What is the best type of coffee? ole time boilded, --instant,-- perked? drip??!
Answers: favorite coffee and favorite creamer??
There are 4 components to good coffee, besides the quality of the coffee itself, roast, freshness, grind and water purity.
1.Roast is very basically how BOLD do you like your coffee?
2. Freshness is extremely important. The best way is to keep whole beans in a cool, dark place in an airtight container.
Don't freeze it unless you're going to be wanting to use it several months later...coffee loses flavor when it freezes. Get an inexpensive grinder (burr grinders are very expensive) like a Mr. Coffee or Proctor Silex blade grinder...between $10 and $20. Grind your coffee fresh when you're going to brew it (or the night before if you set it up at night). Try to only buy the amount you'll use in a week...quality goes down rapidly after that.
3. You want to grind it for the kind of brewer you'll be using...quite coarse for a press...medium for a percolator or drip machine...very fine for espresso. If you're using a drip coffeemaker (most common) just look at regular pre-ground coffee for the idea.
4. The ABSOLUTELY most important....water quality!!! if your tap water tastes absolutely great...use it. If you don't like drinking tap water from your city water supply...surely don't use it in your coffee!!! Our water here tastes awful out of the tap and worse in coffee. i can't afford bottled water all of the time so i use a water filter...
All that said...if you follow these guidelines...your coffee will be great, whatever way you brew it! For the most developed flavor though, use a french press...quick, flavorful and inexpensive!
I would say frozen cofee lol
got to love starbucks
mocha frap . [: