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Post by hawkeyes on Aug 7, 2021 6:10:57 GMT -7
Wanted to start a thread mostly for information purposes on what I have available and when. I'm currently exhausted on my current inventory as people have been enjoying the history, process and my final product which is excellent! This small forum will likely be the extent of my digital online presence for my endeavor.    Next week I'll have a batch of Colombian Tolima organic roasted along with a Brazilian decaf which is becoming one of my favorite evening coffees. Prices are $8.00 per half pound, and remember my friends quality is marked by the dragon. |
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Post by Black Hand on Aug 8, 2021 9:39:25 GMT -7
I'll have a cup!
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Post by hawkeyes on Aug 9, 2021 5:48:56 GMT -7
Would you like the Colombian or Brazilian decaf? I have my thoughts on which you'd like... lol |
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Post by brokennock on Aug 9, 2021 7:46:11 GMT -7
Does anyone else have problems with decaf?
All jokes and snide, sarcastic remarks aside.
My brother and I both have physiological problems when we drink decaf coffee. Traditionally we have coffee with desert after family meals on Sunday or on holidays. For a while my grandmother tried serving decaf because it was evening time. My brother and I would get hot, sometimes to the point of sweating, flush, and often experience skin discomfort (it wasn't really itchy, but I don't know how to describe it.)
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Post by hawkeyes on Aug 9, 2021 7:49:17 GMT -7
Does anyone else have problems with decaf? All jokes and snide, sarcastic remarks aside. My brother and I both have physiological problems when we drink decaf coffee. Traditionally we have coffee with desert after family meals on Sunday or on holidays. For a while my grandmother tried serving decaf because it was evening time. My brother and I would get hot, sometimes to the point of sweating, flush, and often experience skin discomfort (it wasn't really itchy, but I don't know how to describe it.) Not one bit! People need to understand the process of decaffeinated beans. The process is all natural, atleast in high quality beans it is. I'm weaning myself off caffeine in baby steps atleast and have come to enjoy my decaffeinated beans. Sacrificing flavor for decaffeinated coffee isn't a concern as there will be no difference besides no evening jitters. Worth noting a decaffeinated bean is not completely absent of caffeine. There is still residual caffeine lurking, just in a substantially less amount than it's full strength brotheren. I have a very good essay written concerning period coffee and it's importance in our time of interest. I'll find it and post the link. |
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Post by brokennock on Aug 9, 2021 8:03:26 GMT -7
It may be an "all natural process," bit so is getting poisoned eating the wrong mushroom or other wild plant. And, it doesn't negate the effects I've experienced, curious to know of others have had it too and if they ever found a reason behind it.
Drinking coffee late doesn't seem to keep me up. I really don't get jitters or any other effects people talk about with caffeine. It does lift some brain fog and I admit I just don't feel right until I've had my coffee,,, and other caffeinated beverages don't have the same effect. However I have cut back from a few pots a day many years ago, to several cups a day a couple years ago, to now for the last year or so only 2 or 3 cups (mugs not little teacups) per day.
As the saying goes,
"Coffee may not solve my problems,,, but I'm pretty sure it helps to keep me from creating new ones."
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Post by hawkeyes on Aug 9, 2021 8:29:35 GMT -7
It may be an "all natural process," bit so is getting poisoned eating the wrong mushroom or other wild plant. And, it doesn't negate the effects I've experienced, curious to know of others have had it too and if they ever found a reason behind it. Drinking coffee late doesn't seem to keep me up. I really don't get jitters or any other effects people talk about with caffeine. It does lift some brain fog and I admit I just don't feel right until I've had my coffee,,, and other caffeinated beverages don't have the same effect. However I have cut back from a few pots a day many years ago, to several cups a day a couple years ago, to now for the last year or so only 2 or 3 cups (mugs not little teacups) per day. As the saying goes, "Coffee may not solve my problems,,, but I'm pretty sure it helps to keep me from creating new ones." That's apples to oranges though, extraction of caffeine through water and sugar leaching is ultimately 100% safe verus ingesting a known or unknown poisonous natural substance. However, most "mass production" shelf coffee is decaffeinated with chemicals... No thanks, there's your poisonous mushrooms! |
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Post by Black Hand on Aug 10, 2021 9:32:30 GMT -7
Would you like the Colombian or Brazilian decaf? I have my thoughts on which you'd like... lol Decaf coffee is in the same category as alcohol free beer. I'll take the high-test Colombian please! |
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Post by brokennock on Aug 10, 2021 13:05:43 GMT -7
Would you like the Colombian or Brazilian decaf? I have my thoughts on which you'd like... lol Decaf coffee is in the same category as alcohol free beer. I'll take the high-test Colombian please! Free beer sounds good. Alcohol and free beer, sounds good. "Alcohol free beer," sounds suspect. |
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Post by hawkeyes on Aug 11, 2021 4:20:05 GMT -7
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Post by paranger on Aug 11, 2021 5:57:47 GMT -7
Great articles - thanks!
