Mmmm... Fresh Roasted Coffee

You know, since I started beginning every day with a cup of fresh roasted coffee, my day has had a certain rhythm to it that I have found comforting and reassuring. I used to get up about ten minutes before I had to go to work, quickly hose off in the shower, grab a bite of something as I ran out the door, and swallow down some crappy instant coffee.

That instant coffee wasn't something that I'd enjoy like a fresh roasted coffee. It was something that I had to get down to jump start my body into action two hours before I would have preferred to get moving on its own. Although my instant French roast coffee was somewhat comforting, because it would make me not feel so exhausted, really there wasn't that much more joy in drinking it than in, say, popping pep pills.

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What is it with caffeine? Do we really need a daily java buzz? The way we slurp down fresh coffee on a regular basis, you would certainly think so. Coffee is such a bizarre product. They grow the beans in far off countries; we purchase the beans; we roast the  beans, then we grind the beans and drain water through them to make a tasty beverage. Now, are we really supposed to consume these beans? That enigma always gets me. Anyway...

Do you grind coffee daily? You know, to get that wonderful, fresh cup from your drip pot every morning. Now that I start each day with fresh roasted coffee, things are different. I get up a little earlier, so that I have a full forty-five minutes before I have to go to work. I take a relaxing shower while my fresh roasted coffee percolates, and then have time to enjoy a cup with the morning paper and a nice toasted bagel with cream cheese, tomato, and Nova Scotia lox, as well as a banana, while I sip it slowly and let the day wash over me. Even if your coffee of choice is decaffeinated coffee.

I wouldn't say it's luxurious, but it is nice compared to how I used to do it. It is even better on Sundays, when I get to sit back with a cup of fresh roasted coffee and the whole fat New York Times Sunday section, just whiling the hours away and enjoying listening to the Sunday classical music selections.

We even buy fresh coffee beans every week in order to get that perfect incomparable flavor. Our espresso machine grinds the fresh coffee beans with each serving. We don't really have a favorite kind of fresh roasted coffee. It is so much better to get to switch around, sometimes drinking French roast, otherwise a nice tart cup of Kona blend coffee, or perhaps something even more exotic.

Sometimes I add a little dark chocolate and cardamom to my fresh roasted coffee to give it a little bit of that creamy, spiced flavor and I'll tell you: there is nothing on earth that tastes better as far as I know. But really, I like it all as long as its fresh coffee. It's the variety that makes life enjoyable as far as I'm concerned.

This is the way to go. That pristine, impeccable shot of recently ground fresh coffee beans makes it all worth while. Now, I may have only started drinking coffee about 12 years ago, but I've learned a great deal since. On the subject of fresh coffee, I must add that there are countless coffee shops that serve not so fresh coffee.

Have you ever been to a coffee house, and they whip you up a latte that resembles dirty water? Wow, as much as I hate to reminisce, I have encountered this travesty on several occasions. I actually wondered if they used the same grounds as the customer before me. It certainly tasted like it. Then of course you have the random coffee grounds floating around in your latte. Yuck! One way to tell a coffee house that serves good coffee is to look at the lines. There's a reason that your local Starbucks is always crowded. They don't serve the best coffee, or they'd have to charge a lot more, but it's pretty good.

The concept of fresh coffee is an important one for those of us who fully appreciate a good cup of java. Fortunately there are several ways to attain that fresh roasted coffee these days. You can certainly find local coffee houses that take full pride in their work and offer only the best coffee they can muster, or you can delve into cyberspace in search of that fresh coffee goodness.

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