My notes on coffee
The very first time I drank coffee was when I was a secondary school student, I brought a Nestle Rich Coffee. It was quite strong for me back then. After I finished it, I felt my heartbeat accelerated noticeably.
I continued drinking coffee since then. As the years passed, the type of coffee I bought home changed. First it was canned coffee, then 3-in 1 instant coffee of different brands, then powdered coffee by UCC. And now, with a moka pot and a brikka pot plus a blur grinder at home and a handheld espresso maker by Wacaco at the workplace, I made the switch to buying whole coffee beans (for use at home) and ground coffee (for use at the workplace).
And sometime after I made this switch, I drank instant coffee and found it not like coffee at all. The switch was irrevocable, it turned out.
Thanks to the videos I found on YouTube, I learned how to use my moka and brikka pots in the way that would produce tasty coffee at home, every day. So long as the coffee beans are good.
Mostly I would buy coffee beans (UCC, Lavazza, Segafredo and the like) from supermarket. Sometimes I got those from local cafes. I also bought a bag of French roast from Starbucks. The beans were, as I belatedly read from a post by Robert McKeon Aloe, hopelessly burnt, and the coffee I made using those beans tasted awful. I ended up having to discard those beans. Starbucks' beans really are no good. To save myself from future regrets, I would stay away from beans roasted by Starbucks.
I guess, when I first drank coffee, I probably wouldn't imagine myself making coffee both at home and at work on a daily basis, and I won't know why I would drink coffee twice (at least) each day, even on Sunday. Perhaps it became my feel-good drink. And it would feel like something is missing if I don't drink coffee.
And this is what I got using a Wacaco maker and Segafredo ground coffee.
Looks good, tastes good.
