A Nice Cup of Gatomboya Wet Mill
In the last year or so, both my favourite Gloucester Rd coffee shops have started serving "single origin" coffee - but it was only a few weeks ago that I first bought a cup. It came complete with an alchemical apparatus that would have made Friar Bacon blush, and I felt a little pretentious for drinking it, but since then I've become something of an addict. Besides, drinking coffee has always had an element of theatre, has it not? (No? Oh well, just checking.)

I'm curious - how widespread is this single origin malarkey? Sightings, anyone?

I'm curious - how widespread is this single origin malarkey? Sightings, anyone?
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I do get teased for not drinking it entirely black, but I'm beyond being shamed into drinking coffee other than how I like it.
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At the coffee shop closest to my office, I've sometimes heard the barista use "terroir," which makes me roll my eyes. I still go there because I otherwise like the vibe (equal parts aging hipsters and neighborhood families) and it's fun to try the different brews they have on tap.
---L.
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Oh, wait -- the oriental teahouse down near campus serves your pot with a timer. But that's a different level of toshery anyway.
---L.
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Do you mean bars as in the things you hold in your hand, or as in places you go to consume chocolate, such as Burdick's (which I was introduced to last July)?
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I've seen single country coffee in coffee shops, but not single estate, I think.
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Does that make you a coffee snob snob? :)
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