Friday, July 16, 2004


sticking with my vac pot

i understand that if you're used to drinking canned supermarket coffee from your aged home auto-drip machine, pod coffee from the new 1-cup brewers seems like a revelation. i also understand that if you're a small family with a crazy schedule, these brewers make sense.

i'm happy to see these brewers on the market, because they can only encourage more people to make coffee at home. and long-time readers know that we here at bccy do little else but stand on our heads and beg people to enjoy their coffee!

however, while like the author of the above article i'm a precision-oriented coffee lover, unlike him, i'm keeping my vac pot.

and the reason is that no pod, no matter how carefully manufactured, can equal the delicious intensity of fresh coffee carefully crafted from a local artisan roaster, freshly ground just before brewing.

if i needed any reminders of that, it came today as i made jessica's batdorf ethiopian sidamo in the bodum santos. delightful enough yesterday, the vac pot this morning heightened the nuances of the coffee and shifted them about.

today the fresh peach moved more towards a strawberry, actually making me wonder if this wasn't a mislabeled harrar. (harrars are famed for their noteworthy berry aromas.)

the roasted hazelnut melted into honey, and the baking chocolate deepened into a strong vanilla-syrup feeling. sometimes coffees lose body in the vac pot, but this one stayed fairly sturdy. . .

i highly recommend this coffee. it's the perfect demonstration of what you give up for convenience when you go pod.

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