sugar.
Hippie Chic
Since I don't work there anymore... back to Folger's... 1 cup a day for me, w/cream and sugar.
Hippie Chic
A Kona blend for us right now, til we set aside the dough for pure Kona. THAT'S gonna cost us, but it'll be worth it, there's nothing like a good cup of Kona coffee 
Mine's brewed dark, and drunk black, as opposed to WolfSpider, who drinks it with 2 spoons of creamer, 3 of sugar, and only drinks half the damn cup...
On another note, any of ya drink lattes? 7-11 had a daaaaaamn good one for a few weeks, "Pumpkin Cheesecake" latte. Wolf was bringing me a cup home after work every day (he got into the habit of getting a French Vanilla one for himself on the way home) til they switched to some Peppermint latte shit. After a few sips out of a few cups of mine, he sometimes brought one home for my mom, too. Her first taste of it left her a little perplexed, I think, and within a few days, we were splitting larger cups. I think she was more disappointed than I was when they quit selling it
Mine's brewed dark, and drunk black, as opposed to WolfSpider, who drinks it with 2 spoons of creamer, 3 of sugar, and only drinks half the damn cup...
On another note, any of ya drink lattes? 7-11 had a daaaaaamn good one for a few weeks, "Pumpkin Cheesecake" latte. Wolf was bringing me a cup home after work every day (he got into the habit of getting a French Vanilla one for himself on the way home) til they switched to some Peppermint latte shit. After a few sips out of a few cups of mine, he sometimes brought one home for my mom, too. Her first taste of it left her a little perplexed, I think, and within a few days, we were splitting larger cups. I think she was more disappointed than I was when they quit selling it
otis from OG
New member
hi...
my name is otis.
i am a java junkie...
(icmag folks say "welcome otis!")
i love coffee...
it runs in my veins.
i drink it with 2% milk and white sugar
i normally drink peets house blend
www.peets.com
peets fans include judge ito and henry rollins.
blue bottle coffee is also a excellent coffee company
www.bluebottlecoffee.net
my name is otis.
i am a java junkie...
(icmag folks say "welcome otis!")
i love coffee...
it runs in my veins.
i drink it with 2% milk and white sugar
i normally drink peets house blend
www.peets.com
peets fans include judge ito and henry rollins.
blue bottle coffee is also a excellent coffee company
www.bluebottlecoffee.net
ChaoticEntity
Active member
sweetmarias is a great place for green beans, just grab a cheap popcorn machine and start roasting. Primo grade coffee can be had for about 4-6$ a Lb and roasting give you the freshest cup of joe you've probably ever had. Total outlay for a french press, whirly blade grinder and a popcorn machine and a few lbs of great beans is under 40$ cheaper than a decent coffee machine!
heh, I just bought my new drip machine today though, a technivorm with a vacuum carafe, not a bad way to blow 200$ hehe
heh, I just bought my new drip machine today though, a technivorm with a vacuum carafe, not a bad way to blow 200$ hehe
jcsmooth
Member
I was just thinking about something funny....
After having to lug my 50 pound jug of water for a 20 minute distance (about once a week), there's TWO things I use it for. My marijuana plants...and my coffee machine. I wouldn't dare put tap water into my machine, even if it is a piece of crap. I took a sample of my water into the water store, and they tested it at just under 800ppm. Crazy! I need to get my own ro machine.
Anyways, this morning I'll be drinking a mix of columbian, kenyan, and guatemalan. Another exam tonight at 7-9pm, so I have a long day ahead of me.
Oh, and I DO like latte's, but they charge so damn much for them that I might not be able to feed my dog.
JC
After having to lug my 50 pound jug of water for a 20 minute distance (about once a week), there's TWO things I use it for. My marijuana plants...and my coffee machine. I wouldn't dare put tap water into my machine, even if it is a piece of crap. I took a sample of my water into the water store, and they tested it at just under 800ppm. Crazy! I need to get my own ro machine.
