On Thu, 20 May 2021 21:27:26 -0400, Orlando Enrique Fiol
Post by Orlando Enrique FiolPost by C***@Leave.Me.Alone.OrgThere's are the closest thing to old style coffee I could find in the
last two or three decades. Certain ones of theirs put to shame those
other tasteless, watery garbage other companies are selling as coffee.
Like most self-respecting Caribbean Hispanics, I was raised on Bustelo and
continue to enjoy it, even in instant form. It tastes very rich and complex
without being burnt.
Orlando Enrique Fiol
Charlotte, North Carolina
Professional Pianist/Keyboardist, Percussionist and Pedagogue
Ph.D. in Music theory
University of Pennsylvania: November, 2018
You spent all that money getting a Ph.D in Music? I hope that for all
those $$$ spent it also included Texas Honky Tonk. :o)
Now for the coffee part....
Let me say first that I make my coffee with those paper filters using
a filter holder that makes only a single cup at a time. I've done it
this way for many decades - I'm 86-years-old. I've been drinking
coffee since I was five. The paper filter method worked fine when
coffees were truly coffee and not the watered down trash drink they
are today.
I used to use Supreme by Bustelo® Ground Espresso Coffee Bag.
https://www.cafebustelo.com/en/coffee/ground/supreme-style-bag
They ran out of stock of that one a while back, so I tried another one
which from their Web description seemed to be the same item except it
was in a can.
https://www.cafebustelo.com/en/coffee/ground/supreme-style-can
Wrong!
There's an enormous difference. The canned one is not fine ground for
drip as is the first one. The canned one is more of a powder than a
grind. On the can is a sticker proclaiming it is for Expresso
Machines. The bagged one has no such notice. The canned one is a lot
stronger and with the taste of what coffee used to taste like many
decades ago.
Through the decades, since the 60's, one coffee brand after the other
became little more than a hot water drink containing the slightest
taste of actual coffee. I was forced to continually hunt down and find
a new brand which was still real coffee. However, over a period time
that would also be changed into a watery drink. Each one, sooner or
later, turned into little more than coffee flavored water. The weight
of the bags also went down from 1-3 lbs to somewhere around 10 oz.
It's ridiculous what one pays today for one of those tiny bags of
watered down junk.
For a measuring spoon, I use one that came inside a can of coffee I
bought years ago. Five measured regular teaspoons of coffee fills
this measuring spoon to its top. With Bustelo's bagged Expresso, it
took about 3-4 of these measuring spoons to even begin strengthening
Bustelo's to get some coffee taste.
With their canned Expresso, which they say is made for Expresso
Machines, it only takes 2 of my coffee measuring spoonfuls to get a
strong, good tasting cup of coffee. I have not tasted coffee this
good and *real* tasting in quite a few years.
It's lucky that I live in a Hispanic area, or I probably would never
has found the Bustelo brand. The stores around here run out of it
quite frequently, so I started buying it directly from Bustelo's
online site. The delivery is free when ordering a certain amount, and
they are very quick to get it to me. It usually takes only 2-4 days
to get to Indiana.
i just hope to heck they don't "sell out" and ruin the product for
profit.
I posted this into a seemingly dead group because I figured maybe some
other dissatisfied coffee addict would learn about Bustelo and try it.