Espresso Enthusiasts

[Silencio]

My local café sells Chemex brewers and filters, so I usually go downtown and pick up a box of filters when needed — and a flat white with oat milk while I'm there.

Generally, I drink my coffee black. We keep oat milk at home — my wife likes her coffee with about 1 part coffee, 3 parts oat milk with a little froth at the top.

Now I'm out of the Colombian honey coffee and will start in on some Ethiopian next. Guess I'm pretty suggestible.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

My local café sells Chemex brewers and filters, so I usually go downtown and pick up a box of filters when needed — and a flat white with oat milk while I'm there.

Ah, a Chemex.

Wonderful.

This is something I am seriously contemplating.

Generally, I drink my coffee black. We keep oat milk at home — my wife likes her coffee with about 1 part coffee, 3 parts oat milk with a little froth at the top.

Now I'm out of the Colombian honey coffee and will start in on some Ethiopian next. Guess I'm pretty suggestible.

Well, among the filters I ordered were the standard Hario filters (which is what I normally use), and, I also succumbed to the temptation of ordering Chemex filters, as well.

I have been eyeing an absolutely gorgeous Chemex coffee maker in a local coffee shop, - well, it was winking at me - and have been contemplating treating myself to this delightful - and exquisitely beautiful - objet d'art; thus, it made sense to order some Chemex filters, as well.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I have just received word that my coffee has been roasted and that "it has been packaged and is awaiting collection by our courier."

Okay: This sounds like good news, then.

 

[Madhatter32]

I have just received word that my coffee has been roasted and that "it has been packaged and is awaiting collection by our courier."

Okay: This sounds like good news, then.

Like I always say, fresh is best.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Like I always say, fresh is best.

For coffee, yes, most certainly.

Definitely.

And (very possibly) for eggs, bread, fruit......among other things, as well.

 

[culo77]

Metric Coffee Roasters
Seismic light roast
Blended origin

I don’t do latte art, to lazy to learn and just dealing with espresso variables is enough futzing about for me.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

View attachment 2325397Metric Coffee Roasters
Seismic light roast
Blended origin

I don’t do latte art, to lazy to learn and just dealing with espresso variables is enough futzing about for me.

Lovely shot of the espresso shot.

What coffees comprised the blend?

 

[culo77]

Lovely shot of the espresso shot.

What coffees comprised the blend?

It says it’s from East Africa and Latin America. Very vague, but I like it. Good in a v60 too.
Here is the website

Seismic

Seismic captures the energy of vibration—an impactful blend of coffees from the Americas and East Africa that delivers a lively and unforgettable flavor experience. Radiant yet balanced, this coffee is both smooth and delightfully effervescent. Bursting with notes of seasonal fruit, each sip...

metriccoffee.com

 

[Scepticalscribe]

It says it’s from East Africa and Latin America. Very vague, but I like it. Good in a v60 too.
Here is the website

Seismic

Seismic captures the energy of vibration—an impactful blend of coffees from the Americas and East Africa that delivers a lively and unforgettable flavor experience. Radiant yet balanced, this coffee is both smooth and delightfully effervescent. Bursting with notes of seasonal fruit, each sip...

metriccoffee.com

Thank you for taking the time and trouble to post this link.

"East Africa" generally means Kenya, or possibly, Ethiopia; at a stretch, it might also mean Rwanda or Burundi.

Latin America - given that many of the countries of the region (especially the countries of central America) - produce coffee, (sometimes, startlingly different coffee from one another) - is a fairly meaningless description.

Enjoy your coffee.

I use the Hario dripper and filter paper (v60) method, myself, quite a lot.

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

I expect that mine will also see me into next month.

But yes: When I read the email (expecting their usual - which runs along the lines of: "We'll roast the coffee tomorrow, then the courier will collect it and will courier it to you, and you can expect to receive it in around two days"), I will admit to some small surprise at the caveats which included the curious sentence "our courier collections during this time will be very limited".

This prompted some (internal) musing and several (internal) questions: Why advertise your coffees so.......persistently.... - during this time of year if you cannot arrange to have them delivered on time? Why not employ/engage more people to deliver them? Why not plan in advance for the extra volume of sales and deliveries you expect (and that you seek, by promoting this season so heavily on your website)? And so on.

Because, while they say "our courier", they don't actually own the courier company, and are at their mercy. The courier companies could employ more people for the Christmas season, but that entails buying more vehicles and training up more people for a two-month period, then laying them off.

When I worked with an Apple reseller, every few months we would change courier companies because of poor service/deliveries. This happened till we had gone through all the couriers in Sydney and started back again with the first one. They all suck at some time or another.

Even our vaunted Post Office mucks things up sometimes. I bought a new vacuum cleaner, online, from the company in southeast Sydney, with tracking.
It was picked up by the Post Office the next day and taken to the main dispatch centre in western Sydney. It then spent the next 5 days wandering the halls of the dispatch centre, from one end to the other, till finally it broke free and made its way to our local collection centre in southwest Sydney. Total trip distance ~ 60 km. Total trip time ~ 7 days.

