Coffee Crone: Taming Coffee Blog

May 29 2008

Apparently You can Have Too Much Coffee

I'm drinking very fine coffee this morning: Colombia Huila San Augustin Micro-lot from Sweet Marias, where I buy all of my green beans. I drank very fine coffee yesterday as well, but then it was Ethiopia Harar Horse DP -Lot 17406.

I only bought five pounds of the Colombian, and now it's no longer available. No matter how much I love this coffee, I will have to wait another year and hope that next year's crop is as good as this one, good enough for Sweet Maria's to decide to carry it again. In the meantime, there will be other coffees, from other places, that I will love.

I bought 20 pounds of the Harar, knowing that a good Harar always brings me joy, and Tom (the big man at SM), said this was a very good one indeed. As much as I love this coffee, buying 20 pounds of it was probably a mistake because I will have to forgo other great coffees while I work my way through the Harar and the 30 pounds of other coffees that currently form my stash.

There is a lesson in there somewhere.

While I ponder the downside of my greedy ways, I have to figure out creative ways to do stash reduction. I roast about 2.5 pounds of coffee a week. If I roast another pound a week and give it to friends, I can probably start buying coffee again in about two months. A local caterer would like me to roast for him, and that would solve my "problem" quickly, but I am not at all sure I want to commit to having to roast big time during the winter, not in my unheated garage at least.

Hummm, I could buy a roaster I can use inside of the house. Let's see, how much coffee would I have to sell before this would make any sense at all?

Maybe I should just leave coffee beans on my neighbours doorsteps. After all, later in the summer, they will be leaving unloved zucchini and tomatoes on mine.

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#1 29 May 2008 - 03:29

LOL. I have this Al Jaffe mental image of a foggy morning, you sneaking up to a neighbor's porch with coffee beans, she sneaking up to yours with zucchini.

InMyLife

#2 29 May 2008 - 03:38

Ah then, my work here is complete. I had the same image when I wrote the post.

taming

#3 29 May 2008 - 04:41

Oh how I wish I was your neighbor. I wouldn't even leave the unwanted veggies if you promised to leave me your coffee!

Ladyinthemoon

#4 11 December 2008 - 10:45

Okay, when you said your work here was complete, I didn't know you meant it! Please post again when you have time. I miss the aroma of freshly roasted Mo-coffee beans.

InMyLife

#5 10 April 2009 - 09:29

Thats hilarious!

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