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11-21-2007
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Originally Posted by tdw
What I cannot figure out is why when the Spanish and the Portuguese drink Italian style coffee the Italian is still the best. Water maybe ? I just don't know.
Ref coffee quality, I am not totally anal about it largely because in my old age I'm drinking it with a bit of warm milk and not as a short black. I only have a couple of cups a day. One at breakfast and one around 1100. With that in mind I'm pretty happy drinking anything Arabica that is vacuum packed. Never likely to have an espresso machine on board so I'll live with the compromise.
ps Robby, Where in Spain are you ?
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Don't think it's the water mate, couple of places here where they have Italians working & when they make you the espresso, using exactly the same gear as the locals, the coffee tastes 10x better. I think it's in their genes.
Arabica definitely preferred over Torrefacto - much smoother and not so bitter.
As to where I am. This place is called Torrevieja, in the Alicante province on the SE coast of Spain. You can also see some nice aerial pic's on marinas.com.
P.S. Don't you find time difference to be a real bummer?
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11-21-2007
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Originally Posted by Robby Barlow
Don't think it's the water mate, couple of places here where they have Italians working & when they make you the espresso, using exactly the same gear as the locals, the coffee tastes 10x better. I think it's in their genes.
Arabica definitely preferred over Torrefacto - much smoother and not so bitter.
As to where I am. This place is called Torrevieja, in the Alicante province on the SE coast of Spain. You can also see some nice aerial pic's on marinas.com.
P.S. Don't you find time difference to be a real bummer? |
Never been down to the Alicante coast. Pretty much everywhere else in Spain but not that bit.
The time difference thing is a bit of a bugger but what can you do. The worst thing about Australia is that its about as far away from Europe and America as you can get. The best thing ? That its about as far away from Europe and America as you can get. 
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11-22-2007
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It's E spresso with an S..... not Expresso with an x.
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11-22-2007
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These guys roast across the highway from us. We can smell it all the time... especially during the winter. Great coffee. http://www.larrysbeans.com/
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11-22-2007
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Arabica definitely preferred over Torrefacto - much smoother and not so bitter.
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Arabica is a species of coffee. (Along with Robusta, one of the two most commonly seen in commercial use.) Torrefacto is a method of roasting.
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11-22-2007
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As an American, and one who drinks American style coffee. I have seen it made gross, badly, and tasting terrible. Like drinking used dish water. Made too weak, too strong and left in the pot to render down to a gross syrup. Have had dregs of the pot because they did not want to make a new pot until the last one is all gone. But had sat on the hot plate being burnt and rendering down to that gross awful syrup. Double Yuck!!
Properly made coffee, no matter how you drink it is good. But when they mess it up through a lack of knowledge, lazyness, cost cutting and just plain stupidity. Then you have the right to complain and complain loudly. Even the coffee drinking police will back you up on that. Forcing that restaurant's management to drink their own grossly terrible tasting dregs from the bottom of the pot. LOL  Well it may be wishful thinking on making the idiots drink it... But they should be forced too.
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11-22-2007
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It's E spresso with an S..... not Expresso with an x. |
Not where I come from..EXPRESSO in Portugal...
Why would I say ESPRESSO like the Italians..I am not Italian and am not speaking Italian to you..
I am speaking English, and used a foreign (to you) word, spelled the way IO speak it in my foreign Country...
Hey, its Tyre, not Tire, Colour, not color, Center, not Centre....smart ass.....
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11-22-2007
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1987 Pearson 27 #11
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Not where I come from..EXPRESSO in Portugal...
Why would I say ESPRESSO like the Italians..I am not Italian and am not speaking Italian to you..
I am speaking English, and used a foreign (to you) word, spelled the way IO speak it in my foreign Country...
Hey, its Tyre, not Tire, Colour, not color, Center, not Centre....smart ass.....
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Wasn't trying to be a smart ass.
I learn something new every day.
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11-22-2007
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I really didn't know that there were varients out there for the spelling Giu.
Now you've got me looking up info on this and i found this:
http://coffeefaq.com/site/node/47
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11-22-2007
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Joel...
I re-read my post and admit it was a little stupid offensive, because I forgot to put the smiles and the laughs to show I was kidding with you.
Sorry...
Go to google and write this: CAFE EXPRESSO...
see what language it shows.
Again. sorry for the post
Alex
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