Happy Valentines' Day, or VD as I like to call it.
Treat your significant other well and it will come back in love and blessings for you!!!!
I hope!
Now Coffee:
OK, failed attempt.
I bought some coffee flavoring oils online, had them shipped to me. You are supposed to choose a bean that would work well with your roast and flavor, after roasting them, add and marinate the beans in the flavoring (supposedly the oil used by professionals, and supposedly works like the tasty ones I have bought in the store and enjoyed before.
Hasn't anybody enjoyed a French Vanilla or a Southern Pecan coffee before? I know I have.
But NOT mine!!!!! Terrible!!!!
Just not the right flavor at all!!!!!
So I give up on that stupid idee. I will buy mine flavored by someone else, or drink it straight.
I have some coming from Amazon that I want to try. They are taking FOREVER to get here!!!!! Along with movies and music.
Frustrated in Thailand.
God Bless,
Wayne

Still frustrated, still have not rec'd my coffee or CDs from Amazon.
I can make a decent cuppa Joe now though. No frills, no fuss, not using the hand cranked burr grinder any more, not timing it, just taking things easy and I found the key for me. Darker roasted coffee! Smoother, less acidic, more robust flavor and just plain old more drinkable. I roast the local beans until dark, the oils start to come out on the skin, a Full City I am guessing, perhaps a little more, it does get to smoking some. It is the way the people I buy the beans roast there, all the coffee shops around here roast theirs. They must know something. I just blitz some beans (eyeball the amount, not weigh them out any more) with an electric grinder, not fine, but not perfect either, put it in the press, pour in some water somewhere around the boiling point--not an issue any more, leave her sit somewhere between 3 - 5 mins, not critical and that makes a good cuppa after it cools off enough to drink.
IF the flavored beans ever come, I will try them and hope they are better, more special than my local brew, but am not holding my breath.
Thanks, I am surely not a coffee connoisseur and never will be,
God Bless,
Wayne

Wayne,

Like music, taste in coffee is a very individual thing and as long as you like what you're consuming, that's all that matters. At the roast level you describe, I can't taste the difference between beans: good or bad. I feel like it roasts all the flavor right out of them, but that is to my palette. As far as the brewing process goes, no need to get too fancy. Once you have it setup the way you like, stick with it. Please keep us posted as you try new beans. Fingers crossed that the rest of your packages arrive shortly.

Cheers,

T Cobe

My local HMV is closing. (A store that still sells CD s and Blu-ray and memorabilia like Media Play) and it is quite sad to me because I will miss going to the store and looking through the stacks for new music, purchasing and getting home putting in a CD and looking through the liner notes.

Seems to me that the current generation is going to miss out on this?

I guess I like the hunt for new stuff.

Glad He is sold in stores and not on-line!

Well brothers, I hear ya!!!!
twotooneadam12, I do think the younger gen are missing out on a ton a stuff, and will miss out on more in the future. BUT they have and will have stuff that we did not have, and it will probably be just as meaningful to them. And in the end, perhaps a LOT of the stuff we fret about is not that important anyway?
I don't know.
Bro T. I have read that everyone who KNOWS about coffee agrees with you about not roasting too dark. But my taste does not go with too much acid. Dark roasting helps with that and brings out the sugars a bit more.
Having said that, SOME Med roasted coffees are not that acidic, just not mine!!! Ha ha
Don't know why. I tried some Cooper's med roasted beans aged in rum barrels, and it was delicious. Today I finally got a box from Amazon, some of my order, and in it was some beans from Home Brew Coffee Co in Buena Vista, CO I think, anyway they age the beans in whiskey barrels, but the flavor is VERY subtle, then med roast them at altitude which they claim is better. These guys are HIGH all the time. ha ha, it too is delicious but almost just a great, tasty cup of coffee, no real whiskey flavor. But not acidic at all.
But now I will have some music and coffee recommendations.
God Bless,
Wayne

Has anyone heard of or better yet, used the Kitchenaid Siphon coffee brewing system? Looks interesting...