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)

  • Darkscryber@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Simple, just respect their taste. I had friends who grew up with instant coffee and they hated even the best brewed coffet I could make…

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      11 months ago

      I once bought my Dad some nice expensive freshly roasted coffee to try and help him experience something better. I was shocked a couple weeks later when he told me it “didn’t have enough kick” so he was adding cheap espresso grounds to it when he would make it. I gave up on that right there because no amount of logic was going to get through that one.