Every day there seem to be more tasks on the to-do list: Website tweaks and ongoing development; working with the SEO guys; packaging for the Wizard's Blend (soon to be available at our local Oz Museum); tracking down some good beans and stocking up; planning holiday merchandise; figuring out cold brew equipment/technique; designing labels, ads and package inserts; and numerous random but time-consuming projects. All this on top of my day job, and with Jim already putting in 12-hour days. Who wants to clean our house? We sure don't!
For our vacation, we rented a lakefront house with friends, ate good food, drank good wine, and saw some sights. Imagine our bemusement with the options on the coffeemaker in the rental:
Delay brew or brew now. Strong or regular. Pure silliness! On top of that, they had Maxwell House in the freezer. Or was it Folgers? I must have blocked it out.
Your vacation was well-deserved! I'm looking forward to your cold brew. That is how I prepare my coffee in summer especially - it is much less acidic and even cheaper coffee (sorry!) can be tolerated by my tummy.
ReplyDeleteHi Melissa! Unfortunately, you are right. I read some crazy technical stuff about extractrion ratios, water temp, grind, etc. There was a guy who experimented with a bunch of different coffees--everything from an expensive micro roaster single origin down to Dunkin Donuts. He found that the character of the coffee was mostly eliminated, making the Dunkin a solid brew. We'll give it a shot, anyway!
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