At my kitchen table, drinking my Austrian goat milk double-half-caf-half-decaf-soy milk cappuccino - extra hot - with a dash of Madagascar cinnamon-and half tablespoon of caramel-latte-frappa-mocha while reading and posting pretentiously.
@Targaryen For the water used, I was introduced to “Acqua di Cristallo Tributo a Modigliani” by @daveinwarsh He prefers the vintage November 2016, but I like the fresher taste of the vintage January 2017.
@daveinwarsh@Targaryen@therealjrn ohhhhh, but have you sampled the August 2017?! Ask Nelson next time you’re down at the Club. It has a trampy insouciance, with a touch of late-courtesanal dignity.
As a Seattle-area transplant, I have to say Portland. But really, Seattle. Pretty much anywhere, but if I had to choose… I just described a place as pretentious this weekend: Third Culture in Bellevue. Shit, we even have uber-pretentious Starbucks.
Kitchen, standing. Beans ground up in a burr grinder, having been roasted, artisanally, on the stove.
Overall cost is low if you don’t count labor, so, I don’t know. Maybe not that pretentious. I turn my nose up at cream, sugar, and Starbucks (charred filth). That sounds kind of pretentious. Does that help?
A dainty (bone china) cup of fresh roasted and brewed Jamaican Blue Mountain Reserve coffee, in a lounge chair on top of an Alpine peak or the forward deck of a luxury yacht, served by a butler in suitably butler-like attire. But I live a few thousand miles from the nearest Alpine peak, and I don’t think I even know anyone who knows anyone with a yacht - so it’s a favorite mug on the back porch, with whatever organic, shade-grown coffee I have on hand, freshly ground and brewed. Alas, no butler.
My local craft coffee shop.
I prefer naturally processed heirloom beans, medium to medium light roasted. Origin is mostly Ethiopia. But can’t always get that so I go for discussing tasting notes with the barista
Terrior and cultivar make such a difference.
No city in particular, not anymore. Coffee crawling is a fun pasttime in many large and medium size cities and I enjoy seeing what they do. I love siphon brewed over a halogen or better yet open flame (rare any more) because the taste is so clean.
I have had Ethiopian coffee done in an Ethiopian restaurant, not Yank brewed but how the do it in African and it’s a very different taste.
On a daily basis I have an SCAA approved brewer (one of a very few) and use that to make coffee when I’m too lazy to do it by hand.
@karamazovsdevil
there is a bit of truth in that in some countries, but not in all. many craft coffee roasters visit the coffee farms and buy from family farmers, not from cooperatives. they pay better than fair trade and even work together to build schools and work places for the farms they buy from.
they same could be said about many of the tshirts you have in your closet.
@karamazovsdevil this is true of the big conglomerates who sell Folgers, Maxwell House and even some of the smaller brands like Dunkin Donuts and Seattle’s Best. (I think. Please correct me if I am wrong.) But, most specialty coffee stores (even Starbucks!) takes pains to make sure their beans are ethically sourced. It is not terribly difficult or overly expensive to find coffee that does not come from evil origins.
… and no t-shirts? Really? OK. I’ll take you at your word. But, @Cerridwyn’s point is still valid. In this globalised world almost every product we own or use, unless we are very careful, is made through the exploitation of another. With coffee, it really isn’t difficult to find an ethical source and many of us make a point of finding one.
@mollama What’s up with @Targaryen not answering their own question? Remind me to play my cards a little closer to my chest the next time @Targaryen asks a question.
@mollama@therealjrn Sorry sometimes I like to ask questions if things seems slow or I’m genuinely curious about other people’s replies and thoughts on things. In my case I enjoy drinking coffee in the nude on my balcony. Or maybe the local small coffee shop. Sorry, I didn’t reply sooner but we’ve been a little busy this week so I did actually forget about it until this morning.
@f00l@ruouttaurmind you know what’s actually nectar? Apricot juice!! I mean, apricot nectar. When I’m retired I’m going to live on doughnuts, coffee and apricot nectar.
Down the street from me is Analog Coffee, where I’ve been enjoying ultra-mellow Americanos lo these past many years. The gents who run it take their coffee really seriously, but never try to drag you into their mad Elektral screeching, byzantry and witchcraft. End result: superlative coffee that’s fit for an insufferable hipster, yet is served with a breezy bonhomie.
