Flavortown has been desolate. So, I figured I’d give you all a fool-proof map to find your way to this lovely place where delicious coffee flows from public fountains as water flows in Rome. Enjoy these 7 tips for better coffee and implement them to really optimize your daily cuppa.
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What is your go to move when you are in a rut? let me know below! and don't forget to hit that like 😉 cheers!
i love when my favourite coffee youtuber focuses on coffee instead of gear <3
Lance, for circle paper filters in espresso baskets, do you wet the filter with some water then put the grinds in, or do you leave the filter dry? Is there a different between wet vs dry on extraction at all?
So glad step 1 was coffee. Different lots can taste different. I stick with reliable blends for espresso and save the single origins for a pourover, where I quickly know whether I'd buy it again! It's much cheaper than expensive gear, too.
If scaling up, I.e. going to 18g coffee to 300g water when recipe is usually 15/250 what changes should you make? What setting on the ode 2 (stock burrs) for the bloom and 1 poor method?
I use a metal cone dealy woth no paper. Am i an animal?
Thanks so much! I think among the best videos you’ve ever made! Few things may be one’s opinion: I think brewers matter but mostly because they allow t tweak grind size vs brew time. But I love the iteration on filters and would like to add that having an additional inconsistent hand grinder maybe beneficial for some coffees. It may be cheating in a way but it can add complexity and acidity to mid- quality beans. Anyway, thx again for the nice vid and sharing you experience
We need an anthem for Flavortown
Bro, your videos are getting better and better. I enjoy your Videos so much, thanks Lance 🫶🏼
Amazing video, have learned a lot from the content here. Just want to let you know that this thumbnail was not it for me, very strange.
Yea! On the road to Flavor Town!
Also, going to be in Portugal in just a couple of weeks, can you recommend any cafes and/or roasters? Starting in Porto and riding bikes to Santiago Spain along the coast.
Would love to buy you a cup!
Viruses and fevers can affect the sense of smell and taste. It's well known that COVID can cause loss of sense of smell, but does it ever 100% come back? It didn't for me 😢 It partially returned after a couple of weeks but after ten weeks I still can't smell things I could before, and everything tastes bland. Walking through the park and I can't smell the pine trees. I used to enjoy coffee a lot, but now it's kind of well, nothing amazing, just coffee. When you live in a world of smells and suddenly it's gone, you really notice it. On the plus side, it's easier to keep a straight face around people who are blissfully unaware of their BO 😆
I just changed from the Fellow Opus to the Fellow Ode Gen 2 and was shocked at the difference in the resulting cup with the same beans for a V60 brew. I took the Opus to my office to replace the hand grinders I was using (Knock Feld 2 and Helor 101) with the Clever Dripper and again I was surprised at the change/improvement in the cup quality.
Lance you're great man! I usually get a new coffee and then I will be happy and have something to comparative taste or to look forward in the morning.
Also btw I recently got some nice coffee from Onyx bought in Cologne at Track One Coffee! It's super cool that these are avaiable in the EU now! Looking forward to more! :))
We drink our Coffee from the other side of the cup. An acquired technique to be sure. Since doing so we have cut down on hiccups and the
cup of Coffee lasts longer. Try it.
See you there.
Ahh, yes, that classic film Snow White and the 7 Simple Tips!
For me, it can be as simple as drinking something else for a couple of days. Changing things up every now then helps "refresh" my palate. Then again, I'm the type who appreciates most single-origins so long as they're freshly roasted.
I used your v60 recipe this morning with a new bag of freshies and MAN! Flavor town!!
The choice of coffee is what got me for a long, long time. I thought I was doing something wrong by not being able to make some of these well-known coffees taste good to me. Turns out I just don't like light roast, no matter how it is prepared. On the whole anyway but there are exceptions to the rule.
I like a very simple 2:1, standard (not high extraction) basket, in about 28-32 seconds. Normally with something on the darker end of medium, in terms of third wave coffee anyway. My go-to coffees are still Eclipse for drinks without milk and Nicoletti Old School for milk-based drinks.
It took a lot of experiment to get there too. I think I have got a bag of everything that Seattle coffee gear sells at some point, lol. Plus, other online retailers and direct.
As always thank you for the video!
One of my favorite roasteries does 125g sample packs – I love trying these using three different brew methods, Kalita Wave, SWorks Flatbottom brewer & Aeropress. Iced brew vs. hot brew is another pair of brews I like trying to shift my taste perceptions….
"Hrmm, slow feeding your grinder you say? Interesting… let's give that a try."
60 second shot becomes 15 second gusher.
"Lance! What did you do!?!"
I accept your invitation to Flavortown!
I tried slow feeding my ancient Baratza Soli grinder after one of your previous videos, and I think that made a difference! I don't do it every day, but probably 4 days a week. I might try other filters, but I'm mostly using my trusty (also ancient) Moccamaster. Recommendations for those #4 filters are most welcome!
1:14 it’s funny how ”evolution” is considered to result in something ”better”. This is not a fact and as an evolutionary biologist I constantly have to remind people that the process of evolution is neutral and ”blind” as it only creates random stuff and creations are either randomly successful due to change or the ”bad” ones are filtered out as the others adapt better to new random conditions. It’s common to think that a species that existed a million years ago is more ”primal” and thus ”worse” than species that exist today but this is false. I think humans have just learned to think that we are the pinnacle of evolution.
Hi Lance, great video as always. I really appreaciate that you focus on coffee instead of gear. I did experience being stuck in a rut and mixing up brew helped a lot. So when im done with lattes in the morning i switch to a V60 and vice versa. And so did changing coffees. Luckily me favourite café in Munich Sweetspot regularly buys new coffe from all over the world so we can try new coffees.
Slow feeding did make a huge difference for me as well, alsmost doubled the brew time once but i stopped using this technique on my standard espresso for milk drinks just to make the workflow easier.
Cheers.
Do you still remove the "paper" from after grinding the beans for V60's? I find that this is one of the biggest improvements for filter coffee you ever dedicated a video on. But obviously buy nice coffee (for your own preference), use good water = these two components are 99% of the flavor…
THANK YOU on the #7 recommendation of “cleanliness”. I couldn’t agree more!!! Even with my grinders, I clean the burrs, grind chamber, etc. about once a month and at absolute least, when I’m about to brew a more regarded specialty roaster’s beans. Don’t want to cross the bean streams and it gets grind build up off the burrs that’s probably affecting particle size consistency. Great video!
Wowww you got the Smart Fish Pro Kettle
Lance do you watch the Food Network? Flavor Town. Diners, Drive ins and Dives!
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I hope Lance will review an Elektra Micro Casa Lever someday 😊
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0:38 Coffee
1:53 Water
4:31 Ratio/Dosage/Bed depth
5:50 Brew Method
7:32 Filter
9:31 Grinder
10:43 Cleanliness
Hey Lance, thanks for your passion thanks for your love <3 As I am searching for a new espresso grinder, and of course I have watched already your videos :D, I wanted to ask you, what you would recommend someone, who is searching for something new. I´ve seen things like the P64 or the Zerno Z1, but as well something like the DF83V. I feel like I am missing out something on these 64mms. But I am not the pro, so I am asking you. What are your thoughts about this. I like to drink dark roast coffee, modern coffee.