BS: World's Best Coffee?

Subject: RE: BS: World's Best Coffee?
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Aug 11 - 08:36 PM

Jack... a medium to large Black Walnut 'may' be worth something... if you can find a buyer. It is often not profitable for a mill to chase just one tree, unless it is exceptional. Also, many mills shy away from 'urban lumber', as it often has embedded nails or old clothesline hooks.. :>(

In N. Carolina, there are many woodturning clubs, and some might be interested in a decent Walnut. Pecan? Same thing....Pecan is not as common, (I have seen very little)...but not as 'pretty' as Walnut...mostly. If you can find local woodworkers, you might be able to make some deals...or even just trades. Good luck!

Subject: RE: BS: World's Best Coffee?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 07 Aug 11 - 10:47 PM

Walnut- see fact sheet

http://ohioline.osu.edu/for-fact/0044.html

Subject: RE: BS: World's Best Coffee?
From: Allan C.
Date: 08 Aug 11 - 05:47 AM

IMHO, there is no finer coffee than Dark Sumatra. Now, just to be clear, this refers to French roasted Sumatra. While Sumatra by itself is simply an "okay" coffee, dark roasting brings out all of its finer features and perhaps some that would not otherwise be detected. You can find it here:


Greenberrys.com

You'll also find an interesting writeup about the history of coffee. BTW their description of Dark Sumatra is "Very rich, very dark, very strong" to which I would add, somewhat chocolaty.

Subject: RE: BS: World's Best Coffee?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 08 Aug 11 - 02:54 PM

We have all become soft. Whatever happened to that guy, way out thar, drinkin' coffee from a can?

A big can of Chase and Sanborn, Maxwell House, or whatever is cheap prepared by the cocinero at daybreak, 50% grounds if you were lucky.

Subject: RE: BS: World's Best Coffee?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Aug 11 - 07:56 PM

Q-

"We have all become soft."

Maybe so but we're addicts! What else can we do at this point? I'm not about to stick on a caffeine patch.

Addict that I am, I seldom drink more than a morning mug of coffee (2 cups sequestered within). When I went to college, back in the Pleistocene, I drank coffee all day, and bourbon half the night. It wasn't a particularly healthy diet and I did much better when I got sent to Ethiopia to teach with the Peace Corps.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: World's Best Coffee?
From: Crowhugger
Date: 08 Aug 11 - 09:08 PM

I love the one I can smell brewing, then I'm afraid it goes downhill fast from there, the heavenly scent never finding its way into my mouth. [sigh] I used to love many beans, coffee was sort of a hobby for a couple of years and I had my favourite blends--there was a particular mocha java that was my rock--and almost always I preferred light and medium roasts. But I think my tastes physically changed so I became more sensitive to the bitter elements. I still love its incense value, but very rarely drink it. [wistfully fade to black]

Subject: RE: BS: World's Best Coffee?
From: Musket
Date: 09 Aug 11 - 07:33 AM

Jack the Sailor wanted to know what I thought about the civet coffee.

Well, to be fair I drank in anticipation of it being something special so I suppose my reaction was different to "Wow, that's good, what is it?"

That said, I felt it was smooth, no harshness and yet at the same time giving a full flavour, at least as much going on with your taste buds as any strong coffee but without the bitter harshness. In fact, I thought it may be the only bean (ground and filtered) that I could drink without a bit of sugar to take the edge off.

I do reckon that if I had been given it, I would be asking what it was in order to consider getting some. As it is, I will limit myself to dropping hints so my youngest doesn't have to think before ordering me a Xmas present each year.

Whether it be the animal's discretion on what it eats or the softening by the digestive track, I have no idea. Cracking coffee, but best milled for filter than espresso. (And that, I assume is because of the softer bean?)

Subject: RE: BS: World's Best Coffee?
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 09 Aug 11 - 08:06 AM

ASDA used to do a fine Cuban Havana; this has now vanished, along with other brands of Cuban Havana, and no one can say why this is. In its stead I've resorded to ASDA's Indian Elephant Farm which is a nice start to my (domestic) working day, but I'd be back on the Cuban Havana in a flash...

Out and about - Subway's pretty good, but take your own demerara.

Subject: RE: BS: World's Best Coffee?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 09 Aug 11 - 09:32 AM

I can buy it for $60.00 for two oz. If I ever get rich... Your description of the smoothness is similar to what I have read. Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: World's Best Coffee?
From: olddude
Date: 09 Aug 11 - 10:32 AM

Ok Bobster ya just lost your hero status with me ... you ain't no redneck ... I means what next you will be wearing after shave and talking about the stock market ...

