Bespoke Post September 2012: “Roast” – $45.00
For $45 per box, Bespoke Post will deliver to your door a “box of awesome” once a month. Inside you’ll find hand selected items curated for a guy like you. You can skip any box you want or cancel at any time. Click here for more.
This is not for the guys who are plenty happy with a bucket of gas station coffee. Nor is it for the guys who put down four cups of Folgers every morning (it’s basic, but you’re going to put a chocolate protein shake in it anyway right? Instant mocha!). This is for the guy who appreciates coffee the same way someone over at, say, Beer Advocate likes ales and lagers. And unlike the BA guys, the fellow that this Bespoke Post box is targeting wants to enjoy that appreciated liquid at work.
How to make a perfect cup of coffee with your box from Bespoke Post.
Of course you can use it at home too, but the single cup serving method seems like it was made for that “I’m about to walk into our staff meeting and this is gonna be brutal” scenario. But by all means, if you live with a Folgers kind of person (hi there!), keep this setup on the counter and make sure the sanka-sapien keeps their grubby mitts off your stuff.
The Burr Grinder is built incredibly well and it’s weirdly satisfying to spin the handle and feel it work. The French-Press-like AeroPress coffee maker has earned great reviews from the coffee afficianado world, and the replacement filters (your box comes with them) are cheap
The end result of one trip through the AeroPress is 4 oz of complex, espresso like coffee. Like a good Scotch, it’s something you’d sip on and really enjoy. Not slam like a boring & weak pour such as Maxwell House, or… Icehouse.
Win it: To enter to win Bespoke Post’s Sepetmber Box of Awesome, send your first and last name in an email to contests@dappered.com w/ the subject: “Bespoke Roast”. One entry per person. Deadline: 11:59pm E.T. 9/30/12.
UPDATE: Congrats to Henry H. who won the random drawing for this month’s Box of Awesome. This one was hard not to break into and use. Continued thanks to Bespoke Post for providing the boxes, and thanks to all who entered!
Nice! This box almost made me sign up. Burr grinders ain’t cheap.
Yeah, pretty sure this is the one included in the box: http://www.amazon.com/Kyocera-CM-50-CF-Ceramic-Grinder/dp/B003S9XF7K
Pretty much the cost of the box itself. Great value.
Got mine yesterday, best bespoke post yet. This may say a good thing about the aeropress or bad things about my local coffee place but definitely the best tasting cup of coffee in my life.
I was a little worried about what the quality level of the burr grinder would be, but it’s actually really nice.
I’ve made two cups of coffee with this thing already and am very impressed. Takes a lot more work than your common K-cup system, but it’s a lot more satisfying.
Oh, and please go black. Never understood why people would dilute GOOD coffee (not the donut shop stuff) with cream and/or sugar.
Would love to win this.
It’s this one – http://www.amazon.com/Hario-Ceramic-Coffee-Mill-Skerton/dp/B004QDVNVW/ref=sr_1_5?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1348837019&sr=1-5&keywords=ceramic+coffee+grinder
If you look at the top grind adjustment sprocket this one is an identical match.
No matter how you break it down this is a great deal.
$45 BespokePost box – $40 Hario Grinder + $25.95 Aeropress + $13 for the coffee
Does the burr grinder work well in making expresso? I’d like to get a nice grinder, but don’t want to have another appliance cluttering up my kitchen.
They say the boxes are worth at least $65.
The June Summer box was way more. Go-throw blanket and Sunpocket sunglasses retail for $85 and $75, respectively.
Ya’ll have to get into loose leaf tea…
But yea, I use a $20 coffee grinder and a french press. Just don’t understand why you’d want to drink old powdered stuff run through a paper mesh. I know it works and tastes fine, but still…
This is the first Bespoke Post thing that really caught my attention. Mine should arrive today or tomorrow. Looking forward to trying it out. My only concern is that it seems like a lot of effort to produce one cup of coffee at a time, and I’m a 3-4 cups throughout the day kinda guy.
Gotta disagree… a dash of cream or whole milk makes a bad cup of coffee tolerable, but it makes a GOOD cup of coffee something special. Something about the richness of the milk fats, I think.
Real decadence is dropping a scoop of good quality ice cream into a mug of piping hot coffee. I only do this once a month or so, but it’s better than any $6 frappelattemochamacchiato.
Second the loose tea recommendation. I’m not going to say that it changed my life or any such banality, but herbal tea with actual pieces of fruit in it is heavenly. If fruit isn’t your desire, there’s always smoky Lapsang Souchong which may win the hearts of peaty scotch drinkers. Mint teas are my favorite. Once you have an in-mug infuser the cost on par with a box of teabags.
Nonetheless, I would still like an Aeropress.
I’m rarely compelled into impulse buying, but this one is really testing me. Just today I was thinking about an alternative to a Keurig for making coffee in my dorm room, and here this comes up. Argh, I want this.
If we wait for the contest results, will we still have a chance to buy this box?
Don’t take this the wrong way, but an Expresso is the Plymouth variant of the Dodge Neon. An espresso is a rich beverage extracted from finely ground coffee beans at high pressure; perfected by Italians.
Throw in the Jameson and you’ve got yourself a cold brewed irish coffee: http://gizmodo.com/5947062/cold-brew-irish-coffee-the-best-part-of-waking-up-drunk
Just get a french press bro.
+ Infinity points
That’s the only box I haven’t gotten since I signed up. I wear glasses, so non-prescription sunglasses are useless to me. So…45 bucks for a blanket. Pass. Every other box has been effing dynamite, though. I love this service.
a hand grinder is not ideal for espresso because it will take a while to grind coffee fine enough. the coarse grind needed for french or aero press goes a lot faster
I agree. I started drinking coffee with cream, then went to drinking it black in college, which some people think is more “badass.”
I find that a dash of cream or half&half makes it less acidic and lets you taste the coffee more. Just enough to make it cigar colored.
Gotta match my coffee to my shoes. 🙂
Manicman is right, it’s a Hario Skerton grinder.
Best grind per money, I’ve seen anywhere, it’s part of my living-in-a-college-apartment set-up, since I left the Mazzer with my Dad. Coarser grinds are a little uneven, but there are some common mods to fix that, as well as the possibility to swap in and out a slightly thicker washer that makes it essentially stepless. With those two alterations, it’s great for anything from french press to espresso (it’ll choke a La Marzocco Linea no sweat).
This one, the Hario Skerton, isn’t bad. It’s about 80 seconds of grinding for a 17 oz basket. Plus, theres a mod involving a slightly thicker washer that makes it essentially stepless, and at the smaller grind sizes it’s incredibly even. I’d say it’s the best espresso grind for the money, anywhere under 3 or 4 hundred dollars.
How does it compare to a Zassenhaus (I’ve never used one)?