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Post by brokennock on Aug 11, 2021 6:41:52 GMT -7
Thank you for these. They helped me psychologically. Especially this 1st passage in the 1st article, "it was coffeehouses that dominated English high streets. They weren’t the same as today’s café’s, which preside once again, but were more like inns that served a variety of drinks and food." The term "coffeehouse," has long been repugnant to me,,,, as much as I do love my coffee. When I hear the term I don't think of excellent freshly brewed coffee,,, my mind would instantly go to thoughts of unbathed people, bad poetry, and "jazz" music more poorly attempted than the poetry. (Keeping in mind that I love coffee, like good poetry, including some beat poets, and made some of my living many years ago playing jazz with groups as diverse as The Bassie Band, Jerri Bergonzi, Paul Brown Trio, and Slide Hampton to name a few.) This helps ease my mind. |
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Post by hawkeyes on Aug 12, 2021 5:07:16 GMT -7
Thank you for these. They helped me psychologically. Especially this 1st passage in the 1st article, "it was coffeehouses that dominated English high streets. They weren’t the same as today’s café’s, which preside once again, but were more like inns that served a variety of drinks and food." The term "coffeehouse," has long been repugnant to me,,,, as much as I do love my coffee. When I hear the term I don't think of excellent freshly brewed coffee,,, my mind would instantly go to thoughts of unbathed people, bad poetry, and "jazz" music more poorly attempted than the poetry. (Keeping in mind that I love coffee, like good poetry, including some beat poets, and made some of my living many years ago playing jazz with groups as diverse as The Bassie Band, Jerri Bergonzi, Paul Brown Trio, and Slide Hampton to name a few.) This helps ease my mind. Perfectly said. One of the main reasons I've set sail with this little endeavor. So many today are tricked by the modern "coffee" places... Makes me cringe saying it... My mission is foremost the history but to give people a small taste of what a real fresh cup of quality coffee should taste like and it doesn't need to be expensive. Once you have a "taste" you'll forget the artificial BS sweetener and mounds of flavord fake cream and fluff... I know ya'll round here forgo all that mess! Nothing wrong with a little milk or sugar if needed for ones pallet. |
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Post by Black Hand on Aug 12, 2021 9:48:17 GMT -7
Decaf coffee is in the same category as alcohol free beer. I'll take the high-test Colombian please! Free beer sounds good. Alcohol and free beer, sounds good. "Alcohol free beer," sounds suspect.  |
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Post by brokennock on Aug 12, 2021 17:47:03 GMT -7
A question based on some quotes from the beginning of the second linked article above.
"For anyone who’s ever tried seventeenth-century style coffee, this can come as something of a shock — unless, that is, you like your brew “black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love”, as an old Turkish proverb recommends, and shot through with grit."
"One early sampler likened it to a “syrup of soot and the essence of old shoes” while others were reminded of oil, ink, soot, mud, damp and shit. Nonetheless, people loved how the “bitter Mohammedan gruel”"
Do we have any clues as to when the purveyors of our beloved elixir started to work on brewing coffee in a more palatable manor?
I've heard that the difference between early teapots and coffee pots is told by the spout location. That a teapot spout started at the bottom because any loose leaf matter/"grounds" float, and that a coffee pot has a spot that starts halfway up or higher because the grounds sink. Truth? If so, when did this start?
I also find the description of serving a, "dish of coffee," as opposed to a cup, interesting.
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