Making good coffee for a large group of people

[Aurelia]

Help! I need some advice!

I am a film producer and I am responsible for organizing the coffee served on set. Film crews are notoriously fickle about their coffee, and the NEED coffee to work.
I don't drink coffee myself, so I have no idea of what constitutes good or bad coffee, and I don't really know how to make good coffee.

So here is my question.

How can I make good quality coffee for 10 - 15 people, using a method which is reasonably quick and foolproof? The junior production assistants have to make the coffee and they are not trained baristas, so a manual espresso machine is not a good option.

Can you give me some suggestions? Is it possible to make good coffee using a drip filter machine if you are using freshly ground and roasted beans?

Many Thanks

[TC]

Is it possible to make good coffee using a drip filter machine if you are using freshly ground and roasted beans?

Many Thanks

Welcome to CS Aurelia

I think the Breville YouBrew might suit your requirements. They are produce an excellent drip filter coffee.

Cheers

Chris

[GrahamK]

Help! I need some advice!

Can you give me some suggestions? Is it possible to make good coffee using a drip filter machine if you are using freshly ground and roasted beans?

That would be my suggestion, Drip or Plunger coffee using suitable freshly roasted/ground coffee would be my preference to trying to imitate an Espresso style badly using an automatic machine or (shiver) capsules (Nespresso style). Ensure you get beans suitable for Drip/Plunger. It will also be easier no doubt to cater for the varied tastes, milk or alternative, sugar etc if they can do it themselves.

GrahamK

[Vinitasse]

You might also want to consider hiring a mobile coffee service. If... for example... you were currently shooting a film on the Mornington Peninsula... you might want to look into getting a local coffee van to show up on site.

[Aurelia]

Thanks for your replies.

A coffee service is probably too expensive for what we are doing, but that YouBrew looks awesome! I might look into that.