Hey (Weird) Coffee People, creator of the Filtru app here. It's great to have my work featured in James' video. Just wanted to mention that the Android app will be back! I'm just a solo developer working on this app so it takes me a little longer to bring all the useful features over to another platform. ❤
Thanks for a shoutout, James! We hope that all the weird coffee people watching your videos will have an easier way to find tasty coffee in Europe. You summarised the challenges of developing a Mobile App like ours pretty accurately. It's not something you build once-the database updates and communication with cafes are daily tasks of our team. It's both fun and frustrating. Donations are very appreciated, but they are a limited resource for costly mobile app development. We had to develop the ECT platform and content first to be able to work on something we dreamed of back in 2014. The biggest surprise for us, is that the app reaches very (normal) coffee people who would probably never watch videos on coffee RUclips ☕😅
Downloaden right away and noticed some recently opened specialty coffee places were already in there with details and all. Thank you for the effort, very nice to know that visiting new places does not need to go without good coffee!
I downloaded the app after watching this video. Here are my two suggestions in case you are interested: - It would be great if people could rate places as well as drinks they had so one could pick a place which makes great espresso even though their filter coffee is mediocre. - There are a lot of great coffee places that are missing in the app. I saw that there is a "Suggest a cafe" section but it looks like it doesn't work that well. I think you can pick some ambassadors all around the world for that. Of course these are rough ideas and they need to be analyzed further. Good luck.
Your app was recommended to me when I visited a coffee shop in Köln. It's been a great help whenever I visit new cities! I've visited so many great places and met a lot of interesting people thanks to your app 😁
I scour through your website for good cafes to visit whenever I'm planning a trip to a new city, painstakingly noting them all down in a custom Google Map, and all this time I could've just downloaded your app! :P
The multi-year progression from educational "this is how to craft an excellent pour over" to the completely unhinged "welcome to the world of coffee-based gaming" is truly delightful
When creators have been on RUclips long enough, they need to transition into a form of absurdity in order to stay relevant. Some do it with the grace of a bull in a china shop, and some do it with the perfect mix of childlike wonder and British scepticism ☕️
On the cafe finder thing, recently i was in Mexico city and my brother in law got me a "Coffee Passport" Its a physical little paper booklet that you can get in any of the speciality coffee shops across the city that participate in the scheme. You get a stamp when you visit a coffee shop and that comes with some little benefits. 10% off your order, money off whole beans etc. It is a fantastic little thing and incentivises you to visit other shops and try their coffee. I think a quarter of my 23kg bag on the flight back was just coffee beans i had bought there 😂
There's a Coffee Route book for coffee shops in Cape Town that I got a while back, although I lived in Cape Town for over 30 years, I discovered at least 10 other coffee shops that I now go to regularly. It also has a "coffee passport" and pretty much every shop I went to the owners were chuffed that I discovered their place via the book.
Oh cool, there's stuff like that in the UK for pubs, spotted someone with one at my local brewery getting a stamp and a free beer. It's a fun idea and benefits everyone!
That's awesome!! My hometown (Hamilton, Ohio) has a similar thing for the variety of awesome donut shops in the county. I think more places should do that, it seems like a fantastic way to support both local tourism and small businesses.
A coffee game worth checking out is called “Coffee Roaster”. No ads, it’s an implementation of a solo board game about (unsurprisingly) roasting coffees.
Apparently I'm just gonna rec these to everyone with good taste in coffee-based games, but- "Little Corner Tea House" is an absolutely delightful mobile game with limited ads (no interstitials / banners, you only have to watch them if you want the rewards) where you make coffees and teas to order, as well as grow, ferment, and roast your own tea leaves. "Coffee Noir" is a mystery detective game where your character goes undercover as a new-in-town coffee roaster, and it's a surprisingly realistic management sim where you have to source good quality beans, decide what roasts to offer, and balance supply and demand. It's neat :)
I played both Coffee Talk games on my Xbox, largely because they're quite easy and if anyone else does Microsoft Rewards you'll know of the requirements to earn achievements for quests. The weirdest part of it (from a coffee POV, the story line is very odd) is that the same machine is used to make coffee, tea, hot chocolate and any other drink in the game.
Coffee talk is wonderful. I posted it in a comment elsewhere, but I highly recommend the mobile game "Little Corner Tea House". It's got similar "helping customers with their problems" mechanics, plus you get to grow, roast, and ferment your own tea leaves in addition to making lattes and such. It's SO delightful. If you like tycoon and/or mystery games, "Coffee Noir" is also really fun and a surprisingly realistic coffee roaster management simulator.
I think this term has been adopted by the RUclips home-brewing community, I've definitely seen it used in that space. I wonder how many weird coffee people are also into brewing beer? I'm sure the Venn diagram overlap isn't just me.
As a lifelong tea guy, I just want to thank you for helping me dip my feet into the strange and wonderful world of coffee. Recently got my first v60 thanks to you.
I love the aeromatic app. It has a nice built in timer with audible cues to guide you through each step of the aeropress process and has recipes from you, Jonathan Gagné, and lots of other coffee youtubers that are easy to follow.
