Sometimes you just have one of those days. ^.^
Boosted from @jfmezei: Torontonian arrested in Ashland Virginia after breaking in to a liquor store, getting drunk and passing out in the bathroom. He was held until sufficiently sobered up and then released. 🙂
Axios: axios.com/local/richmond/2025/… Media description: Liqor store aisle with many bottles strewed on the floor, some broken and areas of floor wet with alchool.
Media description: racoon passed out on floor of bathroom next to toilet with legs spread out
Njion the Cofftea Dragon ☕
in reply to Njion the Cofftea Dragon ☕ • • •The concept of "coffee flavor" is seriously harmful to the entire coffee industry because it sets a specific expectation as for what "proper" coffee is "supposed" to taste like.
The reality is that there isn't one specific coffee flavor. What most people think of as the platonic ideal of coffee taste, the flavor that most people would describe as THE generic coffee flavor is actually so far from generic it's insane.
Practically ALL coffee available in stores and most cafes comes from just 3 regions of Brasil. The fruits are harvested with little to no quality control and then processed using the natural process since it's the cheapest. The resulting beans are then roasted very dark destroying lots of the aromatic compounds in order to reduce the flavor variety between batches and give the coffee that characteristic bitter, charcoal-like profile. The beans are then packed and shipped to stores where they often sit on shelves for upwards of 2 years, losing more flavor with each passing week. Eventually they're bought and brewed using boiling hot water to produce that intensely bitter beverage with tasting notes of cigarette ash and charcoal that we all know and hate.
This extremely specific process is how we arrive at the "general coffee flavor". Sadly, this flavor is what most coffee drinkers have come to enjoy and expect, often immediately dismissing any coffee that tastes different as "bad" or "poorly brewed". Even though coffee processed in any other way, from literally anywhere else in the world will NOT have that specific flavor profile. There is so much variety when it comes to coffee, so many possible delightful flavors and I hate that so many people are utterly unaware of that fact and unwilling to even try exploring the infinite possibilities because they're not the same as that extremely specific "generic" coffee flavor...