Thread: Coffee Enthusiasts

I'm enjoying a most delightful Irish Coffee, (Maxwell house with a shot of Jameson) to ward off the harsh central Florida winter chill.

I started coffee when i was about 9 and it was the poor boy's Ritalin! Now I have sold my professional machines and make do with a Cremina and a Baratza Vario. I still have a few other methods to make the Brown Gold! The smoke detector is my way of knowing the onset of 2nd crack when I roast, like today!!
Geezer/Espressme

I once drank four to five cups of coffee a day along with a couple of Mt. Dews. I never wondered why I didn't sleep at night due to my high pressure job which in itself deprived me of sleep. When the Doctor told me I was going to die if I didn't get my blood pressure down (150 over 95) I listened. I haven't had coffee now for 15 years. But I still love my Mt. Dew. Alas that also has to go. As an old fart, I do not sleep well. When I have a Mt. Dew, I get "wired" and stay up to all hours of the morning then crash for a couple of hours until the second "rush" comes charging through my veins.

It is hell getting old!!! Enjoy every cup, every whiff of aroma, every Zen moment of your coffee experience. Today is to savor, tomorrow you will not have that luxury.

Randy

Originally Posted by WhiteLion

It is hell getting old!!! Enjoy every cup, every whiff of aroma, every Zen moment of your coffee experience. Today is to savor, tomorrow you will not have that luxury.
Randy

"Tomorrow is promised to no man."
-My paternal grandfather

I use a manual 'Spong' vintage grinder (pictured) and a stove top 1 cup Mocca Pot. I like the fact the grinder just uses me as energy; and that it's vintage. I wake the family up with it every morning grinding my beans; 13 - 15 turns of the handle and it's enough for a cup.

I much prefer the Mocca pot over a French press (plunger), the taste difference with the same beans is remarkable.

I always drink from a vintage French coffee bowl; a coffee bowl is so nice...

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

I always drink from a vintage French coffee bowl; a coffee bowl is so nice...

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

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!

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

"Tomorrow is promised to no man."
-My paternal grandfather

Ah so....Grasshopper. 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. So sayeth the WhiteLion.

Randy

The sun didn't "rise" over Earth any more than I won the Kentucky Derby. Are you one of those geocentric flat-earthers?
Tomorrow (11-19-2012) is still not promised to anyone.
And don't call me grasshopper. And if you can't resist the impulse to do so, SMILE when you say that!

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

The sun didn't "rise" over Earth any more than I won the Kentucky Derby. Are you one of those geocentric flat-earthers?
Tomorrow (11-19-2012) is still not promised to anyone.
And don't call me grasshopper. And if you can't resist the impulse to do so, SMILE when you say that!

Sheesh..........someone hasn't had their coffee yet ? Whoops gotta go...........