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Hallo.
Im new here, live just east of Melbourne, and I have very little knowledge of coffee. But I am probably unusual in that I am very fond of iced coffee, but have never got into hot coffee, as I tend not to like hot drinks of any sort, in general. However, I rarely get through a day without having iced coffee, and this is all through the year, not just the warmer weather. I usually have it just once, occasionally two or three times - I am not a chain iced-coffee drinker.
If anyone else here is keen on iced coffee, Id like to hear from them; and I want to ask for any suggestions about making it.
I often drink it at cafés or restaurants, and find perhaps 50 percent are quite inadequate, and nearly the same number are adequate but not really good - quite acceptable and average, but thats all; and a very small number are truly superb - distinctly above average. Those places are the ones I keep going back to, and I am often willing to go quite some miles out of my way to call on these places.
The commonest problem is getting cafés to make it strong enough. 15 or 20 or more years ago, I never had to ask for it to be made strong, because it was usually right anyway. However, almost everyone makes it so weak nowadays; and the milky colour of it demonstrates that this is not just the result of my tastes changing. Sometimes even if I ask for it strong, it still comes to me weak, which I admit to finding rather annoying. If I think it is good other than being too weak, I will keep going back several more times, and tell them what my problem is, and I may succeed in educating them into making it stronger for me.
Anyway, I find that, when I try to make iced coffee myself, I just cannot seem to make it right, however I try, or whatever coffee I use, and I cannot always identify just what I think is wrong with it; and this is what I wanted to ask about. The thought has occurred to me that what I make may in fact be quite good, but I might have a kind of psychological block whereby I just tend to find not so good anything I make myself - I just dont know.
I read or heard about the Coffee Snobs Forum a week or two ago, and thought I might join and post my query here, and see if anyone has any tips on making iced coffee which I can learn to make it better.
I cant go into the exact ways I make my own iced coffee in full detail in my first post, and may not have either the knowledge nor the terminology to describe how I do it anyway; but I wonder if I could please ask if there are known and established techniques for making iced coffee. I admit I am probably fussy in this area: I have been drinking iced coffee regularly since my teens, around 1970, and I was much more easily pleased then - even quite satisfied with instant coffee, which I rarely enjoy all that much now (its better than nothing if its all thats available, but thats about the best I would say for it nowadays). But it does seem that I am far more fussy now, and in a way I regret this, because I am less easily pleased now, and I probably enjoyed my iced coffee more often when I was less fussy. But I suppose theres no going back to that.
So if anyone has any comments about iced coffee, I would be grateful to hear from them. I would be interested to know if someone whose main interest is iced coffee is a bit of a freak in a forum like this.
Thank you.
Regards,
Michael.
Im new here, live just east of Melbourne, and I have very little knowledge of coffee. But I am probably unusual in that I am very fond of iced coffee, but have never got into hot coffee, as I tend not to like hot drinks of any sort, in general. However, I rarely get through a day without having iced coffee, and this is all through the year, not just the warmer weather. I usually have it just once, occasionally two or three times - I am not a chain iced-coffee drinker.
If anyone else here is keen on iced coffee, Id like to hear from them; and I want to ask for any suggestions about making it.
I often drink it at cafés or restaurants, and find perhaps 50 percent are quite inadequate, and nearly the same number are adequate but not really good - quite acceptable and average, but thats all; and a very small number are truly superb - distinctly above average. Those places are the ones I keep going back to, and I am often willing to go quite some miles out of my way to call on these places.
The commonest problem is getting cafés to make it strong enough. 15 or 20 or more years ago, I never had to ask for it to be made strong, because it was usually right anyway. However, almost everyone makes it so weak nowadays; and the milky colour of it demonstrates that this is not just the result of my tastes changing. Sometimes even if I ask for it strong, it still comes to me weak, which I admit to finding rather annoying. If I think it is good other than being too weak, I will keep going back several more times, and tell them what my problem is, and I may succeed in educating them into making it stronger for me.
Anyway, I find that, when I try to make iced coffee myself, I just cannot seem to make it right, however I try, or whatever coffee I use, and I cannot always identify just what I think is wrong with it; and this is what I wanted to ask about. The thought has occurred to me that what I make may in fact be quite good, but I might have a kind of psychological block whereby I just tend to find not so good anything I make myself - I just dont know.
I read or heard about the Coffee Snobs Forum a week or two ago, and thought I might join and post my query here, and see if anyone has any tips on making iced coffee which I can learn to make it better.
I cant go into the exact ways I make my own iced coffee in full detail in my first post, and may not have either the knowledge nor the terminology to describe how I do it anyway; but I wonder if I could please ask if there are known and established techniques for making iced coffee. I admit I am probably fussy in this area: I have been drinking iced coffee regularly since my teens, around 1970, and I was much more easily pleased then - even quite satisfied with instant coffee, which I rarely enjoy all that much now (its better than nothing if its all thats available, but thats about the best I would say for it nowadays). But it does seem that I am far more fussy now, and in a way I regret this, because I am less easily pleased now, and I probably enjoyed my iced coffee more often when I was less fussy. But I suppose theres no going back to that.
So if anyone has any comments about iced coffee, I would be grateful to hear from them. I would be interested to know if someone whose main interest is iced coffee is a bit of a freak in a forum like this.
Thank you.
Regards,
Michael.
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