Apparently I'm just gonna rec these to everyone with good taste in coffee-based games, but- "Little Corner Tea House" is an absolutely delightful mobile game with limited ads (no interstitials / banners, you only have to watch them if you want the rewards) where you make coffees and teas to order, as well as grow, ferment, and roast your own tea leaves. "Coffee Noir" is a mystery detective game where your character goes undercover as a new-in-town coffee roaster, and it's a surprisingly realistic management sim where you have to source good quality beans, decide what roasts to offer, and balance supply and demand. It's neat :)
Not an app you missed, but a point I think many will miss in this video: The experience with the bombardment of adds, and terribly unsatisfying free-to-play game at the end, are _deeply_ connected to the fact that you felt the need to excuse an app for costing £1.50. How easily do we (rightfully) spend that amount on coffee? To everyone: If you’re in a position to do so, _please_ pay for software from time to time. Either by buying it, or donating to open-source projects. Things like predatory "casino” games and surveillance capitalism thrives on us refusing to pay even negligible amounts of stuff we still use a lot…
I know this is unrelated to the video but apparently RUclips has shut down Hames Joffman's channel due to "impersonation" and I think we as a community should do something about that
@@gasparsigmaJames himself has said he doesn't mind it, and I don't think any reasonable viewer was convinced that the channel contained actual videos of James saying ridiculous things, so this just seems really dumb to me
I use brew timer to make my coffee every morning. I find the ring at the end of each step helps me make my coffee the same way consistently without needing to keep track of the time!
I want to admit the way James commented on the app price "It is for you to decide whether a couple of bucks are worth the experiment". It is genuinely important for influencers to remember that they are watched from a bunch of different places in the entire world and when someone decides for other people whether something is affordable or not is somewhat unpleasant. Thank you James for such a small but important thing.
Why is this “genuinely important”? The approach you suggest is valid, but it’s equally valid for content creators to have a mental (or expressed) image in their mind of who their audience is. And I think most content creators think their audience is similar to themselves, and that makes sense as they try to be inspirational or tribal. The audience numbers will give the feedback that this is working for them or not through their views. Your belief that it’s important that they all think the way you do just isnt valid.
I think the last game is actually pretty accurate in how life works for many people. Chasing more money to spend more money to chase more money… and in the end nobody gets happier from it. Once you have a stable base, people should chase things that actually make them happy, like sharing a nice cup of coffee with a friend or family member. ☕️
I just rediscovered version 7 and found it could improve my workflow quite a lot. It added features I wish were built into my Acaia scales settings/UI. Great app and open source too!
James, you should play Coffee Talk lol. It’s definitely the best (and only) good cafe/coffee theme game I’ve played. It’s mostly story/dialogue driven but there’s some cool brewing and latte art mini games.
Apparently I'm just gonna rec these to everyone with good taste in coffee-based games, but- "Little Corner Tea House" is an absolutely delightful mobile game with limited ads (no interstitials / banners, you only have to watch them if you want the rewards) where you make coffees and teas to order, as well as grow, ferment, and roast your own tea leaves. "Coffee Noir" is a mystery detective game where your character goes undercover as a new-in-town coffee roaster, and it's a surprisingly realistic management sim where you have to source good quality beans, decide what roasts to offer, and balance supply and demand. It's neat :)
"Should you let coffee into the last private place, that is your phone?" -- James Hoffman, the reason I've watched coffee on my phone for the past 4 years
I use brewmaster every day. When I brew coffee at home and in my job as a barista. The reason being that I am almost blind and normal timers do not work for me. This app allows me to have the wait time and current step read out loud to me in real time I have worked together with the guy Stephen to improve some screen reader features for the blind and visually impaired. I also use Filtru but find it a bit harder to navigate But until the new update comes around on brewmaster, this is my go to. I also use it to weigh beans and food in general and everything like that
So I tryed the coffee traker and the brew log app also. The coffee traker has made me realice that I might be drinking coffee a bit too late, Ill try to limit my caffeine intake to just mornings. And the brewing log is really handy to try different brewing recipes or methods. Thanks for the video.
The Aeromatic app is quite good when you want recipe for aeropress specially. I've discovered the James Hoffman recipe for expresso type Aeropress and I use it on a daily basis !
As James said, you're beyond help or was it hope .. either way, really. I had one for work for about 6 months until the IT folks said we don't care how much money we're saving, everyone is right, this phone is terrible. And iPhones are still the standard
"You accrue money to spend more money, and it's just so unsatisfying, so completely pointless, and completely silly. And I regret deeply the time I have spent playing this game." Accidentally(?) summing up our modern lives and giving us a collective existential crisis there, James.
Theres only one coffee game i like, its still in development and its definitely in the "watch numbers go up" category. It called tiny cafe And all the characters are lovely, plus tou roast your own beans
Grind size was (and probably still is) the hardest thing to master. The app that has the best grind size suggestion for your specific grinder and coffee, would be the one to use. I don't know of any as of yet that do that
European Coffee Trip would have come in handy last summer when I was visiting Cascais for my nephews wedding. Trying to find a late night cafe was harder than expected. It's now downloaded on my phone and waiting for this summers trip.
Mobile games are rarely good. You need to play Coffee Talk on PC, that game looks weird but trust me: They really put love in development, you make every step of every recipe (not a "coffee simulator" but still) and you crate a bond with your costumers, listening about their lives and creating new recipes for them to help with life choices.
Apparently I'm just gonna rec these to everyone with good taste in coffee-based games, but- "Little Corner Tea House" is an absolutely delightful mobile game with limited ads (no interstitials / banners, you only have to watch them if you want the rewards) where you make coffees and teas to order, as well as grow, ferment, and roast your own tea leaves. "Coffee Noir" is a mystery detective game where your character goes undercover as a new-in-town coffee roaster, and it's a surprisingly realistic management sim where you have to source good quality beans, decide what roasts to offer, and balance supply and demand. It's neat :)
I use beanconqueror daily, and it helps a lot to dial in new beans, and remember what setting to use on my grinder when I buy beans I’ve bought before. I really just track grind setting and extraction time. It helps!
