GOOD COFFEE IN ENGLAND?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
A well, to each their own taste! When I am in England, I often try to make a good cup of U.S. joe, to no avail, as the English grind the coffee too fine. For an example of an Englishman who understood this, as he lived here for many years, note the moment in one of the Hornblower novels, where Forrester has him describe to his steward how to prepair the beans, after describing to him how to roast them he tells him to take them to the gunner and have him grind them to to the consistancy of gun powder - for the charge, he tells him not the fine gun powder for the priming. I have often felt Forrester was sending a message home to his fellow countrymen on how to make a good cup of coffee. And yes, the pot needs to be very very clean.
Cheers Larry