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