The definition of weird coffee people in my place is the one who only drinks Instant 3in1 sachet coffee, claims it better than traditional brewing and calls the day.
For me, 3-in-1 sticks are more like seperate beverage rather than coffee, like hot chocolate vs nesquik, so this sounds okay for me. But when someone claims that instant black coffee is better than fresh brewed coffee, that becomes really absurd statement.
Thank you for European coffee trip. I’ve saved a list on my google maps that I carefully curated and it had all of them! I’m going to switch to this now instead of trying to find every coffee place myself.
I used filtru coffee app by the time I first watched James Hoffmann and I saved your V60 recipe there! Sadly, over time, I don't feel like I want to input the data - it's tedious, fun at first, but... yeah, I only want to drink my coffee and that's the only thing I want to do in the morning. The app will still stay in my phone though, that James's recipe will be forever stored there.
As someone who has made games in the past, and therefore fully aware of what goes into designing a game, it was extremely satisfying to watch James describe how infuriating and pointless that simple phone game is, to the point of being mad at how much time he spent on it, yet recognizing that it was because a part of his brain wanted to keep making more money in the silly simulation. :D That's exactly how most phone games are. Also adding ads every two minutes is another sadly common theme.
I use Aeromatic. It has a nice selection of aeropress recipes and even gives a grind size for each recipe. They also have your aeropress recipes that I use frequently.
I have aeromatic installed even though I don't often use an aeropress, because it is the best resource I have found for translating grind settings between grinders. For example if I know this person's V60 recipe says about 40 clicks on a Comandante or 17 on an Encore or whatever I can figure out that that's 85 on my Kingrinder K6 (these numbers are all made up but you get the idea). There may be another resource for that and it's not the most straightforward to do in Aeromatic but it works fairly well to put in the grind setting and grinder you know and then switch to the grinder you want to know.
App called "Best Coffee" is one I go for when travelling and exploring new coffee places. Yes, you can find occasional Black Sheep Coffee shops there but mostly you come across well established specialty coffee shops. Seen few stickers on the doors of a few too so seem like they do their research.
This was the evolution from the Blue Crow Coffee Map (physical copy) and then "London’s Best Coffee" application. I totally agree - more often than not great, I tend to need to check that places are open when they say they are, and dodging the very odd additions like Black Sheep Coffee but otherwise used weekly (and now international too but with less cafes locations)
I was pondering what grind size with my 1Zpresso J would be for an aeropress and was turned onto "aeromatic" which is the filtru app but specifically for the aeropress. The thing I liked (and downloaded it) for was that you can select what grinder you're using in the recipe section and it will tell you how many clicks to match the specified grind level. Very helpful for giving me a baseline to work from!
Aeromatic app is pretty nice for the Aeropress users. It's a compilation of Aeropress recipes from different baristas including James's recipe, Aeropress championships, and you can add your own.
Never used one and never thought about it. I just keep track of my coffee journey in my notes and search the web. Still good you cover it and thanks for sharing 👍
Shame he didn't bring that up, it's really the best coffee app I've tried so far. They don't have all of the roasts yet but seem to be on good track to actually create something like Vivino. This is precisely what the coffee world needs!
Agree! And the photo feature is great, I use it all the time when visiting a coffee shop and trying a new roast that I like. So easy to just snap and save!
Looking forward to the James Hoffman Coffee Game 😁 We know you, James. You can't stand the frustration of something not being up to your expectations if it would be oh so easy to do 😜
Shout out to Bean Conqueror. For my coffee journey they're perfect: mostly to track type of coffees, cultivar, origins, farmers, etc, but not so much for technique or recipes.
One app that I use, although it's quite niche and specific to one model of grinder. The Beanie app for the Fellow Opus. No BT connection or anything it just helps you understand the weird second tier micro adjustments you can make to the grinder. Without that app I would have NEVER bothered to use the micro adjustments.
It's so comforting that you look like and sound like one of my favorite Canadian actors when he's playing a role, but I don't think you find it very nice to be compared to him but I mean it with complete respect. You are the Austin Powers of coffee and it is very comforting each and every one of your videos. So thank you and I will constantly be returning to your new videos in the future. Sometimes I like to play your old ones, too. 😎👍 Thanks, James!🙂 After my view. You have become the new James instead of Angry Video Game Nerd.(AVGN) You're Angry Barista Game Nerd (ABGN). Hahaha! Loven this video!
Probably the best coffee-themed game to play on your phone is Coffee Roaster, which is a brilliant adaptation of the solo boardgame of the same name. It is paid, but ad free, deep, challenging, and a different puzzle each time. Would highly recommend. Plus, dripping with genuine, beautiful, coffee theme!
The video is great and all, but I cannot take my eyes from the Peak Design phone case. Seeing my fav youtuber using my fav brand just fills my heart with joy :)
JAMES!! James I have a coffee-related game that I think you would ACTUALLY like! It's called "Little Corner Tea House," and while it's mostly focused on teas, you can also make various coffees in it! As a former barista and current tea/coffee nerd, I find it legitimately delightful.
Hi James, I am coming out of that middle phase of my coffee journey that you mentioned, the part where it feels unnecessary to record everything. At the same time, I also stopped my coffee subscription in order to devote more time to shopping for specific beans from an ever-changing list of roasters.
I like iBrewCoffee. I use lots of different brew methods and have a few different coffees open at the same time. I like to keep track of the main parameters for each option. It helps me understand my preferences a bit more.
