... and coffee made with chicory (mix the ground coffee with ground roast chicory and brew normally) has a very interesting flavor... I find roast chicory much closer in taste to coffee than other roast grains used as coffee substitutes—it has a fairly coffee-like bitterness, for example—but it has its own unique flavor as well, with a nice vegetal/grassy sweetness to offset the bitterness.
You can mix it in any proportion that suits you; I like straight roast chicory too...
It's something not everybody likes, but well-worth trying.
[One warning though: I've found that if you let too much chicory go through a coffee-grinder (e.g. if you mix the beans with the chicory before grinding), it can gum up the grinding burrs...]
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... and coffee made with chicory (mix the ground coffee with ground roast chicory and brew normally) has a very interesting flavor... I find roast chicory much closer in taste to coffee than other roast grains used as coffee substitutes—it has a fairly coffee-like bitterness, for example—but it has its own unique flavor as well, with a nice vegetal/grassy sweetness to offset the bitterness.
You can mix it in any proportion that suits you; I like straight roast chicory too...
It's something not everybody likes, but well-worth trying.
[One warning though: I've found that if you let too much chicory go through a coffee-grinder (e.g. if you mix the beans with the chicory before grinding), it can gum up the grinding burrs...]