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culo77 said:
Has anyone been gifted a bag a coffee and it just taste bad? What did you do?

For me I am suffering through it as best as I can, it tastes worse than cheap instant. I don't like to be wasteful.
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Interesting question and I guess it depends on just how bad it is to you. I can usually suffer through (not always) any variety of plain coffee ... I try to experiment with the coffee / water ratio to even out taste if possible. However, when it comes to flavored coffee, I have been know to dump it after a long period of holding on to it. I will usually give it a taste for curiosity purposes ... but, alas, life is too short to waste too much time on something you dislike.
 
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Macky-Mac said:
It's always a relief when resupply arrives promptly!
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Yes, it is, isn't it?

And this is a nice selection:

A natural process coffee (Gesha beans/cherries) from El Salvador, and a Red Honey process coffee (Red Catuai beans/cherries) from Costa Rica.

This complements the washed Ethiopian, (indigenous varieties re beans/cherries), that I am currently enjoying.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
Yes, it is, isn't it?

And this is a nice selection:

A natural process coffee (Gesha beans/cherries) from El Salvador, and a Red Honey process coffee (Red Catuai beans/cherries) from Costa Rica.

This complements the washed Ethiopian, (indigenous varieties re beans/cherries), that I am currently enjoying.
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You've gone fuity flavours again, haven't you?
 
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HandsomeDanNZ said:
You've gone fuity flavours again, haven't you?
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I think smooth and sweet are key elements:

And, yes, well, okay, (consults coffee packages), the tasting notes on one of the packets of coffee - that is, the coffee from Costa Rica, the Red Honey process Red Catuai, tells us that the coffee has notes of "sultana and toffee", and yes "tonnes" of "fruity notes", while the coffee from El Salvador, the natural process Gesha, informs us that it comes with "tropical and berry notes, pineapple, strawberry and golden syrup".

So, yes, I suppose that I am, or have, "gone fruity flavours".

It is winter, and I want my flavours sweet, and smooth, redolent of comfort.

Bitter coffee tends to (like the astringency of bitter, over-hopped, beers tend to), work better in summer.
 
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Madhatter32 said:
Interesting question and I guess it depends on just how bad it is to you. I can usually suffer through (not always) any variety of plain coffee ... I try to experiment with the coffee / water ratio to even out taste if possible. However, when it comes to flavored coffee, I have been know to dump it after a long period of holding on to it. I will usually give it a taste for curiosity purposes ... but, alas, life is too short to waste too much time on something you dislike.
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Oh gosh, flavored coffee. Who hates you that much? I would dump that too.
 
culo77 said:
  1. Has anyone been gifted a bag a coffee and it just taste bad? What did you do?

For me I am suffering through it as best as I can, it tastes worse than cheap instant. I don't like to be wasteful.
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You can do two things with coffee grounds --
  1. Put it in your garden. The garden will appreciate it, while apparently it keeps snails at bay.
  2. Mix it into concrete. Apparently replacing up to 30% sand with coffee grounds makes for better concrete, regardless of the taste...
 
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DaveFromCampbelltown said:
You can do two things with coffee grounds --
  1. Put it in your garden. The garden will appreciate it, while apparently it keeps snails at bay.
  2. Mix it into concrete. Apparently replacing up to 30% sand with coffee grounds makes for better concrete, regardless of the taste...
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mixing coffee grounds into concrete will probably improve the taste of the concrete....unless the coffee is a dark roast o_O
 
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DaveFromCampbelltown said:
You can do two things with coffee grounds --
  1. Put it in your garden. The garden will appreciate it, while apparently it keeps snails at bay.
  2. Mix it into concrete. Apparently replacing up to 30% sand with coffee grounds makes for better concrete, regardless of the taste...
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Yes, coffee grounds are supposed to be excellent for gardens; at times, I have disposed of them this way, especially when I have been using my French Press.
 
DaveFromCampbelltown said:
You can do two things with coffee grounds --
  1. Put it in your garden. The garden will appreciate it, while apparently it keeps snails at bay.
  2. Mix it into concrete. Apparently replacing up to 30% sand with coffee grounds makes for better concrete, regardless of the taste...
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I now blame you for my time wasted going down the rabbit hole of learning this coffee in concrete thing.
 
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No espresso today, pour over. Rocking through a bag of Costa Rican coffee from Las Lajas farm. I will be buying this one again!
 
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