Anyways, this morning I'll be drinking a mix of columbian, kenyan, and guatemalan. Another exam tonight at 7-9pm, so I have a long day ahead of me.
Oh, and I DO like latte's, but they charge so damn much for them that I might not be able to feed my dog.
JC
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Mr. Nevermind
water plays a huge part in enoying the taste of a good cup of coffee. Brew some up with tap water then brew some up with purified water, you'll taste the differene immeadiatly. I use a brita water filter for the water i use to make coffee. I didnt a comparasin of tap water to filtered water years ago and the difference was amazing. Good water =good coffee.
Nevermind
Nevermind
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Guest
aloha
aloha
give us a report when ya get it! good on ya
peace eagles
aloha
give us a report when ya get it! good on ya
peace eagles
Maistre said:
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Mr. Nevermind
Oh yeah, i forgot. I hate those damn flavored coffees! Liek Hazelnut blend ground coffee or french vanilla. I like coffee flavored coffee, no goofy flavors added please. I assume its the women that buy that stuff, but who knows. I i saw a man with a cup of hazelnut coffee i may have to slap it out of his hand and tell him to be a man.
While i like the different aspects of coffeees from different regions, i dont need someone to add flavor to it and mess it up
nevermind
While i like the different aspects of coffeees from different regions, i dont need someone to add flavor to it and mess it up
nevermind
Yep I hate flavored coffee,
I like my coffe like my women hot black and strong,
boy does that piss off my sicilian wife LOL.
I like my coffe like my women hot black and strong,
boy does that piss off my sicilian wife LOL.
jcsmooth
Member
haha, you guys are too funny. I hate flavoured coffee's as well Nevermind....esp. the Irish cream ones.
I'll never forget the putrid smell of burning Irish cream from when I worked at this coffee shop.
We had two separate grinders, one for non-flavoured and one for flavoured ones. We never had to worry about cleaning the flavoured machine b/c we were told that "cross-contamination", or "mixing", wasn't a problem. The stuff is so strong that it will overpower whatever was in there before. Anyways, some customer requested that I grind her Irish cream REALLY fine, but little did I know that the excessive amount of oils that they douce all over the beans can start a fire if it gets too hot.
So I left the machine to do its thing while I rang her into the register, but then after smelling the nastiest smell EVER, I look over to the grinder to see it going up in smoke.
You've heard of taste aversion? This is smell aversion. If I ever smell Irish cream again I'll barf I swear.
I don't know what they use to flavour those beans, I'm sure it is synthetic whatever it is, but next time you have some flavoured beans, leave them on a piece of paper towel before using them. You'll see the paper towel being coated with a nasty oily film soon.
Hot, black and strong is how I like it as well
My gf thinks I make my coffee like sludge.
JC
I'll never forget the putrid smell of burning Irish cream from when I worked at this coffee shop.
We had two separate grinders, one for non-flavoured and one for flavoured ones. We never had to worry about cleaning the flavoured machine b/c we were told that "cross-contamination", or "mixing", wasn't a problem. The stuff is so strong that it will overpower whatever was in there before. Anyways, some customer requested that I grind her Irish cream REALLY fine, but little did I know that the excessive amount of oils that they douce all over the beans can start a fire if it gets too hot.
So I left the machine to do its thing while I rang her into the register, but then after smelling the nastiest smell EVER, I look over to the grinder to see it going up in smoke.
You've heard of taste aversion? This is smell aversion. If I ever smell Irish cream again I'll barf I swear.
I don't know what they use to flavour those beans, I'm sure it is synthetic whatever it is, but next time you have some flavoured beans, leave them on a piece of paper towel before using them. You'll see the paper towel being coated with a nasty oily film soon.
Hot, black and strong is how I like it as well
My gf thinks I make my coffee like sludge.
