Italian coffee

[FatLazyContractor]

Available from Green Mile Coffee Inc

Racist !!

[unixman]

I was a Costa addict in the last contract. When the price went up, I bought one of those plunger cups instead, an ongoing saving of about £20/week and 320 calories per day. The coffee was actually nicer, but not as creamy.

[darmstadt]

We have the standard plastic cup coffee machine but standing next to it is a rather nice machine with coffee beans and a grinder built in and gives a lovely mug of coffee for only 80c. Apart from that there is also a couple of coffee shops in the building with the full bang wheeze farting noise machines where you can get all your favourites for about a euro, not too bad really. And a decent, IMHO, canteen...

[ELBBUBKUNPS]

I was a Costa addict in the last contract. When the price went up, I bought one of those plunger cups instead, an ongoing saving of about £20/week and 320 calories per day. The coffee was actually nicer, but not as creamy.

I've tried a few things including getting Nero beans and using them in my coffee machine but just can't match shop bought flavour, was thinking the cardboard cup might be the mixing link so going to try that, either way I can't keep spending what I do of coffee though to be fare its my only really vice / treat.

[FatLazyContractor]

I've tried a few things including getting Nero beans and using them in my coffee machine but just can't match shop bought flavour, was thinking the cardboard cup might be the mixing link so going to try that, either way I can't keep spending what I do of coffee though to be fare its my only really vice / treat.

[ELBBUBKUNPS]

I haven't had my morning coffee yet.

[Antman]

As explained to me by an Italian friend:

The espressos don't have a lot of cafeine in them. As the water is pushed through the coffee the flavour comes out in the first few seconds, the cafeine takes longer to come out. So the longer the water/steam is being pushed through the ground beans the bigger your hit of cafeine with no noticeable increase in coffee taste..

Consequently if you have a lungo you'll find it has a lot more cafeine in it than 2 espressos added together.

HTH

[MrMarkyMark]

As explained to me by an Italian friend:

The espressos don't have a lot of cafeine in them. As the water is pushed through the coffee the flavour comes out in the first few seconds, the cafeine takes longer to come out. So the longer the water/steam is being pushed through the ground beans the bigger your hit of cafeine with no noticeable increase in coffee taste..

Consequently if you have a lungo you'll find it has a lot more cafeine in it than 2 espressos added together.

HTH

So FLC is talking out of his r*ngpiece then

[darmstadt]

We have the standard plastic cup coffee machine but standing next to it is a rather nice machine with coffee beans and a grinder built in and gives a lovely mug of coffee for only 80c. Apart from that there is also a couple of coffee shops in the building with the full bang wheeze farting noise machines where you can get all your favourites for about a euro, not too bad really. And a decent, IMHO, canteen...

I forgot, we also have the tealady come around with her trolley twice a day, morning has bread rolls and afternoon has cakes as well, while in summer the afternoon shift is the ice cream woman. A civilised workplace

[DaveB]

I've tried a few things including getting Nero beans and using them in my coffee machine but just can't match shop bought flavour, was thinking the cardboard cup might be the mixing link so going to try that, either way I can't keep spending what I do of coffee though to be fare its my only really vice / treat.

Even buying the branded beans will not do much good. The shops have a huge turnover of beans for their own coffee so they are always relatively fresh. The stuff in the bags has been sitting around for weeks before you buy them so will never be as good.

Give these guys a try : https://www.pactcoffee.com/

Delivered to your door within days of roasting. Good choice of beans and roasts.

They are doing an introductory offer. 250g pack of beans for £1 including delivery if you use the code GRIND1 on checkout.