Why Your Coffee Sucks (and How to Drink Great Coffee for a Fraction of What You’re Paying Now) | LifeRemix Blog

For more than a millenium now, people have been drinking coffee. You can hardly drive down a major street (in the US, anyway) without encountering one or more Starbucks establishments. For all of it’s forms and varieties, it’s one of the most-consumed beverages in the world. I’m sure many of you reading this are probably doing so with a hot cup of joe within arms’ reach - which is what makes what I’m about to say all the more meaningful and pointed: Your coffee is, most likely, crap. [Read on…]

Acting upon this useful “knowledge,” a good friend and I–seekers of Beauty in the joys of this life–went to the downtown store of Green Beanery. We picked up:

(a) a coffee grinder (we settled on a Bodum Antigua Electric Burr Grinder); and
(b) a really wonderful, cool, simple, an reasonably-priced coffee press: the Aerobie AeroPress Coffee and Espresso Maker.

This Aeropress really does make, “… a remarkably good straight espresso and an excellent Americano-style taller cup. In fact, it produces a better espresso shot than many home machines that cost twenty or thirty times as much.” Kenneth Davids – Author of: Coffee: A Guide to Buying Brewing and Enjoying Espresso.

A video on how the Aeropress works. And another.

Some history of coffee - Wikipedia: The History of Coffee.

Sufism and Coffee: Coffee - The Wine of Islam.

Aramco World: Yemen’s Well-Traveled Bean.