Seeing these has made me realize how low maintenance I am. I try to get better than supermarket coffee, grind fresh, but I just dump the same weight of coffee into the bottom of a french press, fill it, stir after the bloom, and let it sit for around 15 minutes. I can't imagine needing an app to teach me how to make coffee.
Coffee shop review apps do have an untapped potential, I'd think. Does the coffee shop work with a roaster / is it roaster owned? Who they source coffee from? Is it a second wave or third wave shop? Italian style? Australian style? Do they have Synesso or Slayer espresso machines (that would tell me they are coffee nerds, at least). Do they work with single origin?
One that just came up in my feed. Nerdforge has a video you might enjoy. She installs a coffee machine and grinder into a very large computer case and uses an Arduino controller for one touch brewing. It's kinda interesting. I think it's the kind of project that's right up your alley!
"And if you're using a Windows phone, then you're beyond help in any way." - James Hoffmann, 2024. TOO FUNNY!!! I'm not even 20 secs in and I'm dying LMAO
There is a game called “Coffee Inc 2” that is more of a business simulator than coffee making game but it was incredible. I was hoping you’d share it in your video but seems it didn’t cross your radar.
honestly i’m very interested in the caffeine tracking app, i’m a college student myself, and i want to be more informed of the amount of caffeine i take in, and how i personally feel with different accounts. having this data or journal on hand could in theory help me be more mindful of my intake!
Only coffee game ever to play is Coffee Inc 2. Start a coffee business, choose bean and roast, expand, invest in the stock market, become a trillionaire. It does have a few paid for DLC as you get further into it but it's quite a cool game.
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Hey (Weird) Coffee People, creator of the Filtru app here. It's great to have my work featured in James' video. Just wanted to mention that the Android app will be back! I'm just a solo developer working on this app so it takes me a little longer to bring all the useful features over to another platform. ❤
Awesome!, I still have it installed.
Man I love Filtru. Use it every day.
You rock sir!
@@blackjid Great app, have the pro version and I use it regularly. Keep it up!
Love your app and use it everyday!
Thanks for a shoutout, James!
We hope that all the weird coffee people watching your videos will have an easier way to find tasty coffee in Europe.
You summarised the challenges of developing a Mobile App like ours pretty accurately. It's not something you build once-the database updates and communication with cafes are daily tasks of our team. It's both fun and frustrating. Donations are very appreciated, but they are a limited resource for costly mobile app development. We had to develop the ECT platform and content first to be able to work on something we dreamed of back in 2014.
The biggest surprise for us, is that the app reaches very (normal) coffee people who would probably never watch videos on coffee RUclips ☕😅
Downloaden right away and noticed some recently opened specialty coffee places were already in there with details and all. Thank you for the effort, very nice to know that visiting new places does not need to go without good coffee!
I downloaded the app after watching this video. Here are my two suggestions in case you are interested:
- It would be great if people could rate places as well as drinks they had so one could pick a place which makes great espresso even though their filter coffee is mediocre.
- There are a lot of great coffee places that are missing in the app. I saw that there is a "Suggest a cafe" section but it looks like it doesn't work that well. I think you can pick some ambassadors all around the world for that.
Of course these are rough ideas and they need to be analyzed further. Good luck.
Your app was recommended to me when I visited a coffee shop in Köln. It's been a great help whenever I visit new cities! I've visited so many great places and met a lot of interesting people thanks to your app 😁
Love your app and using it quite often even in London 👏☕️
I scour through your website for good cafes to visit whenever I'm planning a trip to a new city, painstakingly noting them all down in a custom Google Map, and all this time I could've just downloaded your app! :P
Imagine how weird you have to be for James Hoffman to consider you a weird coffee person.
😂
Right?
Not much.
I think James Hoffmann identifies as a (Weird) Coffee Person. 😁
It's a compliment.
Finally, James has entered his gaming arc
Twitch channel when
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Coffee Talk would be a better game to cover
We are only weeks away from James becoming a coffee VTuber.
Gamer moment
The multi-year progression from educational "this is how to craft an excellent pour over" to the completely unhinged "welcome to the world of coffee-based gaming" is truly delightful
James Hoffman discovers the skinner box game
When creators have been on RUclips long enough, they need to transition into a form of absurdity in order to stay relevant. Some do it with the grace of a bull in a china shop, and some do it with the perfect mix of childlike wonder and British scepticism ☕️
James Hoffman losing his mind over a silly coffee game is everything I didn't know I needed
Bitter windows phone clinger here. Thank you for acknowledging us.
-Sent from my Zune
Wait, those actually still work? I abandoned under duress years ago when all the apps went away and updates fell off.
I also stubbornly got a Zune when everyone else was getting iPods Lol. Poop brown ftw.
Bitter? Have you tried grinding finer?
@@palonegmail I did, but the grounds caught on fire. Are lithium batteries supposed to do this?
@@JimmyNewCakes It's totally normal
-- signed, Samuel Sung
I really like the app aeroprecipe. It randomly picks an aeropress recipe and it makes brewing an aeropress a little more fun. Very fun and very simple
I've been using this website but I didn't know there's a randomizer 😂
love this app! I wish there was something similar for the pulsar. Tempted to make it myself tbh
I found one app, aeromatic, and accessible via browser too.
On the cafe finder thing, recently i was in Mexico city and my brother in law got me a "Coffee Passport"
Its a physical little paper booklet that you can get in any of the speciality coffee shops across the city that participate in the scheme.
