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Gourmet Coffee
Memorable Aroma, Unforgettable Flavor
Gourmet coffee. Its aroma feels your senses. Its color is something out
of a fairytale story and its flavor is unforgettable.
Growing up, I remember waking up every morning to the aroma of my dad's
percolating coffee. Of course, my first taste was not that enjoyable.
My taste buds had yet to refine themselves into the better pleasures of
the world of the culinary arts… Sushi, coffee, wine, etc.
Luckily, they eventually turned and with it came cravings of coffee
with a different sort of taste. No longer did the local minimart's
black (over-brewed / old sludge) "stuff" taste at all good. This also
meant I was starting to ween myself off of putting an absorbent amount
of sugar and every flavor of cream imaginable in my coffee.
Enter my gourmet coffee bean years.
Stumptown coffee, Longbottom coffee, Gevalia coffee, Green Mountain
coffee, Blue Mountain coffee… these are among my vocabulary now.
While I'm a bit away from being a coffee expert, my palate has matured
and knows what is and what is not gourmet.
Anyone can slap some sort of coffee concoction together, drip it
through a filter and call it "gourmet" or that it is "gourmet flavored
coffee."
It takes precision in cultivation, processing and
brewing the best gourmet coffee.
For instance, where does the coffee you buy come from? Is it Arabica
coffee? Also known as the coffee shrub of Arabia and mountain coffee.
Arabica coffee has been around for more than 1,000 years and grows in
southwest Arabia. Most experts and coffee drinks alike agree that the
is the best produced coffees out of all the other coffees in the world.
WOW!
The best way to develop a taste for gourmet is to stop
settling for just any old coffee. Explore different
coffee shops, ask the barista what's new, what do they like, do they
have any organic/fair trade coffees on the menu? Do they have something
from Peru? Something from Arabia? Ask, ask and ask!
The more you taste, the more you'll begin to understand and enjoy the
complexities of coffee.
Let me know your thoughts on this subject. Feel free to contact me via Twitter.
Include why you do or don't like gourmet. In fact, let me know your
favorite and I'll post if for everyone to see!
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