What's Wrong with Spanish Coffee?

Something is very wrong with Spanish coffee. If you buy a pack of coffee in the supermarket, or a caf solo in a bar, it too often tastes like acrid burnt rubber. Want to know why? In this video I delve into the mysterious world of torrefacto! So venga, lets go!

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When I first moved to Spain in 2011, I would buy all my coffee at the supermarket. But it never tasted very good. It always had this acrid, bitter flavour. I drink my coffee black, and I found the stuff I was buying and drinking in bars almost undrinkable. It was like burnt rubber.

And then one day I looked a little closer at the coffee packet. And I noticed this common word, mezcla. I knew that mezcla meant mix or blend. But I thought - a blend of what? So I read further, and then I started seeing this word torrefacto. I had no idea what it was, but I suspected it had to do with what was going on with the coffee in this country.

So I started investigating further, and I discovered that torrefacto is a process that is applied to coffee beans sold in Spain that make the coffee taste, well, horrible. How the tradition got started is connected to the civil war. And why we still drink torrefacto coffee in Spain is about tradition, and, well, habit.

In this video I explain what torrefacto is, do a taste testing with my wife Yoly, and head to Toma Cafe to get a good cup of coffee!

Below is a list of great coffee places in Madrid:
Toma Caf (Malasaa)
Toma Caf (Chamberi)
Cafe Tornasol (Antn Martn market)
Zero Point (Lavais)
HanSo Caf (Malasaa)
Coffee & Kicks (near Puerta del Sol

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