frodedo wrote:I've had an aeropress for years now and knew that thinkgeek sold it but had never watched the video so I went to watch it.

You can tell that the person that made that video knows nothing about coffee and he also did it incorrectly.

First he microwaved the water inside the plunger so there is no way he knew what the temp was. When he added the water to the coffee it didn't bloom at all so he was either using really old coffee or pre-ground coffee. He then proceeded to plunge the coffee like he was trying to ram a nail through a wall, he should have taken at least 15 seconds from the start to the end of the plunge.

Also if anyone has an aeropress they should look into the "inverted" method, I started using that method a year ago and never went back to the traditional method

I can't comment on all of your critiques about the method in the video, however, there could be a reason he uses the microwave. Perhaps he's at work, and doesn't have another way to heat water.

What I really want to know, though, is are you going to just leave me hanging about the inverted method? You brought it up, but then gave no explanation... you gotta tell me!!

We are so comfortable with the SOURCE of food coming to us... yet, in order to fully partake of the experience of food, we must engage it head-on within its own place of origin... street food in Hong Kong, crispy pig ears in Puerto Rico, jerky bird on the Island -- they deserve recognition without admonition... forsake the barriers that prevent us from enjoying that which we all have to offer.

ericleer wrote:I too worked with Doug Zell of Intelligentsia, we all learned beans from Arnold Spinelli, and he, back in the day, learned from Alfred Peet.

Yes, Doug is a savvy businessman, but he also knows his stuff.

Sorry for getting Off Topic

I never said they don't have a booming business.
They do produce a very high quality product that I still enjoy. However would Coke have come back after New Coke if Classic didn't taste like the product that made the name famous. I understand what they are doing and have no problem with it. As a consumer who got used to a very consistent and very good product that seemingly over night disappeared with little to no explanation was upsetting.
I still miss the pre 2008 BC.

Mark Prince of CoffeeGeek.com wrote:I also want to just make myself clear in all this low-scale protest about BC... Like others, it's not as much a criticism of the new tastes from the blend over the past few months in of itself - it's not that Black Cat of 2 weeks ago or a month ago was a substandard espresso blend - definitely not!

It was a low-scale protest towards taking a very famous, very influential, and very company-defining blend, and changing its core taste profile, when perhaps a new blend should have been introduced instead with the new taste direction - Black Cat Gold, Bright Cat, or Berry Burst Cat (okay, maybe not lol) - and Black Cat itself remained true to the goal of producing a chocolate / caramel / stout / deep body / low acidity blend that it was born and bred for.

I'm very open minded to this new blend direction, but speaking purely as a consumer that remembers the halcyon days of BC, and BC when it was at its most awesomeness, and even BC when it was good / great (hey all blends have their ups and downs) personally, I'd still like to get back to that BC of choco/caramel/stout/sweet/body that eschewed fruity froo froos (LOL!), and have a new blend, BrightCat or something, that had acidity / fruits introduced, if the company wants that one two punch.

brucedoesbms wrote:I shall mimic the "HaH" -- entwine thyself in life... (but, an "engrish" major to "proof"? I remain unclear.)

She spoke broken English but was a great proofreader, also it only cost me a bottle of something 40-80 proof! Alas, with in thy computer she doth not reside.

emmabean2000 wrote:Well, it is Thursday after all. And according to my burning credit card, wine indeed was sold over the past two days!

+1

doryg151 wrote:

What made the Coke name famous was, actually, coke (cocaine). Way back, the elixir derived from the coca plant was provided for Mormon missionaries to help resolve (if not absolve), certain gastro-intestinal issues that derived from living in the tropical regions of the Western/Southern Hemisphere. A certain company within the domain of the United States took it upon themselves to provide this worldly concoction on an "as needed" basis, thus relegating it to its proverbial "addictive-by-use" status.

reggaemyelitis wrote:What made the Coke name famous was, actually, coke (cocaine). Way back, the elixir derived from the coca plant was provided for Mormon missionaries to help resolve (if not absolve), certain gastro-intestinal issues that derived from living in the tropical regions of the Western/Southern Hemisphere. A certain company within the domain of the United States took it upon themselves to provide this worldly concoction on an "as needed" basis, thus relegating it to its proverbial "addictive-by-use" status.

There marketing department also invented the current incarnation of Santa Claus. I realize this is obvious but I was referring to Coca Cola (don't forget the kola nut extract that was mixed with the cocaine) from 1929 to 1985.

Edit: Auto Spell Check is not intuitive

doryg151 wrote:She spoke broken English but was a great proofreader, also it only cost me a bottle of something 40-80 proof! Alas, with in thy computer she doth not reside.

U h, don 't ka-no whut angle ish may gut bee... but Ise can figgr.. jus gimme a chanz to proov my ableiti to lik-er ... im thinkin...

1000facescoffee wrote:Nope. We don't do artificial flavorings in any of our coffee's. It is a disgusting practice that ruins any roasting facility that does it.

And the grinder that is unfortunate enough to endure it.

doryg151 wrote:There marketing department also invented the current incarnation of Santa Clause. I realize this is obvious but I was referring to Coca Cola (don't for get the kola nut extract that was mixed with the cocaine) from 1929 to 1985.

"There"? Come on, people, know your language... And Santa "Clause"? Do you mean a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence? (Oh, yeah, who also delivers presents, right?)

brucedoesbms wrote:U h, don 't ka-no whut angle ish may gut bee... but Ise can figgr.. jus gimme a chanz to proov my ableiti to lik-er ... im thinkin...

Perhaps I have been living in Jacksonville NC a little to long cuz that made perfect sense. I might not have understood 10 years ago when I left Ann Arbor. I had no idea how to BBQ Whole Hog either.

brucedoesbms wrote:"There"? Come on, people, know your language... And Santa "Clause"? Do you mean a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence? (Oh, yeah, who also delivers presents, right?)

