Gak! Im out of coffee!!

[chickerdoodle]

NO COFFEE!!!!

AAGGHHHH!!!

 

[halo]

I know, I dont know how that happened. I almost feel like making a morning run to the local corner jiffy store, but its just so hard to move in the morning without caffeine. I think hot cocoa will do the trick. But after work Im heading STRAIGHT for Publix for my New England Breakfast Blend.....gosh, sometimes Im so excited about my morning coffee that I go to bed early just so I can get up early for my coffee.

No tea, no kick in it for me. Ill just have to suffer tomorrow.

Geebs, why salt?

 

[bigmike&nan]

NO Coffee ??? Jeez, I'd be, well it's a family oriented bb so just imagine, better yet, see the fella on this jar of coffee - you get the idea.
I keep so much green coffee around it's rare I don't have a little roasted in advance...

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

No Coffee???? I'd have to boil some sticks,....or something!

I NEED, WANT, & DESIRE my coffee!

 

[halo]

Just came back from the store, and got a block of Folgers Columbian. Not my usual fare, but it was on sale for $2, so that works for me. Even just opening the block and pouring it into the canister made me happy.....aaaaaahhhhhh....

Big Mike...what is green coffee?

 

[chickerdoodle]

Gotta have coffee but I'm afraid I'm a coffee snob as I only buy Gevalia. I've had it shipped to me the last 12 or more years--ahh really coffee heaven.

Starbucks and Peets give me heartburn. Gevalia is really smooth now and no burn later!

 

[bigmike&nan]

I can't imagine starting the day without a really good cup of fresj coffee.
Green coffee beans are the beans in their unroasted state. They keep a remarkably long time in the bags they are sold in on the cupboard shelf (my whole top shelf is lined with big bags of green unroasted beans.
We roast our own beans, we use a home roasted called a Behmor 1600,

http://ineedcoffee.com/07/behmor-tutorial/

it roasts up to a pound of beans, I usually roast about 12 oz of beans at a time though - based on my experience roasting, I get the best results. It sells for about $300.00 and my good friend Norman at UncleBeanz

http://store.unclebeanz.com/merchant2/

has quite a selection of green unroasted beans that range from $4.50 per pound up to very high quality beans (like Blue Mountain Jamaican) for $25.00 and up, some very, very nice coffee, trust me).
I love good coffee - three years ago when I moved here my trusty Gaggia espresso machine gave up the ghost. So I started talking to some of my serious coffee drinking buddies and decided to plunk down some serious money on my setup. I got a Rancillio Ms Siliva

http://www.sweetmarias.com/sweetmar...rancilio-miss-silvia-ss-espresso-machine.html

there are a lot of machines out there that look like the Ms Silvia but she has a larger heavy duty boiler inside - and you need a big boiler to do more than one cup in a row in a timely fashion, and it makes the best frothy steamed milk for cappucino... So after I get the Ms. Siliva I'm feeling all smug when one of my buddies says he's gonna mail me some beans to try (Norman aka UncleBeanz) - he roasted it and shipped it the same day. When I got it it was 2 days fresh (old) - the wife and I about fell over it was so good, so tasty, so full of FLAVOR. I enquired and he told me "you can roast your own and drink coffee like that all the time, do blends, experiment with the depth of roast, all that. Boy did he know I'd be a sucker for that kind of stuff. Which brings us back to selecting the Behmor 1600...

So now you have more information than you asked for, but if you have time read the info on the links, look at the coffee beans these places have for sale and if you ever get rich and want to do something really kind for yourself order some of their fresh roasted beans. No offense to Gevallia or Starbucks or any of those places, my guess is their beans are about a month old, or older. Coffee hits it's peak flavor profile about 2 to 3 days after it is roasted - even when it's vacuum packed.

 

[Wifezilla]

 

[Scoop]

Just saw in the paper that coffee, sugar, and cotton are all going up in price. Cotton is gonna soar. Wow, $2 for coffee! Stock up! I can hardly find it under #3.50.

 

[quercus21]

The oldest rat works at a coffee shop......................................