Posted on 02/11/2016 11:32:48 AM PST by nickcarraway
It took eight years to produce the first crop of Finca Sophia, grown in the mountains of Panama.
A San Francisco Bay Area coffee shop is charging $15 for a cup of joe â and apparently people can't get enough of it.
The not-your-average cup is called Finca Sophia and can be found at Equator Coffee, which has locations in San Francisco and Mill Valley.
The beans are from the Gesha variety, grown way up in the mountains of Panama. It took eight years to produce the first crop, which was not much and prompted a spike in price.
Equator Coffee educator Akaash Saini said various fertilizers are used to grow the coffee beans.
"Doing different things when it comes to farming and harvesting techniques," Saini said. "Whatever we can do to get the best cup of coffee."
Saini said when it comes to Finca Sophia, you get what you pay for.
"It's almost like a top-shelf whiskey, or a $40 bottle of wine compared to an $8 bottle of wine," Saini said.
The Equator Coffee location in San Francisco's Market Street has already sold out of Finca Sophia.
"Amazing, very amazing," San Francisco-resident Myron Tate said of experiencing the premium dark brew.
Steve Jordan drove to Mill Valley from San Francisco just to get his cup of Finca Sophia.
"It's amazing, I really like it," Jordan said. "It's more like a tea mix than a true coffee."
Not everyone, however, shared their opinions.
"I don't really like it," said Mill Valley resident Heidi Connelly, adding that the coffee was bitter.
I still have some of these cans from the 70's.
I lived in Milwaukee. Guys would make treks across The Big Muddy to buy that cruddy Coors. They’d organize and take orders for a couple weeks. I couldn’t stand the stuff, and stuck to Rolling Rock most of the time.
There is no end to what gullible caffiends will pay for their addiction.
As someone appreciating top-shelf whiskies AND is a coffee snob, I’d like to give this cup a try. GOOD coffee, brewed right, is an experience quite superior to regular swill. If it’s hard to grow, shipped fast, roasted right, and brewed right, the price certainly could add up to $15/cup.
Any chance it’s available as green beans? I’d rather roast it myself.
Yes there was. Something about “a cat crapping coffee beans”, I think.
let me guess
each bean was rolled on the thighs of a 16 year old panamanian virgin ?
Wouldnt it be cheaper to just smoke meth?
People are so stupid. They buy an expensive cup of coffee then put it in a paper cup.
Or mix something like Johnnie Walker with Coke or Pepsi.
Yes, Civet Cat coffee. The critters pick & eat the most perfectly ripe fruit, and the bean survives the...trip thru the digestive tract, where it gets a bonus treatment by some enzyme to improve it. Ridiculously expensive, something like $150/lb for the beans. Upside is the extremely picky selection of individual fruits; downside is obviously the literal sh!t it has to go thru in the process.
I’d like to try it out of curiosity but seriously, I’m very thankful that I’m satisfied with whatever is on sale. Dunkin Donuts is is the best coffee I’ve tasted so far.
That’s it. Your description is perfect. LOL Thanks but no thanks.
Why would this coffee be any more special than Jamaica Blue Mountain?
Costco coffee is the best.
But not at that time. I remember being at the airport carousel and case after case of Coors would come down . It looked like a beer distributorship at times. Then Coors started shipping east of the Mississippi and the thrill was gone
LOL. I see what you did there, feeding your babies lattes.....LOL.........
If it's being compared to "top shelf whiskey" then it's a bold faced lie......You don't get no buzz and ugly women still look the same.
I remember the Coors phenomenon, back in the 1970’s. People here in the Mid-atlantic were treating the stuff like it was expensive champagne when it first started showing up in bars.
But the Dunkin D cups and covers are thin and cheap. don’t take them in your car unless you want to burn yourself.
Unhuh. Maybe that was because you never had real beer like they make in Europe. Thrill? The taste left before the beer left the brewery ...
Never have liked European beer. Pretty much the only beer I’ll drink is Miller Lite...Bud Light in a pinch.
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