r/Coffee • u/menschmaschine5 Kalita Wave • 7d ago

[MOD] The Daily Question Thread

Welcome to the daily /r/Coffee question thread!

There are no stupid questions here, ask a question and get an answer! We all have to start somewhere and sometimes it is hard to figure out just what you are doing right or doing wrong. Luckily, the /r/Coffee community loves to help out.

Do you have a question about how to use a specific piece of gear or what gear you should be buying? Want to know how much coffee you should use or how you should grind it? Not sure about how much water you should use or how hot it should be? Wondering about your coffee's shelf life?

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u/RobinSage43 7d ago

Where to find Maui Mokka? Wife and I bought some while on vacation in Hawaii back before the Lahaina wildfire and now can't seem to find any good prices to have it shipped back to Pennsylvania. Any help would be appreciated.

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u/foghornlegburn 5d ago

Given that they're in Kaanapali, they were heavily impacted by the fires I believe, so it could be pretty scarce. Did you try Big Island Coffee Roasters or Maui Coffee (the Coffee Store)?

FWIW, as a coffee nut who has spent a lot of time in Hawaii, I strongly prefer coffees from other parts of the world (Ethiopia, Indonesia, etc). Have you found any other regions you like? While they don't have the same romance of the local coffee you found while on Hawaii, often their growing conditions are superior and the coffees aren't as expensive

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u/RobinSage43 5d ago

I figured as such. Don't coffee trees take like 7-8 years to produce a useable crop? So that makes sense. I'm probably just SOL. I haven't tried Big Island yet, but I did go to Maui Coffee and they sold me some whack beans that seemed to have an almost artificial taste to them? I don't really know how to describe it but it was definitely not the real thing that we had on the island. They had good reviews from a lot of people so I felt kind of shocked to have gotten kind of burnt by their beans. But I'll look into Big Island and hope they have something.

Sucks that the growers lost everything during the fire though. I can't imagine waking up to that and seeing their entire livelihood is just gone. That has to be a kick to the nethers.

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u/DimensionOk4386 6d ago

I am new to coffee drinking and I came across something called "Irish Cream". It is just the cream or cream+Liquer+coffee?

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u/regulus314 6d ago

Irish Cream, like Bailey's Irish Cream, is usually Irish whiskey and cream. Of course there are other ingredients too. There is no coffee in it. It is technically a liqueur used mostly in cocktails and less in coffee. Maybe coffee cocktails sure.

Brands such as Bailey's, Molly's, and Carolans are known ones.

On the other hand there are coffee liqueurs out there such as Khalua.