Reusable K cups - and you can use fresh ground coffee!
MY brother in law has a Moccamaster. I like it very much. Good stuff.
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Darker Coffee? Do you have just “light” products up there? Greetz from central Europe.
Traditionally many Finns drink blond roast coffee, usually robusta. It is not as light as in some countries, where the drip coffee is hard to tell from the tea, though. 
The “darker” coffee I use is the standard German or French coffee or similar. Actually many Swedish coffee brands are also much darker and better than our local brands.
I may have to make a journey
Ah. Ok. I noticed that if you order a coffee in some coffee shops the coffee is really blond but tasty. Sometimes even strong. It depends so much on good beans. It’s a hassle. 
While there’s simply no substitute for a nice espresso or ristretto, we all have a guilty pleasure when it comes to coffee … right? Here are mine:
- Cafe bonbon (or is it Bombón?) Spanish style: condensed milk + espresso = sweet heaven!
- Pumpkin Spice Latte. Yes, I’m a stupid, brainwashed, American, but sometimes you just gotta rock the PSL.
Oh, and I rode PETIT this morning! #shameful
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p.s. I fell in love with ristretto while working in Switzerland. Try to order one here in rural North Carolina, and you basically get escorted out of the cafe.
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Slow brew at home, espresso at the local coffee bar.
Dialing in coffee on the grinder and the espresso machine takes too much time and beans to get it right for the limited amount of coffee you drink at home (in my humble opinion)
A good alternative are the pods which you can buy from caffenation (Specialty Coffee Capsules (Nespresso Compatible) - Biodegradable – Caffenation Specialty Coffee Roasters) or magistrale (https://magistralecyclingcoffee.cc/coffee-capsules/espresso-cups/): the pods they use are from the green ring, and 100% compostable!
As for my setup:
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Want to doppio your HR?
Make an espresso with coffee instead of water. 
Just kidding. Don’t do it, it’s scary. 
I restrict my caffeine intake to make sure that it does have an impact when I drink it ! I know that the podcast has covered this a number of times. We have a Jura coffee machine at home - it is brilliant !
Just completed Huaffaker and I needed an Espresso beforehand !
My tip for a pre-ride drink in the early morning is the long black:
- Hot water from the boiler into a glass to warm it. Let it sit while you grind and prep the shot. 70mls.
- Pull the shot directly onto the glass
- Go a little bit longer on the extraction time and the volume since the water will cut some of the acid (a little shorter of a shot than a Lungo)
I find that this is easy on the stomach and gets your central nervous system firing really quick since the caffeine is absorbed so quickly.
Drink this first before consuming anything else.
If you ever visit us in Auchterarder make sure you ask for me (Nico!), there’s free coffee in it for you.
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My steel Italian bikes from the early 90s (Bianchi Virata and Grizzly) are unfortunately gone, but my Italian steel Pasquini Livia 90 from the late 90s and matching grinder are hanging in there.
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I might be missing something… are you pulling your shot into the glass of 70mls hot (lukewarm) water ? So it’s kinda like a modified Americano?
At 4:00am I actually need the legitimate shock to my system that a straight shot provides!
Yes, a long black is an upside down Americano to preserve the crema on top.
The water isn’t lukewarm, it’s pretty much straight out of the boiler so by the time the shot is coming out, it’s around brew temp (since I’m using a heat exchange machine rather than one with two dedicated boilers)
The other benefit is that it ends to get the digestive system moving more quickly than a straight shot.
I went a bit crazy this year, significant birthday.
ECM Mechanika Profi, plumbed in
ECM Titan 64
Beans mostly from Phil and Sebastian, local roaster here in Calgary (was just featured on the latest Phil Gaimon vid = legit)
Also do pour-over at work.
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Guilty pleasure?
I go with coffee culture in Vienna and choose the Einspänner. There is nothing close!
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Hopefully you’re not moving house any time soon?
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