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Favorite brand of coffee?
On 19 Oct 2003 07:45:45 -0700, (butch burton)
wrote:
(Rosie Miller) wrote in message >...
>> >
>> >Ethiopian 'Horse' Harrar blended 2:1 with 'Grade 1' Sulawesi Toraja
>> >and a bit of Ugandan Bugisu tossed in, roasted about 15 seconds into
>> >second crack. That's my favorite this week. Life's too short for
>> >shitty coffee.
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>> My favorite is Millstone beans, I grind them at home, I like flavored coffees
>> and will skip around , sometimes the flavors, sometimes the breakfast blend.
>> Rosie
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>Coffee beans after roasting have a 2 week max shelf life in whole bean
>format-ground it is only a matter of hours or some say minutes before
>the varietal flavors have left. So if you want to experience real
>coffee, find a roaster that rotates their beans. These people are
>around if you will just look. Also a few roasters are bottom feeders
>over roasting cheap crap beans and selling roast. We call one of the
>big chains charbucks cause they can not possibly sell fresh roasted-so
>they way overroast their coffee and are offering roast flavors and not
>varietal flavors. But at least they start with high quality beans not
>like the big bulk can guys who are peddling steam treated (without the
>steam treatment these beans taste like truck tires)Vietnamese sourced
>robusta beans.
>
>Now if you really want great coffee-roast your own beans. If
>interested go to alt coffee-having a great cup of Ethopian Harrar
>Horse just roasted into the beginning of the second crack. Lots of
>sources of green beans and if you are a bit handy, can make your own
>roaster for not a lot of money. Our ancestors used to roast their own
>beans.
I am almost hesitant to ask this, but where's a good place to order
green beans from?
I'm not a coffee connoisseur, Eight O'Clock Bean Coffee is my
preference, but lately I'm in the mood to try my hand at roasting my
own.
......Alan.
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Curiosity killed the cat -
lack of it is killing mankind.
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