You get a stamp when you visit a coffee shop and that comes with some little benefits. 10% off your order, money off whole beans etc.
It is a fantastic little thing and incentivises you to visit other shops and try their coffee. I think a quarter of my 23kg bag on the flight back was just coffee beans i had bought there 😂
There's a Coffee Route book for coffee shops in Cape Town that I got a while back, although I lived in Cape Town for over 30 years, I discovered at least 10 other coffee shops that I now go to regularly. It also has a "coffee passport" and pretty much every shop I went to the owners were chuffed that I discovered their place via the book.
Oh cool, there's stuff like that in the UK for pubs, spotted someone with one at my local brewery getting a stamp and a free beer. It's a fun idea and benefits everyone!
That's awesome!! My hometown (Hamilton, Ohio) has a similar thing for the variety of awesome donut shops in the county. I think more places should do that, it seems like a fantastic way to support both local tourism and small businesses.
James Hoffmann discovering Idle Games is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen
This is the James Hoffmann rant I didn’t know I needed. No matter how bad my day has been, it isn’t “James playing a coffee game” bad.
A coffee game worth checking out is called “Coffee Roaster”. No ads, it’s an implementation of a solo board game about (unsurprisingly) roasting coffees.
was just coming to recommend this. the app makes some changes to the original i don't care for, but also it's not out of print like the original
@@GameKiwi The board game is still in print, and available from Amazon.
@@EphemeralTao oh huh. last i checked it was insanely expensive. $45 is still a lot for a solo game, but this one is worth it imo.
Apparently I'm just gonna rec these to everyone with good taste in coffee-based games, but- "Little Corner Tea House" is an absolutely delightful mobile game with limited ads (no interstitials / banners, you only have to watch them if you want the rewards) where you make coffees and teas to order, as well as grow, ferment, and roast your own tea leaves.
"Coffee Noir" is a mystery detective game where your character goes undercover as a new-in-town coffee roaster, and it's a surprisingly realistic management sim where you have to source good quality beans, decide what roasts to offer, and balance supply and demand. It's neat :)
Wait til you try out the offline game coffee roasting. Mad time consuming and expensive with real satisfaction only setting in quite late game
I played both Coffee Talk games on my Xbox, largely because they're quite easy and if anyone else does Microsoft Rewards you'll know of the requirements to earn achievements for quests. The weirdest part of it (from a coffee POV, the story line is very odd) is that the same machine is used to make coffee, tea, hot chocolate and any other drink in the game.
wonderful soundtracks across both games
Coffee talk is wonderful. I posted it in a comment elsewhere, but I highly recommend the mobile game "Little Corner Tea House". It's got similar "helping customers with their problems" mechanics, plus you get to grow, roast, and ferment your own tea leaves in addition to making lattes and such. It's SO delightful.
If you like tycoon and/or mystery games, "Coffee Noir" is also really fun and a surprisingly realistic coffee roaster management simulator.
I love coffee talk!
It is brilliant from the narration pov, thought. I love it!
"I know they want glitter tea. Uh, no. They're going to have a strong black coffee." 🤣🤣🤣💀
This absolutely made my day.
Waiting on the day where we get a RUclips specifically for weird coffee people.. call it "BrewTube"
That would be really weird.
This would be where Hames Joffman can live in peace.
I was thinking the same 😂@@JimmyNewCakes
I think this term has been adopted by the RUclips home-brewing community, I've definitely seen it used in that space. I wonder how many weird coffee people are also into brewing beer? I'm sure the Venn diagram overlap isn't just me.
I’d love that
As a lifelong tea guy, I just want to thank you for helping me dip my feet into the strange and wonderful world of coffee. Recently got my first v60 thanks to you.
I love the aeromatic app. It has a nice built in timer with audible cues to guide you through each step of the aeropress process and has recipes from you, Jonathan Gagné, and lots of other coffee youtubers that are easy to follow.
Coffee Talk (admittedly not on mobile) is the best tangentially-related to coffee game.
I love coffee talk so much, I was looking for this comment. Don't try the latte art feature with a trackpad though, it's very frustrating
Apparently I'm just gonna rec these to everyone with good taste in coffee-based games, but- "Little Corner Tea House" is an absolutely delightful mobile game with limited ads (no interstitials / banners, you only have to watch them if you want the rewards) where you make coffees and teas to order, as well as grow, ferment, and roast your own tea leaves.
"Coffee Noir" is a mystery detective game where your character goes undercover as a new-in-town coffee roaster, and it's a surprisingly realistic management sim where you have to source good quality beans, decide what roasts to offer, and balance supply and demand. It's neat :)
Not an app you missed, but a point I think many will miss in this video:
The experience with the bombardment of adds, and terribly unsatisfying free-to-play game at the end, are _deeply_ connected to the fact that you felt the need to excuse an app for costing £1.50. How easily do we (rightfully) spend that amount on coffee?
To everyone: If you’re in a position to do so, _please_ pay for software from time to time. Either by buying it, or donating to open-source projects. Things like predatory "casino” games and surveillance capitalism thrives on us refusing to pay even negligible amounts of stuff we still use a lot…
This is a really good point. You've made me think a little more deeply about this area and my habits.
European Coffee Trip has basically never led me wrong 👌
I've discovered so many cool cafes on ECT
Same!
From Stockholm to Vienna to Berlin. ECT were reliable
Really wish there were an equivalent outside of Europe though.
the ““““““smart“““““““ scale video was one of my absolute favourites. Oh boy am I excited for this one
Yes! It also gave us the ideal description of Internet of Things - "These are all things that exist because they can, not because they should"
Love the Cofi app on Android! Open Source and beautiful coffee recipe manager
Thanks! I'm the author of Cofi. Glad that you like it, I recently pushed and update after some time, so check it out!