Kroger brand, on my sofa, early morning before anyone else wakes up. Pretentiously, on a cruise ship with my tableside French press brought by my butter to my massive party sized aft balcony in the Caribbean.
At my kitchen table, drinking my Austrian goat milk double-half-caf-half-decaf-soy milk cappuccino - extra hot - with a dash of Madagascar cinnamon-and half tablespoon of caramel-latte-frappa-mocha while reading and posting pretentiously.
@Targaryen For the water used, I was introduced to “Acqua di Cristallo Tributo a Modigliani” by @daveinwarsh He prefers the vintage November 2016, but I like the fresher taste of the vintage January 2017.
@daveinwarsh @Targaryen @therealjrn ohhhhh, but have you sampled the August 2017?! Ask Nelson next time you’re down at the Club. It has a trampy insouciance, with a touch of late-courtesanal dignity.
@daveinwarsh @Targaryen @therealjrn @UncleVinny
I think I’ll go live in a cave somewhere now.
@daveinwarsh @Targaryen @therealjrn @UncleVinny
They get that water fresh from the mountains. Right?
My pretentious mouth.
/giphy pretentious mouth
The cafe at the art museum.
3 day old rotgut, boiled.
Alone.
Because I’m so damned pretentious.
Any other factors would just dilute the experience.
As a Seattle-area transplant, I have to say Portland. But really, Seattle. Pretty much anywhere, but if I had to choose… I just described a place as pretentious this weekend: Third Culture in Bellevue. Shit, we even have uber-pretentious Starbucks.
I roast my own beans, so wherever I brew/drink that.
@PocketBrain
McCafe?
@djslack
Sure.
@djslack
One cup a day, on my couch, Maxwell House instant w/ powdered non-dairy creamer and sugar.
Possibly as unpretentious as it gets.
@DennisG2014
/giphy teddy roosevelt was pretenous
My house Nespresso latte with homemade caramel vanilla syrup will usually wins out. But when I’m in DTLA Cafe Dematasse wins.
Kitchen, standing. Beans ground up in a burr grinder, having been roasted, artisanally, on the stove.
Overall cost is low if you don’t count labor, so, I don’t know. Maybe not that pretentious. I turn my nose up at cream, sugar, and Starbucks (charred filth). That sounds kind of pretentious. Does that help?
A dainty (bone china) cup of fresh roasted and brewed Jamaican Blue Mountain Reserve coffee, in a lounge chair on top of an Alpine peak or the forward deck of a luxury yacht, served by a butler in suitably butler-like attire. But I live a few thousand miles from the nearest Alpine peak, and I don’t think I even know anyone who knows anyone with a yacht - so it’s a favorite mug on the back porch, with whatever organic, shade-grown coffee I have on hand, freshly ground and brewed. Alas, no butler.
My local craft coffee shop.
I prefer naturally processed heirloom beans, medium to medium light roasted. Origin is mostly Ethiopia. But can’t always get that so I go for discussing tasting notes with the barista
Terrior and cultivar make such a difference.
No city in particular, not anymore. Coffee crawling is a fun pasttime in many large and medium size cities and I enjoy seeing what they do. I love siphon brewed over a halogen or better yet open flame (rare any more) because the taste is so clean.
I have had Ethiopian coffee done in an Ethiopian restaurant, not Yank brewed but how the do it in African and it’s a very different taste.
On a daily basis I have an SCAA approved brewer (one of a very few) and use that to make coffee when I’m too lazy to do it by hand.
Yes, snob
/image coffee snob
Italy has very fine coffee. The Waldorf-Astoria is a lovely place to enjoy a cup.
@OldCatLady Yes, that seems like a fine place to chortle, snicker or perhaps even titter as lesser people slink past.
http://www.foodispower.org/coffee/
You are drinking the tears of child slaves.
Enjoy!
@karamazovsdevil
there is a bit of truth in that in some countries, but not in all. many craft coffee roasters visit the coffee farms and buy from family farmers, not from cooperatives. they pay better than fair trade and even work together to build schools and work places for the farms they buy from.
they same could be said about many of the tshirts you have in your closet.
@Cerridwyn I own no t-shirts. Drink up, slaver.
@karamazovsdevil this is true of the big conglomerates who sell Folgers, Maxwell House and even some of the smaller brands like Dunkin Donuts and Seattle’s Best. (I think. Please correct me if I am wrong.) But, most specialty coffee stores (even Starbucks!) takes pains to make sure their beans are ethically sourced. It is not terribly difficult or overly expensive to find coffee that does not come from evil origins.
