Coffee

To a large extent, sure. It's also rarely the sole reason for a drinking or purchasing decision. Would you buy a wine knowing only where the grapes had been planted and say you knew what you were buying?

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Coffee origins won't tell you everything about a coffee but they're a very good indicator of overall taste profiles due to cultivars, climate, growing methods, etc! A Sidama coffee from one roaster will almost certainly taste more like a Sidama coffee from another roaster than a Matagalpa coffee from the same one.

for old-world wines knowing where the grapes were grown might be sufficient information, sure.

OK, you're not a wine drinker. I will endeavor to find a better analogy.

To a large extent, sure. It's also rarely the sole reason for a drinking or purchasing decision. Would you buy a wine knowing only where the grapes had been planted and say you knew what you were buying?

― Three Word Username, Wednesday, July 1, 2015 11:15 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah like wld u read a post based just on where the goalposts are planted

You're the one moving them around. I didn't say origin was useless information; I said origin mania, where people talk about origin as if it said everything and announce that they buy and enjoy according to origin, was silly marketing bullshit.

oh origin mania ok champ mania is bad i agree u cn tell by how its called mania

"you might like mosel valley wines"
"lol man that's just the name of a place, I will not engage in this moselmania"

i'll send anyone who's sick of origin mania a bag of preground dunkin regular

taking bets on how long it'll take before TWU starts waxing eloquent about robusta beans

fresh vegetable mania is silly marketing bullshit

"You might enjoy mosel valley wines". Yeah, people who know wine are always saying that.

Bring your own coffee if you ever find yourself in Italy, 龜.

lol nobody itt is saying robusta beans are bad we're just saying your constant coffee iconoclasm is tiring to read you're such a petty lil squirt lol

And you are an unpleasant little fuckhead with no substance to anything you ever post. I like how anything outside of the collective wisdom of 10 years of American coffee geekery is iconoclasm.

lol Chinese symbol is an all-time poster and guy imo what a ridiculous flare up

one character username, lots of character embodied imo

No, you're right, I was completely out of line. Only the in crowd can make nasty out of the blue personal attacks. I forget that sometimes.

sounds like someones had a lil too much... coffee

it's easy to be in the in crowd man, you just gotta tantrum less srsly give it a shot I think you could make it ok

"your constant coffee iconoclasm is tiring to read you're such a petty lil squirt lol"

Finding that insulting and shooting back is a total tantrum. Yup.

it's kinda a question of general abrasion tho maybe idk I don't want to get into a review the poster audit its a Wednesday afternoon and I'm overwarm

missed the line before when he was like, hey man, we're not harshin xp

you know whats harsh... robusta beans!

one of the two types of coffee beans

Picking on me makes your received hipster coffee wisdom true. I will notify the rest of the world.

truth is a mysterious force

if we could only cap this episode with a joke we could call it a brewhaha

a map of chile walks into a bar

bartender says "Why the long space?"

coffee thread getting heated

*hi five*

*freeze frame*

*scene*

drinking my nice cold brew :)

My fully caffeinated coffee seems to have had no effect on me, except maybe to keep me from passing out face first into my keyboard from exhaustion.

wow lag8n sounds like y've rly ~chilled out~ B-)

heck yea bud

ice_crema

been into iced shots-in-dark. the flavor is like.. lol fuck the flavor bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt

those first few straw-pulls dear lord

put shots in coffee, not in the ilx coffee thread!

There was a request for my mediation. Let's just say I love coffee, and caffeine as well. Dark roast 100% arabica Chemex paper filtered, but otherwise I'm perfectly content with mass market preground coffee.

find it weird that coffee is so healthy

There were two main reason coffee was associated with health harms for much of the 20th century. Coffee drinking was highly correlated with cigarette smoking, and many earlier studies didn't correct for this. And before the 70s (Mr. Coffee: 1972), most coffee was brewed by percolator, French press, or otherwise unfiltered, leaving the cholesterol raising cafestol and kahweol. Paper filters largely remove these diterpenes, but still let through the roasting produced melanoidins that appear to account for most of the non-caffeine benefits.

Its a plant extract with lots of hormetins (mild toxins that induce overall protective effects). Much like broccoli or tea.

I really don't care about (and usually can't detect) "quality" coffee. I just want to stay awake.

Ive never really used coffee that way but I do like the taste and ritual tbh

And I just dig the taste -- the ritual thing I don't really understand.

brb gonna ctrl-f the dawkins threads for 'three word username'

Damn, son, that was the harshest attack yet.

Coffee is only good for making tiramisu.

Shut your mouthy!

I remember a few years back when chess was an exhibition sport at the Olympics - 2000? - and they made a big deal that the players still had to subject themselves to drug testing. Everyone was all lol but articles made a point of explaining just how much of an advantage caffeine conveyed.