I am now depressed ... I mean what good ol hillybilly drinks that ferien grown fancy named coffee ... give me the old eight o'clock grind your own or the gas station brew or the old hockey Tim Horton guys ..

Now they know good old American coffee .. Next ya will be telling me ya like Kenny G.

Subject: RE: BS: World's Best Coffee?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 09 Aug 11 - 01:56 PM

Yeah! Give me coffee grown right here in the USA! None of that imported Tim Horton's Canadian coffee!

Subject: RE: BS: World's Best Coffee?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 09 Aug 11 - 03:13 PM

aHA! yE MEANS kONA AWR pUERTO rICAN

Subject: RE: BS: World's Best Coffee?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 09 Aug 11 - 03:32 PM

Hadn't thought of that. No I was thinking of the Catskills and Blue Ridge varieties!

Subject: RE: BS: World's Best Coffee?
From: olddude
Date: 09 Aug 11 - 03:52 PM

Yea jack but Tim Horton played in the NHL so that is close enough LOL !!

Subject: RE: BS: World's Best Coffee?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 09 Aug 11 - 03:57 PM

He also wrapped a Juguar around a tree. That did not improve the coffee. LOL

Subject: RE: BS: World's Best Coffee?
From: Bert
Date: 09 Aug 11 - 04:46 PM

Best Sumatra mandheling
Worst Starbucks

Subject: RE: BS: World's Best Coffee?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 09 Aug 11 - 05:01 PM

I would rather have instant coffee than Starbucks.

Subject: RE: BS: World's Best Coffee?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 09 Aug 11 - 06:15 PM

Downing Starbucks- they have done more to popularize good coffee than any other company.
Often the only local source of excellent coffees in the bean.

Subject: RE: BS: World's Best Coffee?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 09 Aug 11 - 10:22 PM

I don't like anything about Starbucks. There are dozens of places with cofee good enough for me.

Subject: RE: BS: World's Best Coffee?
From: ollaimh
Date: 09 Aug 11 - 11:12 PM

i like harrar when i can get it from what ever local merchants are available where ever i'm living.

rimbaud was a general trader in harrar that included guns, but he gave away too much money to the poor to make the nest egg he planned to return to france with. he returned broke then went back and died there i believe==DRINKING GREAT COFFEE

now i'm a tea drinker mostly. i preferthe nova scotia tea MORSE'S OF COURSES or ceylon, twinning ceylon breakfast is much more robust than most teas, morse's is positively black like coffee

Subject: RE: BS: World's Best Coffee?
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 09 Aug 11 - 11:42 PM

Hey Jack .... correction ... the car Tim Horton fatally crashed was a (Brazilian) Pantera .... the car which Punch Imlach offered as a bonus when he signed Horton on for one more year.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: World's Best Coffee?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 Aug 11 - 07:59 AM

ollaimh-

Here's the summary on Arthur Rimbaud's residency in Harar and his death in France from wikipedia:

"Abyssinia (1880–1891):

In 1880 Rimbaud finally settled in Aden, Yemen as a main employee in the Bardey agency.[42] In 1884 he left his job at Bardey's to become a merchant on his own account in Harar, Ethiopia, where his commercial dealings notably included coffee and weapons. In this period, he struck up a very close friendship with the Governor of Harar, Ras Makonnen, father of future Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie.

Rimbaud's grave in Charleville:

In February 1891, Rimbaud developed what he initially thought was arthritis in his right knee. It failed to respond to treatment and became agonisingly painful, and by March the state of his health forced him to prepare to return to France for treatment. In Aden, Rimbaud consulted a British doctor who mistakenly diagnosed tubercular synovitis and recommended immediate amputation. Rimbaud delayed until 9 May to set his financial affairs in order before catching the boat back to France. On arrival, he was admitted to hospital—the Hôpital de la Conception, in Marseille—where his right leg was amputated on 27 May. The post-operative diagnosis was cancer.

After a short stay at his family home in Charleville, he attempted to travel back to Africa, but on the way his health deteriorated and he was readmitted to the same hospital in Marseille where the amputation had been performed, and spent some time there in great pain, attended by his sister Isabelle. Rimbaud died in Marseille on 10 November 1891, at the age of 37, and was interred in Charleville."

Charley Noble