Elitism in coffee
Drop that Starbuck’s milkshake you uncultured swine! (Just kidding)
On true gourmet coffee vs. everything else:
Great coffees, he [Peter Giuliano] says, should be brewed one at a time. “It isn’t consistent with the specialty coffee aesthetic to pre-brew and store coffee in the kind of thermoses you see in gas stations, hotel lobbies, or bullshit coffee shops where they sell French Vanilla.”
Update: Pardon the prophanity in the quote above. I merely wished to demonstrate that there exists a high coffee culture that derides what most of the population has come to know and love. This is the same thing as a fan of French cuisine talking trash about McDonald’s. Wa hoo. They both have their respective merit. Whatever floats your boat!
Filed under: Lore on October 12th, 2008
Life is too short to drink bad beer and bad coffee. I have grown so accustomed to grinding my own coffee every morning that most anything else just tastes terrible. Don’t even get me started on people who love Folgers. As much as I’m a huge fan of One World Cafe and other independent coffee shops, I’ve had bad experiences with the drip coffee they have in their refill thermoses. Most of the time, I go to a coffee shop for espresso because I just can’t make it as good at home. They know what the heck their doing and have the proper equipment.
Chris,
The owners at Sisters’ Brew couldn’t agree more with your assessment of refill pots. While we take a lot of grief for not serving drip coffee, we think it is worth the hassle to prepare each cup of coffee when it is ordered. For this very reason, you will never, ever see a refill pot of coffee in our establishment.
Sorry folks. I wasn’t trying to advertise in the previous comment. As a coffee enthusiast, I just wanted to add my two cents.