I love the taste of coffee, and people think it’s crazy but if the coffee tastes good hot, I also typically like the taste of it after it’s cooled to room temp. My coffee snobbery begins and ends at “use good beans which were freshly ground”. If you’ve done that you can make a brewing mistake and mess it up (I’ll still drink it) otherwise it will taste good. Some beans are better than others obviously, but I’m not too picky.
I feel like you might like James Hoffman, a coffee YouTube creator. His baseline attitude is much the same as yours - if you start with good tasting water and good, freshly roasted beans, you’ll likely end up with good tasting coffee. He also delves into the nitty gritty, doing a lot of cool experimentation with different techniques and data-driven stuff, but he usually does a good job of stressing that all those minute details end up making very small differences in the resulting cup.
Coffee tastes very different at different temperatures. That’s one of the things I like the most about it. While I prefer it hot, I also like it on ice. I’m not a huge fan of it at room temperature, but sometimes I get distracted… So I end up drinking a lot of of it that way, lol.
The only thing is that I have to have it black. No milk, no sugar. I just like it straight.
Yeah, I’m definitely with you on needing it to be black. When I started drinking coffee I was loading it with junk to choke it down and stay awake at work. Once I had actually-good coffee, I added less and less stuff to it until finally I realized: good coffee tastes great!
I love the taste of coffee, and people think it’s crazy but if the coffee tastes good hot, I also typically like the taste of it after it’s cooled to room temp. My coffee snobbery begins and ends at “use good beans which were freshly ground”. If you’ve done that you can make a brewing mistake and mess it up (I’ll still drink it) otherwise it will taste good. Some beans are better than others obviously, but I’m not too picky.
I feel like you might like James Hoffman, a coffee YouTube creator. His baseline attitude is much the same as yours - if you start with good tasting water and good, freshly roasted beans, you’ll likely end up with good tasting coffee. He also delves into the nitty gritty, doing a lot of cool experimentation with different techniques and data-driven stuff, but he usually does a good job of stressing that all those minute details end up making very small differences in the resulting cup.
Coffee tastes very different at different temperatures. That’s one of the things I like the most about it. While I prefer it hot, I also like it on ice. I’m not a huge fan of it at room temperature, but sometimes I get distracted… So I end up drinking a lot of of it that way, lol.
The only thing is that I have to have it black. No milk, no sugar. I just like it straight.
Yeah, I’m definitely with you on needing it to be black. When I started drinking coffee I was loading it with junk to choke it down and stay awake at work. Once I had actually-good coffee, I added less and less stuff to it until finally I realized: good coffee tastes great!