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Scepticalscribe said:
"The big, grown-up Celsius degrees"....

I like that; I may even borrow it, at some stage.

Personally, while I like heat and warmth (actually, while I love, effortlessly tolerate and thrill to heat and warmth and light) even I must concede that 44C is beyond - well beyond - my heat tolerant comfort zone.

I spent two years in Georgia - Caucasus Georgia - with the EU, and I must admit that the summers were punishing; a little over two months when daylight temperatures regularly exceeded 42, frequently reaching 44C. At night, it wouldn't drop below 25.

However, in the here and now, in my mid northern latitudes in bleak mid winter, approaching both Christmas and the solstice in December, it is cold, and dark, and dismal, and dreary and wet.

It is also approaching midnight, otherwise, yet another coffee would sorely tempt me.
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The weather here is ridiculous. Yesterday low 40's, today 17~20.* We should send it back under warranty for a do-over...

Anyway, it was a good excuse for another coffee.
Still learning to master the Moka pot.
Aldi Dark Roast - Grinder 7.6 seconds at 32 grind size per cup.
Jed's No 3 - Grinder 6 seconds at 40 grind size per cup.


* Yes, I know that 17 C is some people's high summer, but here it is a warmish winter's day.
 
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My morning coffee (Ethiopian, served with organic hot milk) went down surprisingly quickly.

In summer, only espresso is consumed that rapidly, whereas, in the deepest, darkest, most depressing days of winter, a large mug of excellent coffee just.........somehow, inexplicably vanishes.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
Somehow, quite inexplicably, my mug of Colombian coffee (served with organic hot milk) has completely disappeared while I was composing emails, browsing online, and reading.
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The whole mug? or simply the contents?
If it is the former, maybe your house elf is being a bit over-eager. Or maybe they just like coffee...
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
An afternoon mug of coffee from Colombia (served with organic hot milk) - which I am currently consuming - is pure bliss, on this dark, dank, dreary, overcast December evening.
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You motivate me to get up and make my second cup of the day.

I'm thinking of switching to hormone-laced milk; i've heard it makes the coffee a bit tangy.
 
Oh, wow.

I have just received a book, a most unexpected gift - a fat, gorgeous, beautifully produced (and illustrated) hard-back - written and (obviously, just published) by a small coffee producer and roaster with whom I do business - in other words, from whom I buy coffee (granted, lots of coffee), and (fairly frequently) send them emails asking about their products.

As I wasn't expecting any deliveries today, - well, apart from the beer I bought yesterday - (unlike yesterday, when two parcels arrived), I didn't even look at my foolish phone (permanently plugged in as the battery is completely moribund) until now, when I found a message alerting me to expect a delivery from one of my favourite coffee producers.

The thing is, I was a bit nonplussed, as I hadn't ordered any coffee, assuming that 1): I have sufficient for my immediate needs, 2): We are too close to Christmas to place a last minute order, and hope for it to arrive before early January, and, 3): If truly necessary before the New Year when normal business hours are expected to resume, I can buy an emergency coffee from one of the small, local (extremely good) coffee places, - which also source ethical, environmentally aware, good quality coffee from small producers - places which I am also known to haunt.

Anyway, the small parcel resting against the front door contained a book.

It is all about the (usually excellent) coffees they buy, and features profiles of several of the farms and coffee growers & producers (small, usually family owned, ethical and environmentally aware businesses) with whom they do business across a variety of countries.

This is a most unexpected but very welcome treat; as their online business won't be open until Monday (and then, only briefly), I will not be able to thank them until then.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
I am sipping (and greatly savouring) my second mug of coffee of the day, which is the end of the Colombian coffee.
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The good thing about "...the end of the Colombian..." is that it means it's time for an interesting replacement!

I'm currently speculating about replacements myself. I've been really enjoying some coffee from Mexico this past month and was thinking I would buy another package of it. However, when I went to the roaster's online store I found it was all gone....my coffee supply will last for a little while but I'll be figuring out something else.