Fantastic app! I love that it's open source, too. Thank you for your service!
@Dont2004 look for Cofi - Brew Timer
Can vouch for this too, has been my go to for a couple of months now.
Hi @henriwagner2068 perhaps you could try EV Coffee❤Made Simple.
I know this is unrelated to the video but apparently RUclips has shut down Hames Joffman's channel due to "impersonation" and I think we as a community should do something about that
What the heck. It's parody and fair use 😢
@@gasparsigmaJames himself has said he doesn't mind it, and I don't think any reasonable viewer was convinced that the channel contained actual videos of James saying ridiculous things, so this just seems really dumb to me
See James' latest post
@@TheTrickTac oh, I didn't notice that, thanks
@@Dont2004RUclips community I think
I use brew timer to make my coffee every morning. I find the ring at the end of each step helps me make my coffee the same way consistently without needing to keep track of the time!
I want to admit the way James commented on the app price "It is for you to decide whether a couple of bucks are worth the experiment". It is genuinely important for influencers to remember that they are watched from a bunch of different places in the entire world and when someone decides for other people whether something is affordable or not is somewhat unpleasant. Thank you James for such a small but important thing.
Why is this “genuinely important”? The approach you suggest is valid, but it’s equally valid for content creators to have a mental (or expressed) image in their mind of who their audience is. And I think most content creators think their audience is similar to themselves, and that makes sense as they try to be inspirational or tribal. The audience numbers will give the feedback that this is working for them or not through their views. Your belief that it’s important that they all think the way you do just isnt valid.
I think the last game is actually pretty accurate in how life works for many people. Chasing more money to spend more money to chase more money… and in the end nobody gets happier from it. Once you have a stable base, people should chase things that actually make them happy, like sharing a nice cup of coffee with a friend or family member. ☕️
james ranting about a game being a dopamine shot - nice.
A cafe crawl app, in the vein of a pub crawl
BeanConqueror just makes my coffee life better 😉
I just rediscovered version 7 and found it could improve my workflow quite a lot. It added features I wish were built into my Acaia scales settings/UI. Great app and open source too!
Thank you so much
James, you should play Coffee Talk lol. It’s definitely the best (and only) good cafe/coffee theme game I’ve played. It’s mostly story/dialogue driven but there’s some cool brewing and latte art mini games.
Apparently I'm just gonna rec these to everyone with good taste in coffee-based games, but- "Little Corner Tea House" is an absolutely delightful mobile game with limited ads (no interstitials / banners, you only have to watch them if you want the rewards) where you make coffees and teas to order, as well as grow, ferment, and roast your own tea leaves.
"Coffee Noir" is a mystery detective game where your character goes undercover as a new-in-town coffee roaster, and it's a surprisingly realistic management sim where you have to source good quality beans, decide what roasts to offer, and balance supply and demand. It's neat :)
17:46 James Hoffman coffee game reviews, I feel like that could be a separate weekly video. 😂 I’d watch it.
Tasting Grounds is a great app to track the coffees that you’ve brewed and add tasting notes etc!
James playing Coffee Break gave strong Raymond Holt playing Cwazy Cupcakes vibes.
"Should you let coffee into the last private place, that is your phone?" -- James Hoffman, the reason I've watched coffee on my phone for the past 4 years
I never thought I would witness James experiencing gamer rage.
I use brewmaster every day.
When I brew coffee at home and in my job as a barista.
The reason being that I am almost blind and normal timers do not work for me.
This app allows me to have the wait time and current step read out loud to me in real time
I have worked together with the guy Stephen to improve some screen reader features for the blind and visually impaired.
I also use Filtru but find it a bit harder to navigate
But until the new update comes around on brewmaster, this is my go to.
I also use it to weigh beans and food in general and everything like that
James playing mobile shovelware is way funnier than it oughta be
"last private place" ? I think someone needs to tell him.
European Coffee Trip's app made finding amazing coffee in Germany a breeze. Very thankful for their effort!
So I tryed the coffee traker and the brew log app also.
The coffee traker has made me realice that I might be drinking coffee a bit too late, Ill try to limit my caffeine intake to just mornings.
And the brewing log is really handy to try different brewing recipes or methods.
Thanks for the video.
The Aeromatic app is quite good when you want recipe for aeropress specially. I've discovered the James Hoffman recipe for expresso type Aeropress and I use it on a daily basis !
As a person who deeply, deeply loved his Windows Phone, you've hurt me in ways you can't possibly imagine, James
At least it wasn't a CrApple device.
As James said, you're beyond help or was it hope .. either way, really. I had one for work for about 6 months until the IT folks said we don't care how much money we're saving, everyone is right, this phone is terrible. And iPhones are still the standard
"You accrue money to spend more money, and it's just so unsatisfying, so completely pointless, and completely silly. And I regret deeply the time I have spent playing this game."
Accidentally(?) summing up our modern lives and giving us a collective existential crisis there, James.
Theres only one coffee game i like, its still in development and its definitely in the "watch numbers go up" category. It called tiny cafe
And all the characters are lovely, plus tou roast your own beans
Grind size was (and probably still is) the hardest thing to master. The app that has the best grind size suggestion for your specific grinder and coffee, would be the one to use. I don't know of any as of yet that do that
I love the app “Roasters” for finding new coffee shops. They have reviews people leave so it makes it better to scale than euro coffee trip.
