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How to make great coffee at home.

1. Get an aeropress and hario hand grinder on Amazon.
2. Find a local roaster, if not, order some beans online. That shit needs to be FRESH. IE, roasted less than 2 weeks ago.
3. Grind that shit (NO ELECTRIC BLADE GRINDERS)
4. Aeropress it as per the millions of tutorials online.

Congrats, you have made great coffee at home. It is far superior to anything you will get at a Starbucks, and after about a month, you recoup all of your initial money.

Plus you get to support local roaster.

From here, you can try a ton of different roasts, or start investing in more equipment. I recently got a electric burr grinder, makes things go way faster. Get yourself an electric kettle, scale, fancy glasses, whatever.

Also picked up a moka pot, have been playing around with that.

Espresso is an entirely different beast that I know nothing about. From what I can tell, unless you have close to $1,000 to drop, it is not worth getting into home espresso.