expat
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I'm a bit paranoid. I often wake up in the middle of the night and wonder, 'What if everyone stopped ordering our coffee today?' And, 'Does our coffee really taste any better than the other offerings out there?'
Well we recently moved house and ugh, forgot to bring coffee from the roastery. So went to the local supermarket and tried their house brand which they tout as being sooo good. What a revelation! Absolutely harsh, robusta laden crapola. I couldn't drink it. Really, I couldn't drink it.
I went back and bought Lavazza. I used to drink this years ago and thought it was decent. What a difference drinking good coffee for several years makes to your pallate. The stuff was maybe a step ahead of the store brand. Or maybe half a step. Let's say it was just crap instead of crapola but I still couldn't drink it.
Got in the car again and made the hour drive to the roastery and got some Sidamo we'd roasted a couple days back and a new Burundi we're offering to our coffee club. Aaahhh, what a difference freshness, good beans, and care about the product makes.
So if you're like me and often worry that the sky is falling, go to the supermarket and drink some of their 'good' coffee. You'll probably see that you're doing great work.
And maybe the sky isn't falling. In our case we're moving the roastery next door so no more driving. And we just received our first two pallet coffee order (I know that's not much for a lot of you but certainly a milestone for us) and it is going fast.
Well we recently moved house and ugh, forgot to bring coffee from the roastery. So went to the local supermarket and tried their house brand which they tout as being sooo good. What a revelation! Absolutely harsh, robusta laden crapola. I couldn't drink it. Really, I couldn't drink it.
I went back and bought Lavazza. I used to drink this years ago and thought it was decent. What a difference drinking good coffee for several years makes to your pallate. The stuff was maybe a step ahead of the store brand. Or maybe half a step. Let's say it was just crap instead of crapola but I still couldn't drink it.
Got in the car again and made the hour drive to the roastery and got some Sidamo we'd roasted a couple days back and a new Burundi we're offering to our coffee club. Aaahhh, what a difference freshness, good beans, and care about the product makes.
So if you're like me and often worry that the sky is falling, go to the supermarket and drink some of their 'good' coffee. You'll probably see that you're doing great work.
And maybe the sky isn't falling. In our case we're moving the roastery next door so no more driving. And we just received our first two pallet coffee order (I know that's not much for a lot of you but certainly a milestone for us) and it is going fast.
