[newguy]

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BTW, I spent 21 days in Costa Rica in February.  Did a coffee plantation tour where I learned a lot about the process of making coffee.  Very informative.  Don't grind those beans until you're ready to brew.  The grounds start losing their flavor ini 12 minutes.  I discovered that really good coffee needs no creamer or sweetener.  Those are only used to mask bitter coffee.  Oh, and Starbucks uses Robusta coffee beans and over roasts them.  Robusta is such an inferior bean that it is illegal in Costa Rica to plant them.

in 1979, when i was 14, i spent a week without my parents near a small coffee plantation in Colombia.  it was just me and this Colombian family with four kids, one of whom was a boy my age.  

what i remember most were the sounds i heard at night.  so many frogs and other animals......unforgettable.

[newguy]

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BTW, I spent 21 days in Costa Rica in February.  Did a coffee plantation tour where I learned a lot about the process of making coffee.  Very informative.  Don't grind those beans until you're ready to brew.  The grounds start losing their flavor ini 12 minutes.  I discovered that really good coffee needs no creamer or sweetener.  Those are only used to mask bitter coffee.  Oh, and Starbucks uses Robusta coffee beans and over roasts them.  Robusta is such an inferior bean that it is illegal in Costa Rica to plant them.

in 1979, when i was 14, i spent a week without my parents near a small coffee plantation in Colombia.  it was just me and this Colombian family with four kids, one of whom was a boy my age.  

what i remember most were the sounds i heard at night.  so many frogs and other animals......unforgettable.