Writes Elisabeth Perlman in "I’ve tested liberica, the ‘disgusting’ coffee coming to a café near you" (London Times).
Now, as the planet warms, it is making a comeback. Nigel Motley, 31, is the owner of one of the first UK coffee shops offering the "hipster" bean.
Hipster bean?!
Ninety per cent of his customers are trendy millennials interested in “new, sustainable coffee varieties” he said....
I guess there's something trendy/hipster about not putting flavor first.
Over the past decade few coffee drinkers in the UK have managed to get hold of liberica, with outlets blaming a lack of demand. Some who did manage to taste the variety have described it as “disgusting”; others likened it to “tinned vegetable soup.”...
Aaron Davis, a coffee specialist and senior researcher at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, southwest London... liberica appeals to the modern consumer who is open to “different flavour profiles... It’s not just a cup of coffee any more – it’s become more like wine.”
Wine or tinned vegetable soup.
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I guess there's something trendy/hipster about not putting flavor first
It's the secret to Starbucks success
John Henry
Net-zero warming. Net-positive greening. Emit for a minority minority effect.
Bye bye miss Arabica bye
Hipsters driving teslas
Cause they're zealous
But they started a fire
And these man-bun bois
Drink liberica with soy
Singin' "I'm a gender-fluid tranny who's bi!"
The only good coffee is Kona, which uses the arabica bean. If you can’t get Kona you may as well drink Dunkin’ Donuts brand and save your money.
I understand from a hipster friend that it goes very well with insect pate.
Big Mike:
Ever try Costa Rican?
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There is no climate change. Temps have been flat for years. The libs need to stop lying.
Oh, for fuck's sake. As the planet warms, journalism gets more insipid.
Isak Dinesen had to give up her farm and get “out of Africa” because the climate was a little too cold there for coffee. Should be just about right now.
Monte Verde from Costa Rica, yes. Best coffee I ever tasted.
What about the coffee beans that were pooped out of a weasel's ass??
"I guess there's something trendy/hipster about not putting flavor first. "
Just another hair shirt for progressives.
Hipster coffee: From beans passed through the digestive tract of a civet cat to caffeinated shit.
@Dave Begley, don’t recall that I’ve ever tried it. I take it you’re suggesting I give it a shot?
Peet's Sumatra. Fight me!
England is a tea country. Of course their coffee is horrible. It's because they want to stay a tea country.
I worked for over a decade as a coffee agronomist throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. The caffeine variations of the three species are astounding -- arabica 1%; robusta3%; and liberica 9%.
Two points for the "warming" ninnies -- 1) to the limited extent it exists it affects high-latitude areas, NOT the tropics. b) Coffee production systems are controlled primarily be ALTITUDE. c) One-degree C warming, wherever it MIGHT be occurring, is allegedly happening at a rate nearly 3x the lifespan of a commercial coffee plantation, which 1-degree change covers FOUR generations.
Coffee growers will have lots of time to adapt to any putative "climate change". Adapting to market shifts from year to year is far more challenging, and of immensely greater difference to their families who don't give a shit about the quasi-intellectual obsessions of over-fed, over-educated, self-appointed elitists in their protected academic enclaves.
"Now, as the planet warms...."...except it isn't, so maybe there's no story after all.
My preferred is a 50-50 mix of organic Kona and organic Columbian Supremo, med-light roast. Divinely good. 'Bill's Blend' from Java Coffee & Tea, Houston.
Big Mike. Give Costa Rican a try. A bargain at World Market.
Now as the planet warms …..
"I guess there's something trendy/hipster about not putting flavor first. "
Explains the popularity of IPA and sours in the craft beer market.
thankfully my taste runs to the strong, cheap coffees from Mexico. with a large Hispanic population, it is available at the local grocery store for like $3.99/lb.
"Explains the popularity of IPA and sours in the craft beer market."
Good taste explains the popularity of hoppy beer.
Chock full o'Nuts is fine with me.
"I guess there's something trendy/hipster about not putting flavor first. "
Explains the popularity of IPA and sours in the craft beer market.
Smile when you say that, varmint. (Though I agree about most sours.)
@Dave Begley, coffee from Costa Rica may not be easy to find out here in the Shenandoah Valley, but I will look. (Kona is challenging enough.) I make periodic forays into Washington’s suburbs, to see grandchildren or doctors, so I will find the coffee somewhere. I will let you know how I like it.
The five specific tastes received by taste receptors are saltiness, sweetness, bitterness, sourness, and savoriness, often known by its Japanese name umami ...
Wikipedia
Coffee is bitter and for most people, an acquired taste ... without marketing and social pressure it would have died out as a beverage centuries ago. Who remembers falling in love with the flavor of coffee (without cream and/or sugar) after their first sip?
And it's not cheap.
I like my coffee the way I like my bloggers. Cruelly neutral.
Don’t these numbskulls know that the temperature near the Equator will barely change even with significant warming?
The warmer air will flow inexorably to the temperate latitudes. Follow the physics!
I drink Maxwell House Coffee. It's what I grew up with.
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