coffee & tea

Not sure if I spelled Torquino right. A friend of mine had a place to get this Cuban Coffee. It is a wonderful coffee. Very rich a strong expresso like flavor. This is one of my wife's favorite coffee, right there with the JBM peaberry. I have never seen it for sale at any of the places I...

really is special!!! Of course, it takes a quality bean from giddyap to make a great cup of coffee, but if your roaster doesn't know beans about what they're doing, you're up Cafe Creek without a paddle. Castle Crest's Rwandan Masaka (I think that's what it says on the bag) is expertly...

a very well built and disciplined, but nevertheless gluttonous pig. A piggity, piggity, snorkity porkity leetle babee peeg. I received a package yesterday from our very own Castle Crest, as had been promised to me, but still not necessarily deserved. Hey, they started telling me to do...

Possible the funniest name for a coffee bean I have had the pleasure of drinking. This coffee bean comes from Mysore India, a large bean! Yes I have large nuggets :roll: A hard to get coffee, that only comes on the market for a short period every year. A smooth coffee with flavors that...

Today I am cupping some Rwanda Masaka a rich but smooth coffee! It has hints of nuts & honey. This batch I roasted just into second crack. For those of you that don't home roast the beans go threw 2 steps. First is when the water leaves the bean & the bean makes a loud cracking sound. Then...

I am still very new at this home roasting. Was gifted a Fresh Roast Plus 4 months ago. I already have over 100 pounds of green beans. I have never had better coffee, if not in quality of the beans then the freshness of the roast alone takes it up a notch. Glady help anyone out if I can...

I was lucky enough to have a cousin bring me back cigars and coffee from his recent trip to the Dominican Republic. Right now I’m sitting at the office with the wonderful aroma of Café Molido Santo Domingo coffee in the air. It’s some really good stuff. No strong aftertaste and just enough bite...

Here is an interesting bit of information that I learned today from a forum member's better half... If you suffer from asthma and have an asthma attack away from medication and civilization, drinking lots of strong black coffee should help. Here's why: there is a xanthene derivative in coffee...

I was reminded today, and a couple of times last week about how different coffees have different effects. If you think every coffee you might drink is the best thing to kick start your day, you might want to rethink that. It is just like wines or any other thing along that line that you might...

Recently had a chance to stop by my sister's apartment in Brooklyn. Hadn't seen her in a while, and our mom was in town visiting from Nawth Cal Lahna. My sister let me use her apartment a couple times a week beginning about two years ago when my girl broke up with me, to relieve me of the...

I found a tea cafe here in town and they serve this stuff called bubble tea. Its hard to explain so I attached a link. I really like it. So far I have tried the Lychee w/green tea bubbles, Kiwi w/ green tea bubbles, cocnut w/ black tea bubbles, and my favorite, sesame with green tea bubbles...

Well, it's up one degree to 20 at 0700 hours here in Lower Dutchess County, the home of The Great Dumboni, here at 1313 Mockingbird Lane, and it's going to be Hawaiian Kona for me this morning, 100%, none of that $5.99 'Kona blend' stuff that people brag about getting so cheap. Lemme tellya...

here in Pleasant Valley Sunday on a sunny Saturday morning!!! I've mentioned this coffee here before. I've you ever feel like a nice, piping hot cup of what tastes like thick chocolate silk that will kick all the cobwebs out of your brain and wake up a dead hippo, this is one of them. A great...

The UPS man just left & I have 3 pounds of 3 new coffees right now I am sipping a cup of Mesa de les Santos , a medium dark roast organicly grown & bird friendly so it said on the invoice , Bird Friendly coffee ?? I have no idea what that is , do any of you ?? , when I ground the coffee it was...

today, so before boarding the 9:53 Hudson Line departure this morning I stopped at the Oren's concession at The Marketplace in Grand Central. I picked up a pound of Guatemala Coban whole bean coffee, which I can only describe as like drinking thick chocolate silk. Great stuff, mellow flavor...

yesterday, it reminded me how great a day starter that coffee is, and how long it had been since I had any. Being short on money, I couldn't afford a whole pound, so I dropped $15 on a half pound at The Marketplace in Grand Central prior to leaving the city for home on Monday morning. Woke...

I am working on a pot of Purivan organic french roast this morning, well its afternoon now, but I find this is a great all around coffee, great in the early morning with a cigar, good in the afternoon with a cigar , & late in the evening with a cigar, Hummmm do you see a patern here, it is...

Spelled Cay, pronounced chai, is actually just tea....but man is it awesome. I don't know what they did to it but I was drinking a ton of it. Went very well with the Lebni I was eating. Try it.

the coffee? That was part of the message that my father left on my voice mail the other day. WOW!!! That's right!!! I had completely forgotten that we had spoken about him sending me some whole bean coffee one of these days. So, with my father trying to divest himself of anything...

don't, but do any of you? Over at "another web site" I "met" at least three people who, over the past few years had discovered the joys of home roasting. They continually urged me to get into it, explaining how simple and actually inexpensive(!!!) it was, but my reply was always that it...