[TheForge] Coffee roaster (Was: Moloch...)

[David E. Smucker]

SNIP  Mike's Post, see below.  Having worked a bunch in Italy, I always love 
the way my Italian friends talked about our American coffee  -- they called 
it "dirty water".  The old I get the stronger I liked my coffee.

Dave

>
> Sorry Aubrey, but it's dark roast for me all the way, with occasional
> digressions into espresso.  We used to have a neighbor, since
> deceased, who retired here after a career as a US Naval officer.  He
> opened a little business across the street from my studio and kept
> coffee on all the time for droppers-in.  The first time he invited
> me over for coffee, I thought to myself, "Yow! The real stuff! Navy
> coffee!"  Turned out, he put about two level tablespoons of Maxwell
> House into a large (10 cup?) dripolator.  The result was very hot,
> slightly brownish and devoid of any possible offense (including
> detectable flavor) to the most sensitive taste buds.