I'd say 'drink it faster'Noggin wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 12:49 pm I have another question, well probably two!! (Weird learning about coffee after all my life drinking tea!!)
I make my coffee in a Mokka thingy on the hob. This particular one I bought at Lidl cos it's quite big (around 4 x espresso size - it's a bit annoying as sometimes it seems to spit coffee all over the place, but there's enough left to get a mug from!!) so I make a relatively weak coffee but a mug sized one (maybe one espresso of coffee but with 3 or 4 espressos worth of coffee!)
But, if I leave it on the side whilst I do stuff, and it gets cool (not quite cold), it is really bitter
It is nice hot - its the coffee from the cafe in the valley that I like as a latte from their machine, but at home I drink it black with one sugar (have found a friend in the uk to post me some Waveney Coffee, so need to get on and order it!!)
Soooo - does coffee go bitter as it cools? Or am I doing something to it??
Also, is it the grind? I couldn't justify an electric grinder as recommended, got to be careful as probably won't work till December so spending 50€ just to grind coffee is a bit much right now!! So I bought a hand one similar to this -
It's quite a chunky grind as opposed to the coffee I bought in the supermarket which is like powder. Is that wrong? Have I wasted money on the hand ground one?
I only grind enough for two or three cups at a time - the oldest it will be on that basis is three days/72 hours ish from being ground. It's stored in an airtight glass jar thingy
TBF, I don't think the coffee is going bad because it still tastes nice hot
So do I just have to drink it faster??
Thank you from a 'still' novice coffee drinker
I've recently changed the way I drink and only drink 'espresso' amounts (I use a Le Creuset espresso mug), but often it's either 'normal' coffee, or only half filled with coffee from the mokka, and then topped up with hot water (ie similar to an 'a longue' you can get from most french cafes). I literally just made myself one before sitting down to write this, so the coffee in the mokka was 'cold' (made a few hours ago), and it's 'slightly' more bitter than it was this morning, but not by much. (it's one of the Waveney Valley african ones which I find quite bitter anyway).
As an aside - I ordered a kilo of the Monsoon Malabar AA from Waveney Valley only last night, it's my favourite of the single source coffees they do - we tend to find the African and South American varieties a bit over bitter.
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