The Coffee is the Problem

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We can definitely help you make better coffee. 

My mom grew up in Louisiana, so when I was a kid, it was always a special treat to get Community Coffee. BUT, I’ve since learned that coffee goes stale and stale coffee leaves a bad taste in our mouths. 

The Moka pot is an interesting way of making coffee, and it has its merits. The one drawback to using a moka pot is that it necessarily uses boiling water to extract the coffee. Ideally, coffee is brewed with water on the cooler side of that - around 200 degrees. Best solution for this is to move to the mountains - at 6,000 feet elevation water boils at 200 degrees. Colorado, here we come!

Anyway, moka pot isn’t your problem. It’s the coffee. I would recommend buying a burr grinder and finding a local roaster to get your coffee from. We sell an entry level burr grinder called the Baratza Encore. 

Once coffee is roasted, it will show noticeable staling in 7-10 days, and once it is ground, that time goes from days to minutes. I would guess that most of the taste you don’t like in the coffee is caused by these rancid coffee oils.

If you don’t have a good local roaster, we always ship within 48 hours of roasting, and we have a great subscription option to make delivery more convenient. 

Let me know what we can do for you to help you start drinking better coffee instead of bitter coffee.