Coffee and Capitocalypse
I am a late comer to specialty coffee, or to coffee in general. My idea of coffee has been shaped my Nescafe with milk to stay up during PHD or that gruesomely bitter burnt Starbucks coffe that I could only tolerate with a lot of cream and sugar back in my Austin days ( exactly here to be precise). I do not like Turkish coffee, since it is even darker than Starbucks coffee. All of this changed when my friend and soon-to-be sister-in-law Deniz sent our office a filter coffee machine for end user tests. I slowly moved from Starbucks, Nero, Tchibo up to the only speciality coffee shop in Istanbul Kronotrop (link). I have also tested different brewing methods such as using Moka pot ( link ). Moka pots seem to accentuate the flavors in the beans, and more suited for fresh grinds and for preparing espresso-like substrate for latte variants. Being the geek that I am, I soon came across Aeropress, which was invented by a geek for geeks (here is a link to an article about the h...