Beethoven adored coffee. He insisted on always making it himself. Each cup had to have 60 beans. He liked it strong.
I learned about coffee the hard way, the Navy way. Elite coffee conoisseurs would rise early in the morning and hand-select each precious bean, polishing it to shiny perfection, grinding it by hand, ensuring that only the best French imported water was used, brought to a delicate rolling boil before cooling it with shaved ice...
Who am I kidding? It was a E3 messcook in a stained t-shirt who scooped it out of a 25-pound tin with a serving spoon he wiped on his dungarees, and if we were lucky didn't use sea water. By midwatch the sludge was...delicious...
I’d have to agree with TonyInOhio....
What’s the point in drinking decaf coffee?
I mean, if I’m gonna drink coffee, I want the high octane stuff!
Did not start drinking coffee until I was 22, late bloomer and then discovered it helped keep me awake on my 2nd shift job.
Natuaral pesticide? Here in Kona, farmers are having big trouble with a "coffee borer" beetle so the effect must vary a bit on the bug involved?
Hey, DB, you’ll want to check this list...
I love coffee, and coffee ice cream is my favourite ice cream. It’s perfect.
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I drink coffee throughout the day, and am enjoying a sip or two now, even as I type. My grandfather was born in Sweden, and emigrated to Nebraska in his teens. When I was two years old we were visiting him in Gothenburg, Nebraska, where he lived. We were visiting the lady next door to him and were all sitting around a big table and she served each of us, including me, a nice piece of apple pie topped with cheese, and a big cup of coffee. I doubt that I was allowed to have coffee on a regular basis, but I was still a boy when I started drinking coffee. I like it. And I drink it just coffee, w/o cream or sugar. Coffee us a healthy food, and supplies many needed antioxidants.
>> That explains why coffee began to lose its popularity in the early 1980s among young people.
Because somewhere around that time, the boiling point of water changed from 192 to 212 F.