Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee

Good Gary memory, Joe..


Roger! You probably got ordinary grocery store Kona... (not to presume).
Probably not 70.00 a pound Kona Reserve, heh.


I'll admit to once really liking Farmer's coffee made in an old percolator.
I might still, who knows.

my dad had the perfect method for making a good cup of coffee - or rather , how to get the coffee ready for my mother to brew the coffee .
he would buy selected green beans . he knew all the various categories - i never paid any attention .
the beans would be sorted carefully .
next came the roasting process . he had a roaster handmade to fit the kitchen oven . sometimes i was allowed to turn the handle - but only under strict supervision !
when the coffee aroma started to fill the kitchen , the beans were watched carefully - not too black , not too light !
thereafter came another sorting process and any beans not having the 'right colour' were tossed out .
finally came the grinding of the beans : a coffeemill was mounted on the kitchen wall and i was allowed to crank the wheel (no electric grinder allowed !).
funny thing : i didn't really start drinking coffee until i retired - strong tea was always my preference .
when it comes to coffee now , i'd say i enjoy 'viennese coffee' when served in vienna and kona when served in hawaii :wink: .
hbg

Your dad was a smart cookie, hamburger.


I like both tea and coffee and despite my rattling on, am a learner.

So, I'm a barbarian, already. I don't even care much about Koala Tea, as far as that goes.

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uh oh.

Really, you should ask patiodog. He's a much better story teller. Dlowan could relate it.

Thinking, eucalyptus steeped in acid wash.

Okay, here's one version:

A man had been feeling really bad for about 3 weeks, so he went to see his doctor. The doctor said, "Look, I don't know what you've got, but it could be serious, so why don't you go to this specialist I know." So the man went to the specialist and the specialist said, "Look you have a very rare sickness, only one person every ten years gets it! The only cure is made in Australia in a little town called Mercy, about 400 miles from Sidney. And by the way, you have only one week to live."

So the man took the first flight he could to Sidney, rented a car, and drove to Mercy, Australia. When he got there he found it was one of those towns with a population of one. The man walked up to the house in the village, and an old doctor answered the door.

"You have to help me!", said the man, "I'm dying of this rare illness and I only have four days left to live"

So the old man invited him in. "I must give you my special Koala bear Tea. It is the only thing on Earth that can cure you."

So the old man went out to get the ingredients. One koala, a few birds and such. He boiled them together and gave them to the man with bones, feathers and dirt sticking out of the drink. The man looked at it, repulsed, and asked if the tea could be filtered to remove the lumps.

The old doctor looked horrified and said, "My dear Sir, the Koala Tea of Mercy is not strained!!!"

Like I say, PD does it better.

Worse than I imagined.. (we had to memorize that in high school).

I never saw that coming.

Joe(and it hurts)Nation

Ain't a damn thing wrong with that telling, roger. (And different from how Mr. Maloney a-told it to me -- and better, I think.)

The folks at EVP here in Madtown WI roast up some tasty, smoky, put-the-shakes-into-your-spine beans. But, then, I don't mind my coffee or my liquor a little rough.

Have a little roaster around, does an all right job for light roasts with Kenyan or Ethiopian beans (and with the unidentified beans I used to get from the tiny Arabic market at Pike Place). No good for a dark roast, though: the good oils appear at about the same time it starts to burn.

Love the smell of roasting coffee...





I don't care what they say about you, Joe(...)Nation: you're all right.

So yesterday Osso came over and we had a pot (drip) of the Jamaican blue and then used the French Press for a last cup. man o man what a difference using the french press.

So right!

We had a coffee clatch: you know, sitting around a table talking for a couple of hours over a cup or two or three of really good coffee. We've got a bunch of the world's problems covered now.

Same here, fell in love with it while in Jamaica back in 1989. Love this stuff, would like more.
(Finally I'm back on the internet after power outages. )

So now the lady Diane and I have started a new ritual, a cup of Blue from the french press every late afternoon and we just sit and talk at the table looking out on the back yard. The lady said "Dys, you gotta get some more of this" so I went on line to were I got the last lb and "out of stock" so I found another site that sells only Blue Mountain (more expensive) and ordered another lb plus a lb of Kona. It's a very nice ritual.

Mrs edgarblythe and I have a ritual also. We purchase HEB brand coffee and have a nice strong cup before going about the activities of the day. When I get home, she's usually there ahead of me, and we spend an hour drinking more coffee and sitting together, us and the dogs. I used to drink coffee by the pot-ful, but can only manage a couple cups a day, now. At work, I drink an assortment of teas.

*takes sip of nescafe instant.*

*feels isolated*

*Gets over it cause he lives in the best country in the world *

Note to Diane (pay no attention, Dys) -

I tried that tea, I liked it.

Pixie's Chocolate Mate' Solstice

It has, ahem, a llama-load of antioxidents -

organic yerba mate
organic black tea
organic roasted chicory root
organic roasted ramon nut
cocoa power
natural flavors

It was 4.59 for a box of 20..
(I once looked their teas up online, think they were twice as much as in my store.. will have to double check that.)

I forgot to mention that when I make good coffee in the french press I use tonic water instead of tap water.
edit: I USE CLUB SODA

So, time passes and I open more of my packed boxes. I find my wee stovetop espresso maker, which looks like these, probably the smallest...

http://www.teeccino.com/ProductGroupDetails.aspx?ProductGroupID=77

Plus, somewhere else in the packaging, is my regular old espresso maker.

I think I'm going to toss my giant hard-to-pour-water-into counter-taker-upper......



Garage sale coming up...