On our recent Golden cruise, the coffee in the Horizon Court was way too weak. Occasionally I got a decent cup in the Main Dining room.
I guess I could be considered a coffee snob by some here. I have even tried roasting my own, and the best coffee is fresh roasted Kona. I had to have a bag of green Kona beans shipped from Hawaii, in order to do that. I have since found Keurig machines to my liking. When i was roasting my own, I learned that exposure to air is what kills the flavor of coffee. As soon as the coffee is roasted, the clock starts ticking on it's flavor. The optimum flavor is about a day after it is roasted, because it needs to degas a little. The next thing that speeds up the clock is grinding the beans.
I used to go to the Costco type stores and buy the large cans of coffee, thinking I was saving a lot of $. By the time I got a third of the way through the can it was almost flavorless.
Starbucks is successfull because they use a dark roast. What this means is the beans are roasted longer(burnt) and that gives the coffee its burnt flavor. The reason they do this is because the burnt flavor is more consistant. No matter what the quality of the bean is, when you burn it, it tastes similar to other burnt coffee. When you get coffee at any Starbucks they pretty much all taste the same. By the way, most coffee lovers that roast their own would NEVER roast Kona beans as a dark roast.
Bold coffee is merely just a stronger flavor. It can be achieved by using a particular bean(blend) or by just mixing more coffee into the water. There is a difference between dark roast and bold.
The reason Keuring is so successful is that each K-cup is sealed from the air. You can buy a month's supply of a given flavor of K-cup and the last cup of a given lot will taste pretty much the same as the first one.
I would like to see the buffets on ships install Keuring machines for the passengers to use, with K-Cups they bring on board or K-cups they could be selling in the store on board. Keurig would probably give them the machines for the exposure it would give them to the people who have never tried it.
I first discovered Keuring before they ever started making home machines. I started communicating with them so that I could get one when they did.
The best thing about K-Cups is when someone in your family prefers a different flavor or decaf vs regular. With a regular coffeemaker, there is lingering flavor of the last pot made that intermingles with the current pot. There's no waste with K-cups, either.
My current K-cup favorite: Newman's Own, Special Blend, Medium Roast, Extra Bold. I used to get Timothy's 10% Kona Blend, but the current favorite is better IMHO.
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On our recent Golden cruise, the coffee in the Horizon Court was way too weak. Occasionally I got a decent cup in the Main Dining room.
I guess I could be considered a coffee snob by some here. I have even tried roasting my own, and the best coffee is fresh roasted Kona. I had to have a bag of green Kona beans shipped from Hawaii, in order to do that. I have since found Keurig machines to my liking. When i was roasting my own, I learned that exposure to air is what kills the flavor of coffee. As soon as the coffee is roasted, the clock starts ticking on it's flavor. The optimum flavor is about a day after it is roasted, because it needs to degas a little. The next thing that speeds up the clock is grinding the beans.
I used to go to the Costco type stores and buy the large cans of coffee, thinking I was saving a lot of $. By the time I got a third of the way through the can it was almost flavorless.
Starbucks is successfull because they use a dark roast. What this means is the beans are roasted longer(burnt) and that gives the coffee its burnt flavor. The reason they do this is because the burnt flavor is more consistant. No matter what the quality of the bean is, when you burn it, it tastes similar to other burnt coffee. When you get coffee at any Starbucks they pretty much all taste the same. By the way, most coffee lovers that roast their own would NEVER roast Kona beans as a dark roast.
Bold coffee is merely just a stronger flavor. It can be achieved by using a particular bean(blend) or by just mixing more coffee into the water. There is a difference between dark roast and bold.
The reason Keuring is so successful is that each K-cup is sealed from the air. You can buy a month's supply of a given flavor of K-cup and the last cup of a given lot will taste pretty much the same as the first one.
I would like to see the buffets on ships install Keuring machines for the passengers to use, with K-Cups they bring on board or K-cups they could be selling in the store on board. Keurig would probably give them the machines for the exposure it would give them to the people who have never tried it.
I first discovered Keuring before they ever started making home machines. I started communicating with them so that I could get one when they did.
The best thing about K-Cups is when someone in your family prefers a different flavor or decaf vs regular. With a regular coffeemaker, there is lingering flavor of the last pot made that intermingles with the current pot. There's no waste with K-cups, either.
My current K-cup favorite: Newman's Own, Special Blend, Medium Roast, Extra Bold. I used to get Timothy's 10% Kona Blend, but the current favorite is better IMHO.