JC
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Mr. Nevermind
So i was high just thinking. So coffees origins are in Etheopia and there are many good coffees from that area. Etheopian Harrar is my fav. and peopel from jamaica are decendants from Etheopia. So i was wodering if harrar and blue moutain cooffe are related somehow? Slaves perhaps brught with with them and the cooffee over time has adapted to jamaica and flavors may have changed a bit. Similiar altitudes in both areas .
Just a thought
Nevermind
Just a thought
Nevermind
Black is the only way I like coffee.
Brewin half a pot of Starbucks Serrena Organic bean coffee.
Read this Coffee Lovers!
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3038705
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Coffee, CYP1A2 Genotype, and Risk of Myocardial Infarction
Date: March 8, 2006
Summary: Whether drinking coffee increases the risk of having a heart attack has been a matter of debate for some time. Now researchers say the answer may lie in your genes, and that one particular variation in a gene can slow metabolism of caffeine and increase the risk.
Why it’s important: Coffee is the most commonly imbibed stimulant around the world. Its role in heart disease has been debated widely. The question of what particular chemical in coffee could be involved in increased risk of heart disease has been widely debated. Caffeine is widely thought to be the most likely culprit, but whether it works with other chemicals or other factors is unknown. Understanding if and how coffee might affect heart health could provide important information for people seeking to reduce their risks, while giving physicians information they need to identify patients most at risk.
What’s already known: Caffeine is metabolized mainly in the liver through the action of a particular enzyme called cytochrome P450 1A2. However, there are variations in the gene that causes cells to make this enzyme. Some variations can speed caffeine’s metabolism and others can slow it. People with a variation of the gene called cytochrome P450 1A2*1F metabolize caffeine slowly.
How this study was done: Researchers tested the blood of 2014 people who had had a heart attack (known as an acute myocardial infarction) to determine whether they carried the particular gene variant that caused caffeine to be metabolized slowly. They also tested the blood of 2014 people who had not had a heart attack. Each of these people (called controls) was matched to a heart attack victim by age, sex and area of residence. This is called a case control study because the person who has a health problem is matched to a person who is normal. Both groups lived in Costa Rica. Both groups of people filled out a questionnaire about the kinds of food they ate and the beverages they drank. This questionnaire gave the researchers from Harvard School of Public Health, the University of Costa Rica and the University of Toronto information about how much coffee with caffeine people in each group drank. From this, they determined whether coffee drinking and the gene variation were associated with an increased risk of having a heart attack.
What was found: The researchers found that 55 percent of the people who had had a heart attack and 54 percent of those who had not carried the gene variation that caused slow caffeine metabolism. A statistical analysis showed that the people who carried the gene variation and who drank two to three cups of coffee each day had a 36 percent higher risk of having a heart attack. They found that when people with slow caffeine metabolism drank four or more cups of coffee each day, they had a 64 percent increased risk of heart attack. By contrast, people who had a gene variation that caused faster caffeine metabolism had a reduced risk of heart attack. The younger the person was who had the gene that caused slow coffee metabolism, the higher the risk of drinking increasing amounts of coffee.
The authors wrote, "In summary, consistent with most case-control studies, we found that increased coffee intake is associated with an increased risk of nonfatal MI. The association between coffee and MI was found only among individuals with the slow CYP1A2*1F allele, which impairs caffeine metabolism, suggesting that caffeine plays a role in the association."
The bottom line: In this study, researchers found that the risk of heart attack may be increased in coffee drinkers who have a gene variation that causes slow caffeine metabolism. However, the study only suggests a role for caffeine in the association between coffee drinking and heart attack. More research may be needed to prove definitively that the caffeine in coffee actually causes heart attack in this special group of patients with a genetic variation.
Journal: Journal of the American Medical Association
Journal Citation: JAMA. 2006;295:1135-1141
Brewin half a pot of Starbucks Serrena Organic bean coffee.
Read this Coffee Lovers!
