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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[lilliburlero.livejournal.com]

It's been sighted in Dublin in the last few years, in a few hipster places, young men with short back and sideses and bushy beards and Breton sailor jumpers asking you if you'd like to try the new Ethopian. I think my favourite coffee shop, the Bald Barista on Aungier St;, doesn't hold with it. I tend to think of coffee as either a comforting morning beverage containing lots of milk or a sort of galvanising mid-afternoon creosote, though.