How come there is no real “wacky experimentation” side of the coffee community? The only one I can identify is the “snobby” coffee community (you know the one), and the rest being mostly just a refrained version of that.
Compare that to the homebrewing community, you have the snobbs (the mead community is infamous), but then there are the “prison hoochers”, turning anything containing sugar into alcohol.
Where are the mavericks who perform the important societal task of discerning if “is coffee and cheeto-spice a good combo?” and “what happens if you brew coffee with red bull?”
On a more serious note it would be great so more people try different ways to spice coffee, instead of just trying to brew the flatest, “perfect” brew. I’ve found adding some fruity black tea to my coffee in a French press to work really well.
The coffee nerd community already went full circle with this, so now if it tastes good to you then it is good.
Lots of experimentation going on on the production side with wacky processing techniques like co-ferments and all sorts.
Websearch for “the bripe”.
This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever bought 7am
For me, I’m buying beans that are expensive enough and complex enough, my FAFO is dialing in my grind and brew temp. To mess with these beans by doing anything beyond water is about like using 21 year old single malt Scotch to make a whiskey sour. **The results are less than the sum of the parts. **
Now, if for some reason, a bag of beans gets a bit old, I’ll play around a little bit. Also, I’ve had people gift me really awful or bland beans, and I despise wasting food. I find a drop of fruit extract in the brew water can add a little hint of complexity.
Just because you arent aware of it doesnt mean it doesnt exist.
I follow a baristfluencer who makes all kind of wacky things and does events and competitions.
Because there’s already a type of coffee that has been eaten and then shit out by a cat before grinding.
After that, there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of boundaries to explore…
What is FAFO?
people are using it to just refer to experimentation here but it has some charged political interpretations as well
Everything is political but jesus christ