European Coffee Trip would have come in handy last summer when I was visiting Cascais for my nephews wedding. Trying to find a late night cafe was harder than expected. It's now downloaded on my phone and waiting for this summers trip.
Mobile games are rarely good. You need to play Coffee Talk on PC, that game looks weird but trust me: They really put love in development, you make every step of every recipe (not a "coffee simulator" but still) and you crate a bond with your costumers, listening about their lives and creating new recipes for them to help with life choices.
Apparently I'm just gonna rec these to everyone with good taste in coffee-based games, but- "Little Corner Tea House" is an absolutely delightful mobile game with limited ads (no interstitials / banners, you only have to watch them if you want the rewards) where you make coffees and teas to order, as well as grow, ferment, and roast your own tea leaves.
"Coffee Noir" is a mystery detective game where your character goes undercover as a new-in-town coffee roaster, and it's a surprisingly realistic management sim where you have to source good quality beans, decide what roasts to offer, and balance supply and demand. It's neat :)
I use beanconqueror daily, and it helps a lot to dial in new beans, and remember what setting to use on my grinder when I buy beans I’ve bought before. I really just track grind setting and extraction time. It helps!
iPhone user but big windows phone fan. I’m happy James acknowledged the existence of WP, but that burn tho hahahaha
The definition of weird coffee people in my place is the one who only drinks Instant 3in1 sachet coffee, claims it better than traditional brewing and calls the day.
You could just say psychopaths
For me, 3-in-1 sticks are more like seperate beverage rather than coffee, like hot chocolate vs nesquik, so this sounds okay for me.
But when someone claims that instant black coffee is better than fresh brewed coffee, that becomes really absurd statement.
@@Jung_Tae_Hun 100% agree. Just because its coffee doesnt mean its the same. Like black filter vs latte
The best coffee is the one YOU enjoy. Dont let anyone convince you otherwise
I had one once, it tasted like mdf smells whilst being burnt a bit by a circ saw
Thank you for European coffee trip. I’ve saved a list on my google maps that I carefully curated and it had all of them! I’m going to switch to this now instead of trying to find every coffee place myself.
beautiful rant at the last game, loved it
I used filtru coffee app by the time I first watched James Hoffmann and I saved your V60 recipe there!
Sadly, over time, I don't feel like I want to input the data - it's tedious, fun at first, but... yeah, I only want to drink my coffee and that's the only thing I want to do in the morning. The app will still stay in my phone though, that James's recipe will be forever stored there.
try Caffy ;)
As someone who has made games in the past, and therefore fully aware of what goes into designing a game, it was extremely satisfying to watch James describe how infuriating and pointless that simple phone game is, to the point of being mad at how much time he spent on it, yet recognizing that it was because a part of his brain wanted to keep making more money in the silly simulation. :D That's exactly how most phone games are. Also adding ads every two minutes is another sadly common theme.
I use Aeromatic. It has a nice selection of aeropress recipes and even gives a grind size for each recipe. They also have your aeropress recipes that I use frequently.
Just downloaded it for Android. Great suggestion!
I have aeromatic installed even though I don't often use an aeropress, because it is the best resource I have found for translating grind settings between grinders. For example if I know this person's V60 recipe says about 40 clicks on a Comandante or 17 on an Encore or whatever I can figure out that that's 85 on my Kingrinder K6 (these numbers are all made up but you get the idea).
There may be another resource for that and it's not the most straightforward to do in Aeromatic but it works fairly well to put in the grind setting and grinder you know and then switch to the grinder you want to know.
App called "Best Coffee" is one I go for when travelling and exploring new coffee places. Yes, you can find occasional Black Sheep Coffee shops there but mostly you come across well established specialty coffee shops. Seen few stickers on the doors of a few too so seem like they do their research.
This was the evolution from the Blue Crow Coffee Map (physical copy) and then "London’s Best Coffee" application. I totally agree - more often than not great, I tend to need to check that places are open when they say they are, and dodging the very odd additions like Black Sheep Coffee but otherwise used weekly (and now international too but with less cafes locations)
We should just have videos of James Hoffman playing coffee games. 😂
I was pondering what grind size with my 1Zpresso J would be for an aeropress and was turned onto "aeromatic" which is the filtru app but specifically for the aeropress. The thing I liked (and downloaded it) for was that you can select what grinder you're using in the recipe section and it will tell you how many clicks to match the specified grind level. Very helpful for giving me a baseline to work from!
Aeromatic app is pretty nice for the Aeropress users. It's a compilation of Aeropress recipes from different baristas including James's recipe, Aeropress championships, and you can add your own.
Never used one and never thought about it. I just keep track of my coffee journey in my notes and search the web. Still good you cover it and thanks for sharing 👍
Well Mr. Hoffman, you don’t need to enter all that data yourself. Next time just try Caffy-think Vivino, but for coffee. 😉
it actually is pretty nice - especially the looks! you can even find james hoffman's own square mile coffee there!
this app definitely has potential
Shame he didn't bring that up, it's really the best coffee app I've tried so far. They don't have all of the roasts yet but seem to be on good track to actually create something like Vivino. This is precisely what the coffee world needs!
Founder here, thanks for the kind words! We’re working hard to get all your favorite roasts on board. We’re just getting started! ☕🚀
Agree! And the photo feature is great, I use it all the time when visiting a coffee shop and trying a new roast that I like. So easy to just snap and save!
