seattleweekly.com— As a marketing strategy, ?cupping? is straight from the wine-industry playbook. As a means of enjoying coffee, it?s mostly hot air.
Dec 5, 2008View in Crawl 4
I dunno about that. I just came from Guatemala where I saw many locals growing and roasting beans for their own home use and visited coffee plantations. After you see where it comes from and the complexities of getting it from plant-state to a drinkable liquid, it seems a lot more related to wine than, say, soda. Also, the cultivation of it, the methods, the region in which it's grown, is part of the merit and cultural history of it just as much as its taste.
You can think people who think coffee is as complex is wine are stupid, but they think you're just as stupid for thinking the s**tty, stale, over roasted stuff that you drink tastes anything like what they're drinking.
thebeersmithDec 7, 2008
I live in seattle. Seattle's beer culture trumps the coffee culture.
ajdeDec 7, 2008
I dunno about that. I just came from Guatemala where I saw many locals growing and roasting beans for their own home use and visited coffee plantations. After you see where it comes from and the complexities of getting it from plant-state to a drinkable liquid, it seems a lot more related to wine than, say, soda. Also, the cultivation of it, the methods, the region in which it's grown, is part of the merit and cultural history of it just as much as its taste.
drmcninjaDec 12, 2008
You can think people who think coffee is as complex is wine are stupid, but they think you're just as stupid for thinking the s**tty, stale, over roasted stuff that you drink tastes anything like what they're drinking.
greatme2Mar 6, 2009
Coffee is great drink. coffee culture is very good.<a class="user" href="http://www.articleslide.com/articledetail.php?artid=122856&amp;catid=68&amp;title=Americans-Love-To-Drink-Great-Coffee">http://www.articleslide.com/articledetail.php?arti ...</a>