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Best shot: Coffee - how do you brew?

fraccy

Nothing amuses me more than the rush of people disappearing up their own bottoms when talking about their exquisite - nay mythical - coffee brewing methods which, after a long painful pilgrimage, now enables them to make "the perfect" coffee, one which tramples all other known coffees with its innate magnificence. It is only possible, you see, because of their extremely refined taste (which appears only to manifest in the area of coffee). They feel this often trumpeted "talent" (may I say genius?) somehow reflects positively on their standing within society, and affirms their validity as a Modern Individual. Other "inferior" brewing methods will certainly feel the full force of their disapproval. If you are one of those unlucky people not *doing it right*, you may be lucky enough to receive their pity (but you certainly won't be a success at dinner parties).

When you realise how many of our ideas about coffee have been marketed to us, and that espresso wasn't invented for the *taste* but rather to enable making fresh coffee quickly in cafes, one sooner or later comes to terms with the fact that the age old method of a cheap filter, some freshly ground beans, and a kettle can't meaningfully be beaten. When you come to terms with this sobering reality, you can move on and find something else to fill your life and identify yourself with. There is something else.. isn't there?

How about, this time around, finding something genuinely interesting that you weren't unwittingly told to do by clever marketing and too much exposure to a sedentary lifestyle?

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