Yes, Caffy is by far the best brewing app - I love using it! ☕️
devastated that james didn’t play the best coffee game: papas mocharia
Draw something happy. "Let's keep this child friendly..." 😄
Looking forward to the James Hoffman Coffee Game 😁 We know you, James. You can't stand the frustration of something not being up to your expectations if it would be oh so easy to do 😜
Shout out to Bean Conqueror. For my coffee journey they're perfect: mostly to track type of coffees, cultivar, origins, farmers, etc, but not so much for technique or recipes.
One app that I use, although it's quite niche and specific to one model of grinder. The Beanie app for the Fellow Opus. No BT connection or anything it just helps you understand the weird second tier micro adjustments you can make to the grinder. Without that app I would have NEVER bothered to use the micro adjustments.
"The last private place, that is your phone"
Google: "Excuse-
Facebook: "me..."
NSA: "What?"
China: "大家好吗"
“Should you let Coffee into the last private place, that is most likely, your phone?”
Who’s going to tell him?
I really like the 4:6 Method app. It allows you to tailor-make a recipe for any ratio or amount of coffee and implements the 4:6 pour-over method
Aeromatic has been great for using aeropress. It has continued to meet my ever changing needs and created some creative around such a simple brewer.
It's so comforting that you look like and sound like one of my favorite Canadian actors when he's playing a role, but I don't think you find it very nice to be compared to him but I mean it with complete respect. You are the Austin Powers of coffee and it is very comforting each and every one of your videos. So thank you and I will constantly be returning to your new videos in the future. Sometimes I like to play your old ones, too. 😎👍
Thanks, James!🙂
After my view.
You have become the new James instead of Angry Video Game Nerd.(AVGN) You're Angry Barista Game Nerd (ABGN). Hahaha!
Loven this video!
Probably the best coffee-themed game to play on your phone is Coffee Roaster, which is a brilliant adaptation of the solo boardgame of the same name. It is paid, but ad free, deep, challenging, and a different puzzle each time. Would highly recommend. Plus, dripping with genuine, beautiful, coffee theme!
The video is great and all, but I cannot take my eyes from the Peak Design phone case. Seeing my fav youtuber using my fav brand just fills my heart with joy :)
JAMES!! James I have a coffee-related game that I think you would ACTUALLY like! It's called "Little Corner Tea House," and while it's mostly focused on teas, you can also make various coffees in it! As a former barista and current tea/coffee nerd, I find it legitimately delightful.
I just skipped to the part at the end to see James ranting about the games, had a lot of fun, thanks ;)
I like that James inexplicably explained American work culture while describing that game.
iOS shortcut for logging coffee intake is really good for longer term use - it logs to the health app which has a very good privacy policy
Hi James, I am coming out of that middle phase of my coffee journey that you mentioned, the part where it feels unnecessary to record everything. At the same time, I also stopped my coffee subscription in order to devote more time to shopping for specific beans from an ever-changing list of roasters.
Don't forget about "My Espresso" :)
Roasters is an app that you can use to find coffee shops
I love Jame’s silly rants about silly games 🤣
>the last private place, your phone
Oh wait you're serious, let me laugh even harder.
the windows phone joke made me click the like instantly 😆
I like iBrewCoffee. I use lots of different brew methods and have a few different coffees open at the same time. I like to keep track of the main parameters for each option. It helps me understand my preferences a bit more.
There are a lots of coffee themed board games you could try. Sieze the bean, Coffee roaster, coffee rush etc...
You missed My Espresso!! It's the best one out there 💙☕ it helped me become more confident brewing coffee for others!
I really liked GoodFika which was an Untappd for coffee. I now track which coffee bags I enjoyed through Sheets
Seeing these has made me realize how low maintenance I am. I try to get better than supermarket coffee, grind fresh, but I just dump the same weight of coffee into the bottom of a french press, fill it, stir after the bloom, and let it sit for around 15 minutes. I can't imagine needing an app to teach me how to make coffee.
Coffee shop review apps do have an untapped potential, I'd think. Does the coffee shop work with a roaster / is it roaster owned? Who they source coffee from? Is it a second wave or third wave shop? Italian style? Australian style? Do they have Synesso or Slayer espresso machines (that would tell me they are coffee nerds, at least). Do they work with single origin?
you should've made something to sip while sharing
One that just came up in my feed. Nerdforge has a video you might enjoy. She installs a coffee machine and grinder into a very large computer case and uses an Arduino controller for one touch brewing. It's kinda interesting. I think it's the kind of project that's right up your alley!
"And if you're using a Windows phone, then you're beyond help in any way." - James Hoffmann, 2024. TOO FUNNY!!! I'm not even 20 secs in and I'm dying LMAO
Cant wait for the Fellow Aiden review!
There is a game called “Coffee Inc 2” that is more of a business simulator than coffee making game but it was incredible. I was hoping you’d share it in your video but seems it didn’t cross your radar.
The 4:6 method app. really helpful when I was starting with coffee and was studying Tetsu Kasuya's method.
Probably the only way a coffee game would ever make sense to me is that if it wasn't about brewing the coffee, but decorating your cafe
Beanconqueror FOSS ftw!!!
Thank you so much
honestly i’m very interested in the caffeine tracking app, i’m a college student myself, and i want to be more informed of the amount of caffeine i take in, and how i personally feel with different accounts. having this data or journal on hand could in theory help me be more mindful of my intake!
Only coffee game ever to play is Coffee Inc 2. Start a coffee business, choose bean and roast, expand, invest in the stock market, become a trillionaire. It does have a few paid for DLC as you get further into it but it's quite a cool game.