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To: goodwithagun

Sumatran, or better still Indian Monsooned Malabar, made in a French press for me.

(I have to have low-acid coffee, so Columbian and Ethiopian Yrgacheffe are both right out.)

Malabar is the best, and is a wonderful historical curiosity: the processing includes storage in leaky sheds during the monsoon season. Why? To get the real old-fashioned coffee flavor that Europeans (and for that matter Americans back to the days of the Founding) were used to in the days of sailing ships, when the beans would always get wet on the voyage from India to their destination. With the advent of steamships, some enterprising folk on the Malabar coast realized that there’d be a market among those longing for the old-fashioned flavor, and the “process” was invented.


23 posted on 08/02/2011 7:38:48 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: The_Reader_David

Ethiopian Yrgracheffe brewed in an Aeropress.


39 posted on 08/02/2011 8:02:15 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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