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3038705
----------------------------
Coffee, CYP1A2 Genotype, and Risk of Myocardial Infarction
Date: March 8, 2006
Summary: Whether drinking coffee increases the risk of having a heart attack has been a matter of debate for some time. Now researchers say the answer may lie in your genes, and that one particular variation in a gene can slow metabolism of caffeine and increase the risk.
Why it’s important: Coffee is the most commonly imbibed stimulant around the world. Its role in heart disease has been debated widely. The question of what particular chemical in coffee could be involved in increased risk of heart disease has been widely debated. Caffeine is widely thought to be the most likely culprit, but whether it works with other chemicals or other factors is unknown. Understanding if and how coffee might affect heart health could provide important information for people seeking to reduce their risks, while giving physicians information they need to identify patients most at risk.
What’s already known: Caffeine is metabolized mainly in the liver through the action of a particular enzyme called cytochrome P450 1A2. However, there are variations in the gene that causes cells to make this enzyme. Some variations can speed caffeine’s metabolism and others can slow it. People with a variation of the gene called cytochrome P450 1A2*1F metabolize caffeine slowly.
How this study was done: Researchers tested the blood of 2014 people who had had a heart attack (known as an acute myocardial infarction) to determine whether they carried the particular gene variant that caused caffeine to be metabolized slowly. They also tested the blood of 2014 people who had not had a heart attack. Each of these people (called controls) was matched to a heart attack victim by age, sex and area of residence. This is called a case control study because the person who has a health problem is matched to a person who is normal. Both groups lived in Costa Rica. Both groups of people filled out a questionnaire about the kinds of food they ate and the beverages they drank. This questionnaire gave the researchers from Harvard School of Public Health, the University of Costa Rica and the University of Toronto information about how much coffee with caffeine people in each group drank. From this, they determined whether coffee drinking and the gene variation were associated with an increased risk of having a heart attack.
What was found: The researchers found that 55 percent of the people who had had a heart attack and 54 percent of those who had not carried the gene variation that caused slow caffeine metabolism. A statistical analysis showed that the people who carried the gene variation and who drank two to three cups of coffee each day had a 36 percent higher risk of having a heart attack. They found that when people with slow caffeine metabolism drank four or more cups of coffee each day, they had a 64 percent increased risk of heart attack. By contrast, people who had a gene variation that caused faster caffeine metabolism had a reduced risk of heart attack. The younger the person was who had the gene that caused slow coffee metabolism, the higher the risk of drinking increasing amounts of coffee.
The authors wrote, "In summary, consistent with most case-control studies, we found that increased coffee intake is associated with an increased risk of nonfatal MI. The association between coffee and MI was found only among individuals with the slow CYP1A2*1F allele, which impairs caffeine metabolism, suggesting that caffeine plays a role in the association."
The bottom line: In this study, researchers found that the risk of heart attack may be increased in coffee drinkers who have a gene variation that causes slow caffeine metabolism. However, the study only suggests a role for caffeine in the association between coffee drinking and heart attack. More research may be needed to prove definitively that the caffeine in coffee actually causes heart attack in this special group of patients with a genetic variation.
Journal: Journal of the American Medical Association
Journal Citation: JAMA. 2006;295:1135-1141
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Mr. Nevermind said:
Eight O'Clock Whole bean or Folgers whole bean, one bag reg one bag dark mixed. Two teas powdered milk no suger.
BUT for Wake & Bake we add two of those chocolate kisses (1\2 oz) to a cup wait a minute for them to melt, stir well. Oya.... But not every cup just that one.
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Notorious DRE
Member
i'm a coffee junkie also,at least 3 cups a day.Love kona & jamaican blends from starbucks.Right now i'm hooked on indonesion sumatra,just 1 cup of that gets me through the day now. When i was stationed in tacoma,washington we used to go to seattle and tour the coffee shops there,a double shot of expresso would have me going
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