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    Default Two of my favorite vices: Coffee and Pens

    Morning Ritual

    Boil water
    Grind beans
    Warm cup
    Pour slooooowly
    Drink hot
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    Default Re: Two of my favorite vices: Coffee and Pens

    WHAT?! No Pelikan Cafe Creme? No matter, the early resin 146 EF will do verrry nicely (better in fact).

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    Default Re: Two of my favorite vices: Coffee and Pens

    Quote Originally Posted by FredRydr View Post
    WHAT?! No Pelikan Cafe Creme? No matter, the early resin 146 EF will do verrry nicely (better in fact).
    One of my favorite pens. I had a sample of Robert Oster Cafe Crema, which is a lovely brown, but I used it all up. Really need to get on a full bottle...

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    Default Re: Two of my favorite vices: Coffee and Pens

    Good stuff. For me the morning starts with warming up the Gaggia, grinding, brewing and making an iced latte. Call it sacrilege but for me it makes every day better. On occasion I will even go so far as you roast my own beans (I <3 Sweet Maria's). What would I do without the stuff??

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    Quote Originally Posted by azkid View Post
    Good stuff. For me the morning starts with warming up the Gaggia, grinding, brewing and making an iced latte. Call it sacrilege but for me it makes every day better. On occasion I will even go so far as you roast my own beans (I <3 Sweet Maria's). What would I do without the stuff??
    You do you, honey boo-boo.

    I like fancy, delicious coffee, but won't knock someone for liking it a different way.

    I've been toying with roasting my own for a while now, but have lacked the want to take that dive. I have a tendency to dive super deep into a topic and I've got three others occupying my mind at the moment, but soon...

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    Default Re: Two of my favorite vices: Coffee and Pens

    And roasting is one really deep rabit hole... All the types of beans, ranges of roast... Then espresso adds another maze to explore... Pressures, mass, time, grind, tamp... Ack.

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    Quote Originally Posted by azkid View Post
    And roasting is one really deep rabit hole... All the types of beans, ranges of roast... Then espresso adds another maze to explore... Pressures, mass, time, grind, tamp... Ack.
    Yeah, I'm sure I'll get there some day, I'm just working on self restraint enough to not dig a new hole until I meticulously explore all the other ones first.

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    Hey, he doesn't come around that often but you guys need to hook up with FPG'r Tim Hoffman (goes by "manoever", I think). He has a coffee business in the Pittsburgh area (I think?) and I see his stuff on Instagram all the time. He has started shipping his beans once or twice a month. I'm going to try to poke him and see if he'll check out this thread. His place is called The Coffee Mess.
    "When Men differ in Opinion, both Sides ought equally to have the Advantage of being heard by the Publick;
    and that when Truth and Error have fair Play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."

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    Default Re: Two of my favorite vices: Coffee and Pens

    I do a little roasting and a lot of drinking. Stovetop espresso and a touch of heavy whipping is my favorite brew.

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    Default Re: Two of my favorite vices: Coffee and Pens

    So happy for coffee!
    "Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bold2013 View Post
    Stovetop espresso and a touch of heavy whipping is my favorite brew.
    That belongs in another subforum...
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    Default Re: Two of my favorite vices: Coffee and Pens

    Quote Originally Posted by Jon Szanto View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Bold2013 View Post
    Stovetop espresso and a touch of heavy whipping is my favorite brew.
    That belongs in another subforum...

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    Default Re: Two of my favorite vices: Coffee and Pens

    So many addictions to choose from!

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    Foreground: early resin 146 EF just like AzJon's, a Pelikan Cafe Creme EF. The Rest: a semi-vintage (using pen lingo) '60s press reserved for caffeine (just replaced another glass beaker), a burr grinder, a vintage '50s silver-plate press (one of the first presses produced and PITA for fitting replacement glass) reserved for decaf, and two lbs. of local roast from a little shop next to Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania USA. Oh, I'm not all snob; the big Costco bags of beans are under the counter.
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    Default Re: Two of my favorite vices: Coffee and Pens

    Quote Originally Posted by Jon Szanto View Post
    Hey, he doesn't come around that often but you guys need to hook up with FPG'r Tim Hoffman (goes by "manoever", I think). He has a coffee business in the Pittsburgh area (I think?) and I see his stuff on Instagram all the time. He has started shipping his beans once or twice a month. I'm going to try to poke him and see if he'll check out this thread. His place is called The Coffee Mess.
    Thanks Jon! I check in daily but haven't had much to say of late.

    I'm roasting coffee in Northwest Columbus OH (Hilliard to be exact.)

    I'm a sponsor of the Ohio Pen Show- 2018 will be my third year.

    If anybody has coffee questions, I've been in the biz for about 20 years, roasting for 6.

    I do ship coffee at the end of every month.

    I start my day with a whole pot of auto drip, and if I'm being good, a bout of Morning Pages to clear out the ol' skull...

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    Default Re: Two of my favorite vices: Coffee and Pens

    I only have maybe one or two cups of coffee a week. I don't get a lift from it the way most folks seem to. To me, coffee is a thoroughly effective laxative, only to be enjoyed when I'm not planning on leaving the house anytime soon. If I overdo it, I can end up feeling quite washed out rather than energised, and if I drank it everyday... well, I dread to think... reconstructive surgery probably...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wuddus View Post
    I only have maybe one or two cups of coffee a week. I don't get a lift from it the way most folks seem to. To me, coffee is a thoroughly effective laxative, only to be enjoyed when I'm not planning on leaving the house anytime soon. If I overdo it, I can end up feeling quite washed out rather than energised, and if I drank it everyday... well, I dread to think... reconstructive surgery probably...
    I don't get a "lift" per se, one cup of coffee barely phases me to be honest. I enjoy the flavors and my morning rituals. I'm usually up 30 minutes to an hour before the Mrs. to make my coffee and sip it in the early morning calm. I watch the birds and breathe in the day with my coffee. Its as much about the coffee drinking as it is the moment, the dharma of my father and my father's father, starting the day in silence with a hot cup of coffee.

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    I like the scent of freshly ground beans. I wish coffee tasted like that.

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    This thread reminded me of my previous hobby



    Both my wife and I love coffee and she's the brewer in our house.
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    Default Re: Two of my favorite vices: Coffee and Pens

    I've never got the buzz from coffee, same goes for my mother too. At one time a doctor I worked with would regularly bring me back a sack of coffee beans from the Blue Mountains in Jamaica (where he lived), and I would be happy enough drinking that. As an Englishman though my heart belongs to tea. And now being part of a Chinese family, that relationship has been strengthened. Tea all the way for me. There are still rituals enough if you want them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Empty_of_Clouds View Post
    I've never got the buzz from coffee, same goes for my mother too. At one time a doctor I worked with would regularly bring me back a sack of coffee beans from the Blue Mountains in Jamaica (where he lived), and I would be happy enough drinking that. As an Englishman though my heart belongs to tea. And now being part of a Chinese family, that relationship has been strenghtened. Tea all the way for me. There are still rituals enough if you want them.
    I started with tea a number of years ago. I've got a handful of yixing pots and a respectable pu-erh collection. At some point in my tenure in San Francisco, I started dipping into the coffee world (while simultaneously frequenting tea shops) and never really went back. I still enjoy good teas and the ritual around them, but coffee supplanted my early morning routine.

    Being a bit of an anglophile, tea is still consumed in the afternoon en masse.

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