Hmm Coffee

I buy green coffee beans in bulk and roast them at home.
In this, I'm a yuppie swine.



munk
 
....that's one of the warning signs. Now, a real warning sign, of old age, not of yuppiehood, is the accumulation of flashlights. I don't know why, but as one ages and the vision is less acute, we attempt to make up the difference with flashlights.

munk
 
munk said:
Now, a real warning sign, of old age, not of yuppiehood, is the accumulation of flashlights. I don't know why, but as one ages and the vision is less acute, we attempt to make up the difference with flashlights.

munk
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Hmmm I'm in trouble.
 
..you start buying 'extras', just in case, and giving them away as gifts....



munk
 
Speaking of flashlights...

The reason I end buying so many is that my children (God bless them) usually make off with them for some sort of nighttime adventure and I typically find them later, under a bed or behind a couch, switch in the "on" position and batteries long dead and occasionally leaking their contents. I have learned to hide my "good" ones. :)

Eric
 
Completed the survey - very brief. I typically drink more coffee during the cooler months, to warm the body as well as the spirit. I know several folks who really enjoy iced coffee, but I have not developed a taste for it.

Eric
 
"Iced coffee is an abomination unto the Lord." I'm sure it's written down somewhere in Leviticus ... look it up.

Other than that, while I prefer dark and nasty roasts, anything to give me the requisite caffeine hit (in quantity) will do. I'll even drink instant, though I won't buy it.

I'm probably just self-medicating ADHD with all this caffeine, but it (usually) works.
 
The entire philosophy of 'self medication' reminds me of James Agee's admonishment that we all choose the method of our self destruction.

Iced coffee, if it's from my brew, strong and dark, served with cream and brown sugar is very good.

but hot is best.
munk
 
I like coffee just fine, but tend to drink a lot more tea than coffee.

And yes, I expect to be chased out of Seattle by an angry pitchfork-wielding mob any minute now. :D
 
There's a bumper sticker for the self rightieous up there: Clear Cut Baimbridge.


munk
 
Had a lot of Cuban friends when I lived in Miami, and they got me hooked on drinking esspresso, particularly the brand Cafe' Bustelo. A forumite and fellow Floridian sent me some Cafe' Bustelo while I was on one of my excursions overseas (this place is full of good guys). It's hard to describe how special a little taste of home can be when you're so far away. The coffee in the mess tent was adequate stuff, standard Army fare compliments of the 10th Mountain Division, but it couldn't hold a candle to some good old Cafe' Bustelo. Think I'll go brew a cup or two, just talking about it has me craving the taste and aroma.;) :D

Sarge
 
Novadak said:
I like coffee just fine, but tend to drink a lot more tea than coffee.

And yes, I expect to be chased out of Seattle by an angry pitchfork-wielding mob any minute now. :D
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I'm assembling the posse as I type this. I can't believe that I just read that. You = traitor. ;)

I can't prove it, but I believe that we have more coffee places than any other type of business around here. (Except, perhaps, for Thai resteraunts. We have more freaking Thai resteraunts here than they do in Thailand. I'm serious.) The number is truly astonishing and there are always more opening. Sometimes there are five or six of them within sight of each other. I don't know how they all stay open.

Unfortunately, I lack the disposable income that I used to have and drive-through espressos are no longer in the budget. I now drink industrial coffee at work. It is terrible. If I can't get to a coffee pot I'll settle for the stuff mixed from concentrate that they give to the inmates. (Cut with liberal amounts of milk and sugar, it tastes oddly similar to a Starbuck's Frappachino.) This stuff is worse than what they gave us in the navy, and that was crap.

In an effort to reduce the amount of refined sugar in my diet I've taken to using blackstrap molasses. It takes the bitter edge off cheap coffee without overpowering sweetness and adds a welcome bit of nutrition to boot.
 
Darn, Dave; is it that complicated? Can we get some wholesome nutrition into you before you croak, probably under the neon sign of a Thai Restaruant?



munk
 
For a complete simpleton, I have a remarkable knack for overcomplicating things. My life is a more-neurotic-than-usual Seinfeld episode.

I'll drink the hell out of some good coffee, though. :D
 
I'm finally understanding that.

If you ever make it to the munk compound, we'll roast some beans, grind them, pour hot water through them. We might even get to drink coffee.


munk
 
*crash*
Boom!

I thought the navy was supposed to make good coffee? You know that black gang stuff? suppose to be thick enough to starch a shirt, strong enough to strip paint?

Grounds poured into a boiling cauldren of water, pulled off the heat, adn the grounds settled with a handful of coarse ground salt?

Dave, Dave! Dave!! you are shaking the foundations of my world! Please don't tell me there are no goats in the goat locker!!

*sirens in the backroom, slowing increasing their undulating volume*
 
Over ten years, I can remember every time that the coffee was good. Let that be a lesson in the quality (or lack thereof) of naval coffee. We don't brew good coffee. We just brew a lot of it, and on a ship, what's in the pot is the only game in town.

Now, if you want to talk about surface preservation of metal...well, we're actually not too good at that either but the paint tastes better than the coffee, so that's something. :)
 
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