Coffee Crone: Taming Coffee Blog

June 27 2006

Nope, Not Me

I feel like a pusher, a coffee pusher, but still...

I have a dear friend who has always claimed to enjoy coffee, but somehow was oblivious to the fact that the stuff she served tasted remarkably like dishwasher. I schemed a bit, and introduced her to the good stuff, some months back. And while she is not nearly as addicted as I am, she has begun to take a look at roasters.

There is actually an organization for people like us. It's called Coffee Snobs Anonymous, created by Kona Konnaisseur miKe mcKoffee, one of the active and knowledgeable members of the Sweet Maria's Home Roast mailing list.

From his webpage:

Coffee Snobs Association
The Twelve Steps of CSA

(or Anonymous - you're a member when you say you are:-)

1. We admitted we were powerless over fresh home roasted coffee, but of course we can manage it.

2. We came to believe that no power could force us to drink pre-roasted or pre-ground or perish the thought canned coffee.

3. We made a decision to turn our will and our bank accounts over to the care of Tom and Sweet Maria's, as we understood him.

4. We made a searching and fearless inventory of our greens stash.

5. We admitted to no one they knew more about coffee than we did.

6. We were entirely ready to have inferior coffee removed from lives forever.

7. We humbly asked our spouse for a larger coffee budget.

8. We made a list of all persons not home roasting, and became willing to convert them all.

9. We made direct donations of fresh home roasted coffee to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would deplete our precious stash.

10. We continued to take stash inventory, and when low or not, promptly ordered more.

11. We sought through new and exotic roasting and brewing methods to improve of coffee consumption, as we knew it to be best, begging only for money to carry that out.

12. Having had a coffee awakening as a result of those steps, we tried to force this message on sludge drinkers and to perfect these principles in all our cups.

*13. Continued to buy any and every green recommended seeking ways to store and means to justify our excessive beans inventory to our spouse.

I'm not a member. Nope not me. I am merely a wannabee, yup, mebbe a pusher, but still...

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Comments:

#1 29 June 2006 - 14:50

This is hilarious.

Today both of my daughters visited with me. Both have colds. I'm sure I won't be able to avoid this one. Send fresh roasted coffee beans overnight, and no one will get hurt.

InMyLife

#2 29 June 2006 - 14:55

Damn, I'd love to send all my friends fresh roasted beans. The problem is that unless I send them first class (and express mail if they are going to the US) they aren't fresh by the time they reach their destination. And if I use first class or express mail, I don't have enough money to buy beans--even with the (relative) cheap price of greenies.

I guess you will all, one at a time, just have to make a pilgrimage to Tamingtown.