Tuesday, October 19, 2004


specialty coffee at your local gas station?

long-time readers will recall scaa pro member and bccy pal spencer turer's grand plan to bring high-quality specialty coffee to all hess locations. now it seems exxon's getting into the quality coffee act.

renowned coffee author mark pendergast would just say this part of general move to improve coffee at "convenience" type locations.

in another interesting bit of news, the mermaid is going to buy indian coffee from tata for the first time. the truly devoted reader will recall that i participated in a tasting of indian coffees a while ago.

it's interesting to me that indian coffees still seem little known among the general coffee-loving public. certainly they grow some lovely arabica there, of which the most recognized may be indian pearl mountain.

dr. illy has been interested in indian coffees for a while -- even holding cuppings and prizes recently. and of course dr. john of josuma blends his cult espresso malabar gold from only indian coffees, arabica and robusta alike. . .

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