While I was out walking today, I stopped in at a local coffee shop and bought a too small package of El Salvador pacamara. Mostly they're making espresso drinks at this place, so I've been a little surprised that they roast their pacamara as a light roast. It makes for a very tasty coffee that has a juicy citrus acidity.

The owner was the barista today and he made me a nice cup of it (free too....always be nice to your barista)
 
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Macky-Mac said:
The good thing about "...the end of the Colombian..." is that it means it's time for an interesting replacement!
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How right you are.

Macky-Mac said:
I'm currently speculating about replacements myself. I've been really enjoying some coffee from Mexico this past month and was thinking I would buy another package of it. However, when I went to the roaster's online store I found it was all gone....my coffee supply will last for a little while but I'll be figuring out something else.

While I was out walking today, I stopped in at a local coffee shop and bought a too small package of El Salvador pacamara. Mostly they're making espresso drinks at this place, so I've been surprised that they roast their pacamara as a light roast. It makes for a very tasty coffee that has a juicy citrus acidity.
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To my mind, you can never go wrong with a Pacamara from El Salvador.

Actually, personally, I am most partial to coffees from El Salvador.

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The owner was the barista today and he made me a nice cup of it (free too....always be nice to your barista)
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Agreed.

Actually, my replacement coffees - for I finished my Ethiopian coffee yesterday, and the Colombian coffee today - are two different coffees from El Salvador.
 
Just back from the city - where I treated myself to a flat white, and also bought some coffee - where fresh French bread, and a few croissants were purchased.

Now, I am sipping, savouring and hugely enjoying a coffee comprised of a blend (of my own devising) of two coffees from El Salvador, served with organic hot milk.
 
Madhatter32 said:
I do not know when or how it happened. But at some point along the road, I started to tolerate, nay ... enjoy, coffee black. Naked or a little milk ... depending on my mood.
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When I was about 33 I moved to Nairobi. The only milk on offer in the office was the long life milk in cartons. Probably fine stuff but new to me. So I started to drink coffee black and still do many years later. I stopped adding sugar in my late 20s. A good friend of mine in his 60s puts substantial cream and sugar and claims to be drinking coffee. I just chuckle and tell him he should be buying very cheap coffee with his routine. Each to their own.
 
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adrianlondon said:
And that friend's name? Star Buck.
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Overpriced burnt bitter coffee plain or the same crap with 6,000 calories of syrup, cream, etc. The fact they became a success speaks volumes to the lack of taste and intelligence of many people.

I do not want to be accused of being anti American so I will say that Tim Hortons is also crap. It started ok but years ago it was taken over by a Brazilian hedge fund which I think also owned the crap Burger King. Now I have no idea who is in control.
 
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Expos of 1969 said:
When I was about 33 I moved to Nairobi. The only milk on offer in the office was the long life milk in cartons. Probably fine stuff but new to me. So I started to drink coffee black and still do many years later. I stopped adding sugar in my late 20s. A good friend of mine in his 60s puts substantial cream and sugar and claims to be drinking coffee. I just chuckle and tell him he should be buying very cheap coffee with his routine. Each to their own.
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Honestly, I do not understand the sugar with coffee thing. Coffee should taste like ... well, coffee.

I also take solace knowing that I am drinking one of the few things available, along with tea and water, that is unsweetened -- organically or artificially.
 
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Madhatter32 said:
Honestly, I do not understand the sugar with coffee thing. Coffee should taste like ... well, coffee.

I also take solace knowing that I am drinking one of the few things available, along with tea and water, that is unsweetened -- organically or artificially.
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When I first joined this thread I was just drinking plain espresso. Since then I've taken to adding some milk and hot water. The flavors that are left over are strong and very coffee. But, the milk takes away some of the aspects of espresso that I don't enjoy as much. It's kind of like having cheese when drinking red wine or adding an ice cube to my scotch (though never with my Ardbeg).

So, even though it's not pure coffee, my pride is intact. If I think to add sugar, I instead grab some coffee ice cream out of the freezer.
 
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