WAKE UP AND COFFEE
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You live in Philadelphia or just visiting? I first encountered Old City during an IH meet up in Philly. Found them at the Reading Terminal Market.
I live in Philly. I work in the Old City neighborhood. I'm not sure if this location was first or if the reading terminal was open beforehand. They have a socially distanced line now every morning so its tough for me to get my fix!
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Bottoms up! It’s certainly the best mug ever!
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50/50 caff/decaff this morn…
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50/50 caff/decaff this morn…
I had that same French Press.
One time, I forgot to clean it out before going on vacation and came back to the funkiest pink mold growing inside of it. No light makes it an amazing holiday spot for the fungus
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Looks really good Reuben.
Blooming some Stumptown this am
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Decided to spoil myself a couple weeks ago and ordered three bags of Madcap — Luis Reinoso (Colombia), Three One Three (Ethiopia blend), and Party (I think used to be called Ardi - Ethiopian natural process).
Drank the Reinoso already, was my least favorite of the bunch. Finished up the bag of Three One Three this morning, really tasty. Party next. Been brewing them all in the Chemex, did a little testing with V60 but definitely prefer the cleaner cup of the former.
I feel like I can't afford to let this habit continue, but I kinda wanna!
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@Jett129 they're all medium roast! That seems to be the zone that Madcap stays in most of the time, if not always. Some of their coffees are really crazy — I think the Ardi (like I said, now called Party for some reason) was the first really nice, fruity medium roast I'd ever had, and it blew my mind. A real fruit bomb, as they say. Kinda changed my perspective on coffee forever, as previously I'd been more of a fan of dark roast. Now it just upsets my stomach, haha.
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Ahh yeah, for sure. I feel like french press is def the best for dark roast, but you're right — it really packs a wallop with all those oils and stuff still in the coffee from the full immersion. Tasty but gnarly!
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Went to Madcap’s website and looked at some of their coffees,but they don’t specify the roast level for any of their coffees. I’ve been spoiled by Old City coffee as not only do they specify the roast level of every coffee,but they show you exactly how each bean looks. I’ve been disappointed from time to time by different roasters definition of what a “Dark” roast is. I found them to be fairly expensive relative to what I’m currently spending.I buy 5lbs at a time which usually kicks in some level of discount and free shipping. Their 5lb bags were a little bit cheaper. Are you in Michigan?
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Nope, I’m in Texas! We’ve got some good roasters down here, Tweed and Flat Track come most immediately to mind. I learned about Madcap when I was dating a girl in Chicago for a bit. Intelligentsia had some as their special bean of the moment (not sure if they even carry brands outside of their own at this point — this was like 2014).
But! I can help you re: the beans at Madcap if you’re interested in checking them out. I can pretty safely say that they’re all medium roast. It’s sorta their thing. Could always shoot em an email though if you were looking to see if they have any recos On the darker side,
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Thanks for getting back to me. Hopefully your in a part of Texas that has some of their legendary Que. I’m always looking for new roasters to try so maybe I’ll shoot these guys an email. For years I had my own personal roaster… A guy who I could call up and tell him what I wanted,and he knew how I liked it roasted,and he would roast it bag it and ship it. He was the best. Sadly he passed away,and his wife tried for a little while to continue,but eventually shut down the roastery.
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For sure! I found a good list of some roasters a few years back, but this one seems to have all of the old ones plus some new entries:
https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/best-indie-coffee-roasters-article
Some of the now classics (Stumptown, Blue Bottle, Intelligentsia), but a lot of much smaller ones. I’ve tried Ruby and Counter Culture, both of which were amazing. I wanna check out the Vietnamese roaster — sounds really cool!