Don't blame the vendors. Blame our laissez faire economies that insist on privatising as much as possible so things can be done as cheaply as possible, with as much profit margin as possible so that services can be as bad as possible.

 

[Macky-Mac]

I'm having a late afternoon mug of some coffee that arrived recently.

It's Hawaiian, grown on Oahu and the variety is kona typica if I'm remembering correctly. It was yeast fermentation processed. Cupping notes; floral, sweet, cocoa and chocolatey, very clean and smooth with a nice finish.....it's a medium dark roast, something this roaster does very successfully

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I'm having a late afternoon mug of some coffee that arrived recently.

It's Hawaiian, grown on Oahu and the variety is kona typica if I'm remembering correctly. It was yeast fermentation processed. Cupping notes; floral, sweet, cocoa and chocolatey, very clean and smooth with a nice finish.....it's a medium dark roast, something this roaster does very successfully

That sounds absolutely delicious.

Do enjoy.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Currently sipping a very welcome afternoon coffee; the coffee is from Honduras, and it is served with organic hot milk.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

To my (utter and stupefied) astonishment, (and astounded delight), the coffee (and filter papers, both for a Hario V60 and for use with a Chemex), that I had ordered on Thursday evening (two days ago), - and had written about, here - has just been delivered to my door.

Excellent.

This means that I am amply supplied with coffee and filter papers until well into January, if not a little later.

 

[Lioness~]

Decided to take a few fasting days, and as the 'winter' is not very cold it’s favorable.
Always nice to get some the extra rest that a fast gives too.
I even can enjoy my straight up espressos even more!

 

[culo77]

This means that I am amply supplied with coffee and filter papers until well into January, if not a little later.

So what is your pour over to espresso making?

For me mostly pourover do to convenience. V60 (sometimes aeropress) in the morning for the wife and I. At lunch ice the wife is not working from home I will do an espresso or cappuccino, but if she is home another v60 it is.

I have a flair espresso lever machine and doing back to back shots is not a quick process. Maybe on the weekends I will if I am putzing around.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

So what is your pour over to espresso making?

I don't have an espresso machine, thus, actual espressos are a treat for when I am out (or when working abroad, which is when and where I live on them).

Thus, for myself, and, as you so rightly observe, for convenience, I tend to prepare my coffee in the form of a pour over mostly, (V60 Hario filter).

Now, if I have guests, I will offer either pour over (V60 Hario filter) or will offer to prepare coffee with my French press.

For me mostly pourover do to convenience. V60 (sometimes aeropress) in the morning for the wife and I. At lunch ice the wife is not working from home I will do an espresso or cappuccino, but if she is home another v60 it is.

Yes, something similar for me.

I have a flair espresso lever machine and doing back to back shots is not a quick process.

Absolutely agree, this is not a quick process.

Maybe on the weekends I will if I am putzing around.

If I am - that is a lovely expression - "putzing around" - on a week-end, in the way you describe, in good form and relaxed, I will prepare coffee with one of my moka pots, (which is the closest I would come to preparing something vaguely resembling an espresso, at home) but that, again, is not a remotely rapid process, hence, it tends to be reserved as a week-end treat to myself.

Very, very occasionally, I will offer coffee via moka pot to friends, that is, good friends, good friends whom I know to be coffee fiends, and who are not in a hurry on that particular day.

 

[Macky-Mac]

To my (utter and stupefied) astonishment, (and astounded delight), the coffee (and filter papers, both for a Hario V60 and for use with a Chemex), that I had ordered on Thursday evening (two days ago), - and had written about, here - has just been delivered to my door.

Excellent.

This means that I am amply supplied with coffee and filter papers until well into January, if not a little later.

my order for Hario v60 filters is "out for delivery" at the moment.....the holiday shopping frenzy doesn't seem to have caused a delivery problem so far

 

[Scepticalscribe]

my order for Hario v60 filters is "out for delivery" at the moment

Ah, excellent.

Therefore, I would imagine that you can expect to have them in your hands sometime in the very near future.

 

[Macky-Mac]

Ah, excellent.

Therefore, I would imagine that you can expect to have them in your hands sometime in the very near future.

by 10pm they say, but most likely it'll arrive around 6pm if it follows the usual pattern

 

[Scepticalscribe]

by 10pm they say, but most likely it'll arrive around 6pm if it follows the usual pattern

That is good news.

Fingers crossed, etc for a safe delivery.

Well, given what the coffee company had written to me (about limited deliveries, delays, volume of deliveries, the seasonal rush etc), I was not expecting my delivery today.

Hoping for it, yes, but, expecting it, no.

