Reply To: Coffee!?!?

[Carly Holloway]

GIVE ME COFFEE, OT LET ME SLEEP.  By far, the best cuppa I ever had was in Costa Rica.  I sat at a coffee bar, ordered a simple black brew.  I watched the barista open a new bag of unroasted beans and put them in a huge roaster.  He turned and told me the coffee would be a minute.  I smelled the beans as they roasted.   I watched him cull a scoop at fresh roasted beans into a grinder, and as he dripped the water through them.  It was a rich steamy drink in a deep cup.  20 minutes from bag to lips, but the brew was beyond belief.