World Coffee day is coming!
Any tips/tricks/hacks anyone want to share on how they make a better coffee? Or maybe good coffee beans worth buying for this occasion? Or any deal going on?
idrinkcoffee.com is having 10% off most of the stuff. I think it's a great deal and it's only 5% tax to BC! And for any order over $79, they give away a bag of beans... I've gotten one from them before and it's not bad at all. Definitely worth its regular $18/bag price.
I'd start with my lil trick.
When trying to learn how to do latte art, I found that the key really lies in how well foamed your milk is. You could have a bean that produce minimum crema (the part that creates most of the contrast), but with a good milk, you can still pull a decent latte art.
Most of the youtube or guide would tell you to use the spout of the pitcher as leverage in order to get the rotation going to better mix air into the milk. After failing maybe 300 attempts, I asked a barista who one day pulled the most sophisticated latte art (in a matter of seconds) for me about his secret.
He just told me, hold your pitcher perpendicular to the spout instead of using the spout as leverage point because most pitcher are teardrop shape. He finds that by steaming milk that way, he can get the milk to foam much better.
The first try after I took his advice, it came out like a pro.