I enjoy coffee many ways. I often drink it black, but I also have been known to have it with unsweetened soy milk and usually agave/maple syrup in addition to that. However, I noticed that using both soy and a sweetener makes it taste kinda “overwhelming.” This morning, I put some agave in my coffee but I put no soy, and it tastes much better. Bottom line is that I can enjoy coffee either black or with sweetener OR milk/creamer, but I can’t do both sweetener and milk/creamer. Now, that I can’t get with.
Then what’s the difference between it and drip coffee? Is it just drip coffee?
I don’t have one but from my understanding, it’s basically that but instead of having super boiling water dripping wherever in a pile of grounds and seeping through at an arbitrary rate, it’s you choosing a proper lower temperature, wetting the grounds completely in a controlled manner and the coffee seeping through at a studied rate guaranteed by the shape of the design
Well damn ok I might pick it up
Basically, yeah. But there’s no heating element constantly cooking the coffee like in the average drip machine.
Sort of. But it involves a ton more control over every aspect letting you really bring out the flavor of the coffee. Also you tend to grind smaller so extraction takes more time.
the filters tend to be thicker, and you can control the brew temperature and process a lot more than with a drip machine, so with technique you can get more control over the strength, flavor, etc of the coffee that comes out. But its a difference of quality not of kind really, IMO.
At-home drip machines don’t produce great coffee in my experience, and I think that’s largely due to uneven spreading of the water over the grounds, potential over-extraction, and often too low or too high of water temperature.