… and no t-shirts? Really? OK. I’ll take you at your word. But, @Cerridwyn’s point is still valid. In this globalised world almost every product we own or use, unless we are very careful, is made through the exploitation of another. With coffee, it really isn’t difficult to find an ethical source and many of us make a point of finding one.
At home:
@arielleslie As Paul Hogan would say, that’s not a home…
@stinks That is indeed a much nicer home than mine as well as a more pretentious place to drink coffee.
@Targaryen where is yours?
(Can’t drink it myself, so nowhere)
@mollama What’s up with @Targaryen not answering their own question? Remind me to play my cards a little closer to my chest the next time @Targaryen asks a question.
@mollama @Targaryen @therealjrn
@Targaryen prob has a second job collecting our personal info for the NSA. : (
@f00l I’ve always assumed that meh was collecting our answers for a presentation to a class on abnormal psychology.
@mollama @therealjrn Sorry sometimes I like to ask questions if things seems slow or I’m genuinely curious about other people’s replies and thoughts on things. In my case I enjoy drinking coffee in the nude on my balcony. Or maybe the local small coffee shop. Sorry, I didn’t reply sooner but we’ve been a little busy this week so I did actually forget about it until this morning.
@mollama @Targaryen My coffee shop said I couldn’t do that anymore.
@f00l I keep trying to sell it to them and they keep saying Facebook is better. It’s weird.
Contigo mug on a boat
In my dreams, ‘cause I don’t guzzle no joe.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: Pepsi, nectar of the Gods.
Nuttin pretentious ‘bout the ol’ bubbly cola!
@ruouttaurmind
Bleah.
Actually Pepsi is semi-tolerable. It’s just not qualified to be called nectar under any circumstances.
@f00l @ruouttaurmind you know what’s actually nectar? Apricot juice!! I mean, apricot nectar. When I’m retired I’m going to live on doughnuts, coffee and apricot nectar.
@f00l @UncleVinny Imma has to vote for guava nectar. Ya know, if we’re talkin’ about real nectar. Mango would be close behind.
@ruouttaurmind Nah, I’m a Pibb or a Pepper guy myself.
From corporate logo mug in my cube while squinting at my computer.
@cranky1950 I have one just like it.
Down the street from me is Analog Coffee, where I’ve been enjoying ultra-mellow Americanos lo these past many years. The gents who run it take their coffee really seriously, but never try to drag you into their mad Elektral screeching, byzantry and witchcraft. End result: superlative coffee that’s fit for an insufferable hipster, yet is served with a breezy bonhomie.
@UncleVinny That sounds good, often times I order Americano from Starbucks and for some reason it’s the most bitter thing on the planet.
@Targaryen @UncleVinny
Then why do you do it?
sounds like masochism to me
Kroger brand, on my sofa, early morning before anyone else wakes up. Pretentiously, on a cruise ship with my tableside French press brought by my butter to my massive party sized aft balcony in the Caribbean.
I don’t need this but I want this French press.
https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/itns/?mrkgcl=507&mrkgadid=3252497599&rkg_id=h-74f84443b7bf02d39b443d6a5e0b1415_t-1521200650&itm=359121551451_product_type_home_%26_office_product_type_kitchen_%26_dining&rkgid=3252497599&cpg=ogpla&source=google_pla&adpos=1o1&creative=185050070361&device=m&matchtype=&network=g&gclid=Cj0KCQjw1q3VBRCFARIsAPHJXrFS-AyGpACP5iemHN3O2OqjA6ZwOmGgx1uArDZuFKD7OSLR3Co-g64aAlZnEALw_wcB
@CaptAmehrican
LOL
@CaptAmehrican
Kirkland beans brewed in a meh Capresso coffee maker that I drink all night at work from a meh Bubba mug. Black.
Well, OK, I try to stop by 4AM so I can go to sleep around 8. It’s real damn pretentious, don’t ya know.
@daveinwarsh The pic is gone? Try again…
@daveinwarsh I still see both. Rather pretentious to post two don’t you think?
@therealjrn Do you REALLY see both? Or… are you seeing double vision…
The green forum.
@medz HA HA HA HA!
On my lanai.
Porch = Meh.
Lanai = Pretentious
Ergo, a Meh lanai is a veranda. But I digress…