On Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 10:20:49 AM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 4/2/2019 3:12 PM, dsi1 wrote:
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> > Most of the coffee served on this rock is not very good. If I had a restaurant that served breakfast, I'd have a guy whose main job was QC for the coffee. It's that important. I used to have an office next to a fast food restaurant that started serving great coffee. It was wonderful working in a place where great coffee is available anytime you want it. I drank my share of it because I knew it wasn't going to last. Eventually they went to a different supplier or the conditions of the coffee supply chain changed and they started serving plain old regular bad coffee again.
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> > OTOH, I'm going to be drinking coffee even if it's a mediocre brew because the reality is that taste in not the primary concern of mine.
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> But you guys grow some of the best. I just got a couple of pounds of
> Kona from Cea, who used to post here. www.smithfarms.com
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> I would think many of you would demand decent coffee, but I guess price
> is more important to the restaurants.

Kona does make for a very smooth brew. I used to a contact to get some of that stuff from a small farm. It was just some beautiful beans - every single one was a perfect bean. I think a lot of coffee drinkers would say that 100% Kona is too smooth for them.

I like a Vietnamese brand of coffee. It's as smooth as Kona with a wonderful chocolate note. I later found out it was a processed, flavored, coffee. My guess is that it's somehow processed with oil - it's a wonderful process and Trung Nguyen is a unique coffee.

I like the Smithfarms site - it looks handmade and that's entirely appropriate for a small coffee farm like that. I can't say if they actually do everything with such personal attention but the site sure gives that impression.. I love that they call their coffee the "tastiest caffeine delivery system on the planet!"