Re: [VFB] Hey Sally, it's Hog Killin Time!

[Mark Wendt]

Murf,

        Knowing my tastes, my Hawaiian buddy sends me pure Kona.  Comes in a white coffee bag, whole bean, and it just smells luscious when the bag is opened...  Dirty bugger won't tell me who the roaster is, though, I've been trying to get a name out of him for years!  My other favorite is Jamaican Blue Mountain, no blending of course...  Sasha's in Old Town Alexandria used to carry the pure stuff every once in a while, but I haven't seen it lately.



Mark


At 12:44 PM 1/18/2003 -0500, you wrote:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Then there's a buddy of mine who lives in Hawaii, and sends me coffee from one of the local coffee roasters there.  MMmmmmmmmmm, mmmmmmm, mmmmmmm-mmmmmmm......

Mark;
While I sell office supplies, we also sell coffee service and have hundreds of brands to the point we publish a menu.  The Reunion Island is a new one to us and I dare say some of the best I've had.  I also know just about every detail there is about coffee plus the fact that while easy to sell the service, the blend is always an issue among employees.  Most Kona from Hawaii is blended with other beans but some folks can get the expensive pure Kona roasted just right at about $30/lb.  That stuff at the market is quite full of the Robusta beans (filler) and the best is the Aribica grown in good soil at high altitude.  The Robusta beans are best used for Tony's coffee bean beetle.

Murf