Thread: Coffee Enthusiasts

Originally Posted by WhiteLion

...But did the sun not yet again rise and give you another day to live? And what shall you make of this day? For today shall becomes tomorrow's past and the past shall beget your future. Choose wisely, for your future, if any, will depend on it.

Is that 'The Prophet'?

Originally Posted by WhiteLion

I almost forgot about coffee "bowls" which I encountered when back-packing through Europe many years ago. I don't recall ever seeing a "regular" coffee cup such as we use here in America. Either it was the tiny espresso shot cups which people stood in line to purchase for $2.00 a pop (about $7.50 in today's currency) or a medium size soup bowl as we may describe it here in the U.S.. Wow, talk about a blast from the past!

Randy

Yeah, normally I use my vintage French bowl, but sometimes I embrace my Germanic heritage rather than my French and English and reach for a little tiny German coffee cup (which is actually made in England). Of course, as we all know, the English don't drink coffee, only tea...hence the tea thread...This Sunday I'm going to take cucumber sandwiches with my tea on the front lawn. I also need a broadsheet newspaper (The Times would be nice, or 'Punch' magazine) a white towelling hat, sandals (with socks) a white singlet, big baggy shorts and large amounts of arrogance and pomp.

How on earth am I going to divide my time between SOTD, The Tea Thread and here AND keep up my duties of perplexing (I mean welcoming) newbies?

DAMN you interesting thread posters, damn you to hell and back!

Hello Carl..this is hell er..the tea thread calling. Love the coffe bowl mate.

Ta. Actually I've been missing the tea thread, I need to make time...

Yer welcome anytime of course....but I really do like the coffee bowl all teasing aside. I knew about coffee bowls and it's nice to see someone else does as well. Just an FYI though...remember,before Britain was a tea Nation,Coffee was quite popular and there were many coffee houses in Merry old London way back in the day.

Originally Posted by Nightblade

Yer welcome anytime of course....but I really do like the coffee bowl all teasing aside. I knew about coffee bowls and it's nice to see someone else does as well. Just an FYI though...remember,before Britain was a tea Nation,Coffee was quite popular and there were many coffee houses in Merry old London way back in the day.

I'lltellyawadI'lldo. I'll give you the French coffee bowl's brother, they're a pair. I've been keeping the other for 'companion' coffee drinking, but as I have a one cup mocca pot and I really only have coffee in the morning the other never gets used. It's a little stained on the inside; but to you I make of it on this day a gift. And one day, in maybe about, oh, maybe three weeks from now? we'll share a coffee over the net in a 'companion' coffee drinking session; each drinking from a 'brother' cup, how cool would THAT be?!?

I appreciate your thread on tea and your conversation, so this is my may of showing my appreciation, please.

I'll tell you something, over the last few weeks I have got to know a man from Lebanon. His English language skills are poor, which makes him hard to understand, but I love some of the cultural niceties that are starting to shine through. Even though I have a really slow life, by many accounts, I feel that I'm STILL living life too fast...

...Am I supposed to be taking about coffee?

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

I'lltellyawadI'lldo. ...Am I supposed to be taking about coffee?

Carl at our age....Talk about everything and anything...don't wait for the bifocal and mush days to talk about anything.

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Is that 'The Prophet'?

Actually, it's just me blathering.

Randy

Originally Posted by Nightblade

Carl at our age....Talk about everything and anything...don't wait for the bifocal and mush days to talk about anything.

Thank you, the bifocals are already here and I'm also a little mushy around the edges...

Originally Posted by WhiteLion

Actually, it's just me blathering.

Randy

Oh, sounded like The Prophet

Little quiet here on the coffee front. I tried for a while to get fresh local beans (was repeatedly disappointed) and finally settled on a mail-order place. He roasts fresh for each order so no risk of stale coffee.

Ethiopia Yirgacheffe #1 Wote Konga, full of blueberry goodness. Not from added flavoring, just straight beans at the perfect roast.

I do 95% of my brewing in an aeropress.