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Pastimes : Home on the range where the buffalo roam
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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (5455)9/28/2000 6:59:00 PM
From: Pedro Joaristi  Read Replies (4) of 13572
 
Hello bp...
No, I never sold coffee to Starbucks. Vertical integration
has also hit the coffee industry, and I sold all my coffee
to a major Swiss consortium that owned plantations, processed the coffee and exported it, all to Europe.
Vertical integration is the ONLY way one can make money
with coffee.
Regarding blends and roasting- these are very carefully
guarded secrets. I like both expresso type coffee, where
the bean is roasted almost to the point of burning, and
the drip mix. A drip mix that I like is 20% robusta bean
(Brazilian is O.K.) with 80% arabica (Costa Rican, Guatemalan or Colombian, all dark roast). This mix
is tasty yet mellow enough (low acidity) not to need
much sugar. I find that Blue Mountain coffee is somewhat
overrated and definately over-priced. Let me conclude
by stating that I'm NOT a coffee tasting expert- just
an ex-grower. My apologies to the non-coffee drinkers
on the thread for this off topic message.
Pedro
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