My default coffee making is to heat milk, add coffee and steep it for a couple of minutes before I sieve it and voila.
This does not seem to work for this coffee. I have tried water, boiling it with the water or milk and it simply will not mix. What am I missing?
Edit: I know about grinding, I have a burr grinder, a French press and I know the various ways to make coffee. None of the methods I know, work.
Burr grinder = bar grinder. I made that mistake.
I know someone who bought a bad batch of coffee. It was dirt cheap and tasted like water. You just had to compensate by using an obscene amount of grinds to produce a little bit of something that is almost drinkable.
I've also bought some old coffee that was just barely within its shelf life. It tasted awful, but I guess you wouldn't notice if you always use lots of creme and sugar. I drink my coffee black, so the only way to make it barely tolerable was to use 2-3x the normal dose and use an aeropress to make a super fast extraction. The longer the extraction takes, the more bad stuff will end up in the cup.