Coffee Lovers

[Guest]

You roast your own! That would be a lot of fun....but smelly, haha.

I myself am a coffee lover, and have been drinking the stuff for about 5 years now. In fact I love coffee crisp, coffee cake, and anything else with the flavour.

Would you believe that I've had a $160 cup of coffee once? About two years ago I worked for a coffee shop and brought in a guy who had been to Indonesia to hunt out the "Kope Luwak". These beans have literally been passed through the digestive system of monkeys (although it's more cat-like). This animal instinctively eats the rippest and reddest coffee beans (coffee beans nest in a cherry), and their digestive tracts remove a lot of the acidity. The result is a VERY smooth cup of coffee.

Pretty crazy!

JC

p.s. I like it black

It is crazy and I have heard of it. Man who would be the first person to decide that beans picked from monkey poop would be good brewed?

Not me for sure, but then I still can't wrap my head around prairie oysters niether. Why would anyone think they looked appetizing???

So was the coffee good?

What was its flavor? Nutty with a hint of MONKEY ASS ,LOL

No, really, was the coffee worth the $160 ?(DOUBT IT)

 

[Ncogneato]

Has any body seen the chocolate covered coffee beans? You just munch on em' like candy. I saw these at a local flea market. Man, what a pick-me-up!!

 

[jcsmooth]

Haha...I don't know who would have thought to remove beans from a monkey's poop droppings and brew it into a warm liquid.

Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he THINK he was doing at the time? What did he think it would taste like?

It's not nasty at all actually...They completely sterilize the beans and wash them, so it really just takes like a cup of coffee.

It was very smooth though, and had a hint of chocolate from what I remember.
Was it worth it? Heck no. But rich people will always find a reason to spend stupid amounts of $ on anything....typically only british royalty and a few other wealthy individuals have access to these coffee beans. If rich people will pay others to take coffee beans out of monkey poo, then whatever.

It was a good cup of coffee though, but I'd have only paid $2 for it.

JC

 

[ogrefugee]

grateful beans organo mexicano with a good bit of whole cream

makes me drool

no sugar though... unless the coffee is absolute SHIT, then i'll add a pinch to cover up the taste

 

[Guest]

I can't really drink coffee cuz all the caffeine gives me anxiety and I feel more on edge. But my roomate buys green kona beans from hawaii and roasts them himself. French press that and its really good. I can probably handle it once in awhile, but not all the time like I used to.

And I take those "studies" with a grain of salt. Lots of times studies are funded by people in the industry of the product they want to promote. First it was green tea. Think how much green tea has skyrocketed in sales after they started promoting it "EVERYWHERE" as a health drink. Shit, people just drink that stuff all the time in Asia becuase its their drink.

So now everyone is saying, green tea is soooooo healthy. Yeah if you steeped broccoli up for 3 minutes I'm sure you would get polyphenols also. There is so much hype in studies.

Of course, coffee had to come along and make studies too! I mean, come on. It just makes people feel less guilty for drinking something with tons of caffeine that makes them feel high. I would be surprised if the studies sucked, and were funded by people in the coffee industry.

Just recently I saw a study on black tea. But it was completely flawed, and it didn't take a rocket science to figure out why it was flawed

Neways just thought I would clear that up. Might as well just drink it because you like it, not because you have a 67.8% less chance of getting some disease.

 

[The Slickster]

Had a coffee smelling afghani male that was crossed to 5 afghan females. Will not forget, that that male at one particular point in flowering smelled just like a Barnes Noble coffee smell. Is there not a Capucino strain, if it smells like coffee, would you like that strain Insomniac. I can't drink coffee, but when I cheat, I go for the Jamaican Blue Mountain of the Hawaiin Kona ground myself with my special dry blender, then sifted to perfection. That fresh smell is killer, makes me wish I could have caffeine.

 

[bongasaurus]

Has any body seen the chocolate covered coffee beans? You just munch on em' like candy. I saw these at a local flea market. Man, what a pick-me-up!!

mmmmm mmm those things are so good

i like a good stong cup of coffee. just a little milk for me though.

starbucks is pretty good too...

 

[bongasaurus]

Just recently I saw a study on black tea. But it was completely flawed, and it didn't take a rocket science to figure out why it was flawed

sounds like a rickysim if ya know what i mean. hehe heh. no disrespect. just found it funny at the moment

 

[trem0lo]

I drink coffee out a stovetop cappuccino maker now, and it's actually waaay better than the coffee machine that broke. So I had to dig that little silver thing out of the appliance drawer... I didn't even know what it was at first. This thing makes coffee? It makes a strong and smooth cup of coffee. The downside is it only makes one cup at a time.

