Best coffee (beans) and creamer?
Posted July 27, 2010
By Stacey
I’m gonna get my mom a coffee bean grinder for Christmas, and I was also gonna get her really nice coffee as well. I was thinking about buying some from Starbucks, but I don’t know where to get really good coffee.
Also, what’s a nice creamer?
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Get a burr grinder, not a blade.
Buy whole beans in a valve sealed bag (vacuum sealed, canned, or in a jar is already stale). Lighter roasts are sweeter. Starbucks is dark & not sweet at all.
Real dairy (milk or half & half) tastes better than powdered non-dairy creamers. Good coffee should taste good black.
My favourite beans are java sumatra. I buy them from my local orgainic fair trade place on portobello road, in notting hill, london. They’re called coffee plant, they roast the beans in-house, and I have them grind it for me, their machine is great, and they’re only down the road. http://www.coffee.uk.com/ A good grinder is very, very expensive, is about the size of a hoover, and requires regular cleaning & maintenance.
You can undoubtedly buy good beans online if there isn’t anybody local who does proper stuff. http://verdecoffee.com/coffee-65/single-origin-coffee-beans-73/sumatra-mandheling-coffee-beans-from-java-6kg-case-445.html http://www.cw-usa.com/coffee-beans-varietals-sumatramandheling-5lb.html
Starbucks is a joke TBH. Don’t be involved with them. The coffee is very expensive, and not very good. I was drinking starbucks only when I was in china, you can’t get any other coffee there. It wasn’t very good, and was horribly expensive.
Creamer?! Umm, you mean full fat milk? What you do is pass high pressure steam through normal milk in a particular way which cannot be easily described (barista), bash the steel jug on the table to knock out the big bubbles, and that’s your milk. Pour it into the coffee.