Very important tips on brewing good coffee.

[NotASurfer]

15. Ah, hippie coffee roasters

Don't have one in the neighborhood. I should look into that, has to be somebody that doesn't involve a four-hour round trip to the Bay area and some actual hippies!

So to check the transgressions of which I've been guilty:

Beans in five-pound bag from Costco instead of somebody who puts some heart into it, check

Completely mangling the grind, check.

Unrinsed carafe, check.

Forgetting to put water in the coffeemaker's reservoir, check.

Forgetting to put coffee in the coffeemaker, check.

Forgetting to put a filter in the basket before adding the froonkin' coffee, check.

Walking away to heat something up for breakfast and walking back to realize I never pushed the Big Obvious Button That Starts The Danged Thing, check.

Basically I think I'm in a classic Catch-22 every morning where I need to get some coffee in me before I can make coffee. Absent that I manage to get a decent carafe of the stuff, through unfocused eyes and with three sputtering brain cells engaged, about once a week.