Tracy P. Hamilton
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Joined: May 2006
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| Quote (Arden Chatfield @ April 25 2007,09:24) | I've been a semi-coffee snob for a couple decades, and I've never thought of good coffee as coming from particular countries. In my experience, good coffee is simply a matter of who chose, prepared, and roasted it. Peet's is the best -- just about any fresh dark-roasted house blend or French roast from Peet's will be superb, even if it's from some unglamorous place like Guatamala, Indonesia or Kenya, while a $30/lb JBM or Kona is usually a disappointment, esp. if it's light roasted. So 99% of good coffee is buying it from people who know what they're doing and then preparing it properly at home.
I'm still not as hardcore as my brother-in-law. He actually roasts his own beans, which I think is going way overboard. |
Roasting is trivial with the right equipment, you get fresher coffee, and the green beans from Sweet Maria's are about half price of roasted coffee, plus I like lighter roasts in general (more acid).
Roasting coffee is one of my three hobbies, five if you count drinking the result a hobby separately.
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