My default coffee making is to heat milk, add coffee and steep it for a couple of minutes before I sieve it and voila.

This does not seem to work for this coffee. I have tried water, boiling it with the water or milk and it simply will not mix. What am I missing?

Edit: I know about grinding, I have a burr grinder, a French press and I know the various ways to make coffee. None of the methods I know, work.

Burr grinder = bar grinder. I made that mistake.

  • @[email protected]
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    17 days ago

    Reading your replies you mean it doesn’t brew in any method not mix right? Could you make a video for our interest. It sounds like I among others was mistaken, you aren’t confused, this is some indestructible roast

    • nicgentileOP
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      37 days ago

      I will try for tomorrow morning. It feels like some indestructible roast. And despite the charcoal aftertaste, it actually tastes very good.

      • @[email protected]
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        25 days ago

        Sounds like it could be a super ultra dark roast. Do the beans look like coal? Normal coffee should have a brown color, but if the beans are more like biochar, you can expect the coffee to taste like elemental carbon and ash. if it’s mostly carbon, all the sweet and juicy flavors have been destroyed during roasting.

        • nicgentileOP
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          25 days ago

          I expected this. The coffee tastes like charcoal.

          I’ve made progress in this whole situation, based on insight and feedback on this post, and will update tomorrow.

            • nicgentileOP
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              23 days ago

              I’m late making up a cup of this. But I got it to work and want to share a recipe. This should be what I am drinking tomorrow, so I hopefully will post then.

      • @[email protected]
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        37 days ago

        You keep saying that it doesn’t mix, like you’re expecting it to dissolve as instant coffee does.

        Ground coffee can either be immersed in a French press like it sounds you’ve been trying, or percolated by using a pour over or drip brewer. Any method will leave all the ground coffee behind as the water does the extraction. It will not mix or dissolve.

        • nicgentileOP
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          27 days ago

          No. I mean that even ground coffee in a press blends/mixes in with hot water or whatever medium you are using. This, regardless of how hot the water is, in a French Press, boiled in a saucer cowboy style, or however else simply does not mix or blend. It just floats. I don’t know how else to explain it.

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          37 days ago

          Gifted straight from Belize.