So Jason's thread about Ice Mocka Latte sparked some discussion on coffee and I though hey, coffee is an interesting enough topic to have it's own thread so here ya go.
Now, I recently posted how I make the undisputed best-coffee-this-side-of-the-Canadian Rockies coffee. How I do this is simple enough. I start with a freshly medium dark roasted batch of Arabica beans, or sometimes I go for a blend of dark roast (espresso) and medium roast beans. Either way it's usually on the dark side of medium. Then I grind just the amount I'll use for the coffee I'm making. Following that I put three slightly heaped single tablespoon scoops into a two cup french press, add piping hot water and wait five minutes. This is how I make my famous brew, and this is how I wake up each and every morning.
Here's a few interesting coffee facts.
- Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world next to oil
- Drinking a single cup of coffee that has been brewing for 20 minutes provides the body with 300 phytochemicals which act as antioxidants and stay in the body for up to a month.
- It takes 40 coffee beans to make an espresso.
- One coffee tree yields less than half a kilo of coffee per year.
So how do you do your coffee (If you do coffee at all)? Do you make it at home, go out for a cup, grab one at a drive through on the way to work? Are you a coffee snob? Drink anything with the name coffee on it? Do you drink it in the morning, all day, weekends only? How do you contribute to the world's second most traded commodity?