On my honeymoon in Maui I had 100% Kona coffee every morning. So good, but it costs like $20 a pound here so I never buy it.

 

[Guest]

I usually drink two cups in the morning... rarely after 11 am. Folgers is my regular brew... the Colombian stuff. However, I do have some Jamaica Blue Mountain beans that I grind up on occasion as a special treat.

Always drink it black and has to be piping hot and fresh.

Mais~

 

[Guest]

I swear coffee is about the only thing I drink.. I dont know how good it is for you, but I love it!
It makes me relax! And sooths my throat... I sing for a living and hot liquid is the
key for me. And I hate hot tea.

 

[Guest]

well guess hawaii better speak up, there's a bean called peaberry, one called honolua
coffee co,you can get it on line for those wanting the best ever tasted by these lips,
well story is that peaberry is the only bean that has one , not two in one, well any ways this one is from the big island and it is very different, very rich and deep,but and the buzz , it's high, really high, once any one from the main land taste they love it for ever, check it out ! good talkin about other beans too
Peace eagles

 

[NiteTiger]

Haha...I don't know who would have thought to remove beans from a monkey's poop droppings and brew it into a warm liquid.

Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he THINK he was doing at the time? What did he think it would taste like?

Like the guy who ate eggs? What dude sat around and said 'Y'know what? I'm gonna eat the next thing that drops outta that bird's ass?"

Gotta wonder sometimes

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the tip eagle... I just ordered some Peaberry.

Mais~

 

[jcsmooth]

Like the guy who ate eggs? What dude sat around and said 'Y'know what? I'm gonna eat the next thing that drops outta that bird's ass?"

Gotta wonder sometimes

Haha....it's pretty f'ed up but there WAS a 1st for everything (past tense...everything has been done...stop trying...now). Okay I'm just kidding on that last part.
Somebody had to take the buds off of a plant, roll it up in some paper (or whatever), stick in their mouth...and light it on fire. Can you imagine trying to tell others to do that? Sometimes I wish I could go back and be a caveman with all the skills I have now, and impress the banana's off of every cave lady. It'd be like one non-stop magic show. Everyone knows magicians get all the ladies

JC

 

[ChaoticEntity]

You roast your own! That would be a lot of fun....but smelly, haha.

I myself am a coffee lover, and have been drinking the stuff for about 5 years now. In fact I love coffee crisp, coffee cake, and anything else with the flavour.

Would you believe that I've had a $160 cup of coffee once? About two years ago I worked for a coffee shop and brought in a guy who had been to Indonesia to hunt out the "Kope Luwak". These beans have literally been passed through the digestive system of monkeys (although it's more cat-like). This animal instinctively eats the rippest and reddest coffee beans (coffee beans nest in a cherry), and their digestive tracts remove a lot of the acidity. The result is a VERY smooth cup of coffee.

Pretty crazy!

JC

p.s. I like it black

the stuff tastes very musty to me, I really didn't enjoy it all that much I'm sorry to say. As long as your only roasting 8-16oz of coffee the roasting smell isn't overpowering, not like a commercial roaster. The smell and chaff stay managable. But as soon as I can afford a 2kg sample roaster I'm getting one!!!

 

[Guest]

i haven't got the patience for brewing beans and waiting around. i've had a cheapo coffee machine before but it never got hot enough and it was messy so i gave up. some good ol kenco or nescafe gold blend does the trick! not the powdery stuff tho thats like the soapbar of the coffeeworld.

 

[Verger OG]

No coffee for me no more. It gives me a headache when i drink irregularly. And when it does that it starts to stink of bodily addiction. I dislike addictions. Therefore I smoke the fine green herb.
No alcohol for me too!

 

[robobond]

It was very smooth though, and had a hint of chocolate from what I remember.

JC

A taste of chocolate you say?

 

[ogrefugee]

Heh, any of you ever tried this stuff?
http://www.sallys-place.com/beverages/coffee/kopi_luwak.htm

i have to admit i am curious to try it...

heheh, here's an excerpt

On these Indonesian islands, there's a small marsupial called the paradoxurus, a tree-dwelling animal that is part of the sibet family. Long regarded by the natives as pests, they climb among the coffee trees eating only the ripest, reddest coffee cherries. Who knows who first thought of it, or how or why, but what these animals eat they must also digest and eventually excrete. Some brazen or desparate -- or simply lazy -- local gathered the beans, which come through the digestion process fairly intact, still wrapped in layers of the cherries' mucilage. The enzymes in the animals' stomachs, though, appear to add something unique to the coffee's flavor through fermentation.