Re: Another Coffee Company Dumps Real Coffee

On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 10:52:44 -0800, tom <[email protected]> wrote:

>I'm not really sure what taste your referring to exactly. Are you
>familiar with the Specialty coffee association of america's coffee
>taster's flavor wheel? Perhaps you could use that to describe it.
>

All this nonsense about having the proper type of cup, spoon,
thermometer, drip machine, water source, etc., etc., is crap.

For the first two to three decades of my 88 years all these "special"
appurtenances weren't necessary.  One simply bought a can off the
shelf and made their coffee - and it was *real* coffee.

Some were too bitter, too strong, too-whatever - but they pretty much
all had that COFFEE flavor.  None of the so-called coffees today have
the *coffee* flavor from those days. Through the decades I remember
having to change my coffee brand many times because of each company
falling in line to cheapen the product and destroy it for the $$.

Trying to explain what that *coffee* flavor from the past is to the
younger generations is impossible.  It was *real* coffee, and not the
junk they make today.  And the dumbest joe could make it without any
special skills or tools.

https://www.eater.com/22966312/coffee-history-america-third-wave-dark-roast
"A new species of coffee plant, Robusta, made matters worse: It was
easier to grow and packed a caffeine punch, but without any of the
delicate, delicious flavors of shade-grown Arabica. Roasting the beans
till they were super dark and caramelized was often the only way to
make the resulting brew palatable."

However, even those coffees labeled Arabica today are not what someone
from my days would ever call coffee.  I once read an article on how
the profiteers changed the roasting of coffee back when.  This article
claimed that is another factor that killed real coffee.  Unfortuately,
I didn't save the article or it's source.

Another laugh of the day is this home roasting idiocy I read about. 

Jeesh, in the old days all you had to do was go to the the
neighborhood store to buy yourself some REAL coffee, take it home, put
in the perc or Vacuum coffee maker and enjoy.  Today, we need Web
sites on how to practice the "art" of coffee making. 

Also - don't get me started on that Keurig nonsense.