It's Time For A SERIOUS Debate: Who's Brewing the Best Coffee in Detroit?

[Gannon]

Enjoying a cup o' freshly-roasted, then freshly-ground, then freshly-brewed Ethiopian Yirgacheffe naturally-finished coffee...from beans sourced from Germack Coffee a few days ago.

Thanks to Steven there for the time spent sharing his knowledge and enthusiasm...it is great to see the evolution and progress under his tutelage. We had fun chatting about the state of relative perfection in the Detroit coffee market, and how some of the roasters are beginning to discover the "co-opetition" they can enjoy with this on-fire local marketplace.

Just like the craft brewers working together to improve the whole, they can compete but cooperate...and everybody wins, especially those who really cherish consuming their products!


I am happy that our Winter experiment didn't spoil us for future coffee ecstasy...we bought twenty pounds of the Kaua'i estate's output and drank almost nothing else from December to June.

It was heavenly, every cup o' used grounds reminding me fiercely of the beautiful red dirt of our eventual home island...actually triggering a postulate that coffee is merely the gods' way of relocating fertile grounds from the tropics to the rest of the planet.


Remember to give your used grounds to the local gardener of your choice.

[Dumpling]

Thank you for your post, Gannon. You will be moving to Kauai some day? My
Cornish ancestry Aunt Betty [[probably born around 1912 near Ahmeek [[Anishinabe
for "Beaver") in the Keweenaw) moved to Kauai after a nasty divorce which was
said to have happened after her husband sold the Corvette she loved to work on
without her say-so and permission. She was a social worker in Kauai, her hometown
there was Lihue. [[My current fav Cornish actress is Thandie Newton, the bitchy
unsupportive nurse Will Smith was married to in that movie "In Pursuit of Happyness".
She nailed my grandparents' Cornish domestic dispute patterns perfectly in that
movie.) Betty would stop by to visit us in Detroit. She would wear muu-muu's
and chain smoked cigarettes, always using a long cigarette holder. She would
teach us Hawaiian vocabulary.

[Dumpling]

Am growing endive in my garden. Wonder if coffee grounds would affect
the bitterness of endive in any way.