{"id":470,"date":"2017-07-03T18:31:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T18:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eweforia.com\/blog\/?p=470"},"modified":"2017-07-03T18:35:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T18:35:15","slug":"my-quest-for-making-really-good-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.eweforia.com\/blog\/my-quest-for-making-really-good-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"My Quest for Making Really Good Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I am a huge fan of really good coffee. But I live 10 miles from a Starbucks, and I’m too frugal to pay Starbucks prices for my daily cups of joe. I had seen Pueblo’s local Solar Roast Coffee guys offer samples of their brewed coffee in SamsClub using a pour-over method, so I knew that a really good cup of coffee didn’t require huge sophisticated equipment. So I decided to knock off one of my New Year’s resolutions: learn to make a really good cup of coffee.<\/p>\n

I drink decaf coffee and have been buying relatively good beans for a long time and grinding a week’s supply in a good quality burr grinder. Good decaf beans that are affordable are hard to source, and I wanted a regular supply to appear magically in my mailbox every month. So I set up a Subscribe & Save order with Amazon for 2 lb of San Francisco Bay decaf espresso roast coffee<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But that didn’t yield a really good cup of coffee using my trusty Mr. Coffee 4-cup coffee maker. So I needed to change the way I make coffee in addition to the coffee itself. I needed to brew coffee manually.<\/p>\n

I researched different pour-over methods of making coffee, including French Press and Chemex. I already had a French Press from bygone years, and I still couldn’t get a good-tasting, non-gritty cup of coffee from it. Chemex machines were expensive, even the knock-offs. One of the comments in a Chemex review suggested that all I needed was a porcelain dripper and an understanding of the v60 brewing method.<\/p>\n

I now have a perfect set-up and am producing 3 cups of rich, mellow coffee every morning without much more work and in about the same time it took the automatic coffee maker. Here are the ingredients:<\/p>\n