Behind the Snobbery

First off, I really don’t have time to be keeping another blog.  I can barely add pictures to my family blog.  So, I’ll let you know right now that any writing you see up here will be grammatically incorrect, unedited crap.  I have no time for polish.  I just wanna document my forray into the world of coffee snobbery.  I love coffee.  I need it.  I drink it.  I treasure my cup ‘o joe.  I know when I like it and when I don’t, but that’s about the limit of my knowledge.  But now it’s time to take the next step!  Inspired by my trips to Hiro’s Coffee Farm and Good Company coffee roasters, I’ve decided to start educating my palate on things coffee.  To keep me disciplined in my self-education, I’ll document my experiments in tasting here. 

The experiment:

First, I want to learn how to taste.  When I go to Starbucks they’re always telling me where the coffee is from. Oh it’s the Ethiopian blend, or Kenyan, or something like that.  I’m like, okay, whatever, just hand it over.  But now I want to know the difference.  The difference in beans and the difference in roast.  So I’m gonna start slowly, tasting coffee my own way.  First, brewing the coffee at home and comparing the taste of the different beans, then moving on and comparing the different roasts.

I will buy my coffee at Good Company, the local coffee roaster here on Okinawa.  They don’t speak English there, so I have to rely on myself for working out the nuances of different flavors.  Of course, if anyone actually reads this feel free to add your two cents as well.

So, with that…we’re off!