A Nice Cup of Gatomboya Wet Mill

[steepholm]

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?

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[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Single-origin chocolate, eh? That has yet to arrive here, I think.

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)?

[vschanoes.livejournal.com]

Wow. I meant the things you hold in your hand. I had no idea that the other kind of chocolate bar existed!

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I was taken to the Burdick's in Harvard by my friends jadelennox and diceytillerman shortly after Readercon, and we just happened to bump into nineweaving while we were there - from which I naturally inferred that regular attendance was obligatory on all US citizens with a Livejournal!

[diceytillerman.livejournal.com]

There's a tickle in my mind that Burdick's may in fact carry single origin chocolate! But I am not sure.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Burdick's will cheerfully serve you either bars or cups of single-origin chocolate: Grenadian, Venezuelan, Dominican, Bolivian, Madagascan, or Ecuadorian. We are precious here in the People's Republic of Cambridge.

Nine

[shark-hat.livejournal.com]

Hotel Chocolat do single-origin choc bars, we bought several and did a tasting a couple of Christmases ago and there are startling differences. (And indeed their spin-off bar/restaurant/[coffeehouse, only it's a hot-chocolate-house] Conch do single-origin hot chocolates!)

I've seen single country coffee in coffee shops, but not single estate, I think.