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adrianlondon

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Agreed - it's a damp, foggy, dull, grey, cold day here (Basel, Switzerland) too.

On my fourth "Formula Rossa" (coffee blend) espresso of the day.

Two as they came, one as a cappuccino and one as an Americano (or Long Black, as I've learn it's called thanks to posts on this thread!).
 
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Agreed - it's a damp, foggy, dull, grey, cold day here (Basel, Switzerland) too.
I hear you, read you, relate to you.
On my fourth "Formula Rossa" (coffee blend) espresso of the day.
Enjoy.
Two as they came, one as a cappuccino and one as an Americano (or Long Black, as I've learn it's called thanks to posts on this thread!).
Well, I have just prepared a coffee from a freshly opened bag of washed process Ethiopian coffee, served with organic hot milk.

Perfect on a damp, dull, dreary, dismal, grey, cold day, a day with lowering, threatening, charcoal skies that smothered what one can see in a bleak, light-deprived monochrome shade of colour.
 
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svenmany

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I'm sooooo boring; same coffee day after day. The only variables are whether I wash the dirty cup before making the second and whether I use my finger or the flat side of my pocket knife's fish hook extractor to level the grounds in the portafilter.

I love it too much to try anything else, so stop tempting me with all those fantasmalicious beans and additives!!
 

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I'm sooooo boring; same coffee day after day.
As long as you enjoy it, that is what matters.
The only variables are whether I wash the dirty cup before making the second and whether I use my finger or the flat side of my pocket knife's fish hook extractor to level the grounds in the portafilter.

I love it too much to try anything else, so stop tempting me with all those fantasmalicious beans and additives!!
There are days when I think that I would prefer to never touch - or drink - anything other than Ethiopian coffee, and, every time I return to Ethiopian coffee, having been drinking something else for a while, it is sheer bliss.

However, every so often, I haul myself (sometimes with difficulty) out of my coffee comfort zone, and try out coffee from elsewhere, any place other than Ethiopia.

That is how I discover new coffees that I have come to realise that I like (some superb coffees from El Salvador, for example, and, indeed, Colombia, as well as some pretty good ones from Burundi), and a few outstanding coffees from Yemen, a place where (on account of war, civil war and conflict), it has now become very difficult to obtain coffee from.

Now, granted, there are some discoveries which - to my mind and palate - are best left undiscovered; well, those coffees, I simply choose not to order again.
 
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mtbdudex

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For me , drinking the espresso has transitioned into reflecting time .
Before the day starts, as the day goes.
I’m 62 now, not retired yet, so have a M-F work routine.

We used to collect a meaningful magnet on family trips, then added coffee mugs in the 2010’s / afterwards. I find having that mug with meaning behind it .. means something.
A few of more.
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These magnets on garage door mean something, but I don’t really reflect on them as much.
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I’ve got hopefully 25 more years on this earth, drinking espresso in a special mug adds a little to it each day.
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adrianlondon

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Well, I just tried the trend of drinking sparkling water along with my espresso.

Not a fan.

My dislike of sparkling water has, of course, clouded my judgement somewhat but it also seemed to have removed some of the bitterness I quite like in my espressos.
 

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In a coffee shop.
Well, I just tried the trend of drinking sparkling water along with my espresso.

Not a fan.

My dislike of sparkling water has, of course, clouded my judgement somewhat but it also seemed to have removed some of the bitterness I quite like in my espressos.
Not a trend, just a marked personal preference of mine.

Personally, I love sparkling water; I use it sometimes to dilute fruit drinks - or natural juices made from fruit I have squeezed myself.
 
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