Places To Go, Coffee To Drink
Here's a thought. Buy some green coffee beans, pop em into a bean roasting machine and 5
minutes later you grind em up, and brew up a pot. Coffee Club has always believed this would be the best possible
way to make coffee. We've tried fresh roast before at various cafes and even though it wasn't always the freshest
pot, the coffee did have a certain edge over other coffee's.
Do coffee beans go stale? The answer of course is yes. When you roast the beans, the
essential oils are released, and that's when it starts to get stale. A fresh roast bean should be used in under 3
or 4 days for maximum freshness, and should be kept in an airtight container for the duration. Green beans on
the other hand can be stored with your dry goods in the pantry for at least 5 years. Now, which would be a wiser
purchase?
Our friends Pajavagirl and the Cafeind tell their tale of finding themselves enchanted by
the fresh roast. How they just had to get themselves a roasting machine and how they will forever be enamored by the
mighty long lived green bean. Check it out kids, its over in the left column, and worth the read.
So is it really that much better? I've got a thing for coffee, I drink it everyday, one or two
cups in the morning and at least one cup around 5pm. It just makes me feel so relaxed, especially that afternoon cup.
Most of the stuff I make is pretty darn good, but there is just something about fresh roast. The Cafeind was more then
happy to roast me up a pot.
Wow. The coffee flavour is all there, but what isn't there is more important. Gone is the
bitterness, gone is the sourness. Sure those flavours are still there, but they are blended so nicely with the whole
flavour. A rich well balanced flavour that satisfies a lot more then your regular brew. The caffeine also seems to be
up a notch as well, if that's the sort of thing your into.
Is coffee roasting for everyone? I think it should be, I think to many people take coffee for
granted, and never really learn to appreciate the varied flavours and delights that coffee can bring. Pajavagirl tells
you where to look if you want to start slow, it's a small investment that can bring you years of delicious coffee drinking.
Go on. Spoil yourself. You know you deserve it. So when you sit on that patio of yours, or soak
in your hot tub, have a cup of fresh roast, fresh ground, fresh brew joe and let your troubles melt away.
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Random Musings Of Mild Misanthropy
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Just shut up and swallow it
The next time you're enjoying that two-fiddy dollar coffee at Starbucks,
remember that the near three bucks you spent is how much poor old Juanito earns
in a year of back-breaking, 12 hour shifts of bean picking. Like our buddies in
the Clash sang: "So get back to work an' sweat some more, the sun will sink an'
we'll get out the door. It's no good for man to work in cages; hits the town,
he drinks his wages." Ever wonder what you're really putting in your
mouth (like you haven't before...)?
Farewell until next time, gentle reader. Do come back again and feel
free to send me your comments, suggestions, stories, whatever.
Gotta go, the coffee's on.
" What have we got? Yeh-o, magnificence!! "
Edward Pants, Esq.
In life's coffee bag, be the bitter bean.
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Heat Stroke
Nice weather. Blah blah blah. Patios. Yadda yadda yadda. Cold coffee. Whatever. Hot baristas.
Yum yum yum. Icy coffee goodness. Natter natter natter. Frappuccinoes. Blather blather blather.
Gooey desserts. My goodness yes. Young boys in tight shirts. Indeedy do. Slushy caffeinated treats.
Uh huh uh huh uh huh. The inferiority of passer by. Tell us something we don't know. Blah blah blah.
Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah. Yadda yadda yadda. Yadda yadda yadda. Yadda yadda yadda.
Whatever. Whatever. Whatever. Yum yum yum. Yum yum yum. Yum yum yum. My goodness yes. My goodness yes .My
goodness yes. Indeedy do. Indeedy do. Indeedy do. Uh huh uh huh uh huh. Uh huh uh huh uh huh. Uh
huh uh huh uh huh. Tell us something we don't know. Tell us something we don't know. Tell us something
we don't know.
To sum up: Jill enjoys the hot weather, sitting on the patio, mocking the passerby,
being served icy cold brownie frappucinnoes by hot young barista boys.
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We'd like to extend an invitation to anyone for coffee inspired writings. If you are
interested, and would like to contribute some of your rantings and ravings, please send it in.
Send to:
jack@coffeeclubonline.com
Jill has bravely volunteered to wade through the sea of rags to
select for you, her sweetest monkeys, those magazines worth wasting an eye flicker upon.
Pajavagirl Roasts Beans
Mmmm green beans, nothing gets closer to mother nature then fresh roast, fresh ground coffee beans. Pajavagirl
puts it to the test.
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