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    Storing green beans

    What is the best way? I've searched but only find roasted bean storage. Thanks.
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    Care to share Aeropress filter advice?

    After too many mornings of bad motel coffee during our Thanksgiving road trip, I put an Aeropress in my letter to Santa. I'm thinking a metal filter will be more convenient for travel than packing paper filters. But there are so many choices for metal filters: the S filter, an Able fine disk, a...
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    Roasting on a charcoal grill

    I'm tempted to try it since my wife will never forgive me if I even think about roasting in her kitchen. There are two ways I can go: 1. Use a basket mounted on a rotisserie setup with charcoal banked on either side. The grill temperature typically runs 400 degrees to 450 degrees. 2. Break out...
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    Here's where the chemistry stumps me

    I weigh out 40 grams of beans on my wife's digital scale for our morning coffee. If it takes three scoops of bean A to make 40 grams and it takes almost four of the same scoops of brand B to weigh 40 grams, will brand B be stronger because there are more beans? My head is spinning. Thanks, all.
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    Just another new guy

    I still can remember the worst coffee I've ever drunk. It was my "hello, sunrise," cup from a pot that was brewed sometime during the eve watch when I was in the Navy years ago. After being heated for 10 or more hours in a huge stainless steel vat, the coffee was rough, to say the least. But we...
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