Good coffee

How should a good coffee be made?
I'm an instant coffee drinking guy. Is there a generally better way to have your coffee?

Better than instant? Instant coffee is made from floor sweepings and asphalt. It barely, barely qualifies as coffee in the first place.

Do you think you could make better soup than freeze-dried shit made by a massive corporation?

tl;dr
>Get good beans from local roastery
>Grind them yourself (weigh them out, dont use scoops or spoons)
>Brew in equipment of choice. Im fond of aeropress and V60.

Thats 90% of the job for getting good coffee.

>Is there a generally better way to have your coffee?

Literally every single other way except boiling whole beans over a campfire.

and even that it's better than instant coffee

>I'm a drinking my own piss guy. Is there a generally better way to have a drink?

if you have the money to spare get yourself a one element expresso machine (the meme expresso machines are like 1000$ and upwards, a deLonghi domestic one it's like 80$) none of those DRM capsule machines and a coffee grinder.
Grind your cofee until it's like potting soil consistency, put a full teaspoon of cofee in the cofee machine cup, press a little with something, screw the element in the machine and hit the button. Easy.

this is actually some solid advice
vbm domobar and v60 here

once you figured out what brewing method brings out the kind of taste you want from your coffee the rest is just finding some good fresh beans and not fucking up your process, that's pretty much all that's to it.

im partial to my french press. every time i try to percolate coffee in the vietnamese style im completely disappointed and drip coffee like you get at timmys or breakfast places is always just so watery

>boil lots of water in kettle
>put grounds in french press
>pour only enough water to make the grounds all wet; give it a quick stir or slosh if needed
>foam should appear
>let the foamy mess stand for a minute or two
>come back and top it off with the rest of the hot water
>put lid+plunger assembly on french press and press it down slowly (a normal 4-6 cup press should take you a full 5 seconds to press down. you should feel it takes some force but use the minimum you can to make the plunger move at all)
>draw plunger up quickly
>plunge down again at about the same speed
>let stand again to cool to a drinkable temperature
>enjoy coffee

>Literally every single other way except boiling whole beans over a campfire.
literally how turks do it and they have the best coffee

>made from floor sweepings and asphalt.
theres a brand of gum like this and its the best gum ever made. the pink and blue ones you can only get in coin op screw-operated vending machines

if you want a consistent cofee with a vietnamese, you should grind the cofee a lot and give it a good press so the water stays more time filtering