Make your own damn coffee ... seriously

[phantom4533]

Even though I live in a town with a movie theater that closes two days a week, and I have to drive 30 minutes to get to a good beer store, I'm lucky in that there are several places with very good food and a couple of watering holes if I'm inclined to let someone else prepare a cocktail for me.

And I have a coffee roaster. He's a young guy with a growing business. He roasts his own beans. He started selling them at farmers markets around the area and recently opened a storefront in an old mill, where he moved his roasting operation.

One has the option of buying whole beans and grinding for each cup or buying beans already ground. Everything is sold in ball jars. This I love because I live out of ball jars. All our prepared food goes into ball jars for meals during the week. When I die I want to be cremated and have my ashes placed in a ball jar.

This morning I had a cup that was a 60/30/10 blend of Sulawesi, Costa Rican and Robusto. Yesterday's brew was a 70/30 blend of Midnight Oil and the Costa Rican.

We don't need no stinkin' Starbucks.

 

[about_average]

I pretty much only go to starbucks when I'm traveling because I know their coffee is halfway decent. But if I have a choice I go to Whole foods because it's only 50 cents (I always take my own mug).

 

[girlsmiley]

I go to the McCafe for coffee now.

Barista made coffee. Available at the drive-thru.

Too easy.

 

[Wings]

Even though I live in a town with a movie theater that closes two days a week, and I have to drive 30 minutes to get to a good beer store, I'm lucky in that there are several places with very good food and a couple of watering holes if I'm inclined to let someone else prepare a cocktail for me.

And I have a coffee roaster. He's a young guy with a growing business. He roasts his own beans. He started selling them at farmers markets around the area and recently opened a storefront in an old mill, where he moved his roasting operation.

One has the option of buying whole beans and grinding for each cup or buying beans already ground. Everything is sold in ball jars. This I love because I live out of ball jars. All our prepared food goes into ball jars for meals during the week. When I die I want to be cremated and have my ashes placed in a ball jar.

This morning I had a cup that was a 60/30/10 blend of Sulawesi, Costa Rican and Robusto. Yesterday's brew was a 70/30 blend of Midnight Oil and the Costa Rican.

We don't need no stinkin' Starbucks.

I use Ball jars to sell my scrubs in and that's all we use around the house for informal drinking glasses and storage.

Your coffee roaster sounds awesome. I'm jealous.

 

[lovetoread]

I just use Mason jars for my drinkin'.

 

[Fata Morgana]

I just use Mason jars for my drinkin'.

Why is every fucker drinking out of those now? Peasants.

 

[lovetoread]

Why is every fucker drinking out of those now? Peasants.

No lie, I thought everyone drank out of them when I was growing up.

 

[Fata Morgana]

No lie, I thought everyone drank out of them when I was growing up.

They seem to be quite trendy now.

 

[Saint Peter]

I like my Balls better than my Mason jars.

 

[Jennifer]

I like my Balls better than my Mason jars.

You should combine the two for mantel piece decoration.

 

[Saint Peter]

You should combine the two for mantel piece decoration.

Alright.

No roaring fires!

 

[Jennifer]

Alright.

No roaring fires!

You're not the boss of me!

My big bonfire will roast your balls quite nicely.

 

[Noor]

Ball jars are Mason jars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_jar

 

[Saint Peter]

Don't singe my fuzz!

 

[Jennifer]

Don't singe my fuzz!

Wax that manpussy fast!

 

[Messier82]

Why is every fucker drinking out of those now? Peasants.

Hmmm... yes, tend to agree. The parents of one ex of mine had grown up in great poverty (even by post-war working-class standards) and would recount how they had no cups in their home, having to drink from reused jam jars, which is essentially what these Mason Jars are. And no this isn't a Monty Python Four Yorkshiremen joke.

 

[Wings]

My parents are southern, I've always been drinking out of Mason jars. And I hate plastic a lot. I don't have much plastic in this house still. I think it's poison.

 

[NHKitty]

That's my thing too...not a fan of plastic. I have some, but the jars work great for meals and storage.
Plus, that first whiff of freshly ground coffee when you open one...heaven!

 

[pointless]

i prefer to make my coffee with a spirit of fun and accomplishment.

 

[dirtwrench]

I made my own damn coffee, and hers, for the first 18 years. Now it's her turn to make my damn coffee. Before she wakes me up, not after.

She only has 13 more years until it's my turn again.

 

[phantom4533]

I wonder if Irish coffee was the first cocktail?

Yeah! That must have been it. And then the guy/gal said, "Fuck, if I can put whiskey in my coffee, I bet I can put shit in my whiskey!"

And that's how mixology was born.

 

[phantom4533]

This morning I am celebrating South America, because they make cheap, drinkable wine. This morning's blend is a 60/40 mix of Peruvian and Columbian. The Peruvian always makes me think of fried guinea pigs.

 

[NHKitty]

Straight Sulawesi at the Kitty House...'cause I was too lazy to mix.

 

[phantom4533]

Straight Sulawesi at the Kitty House...'cause I was too lazy to mix.

You could start a round-song with Sulawesi.

 

[Saint Peter]

My parents are southern, I've always been drinking out of Mason jars. And I hate plastic a lot. I don't have much plastic in this house still. I think it's poison.

Plastic is poison.

This is why I make the asshooks out of 316L stainless steel.