Honestly I'm going to leave it at I have been consuming a bit of wine and my my typing goes to ponys. Sorry it seems to bother you. For the rest of this woot I will run all my posts through Snoop Dogg's Shizzolator.

doryg151 wrote:Perhaps I have been living in Jacksonville NC a little to long cuz that made perfect sense. I might not have understood 10 years ago when I left Ann Arbor. I had no idea how to BBQ Whole Hog either.

PIG + fahr + saus = bubba-Q

'n corn...

........'n sum slaw...

brucedoesbms wrote:PIG + fahr + saus = bubba-Q

'n corn...

........'n sum slaw...

Yea, mon, you'd be sum focked up summtin!

4lbs is too much to drink before beans go bad.

4lbs is too much to drink before beans go bad.

dliidlii wrote:4lbs is too much to drink before beans go bad.

Not sure they would be bad but past prime is fair.

A Never Before unWine.woot! exclusive:

Should brucedoesbms buy one of the 1000Faces Coffee 4-Pack by the end of this wine.woot! ?

He shall abide by the number of votes tallied between 11:05 p.m. MDT and end of the wine.woot! offering...

surprised only 1% bought 3. was i the only one? i guess there'd be about 6 of us

brucedoesbms wrote:A Never Before unWine.woot! exclusive:

Should brucedoesbms buy one of the 1000Faces Coffee 4-Pack by the end of this wine.woot! ?

He shall abide by the number of votes tallied between 11:05 p.m. MDT and end of the wine.woot! offering...

Hey, maybe I'll get a pamphlet in the mail...

NOOOOOOOOOOO don't tell me wine woot is out of wine! look at the time

Tassadar2k03 wrote:NOOOOOOOOOOO don't tell me wine woot is out of wine! look at the time

I know!!! That's exactly what I was thinking!!!

terrenceistheman wrote:surprised only 1% bought 3. was i the only one? i guess there'd be about 6 of us

Out of 627 wooters, there are at least TWO of us that bought THREE... so, maybe you could do the math, since I am tired, out of breath, and ... ....... ..............

Tassadar2k03 wrote:NOOOOOOOOOOO don't tell me wine woot is out of wine! look at the time

maybe amazon has closed i down? But I have rat bottles...

brucedoesbms wrote:Hey, maybe I'll get a pamphlet in the mail...

Make sure you correct it as sarcastically as possible and send it back!

I would like 2 send u a copy of the Chinese take away menu from the restaurant up the street. Although I warn you it will likely cause u 2 have tremors or possibly an aneurism.

Back to wine I hope.
Have Fun

What's wrong woot? I'm sorry for ignoring you all day today (Thursday). Please come back.

richardhod wrote:maybe amazon has closed i down? But I have rat bottles...

I want a rat bottle!

Never thought I'd see the day wine.woot ran out of juice....wow just wow

WD- have you left us?!

doryg151 wrote:Make sure you correct it as sarcastically as possible and send it back!

I would like 2 send u a copy of the Chinese take away menu from the restaurant up the street. Although I warn you it will likely cause u 2 have tremors or possibly an aneurism.

Back to wine I hope.
Have Fun

I lived in China for several years (immediately post-Mao). It was difficult for Westerners (John Waynes) to befriend or even gift our hosts. I was not U.S. and I was not Euro, yet life was unambiguously lonely. Until I met...

O.o woot screwed up a big time on bean/groud thing. Man... stop rambling in product description. you are wasting time: yours and ours. Thanks.

The thing that threw me off is that they are giving us only until noon to cancel.

(even though I was expecting beans so I am all right this time)

Love coffee; not a connoisseur. Fail. Bought 2; they apparently will be beyond their prime when I drink them. Will continue to fail while completely enjoying imbibing these delicious sounding blends. Do have a grinder, though not a burr. Another failure. sigh....

To chill/freeze, that is the question. Rhetorical. ;-)

Saving grace? Abhor instant. Not enough, huh? Humor me, I'm old. Unlike the coffee.

loreelu wrote:I can't comment on all of your critiques about the method in the video, however, there could be a reason he uses the microwave. Perhaps he's at work, and doesn't have another way to heat water.

What I really want to know, though, is are you going to just leave me hanging about the inverted method? You brought it up, but then gave no explanation... you gotta tell me!!

Sorry Woot didnt tell me I had a reply for some reason. Here are two videos that show the method, the first one is a pretty good instructional video and the second is a good live demonstration. I don't dilute my aeropress though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFQsmaopufg

http://www.tested.com/how-to-make-an-even-better-cup-of-coffee-with-the-aeropress/47-139/

Just received mine! Glad I was home when FedEx left it on the front stoop (without even ringing the doorbell)…it's supposed to hit 102° this afternoon, and I don't want 4 lbs. of French roast!

Each bag is hand-labelled "8/22" which I presume means all the beans were roasted two days ago. Alas, I've already consumed more than enough caffeine for one day; tasting shall have to wait.

I got mine just now too (thanks for prompt shipping), but one of the bags is torn, and the coffee spilt out.

Got mine today. That was an extremely fast turnaround for Woot during the summer. Glad to see the recent roasting date as well.

Can't wait to try it!

I also received my coffee, just now. My office smells delightful! Kudos on the quick, fresh delivery Woot and 1000 Faces.

I have also received mine and have tried two out. Very tasty from the bags I have received so far, flavorful and quite different between the bags, too.

Thank you!

redwinefan wrote:Got mine today. That was an extremely fast turnaround for Woot during the summer. Glad to see the recent roasting date as well.

Can't wait to try it!

So what did you think of the coffee?

In fact, what did everyone think? We love feedback.

i loved the coffee! on my last bag now thank you!