Coffee

[newts]

I went to Crankhouse coffee, about 15 minutes walk from home. https://www.crankhousecoffee.co.uk/
I'll update on the taste once I've finished the Exeter Roasters neighbourhood blend, (very nice had many bags of this the last couple of years).
https://execoffeeroasters.co.uk/col...ducts/neighbourhood-blend-summer-2019-edition
Mrs N has treated me to a Sage Barista, so being a little more adventurous with beans.

 

[Fat Lars]

Oh! Am 260 miles away - but working on moving closer! Neither of us exactly locals then (though I went to school in Crediton) and still visit friends there....

I guess they do mail order. I'll get in touch and see what they do.

 

[Randomnerd]

My new goto roaster (localish to you) is the Crediton Coffee Company. Their Monsoon Malabar is very-much floating my boat!

Monsoon Malabar - great coffee bean. A proper earthy flavour. Love it.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I guess they do mail order. I'll get in touch and see what they do.

They do! They have a new online shop :-)

How did you chance upon it from 200 Miles away?

 

[Fab Foodie]

I went to Crankhouse coffee, about 15 minutes walk from home. https://www.crankhousecoffee.co.uk/
I'll update on the taste once I've finished the Exeter Roasters neighbourhood blend, (very nice had many bags of this the last couple of years).
https://execoffeeroasters.co.uk/col...ducts/neighbourhood-blend-summer-2019-edition
Mrs N has treated me to a Sage Barista, so being a little more adventurous with beans.

As a kid in the 60s and 70s, Princesshay used to smell of roasting coffee! Posh! Ahead of it's time, Exeter :-)

 

[Fab Foodie]

I only know Crediton for making Imps. There's a sweet that's had its day!

They made several kinds of well-known cough sweets and throat lozenges over the years - Jacksons Pastilles. There was also Bristows Fudge and a Shipphams meat paste factory!
Just the dairy remains now behind the Church.

 

[newts]

As a kid in the 60s and 70s, Princesshay used to smell of roasting coffee! Posh! Ahead of it's time, Exeter :-)

Carwardines? There was chat about it on the Exeter Memories facebook page recently. County Stores in Taunton used have the same aroma as you walked up the High Street.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Braithwaites in Dundee - the entire street smells of freshly ground coffee.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Carwardines? There was chat about it on the Exeter Memories facebook page recently. County Stores in Taunton used have the same aroma as you walked up the High Street.

Indeed!
Am on the same fb group under another identity!

 

[Fat Lars]

They do! They have a new online shop :-)

How did you chance upon it from 200 Miles away?

I just received 6 x 500 grams of Monsoon Malabar coffee beans yesterday. I get them from Amazon and the supplier is Rave Coffee. I came across them by accident as the beans I normally used were out of stock. I tried them and stayed with them. During roasting the skin of the other beans I used to use is shedded and leaves behind a residue. The Monsoon Malabar beans leave behind hardly anything at all.

 

[Randomnerd]

FYI. I've a subscription with Coffee Direct. Very good priced imho. And a quite narrow, mostly standard range to choose from.
Blue Sumatra today. A fresh kilo. Oh yes. Dry. A delicious strong roast.
Made a mistake with a change to the order recently and ended up with a kg of Galapagos. Around five x my normal spend. Maybe my taste isn't refined enough, but I couldn't taste 5x flavour. Rare apparently, as in a small tonnage annually.

What about the ethics and sustainability of coffee? Or must I go to The Shouty Other Place for those views?

 

[Fat Lars]

James Hoffman had a vid on his youtube channel quite recently about resting coffee.

Yes I've seen it. I have learned a great deal from his videos. It would seem that 1 week / 2 weeks, is the optimum time for best taste. But the freshness and taste diminish slowly after that. I you keep the beans in an airtight or vacuum container than that helps to keep them fresh.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I just received 6 x 500 grams of Monsoon Malabar coffee beans yesterday. I get them from Amazon and the supplier is Rave Coffee. I came across them by accident as the beans I normally used were out of stock. I tried them and stayed with them. During roasting the skin of the other beans I used to use is shedded and leaves behind a residue. The Monsoon Malabar beans leave behind hardly anything at all.

I'm having a go at this, not sure it will replace MM in my affections....

 

[si_c]

I'm having a go at this, not sure it will replace MM in my affections.... View attachment 628414

Really do like a nice Gaggia Classic.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Really do like a nice Gaggia Classic.

I should give mine a clean!