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What’s your cities best coffee?

VGEsoterica

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My wife and I basically consume every good cup of coffee we can find, but we've drank through Chicago in its entirety.

what's your cities best third wave coffee? Thinking of ordering a bag a month to try some new stuff :)
 
There's a local place that makes this amazing light roast coffee, I will PM you the name OP. I am a big fan of light roasts. This brand recently changed their labels, and the light roast which used to be a profile of 1 out of 5, is now a 2 out of 5. Same shit, they're juts making appear as though it's a higher roast by bumping everything up one. I wonder if it's because uninformed people believe that a light roast is somehow weaker, and they had a hard time selling? Idk, just made me wonder why they changed it. In my experience very few people seem to have tried a light roast, they just drink whatever medium or dark is cheap and available.

I have recently discovered Airscape containers, which is a game changer. Just a container that has an internal piece that you push down when you want to close it, and it pushes all of the internal air out of the can, it's one way so it gets it all out and lets nothing in. From what I can tell, this seems to be the best way to keep coffee fresh aside from actually vacuum sealing it every single time you open it. I bought a bag of beans 2 weeks ago and am nearing the end of it, and it still blooms up when I'm brewing like the very first cup.
 
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There's a local place that makes this amazing light roast coffee, I will PM you the name OP. I am a big fan of light roasts. This brand recently changed their labels, and the light roast which used to be a profile of 1 out of 5, is now a out of 5. Same shit, they're juts making appear as though it's a higher roast by bumping everything up one. I wonder if it's because uninformed people believe that a light roast is somehow weaker, and they had a hard time selling? Idk, just made me wonder why they changed it. In my experience very few people seem to have tried a light roast, they just drink whatever medium or dark is cheap and available.

I have recently discovered Airscape containers, which is a game changer. Just a container that has an internal piece that you push down when you want to close it, and it pushes all of the internal air out of the can, it's one way so it gets it all out and lets nothing in. From what I can tell, this seems to be the best way to keep coffee fresh aside from actually vacuum sealing it every single time you open it. I bought a bag of beans 2 weeks ago and am nearing the end of it, and it still blooms up when I'm brewing like the very first

weird they bumped it up. My fav is a light roast Ethiopian. All the citrus notes I love in a good cup.

honestly we pretty much just drink light roast. Medium is as far as I can go up the roast scale


weird they bumped it up. My fav is a light roast Ethiopian. All the citrus notes I love in a good cup.

honestly we pretty much just drink light roast. Medium is as far as I can go up the roast scale
 
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