At visiting my parent’s this holiday weekend I tired to gently tell my parents that their coffee brew is very bitter. The response I get back is something like, " I like it strong."
I wasn’t too sure how to respond, but then they told me my coffee is to watery. 🤔 I told them it’s not that is watery, but it’s a light roast and not bitter tasting.
So my question is how do you convince someone that bitter coffee is not good coffee? I might bring my scale next time to help measure and perfect the coffee brew there. Maybe even see about cleaning their been grinder, which I think has never been cleaned.
Oh well.
Update: Thanks for all the tips and thoughts. I agree with basically everything posted here and sorry no butter (I fixed the title)
Simple. Give them a well-extracted shot of straight up espresso. Pick a natural process, fruity East African kinda thing.
They like espresso,you like Americano. Get a grip. It’s just coffee.
Welcome to boomer psychology 101: you scream at them very hard and they will scream back and keep their position, but after you have left they will change their mind
Welcome to asshole logic 101- you must scream at people for absolutely inane reasons, such as their coffee being “too bitter”.
Catering for years I found that the older the guests were, they really didnt care about the taste as long as it was piping hot! Live and let live.
Isn’t taste also affected by age? Like eyesight and hearing, it diminishes with age.
Their coffee might taste to them the way your coffee tastes to you.
