Coffee @ friends

Once you become a coffee snob it becomes increasingly more difficult to go and have a coffee at a friends house.

Its gone from:
"Anyone want a coffee?"
"Yes please!"

To:

" Would you like a coffee Stefan?" asks your gracious host.
"...um ... sure... ... Um... Hmmm... Tea?"

I just don't know what they are offering.

It sucks.

I want to be nice and just grin and bare it, but I have been burnt so many times. I'm just not sure I can go there again. Ok, big deep breaths...

Unless you surround yourself with people who know how much you love coffee. Then they either don't offer for fear of refusal or a micro grimace that flashes across my face. Or they step up and face the challenge head on.

In some way I feel I am improving the condition of coffee wherever I go.

Some of my friends and family are totally onto it.

Some have been into coffee for years and are improving there game on a daily basis. Others are just new to this coffee game and are taking it in both hands and giving it there best shot.

I applaud this effort.

It not hard, really it's not. Don't think that by buying a tin of coffee you are getting the easy alternative. Its not. In fact you are doing yourself damage by consuming something that has already been made once and when you add your hot, nay boiling water to it your are mearly making it again. Ew. Oh and did I mention that they add MORE caffeine to it? Why? Perhaps they should add more taste!

So one cup of instant needs three cups of water straight after it. Two to counter act the added caffeine and one more to wipe the taste from your memory.

Instant coffee has one place in this world, CWA roadside stops.

So do yourself a favour this Christmas, go to the store and buy a plunger. It just as easy as instant. Pour water just off boiling, on coffee... Wait a few seconds... Plunge and pour. See, it's easy!

I defy you to tell me that it is not better.

You deserve a better morning.


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