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better rice milk then the heavly GMO'd soymilk!!
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better rice milk then the heavly GMO'd soymilk!!
Don't do soy or most dairy. Adult mammals don't drink milk
BTW those of you who haven't tried Bubbies natural bread and butter pickle chips are in for a treat. Look in the natural freezer section
Im a serious coffee snob. Much to my detriment, because it usually means I take someone's advice on where to get a good shot and wind up walking away dissapointed and a few bucks poorer.
I have a commercial grinder (most important single thing a coffee snob can own) and a commercial espresso machine at the house, and use them daily. It's as complicated as reloading: brush out the grinder, warm the cup, weigh the beans, grind them, clean the portafilter, fill it, agitate the grinds in the portafilter to redistribute evenly, run the machine till the boiler kicks on, tamp the grinds, empty the warming water from the shot, put an empty cup on the scale to zero it out, put the portafilter on the machine 4-5 secs after the boiler cycles off, simultaneously start the machine and a stopwatch on the iPhone, pull the espresso as close to 24 secs as possible, weigh the cup and espresso to confirm its near 28 grams, make necessary adjustments to bring the espresso closer to desired parameters. It's fun stuff, seriously!
As for coffees, I prefer acidic, fruity coffees, like Africans and natural proces. I love Rwandan, ethiopian, Somali, and especially Sumatran (I know, it's not African). They have an entirely different set of flavored from the south American coffees, which are generally " and "chocolatey". And freshness of roasted beans is everything! A coffee roasted yesterday is night and day different from a coffee roasted last month.
You guys have to try Sterling, it's in NW PDX, and is one of the only places that I have consistently gotten a delicious, magical, ridiculously-amazing shot, EVERYTIME I go. I usually seek out the best espresso in every city I visit (recently NYC, Vancouver BC, among others) and nothing comes close to Sterling. They always have 2 single origins on tap. I can't speak for anything but espresso, because seriously: why bother
Other PDX spots with a good shot of joe are Coava, extracto, and heart. Consistency is everything, and also the most difficult aspect of brewing good espresso, and for consistency, none of them touch Sterling. YMMV. Cheers!
My favorite coffee plantation in Kona is Greenwell farms.
Can't hardly get through the day without my STUMP TOWN COFFEE !!!
If anyone is interested there is a place in Boring, OR that roasts and sells whole coffee beans as a secondary side line business. It's called BORING BARK. They typically have large potato sack size bags with beans from several countries there.
Lastly, Yes KONA but just like in the 80's Hawaiian is expensive and hard to come by.