Actually, I didn't expect to see it before Monday, at the very earliest, more probably, Tuesday or Wednesday (and it wasn't of immediate urgency), and, to be perfectly honest, precisely because of the season, the volume of deliveries, and the immoderate mad rush, I wouldn't have even placed the order if I hadn't experienced difficulties in obtaining filter papers from some of my local (and usually very well stocked) coffee shops, (the sort of places that source coffee from small, local, preferably ethical and environmentally aware, growers, producers, roasters and enterprises).

Now, I do have enough filter papers for now, even, to see me into January, but I do recall how it can take at least a fortnight - if not three weeks - for supply chains to be fully restored after Christmas, and I am pretty certain that my filters would have run out by then.

Anyway, since the arrival of my coffee (and filter paper) order, I am more than amply supplied for now, both of coffee and of filter papers.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

So what is your pour over to espresso making?

For me mostly pourover do to convenience. V60 (sometimes aeropress) in the morning for the wife and I. At lunch ice the wife is not working from home I will do an espresso or cappuccino, but if she is home another v60 it is.

I have a flair espresso lever machine and doing back to back shots is not a quick process. Maybe on the weekends I will if I am putzing around.

And, I am also thinking of purchasing a Chemex coffee maker/pot (Chemex filter papers - which can be difficult to obtain - were included in this week's coffee order).

 

[Scepticalscribe]

by 10pm they say, but most likely it'll arrive around 6pm if it follows the usual pattern

That is good news.

Fingers crossed, etc for a safe delivery.

Well, given what the coffee company had written to me (about limited deliveries, delays, volume of deliveries, the seasonal rush etc), I was not expecting my delivery today.

Hoping for it, yes, but, expecting it, no.

Actually, I didn't expect to see it before Monday, at the very earliest, more probably, Tuesday or Wednesday (and it wasn't of immediate urgency), and, to be perfectly honest, precisely because of the season, the volume of deliveries, and the immoderate mad rush, I wouldn't have even placed the order if I hadn't experienced difficulties in obtaining filter papers form some of my local (and usually very well stocked) coffee shops, (the sort of places that source coffee from small, local, preferably ethical and environmentally aware, growers, producers, roasters and enterprises).

Now, I do have enough filter papers for now, even, to see me into January, but I do recall how it can take at least a fortnight - if not three weeks - for supply chains to be fully restored after Christmas, and I am pretty certain that my coffee filters would have run out by then.

Anyway, I am more than amply supplied for now, both of coffee and of filter papers.

Given the speed (and accuracy) of the delivery of my coffee order, I felt that the least that they were owed was a thankful (and enthusiastic) email and communication on their own site.

While I have no problem calling out (and writing irked notes to) companies and enterprises when their service falls short of desired standards, I think it also appropriate to let them know when they have done well.

 

[Macky-Mac]

That is good news.

Fingers crossed, etc for a safe delivery.

Well, given what the coffee company had written to me (about limited deliveries, delays, volume of deliveries, the seasonal rush etc), I was not expecting my delivery today.

Hoping for it, yes, but, expecting it, no.

Actually, I didn't expect to see it before Monday, at the very earliest, more probably, Tuesday or Wednesday (and it wasn't of immediate urgency), and, to be perfectly honest, precisely because of the season, the volume of deliveries, and the immoderate mad rush, I wouldn't have even placed the order if I hadn't experienced difficulties in obtaining filter papers form some of my local (and usually very well stocked) coffee shops, (the sort of places that source coffee from small, local, preferably ethical and environmentally aware, growers, producers, roasters and enterprises).

Now, I do have enough filter papers for now, even, to see me into January, but I do recall how it can take at least a fortnight - if not three weeks - for supply chains to be fully restored after Christmas, and I am pretty certain that my filters would have run out by then.

Anyway, I am more than amply supplied for now, both of coffee and of filter papers.

My filters were bought from Hario's store on Amazon and it will be one of Amazon's contract drivers delivering my purchase. Much of the time their delivery happens within the time frame that they suggest, but not always. Since I still have a sufficient supply that will last until at least mid January, I'm not worried. The 03 size are difficult to find and so this order is for three packs of them.

In the worst case, I could use some of my supply of Hario's 02 size filters. I have plenty of those.

But, if it were my coffee supply, then I would be a little worried since I try to order coffee "just in time" and a few days delay could mean running out of good coffee. I do keep a small supply of sort of standard coffee as a back up, but I always hope to not have to resort to using it.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

My filters were bought from Hario's store on Amazon and it will be one of Amazon's contract drivers delivering my purchase. Much of the time their delivery happens within the time frame that they suggest, but not always. Since I still have a sufficient supply that will last until at least mid January, I'm not worried. The 03 size are difficult to find and so this order is for three packs of them.

In the worst case, I could use some of my supply of Hario's 02 size filters. I have plenty of those.

But, if it were my coffee supply, then I would be a little worried since I try to order coffee "just in time" and a few days delay could mean running out of good coffee. I do keep a small supply of sort of standard coffee as a back up, but I always hope to not have to resort to using it.

What do you use the 03 size filter papers for?