Robert picked up some decaf coffee a little while back, but we managed to run out of the high test stuff. So, for a few days, I got coffee out. Finally, last night, he had time to stop off at the coffee store on the way home. After dinner, he even rinsed out the container so that we could decant the new batch into a clean jar.
Just after he left the house this morning, I went downstairs and discovered that there was still no coffee in the house. I called and asked him what was in the tote bag he carries back and forth to work with him. He said he'd found it just as he was walking into work. But also, he felt that it needed careful guarding, which it would get all day as it sat next to his desk.
We both expressed relief to know that he was carefully watching the coffee as part of his workaday duties.
After my swim this morning, I went out for coffee. The good news is that a new coffee shop has opened in town, in the rehabbed space left behind by the town's first coffee shop when they moved across the street. The new place carries George Howell's coffee (of Coffee Connection fame). And the proprietor knows how to make coffee -- swoon. He does not seem to believe in making the coffee transparent -- it was just right.
And perhaps we'll have homemade high-test coffee tomorrow morning.
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Thanks for the pointer to George and his mail-order store (in the Wikipedia article).
FWIW, we've been happily purchasing and consuming coffee from another Massachusetts outlet - Equal Exchange for several years. They sell only Free Trade products for retail and interfaith/non-profit groups.
They're also the first ones that I know of who have a .coop TLD.
Thanks. I'm familiar with =Xchg. They've gotten better over the years, and occasionally I buy their coffee, BUT I still prefer Peet's.
Interesting chat a few years back with a French biologist who was living in Costa Rica, trying to make organic coffee taste better. (And I realize that free trade is not always organic and v.v.).
Summary -- I'll keep trying on occasion, but so far, no one has outdone Peet's to my satisfaction.
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