Remember that drink I invented yesterday? (oc)

[u/DaveKellett]

COME for the acrid taste, but STAY for the lack of caffeine!

[u/windexfresh]

I visited my long distance best friend and one morning she was like "oh hey my husband is like realllly into coffee, want him to make you a cup? He's very proud of his brewing skills" and holy shit was he right to be proud, ive never had such an amazing cup of coffee in my life, and dude just whipped it up like it was nothing.

It was genuinely a completely different experience lmao I've been chasing that high ever since

[u/rockstar2012 → u/windexfresh]

Time to get gooseneck kettle, a v60, a grinder, and some filters. The most important part of making good coffee is getting good and fresh beans and good water.

[u/82away → u/windexfresh]

It was genuinely a completely different experience lmao I've been chasing that high ever since

Have it heard similar stories, Coffee drinkers often sound like drug / alcohol users. My life works without coffee and I prefer it that way without chasing that coffee I once had years ago that I can’t recreate and now my morning isn’t right.

[u/mirrorball_for_me → u/82away]

It’s not a literal “high”, like an inebriation of sorts. You just want the same taste again, like eating good food. It’s very natural to want to drink something with the same taste twice.

The issue is that coffee flavor is exceedingly hard to reproduce, especially because it’s very sensitive to differences on harvests on the same plants, so buying it from the same roaster from the same producer using the same fermentation method on next year’s harvest may not taste similarly. The roaster will also keep tweaking the roast profile to compensate for bean oxidation. After roasting you have a few weeks to use it before it’s no longer fresh, and only precious few minutes after grinding.

Think wine but way harder to guarantee the same taste. The upside is that you get used to every bag of coffee tasting different, forever, like eating fresh fruit and knowing each one will be slightly different than the previous one.