• furry toaster@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 hours ago

    as someone from brazil, the whole concept of american gourmet coffee scares me, my grandma puts too much sugar on her coffee but americans are something else

    that aint coffee, thats fucking high caffeine milkshake

    • trolololol@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Dude if you can try Colombian coffee, don’t need no gourmet just buy what you can find. I love sello Rojo, it’s less strong than pilão but has more taste.

      As for American coffee, the things I tried when travelling didn’t taste like coffee at all. Everywhere I go that has this American style coffee capsules I have to put 2 expressos to even find the coffee smell, and that’s from a Brazilian that thinks pilão is strong.

      • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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        2 hours ago

        Capsules?

        You mean that stupid machine with the pods? Yea, fuck that, its not good. And its expensive per serving.

        Even plain drip coffee is better than that crap if you buy good coffee.

      • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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        2 hours ago

        Dude, there’s good coffee everywhere.

        And I blame where you are for the garbage that is Starbucks.

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        4 hours ago

        okay that’s cheating. I have a damn fine coffee shop i drink at when i’m feeling rich here. We were visiting the inlaws in Puyallup and omg. even the hotel coffee i did not want to leave.

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        5 hours ago

        I’m sorry to post basically an ad, but I get my coffee from an LA based roaster called YES PLZ and it’s incredible. I do live in the PNW tho lol

        • iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world
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          2 hours ago

          That’s cool, I’ll look them up. I like a few small roasters and the coffee is always amazing, but I am cheap and lazy, so usually I just get whatever from wherever (not sbux or Folger’s/maxwell tho haha I have standards). The biggest factors I’ve noticed at home are using freshly ground beans with a decent machine. Getting the fancy ninja machine and a mill grinder was a real game changer.