I’m looking for coffee shop recommendations in Islamabad during my stay. My usual source for researching is Google Maps, but I thought I’d get some better answers here.
I tend to prefer lattes or cappuccinos. So far, I’ve tried Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (several times), Feeka Coffee and Fary Au Chocolat.
I have L’espresso and & Coffee on my list to try.
Please suggest some other places that I should visit!
Has anyone tried Espresso's drip coffee bags?
Can't really afford to buy a machine rn and it seemed like a nice concept.
I have a moka pot right now. Espresso machines are super cool so I might buy one if I can afford it, just curious how much it'll cost. Id like a milk steamer on it too.
So I impulsively got a westpoint espresso machine. I was always fascinated by brewing my own coffee but my dad was never too keen on spending money on an espresso machine. However, this one time i just asked him if i could get one on the whim in the middle of imtiaz and surprisingly he agreed. So i just picked a relatively cheap one without knowing the abcs of brewing.
Now i got a westpoint espresso machine that i dont think im making the most out of. Im very much interested in maximising the quality of coffee i can get from this machine instead of just letting it go to waste. From what ive seen online, the shot im brewing is not good quality. Firstly, i dont have a coffee bean grinder so i just use the spice grinder i have at home. I also dont have those dedicated tamper and the other tools that u see in insta reels (i think to aerate the beans or smth). I also dont exactly measure the weight of the ground beans before using em or get the weight of the espresso brewed. I just take two spoon fulls of ground coffee beans for two shots, using the spoon that came with the machine, with a tamper at the bottom of the spoon. I also measured and memorised 60ml of liquid on a tiny metal shot glass kinda thingy and now i just eyeball the espresso quantity.
Ive recently learned that 18g of ground powder is used for 2 shots, which is 35g of espresso? brewed in between 25 to 30 seconds, if the time is not between this range i need to change the grind level. Furthermore, im not very good at frothing milk and the coffee i brew ends up feeling very liquidy like water. I initially thought i had to use milk with higher fat content to get better consistency but i observed a barista at a coffee shop recently using the same milk as me and brewing an amazing cup of coffee. So i guess its more about the right technique than the brand of milk. Although, the steam wand on my machine is like a match stick compared to those really thick ones on the machines in cafes etc.
So my question is, how do i maximise my brew quality with my current equipment. And if there are cheap investments i can make to significantly improve my coffee, what should i prioritise and where to get it from.
Ended up adding too much coffee, very strong taste. Also I was mixing it with a spoon 😭, I should get myself a frother
hii guys
I just bought a Delonghi KG79 coffee grinder and I regret it. im an idiot I bought it without researching because of a few reasons. and now that I'm looking at the reviews... there are some good reviews but many are shit talking it...
did I just waste my money?
Hello, I’ve just discovered my love for coffee, but I don’t have any gear or know-how to brew it yet. Please help me from where can I get the best-tasting beans and a good, affordable grinder? I want my coffee nutty and sweet.
Please share your feedback on this coffee machine. I don't want a fancy one, and my budget is limited.
I mentioned the survey we did of the coffee scene in 2021; got me thinking, we should do an update: 6 years later.
We did have a team from the 3 major cities, but I imagine with the community here, we can cover a lot more areas.
Are you in?
Selling this coffee warmer in 1500. It's totally new didn't used it. Based in Islamabad.
Hello there.
As some of the community members might know, I got into coffee only because of a project that required studying the coffee scene of Pakistan.
Consequently, I got straight into espresso-based lattes. Now that I’m talking to more home baristas, I find that people don’t always like espresso, and one factor is that making espresso at home can be expensive.
Another factor I’ve seen the community talk about is the cost of the coffee itself. People have been looking to optimise PKR / gram of coffee bean / ground coffee.
Some recipes require more grams of coffee because they don’t extract as much from the grounds. For example, an espresso takes 18 grams for a double shot, but a Hario V60 takes 30 grams.
Now, my question is, are you looking at your recipes before working out your coffee bills? Or only people who overthink about coffee would do this type of calculation?
So, as a coffee enthusiast like other members of this sub, I love exploring new coffee, and recently decided to give VITAL coffee a try.
Vital Coffee is a barista blend, some percentage of robusta beans and some percentage of arabica beans, those who don't know, robusta beans are cheap and contain high caffeine but taste like instant coffee, bitter and earthy, whereas Arabica beans are more on sweeter side and every region has it's own characteristics.
Once I opened the bag to examine the beans, I saw extra dark roasted low quality beans, some robusta and some arabica. Robusta beans are physically smaller in size in comparison to Arabica, coffee smelled like burnt and intense.
After careful examination of beans, it was time to think of how to brew it, and i could think of only 1 possibility out of 14,000,605. It was iced latte, because no way I was going to drink that coffee in any other shape.
I weighed the beans, exactly 18 grams for double espresso shot. Ground them to espresso and let it brew out of machine, it was ready in 28 seconds, ready to push me one step closer to death.
Grabbed my favorite glass, because it could be my last drink, added 250 ML milk, 20 grams of sugar (I had to because my instincts said so), blended the sugar well in milk, grabbed around 25 ice cubes, put them in glass and poured espresso shot over it.
Now it was time to taste test the Lucifer's juice. I took the first sip and it tasted okay, because milk helped with high acidity and sugar helped with bitterness of burnt roasted beans. It tasted like dark chocolate fudge cake, not bad but not good because if something tastes like cake it should only be cake.
After taste is like you've ate 90% dark chocolate, but oh my, the caffeine kick is what blew my mind (for real), I could feel vibrations in my body from head to toe, see colors and forgot how it feels like to be human, I felt like this the first time I had double espresso shot.
P.S, VITAL Coffee is good, if you're looking for your morning caffeine kick, and I wouldn't recommend having it black.
Sorry I forgot to take the pictures of my drink.
Can anyone please suggest me a good instant coffee for my sister?
Assalamualaikum,
I'm looking to buy an Aeropress. The options I see (online) are S-Cafe, Nomad, afterfive and Roastlab.
My experience with coffee and customer service has been great with S-Cafe and downright pathetic with Nomad as far as the customer service was concerned, but good with the coffee. Roastlab was fine too; I have yet to try afterfive to comment. Nonetheless, I'm more interested in which of them have the best Aeropress - to me, currently, they look the same.
I would be grateful if anyone can share their experience with either of these or recommend a better one.
Grateful.
Hey everyone
Just started using the Moka pot and now I can't drink instant coffee at all.
I tried Grao's Indonesian (single blend) coffee. Medium-dark roast and medium fine grind. I want to try something else now. Any suggestions? I was thinking of either trying scafe or red berry roasters
I have been using Agaro Imperial Coffee machine for about a year now. Any budget friendly suggestion? Espresso machines only!