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Love this Virginia!

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I love coffee and went deep nerd on it a while ago. I've been lucky to attend some of the 'labs' at the London Coffee Festival so learned how to weigh out my coffee (in grams over here of course) and check temperature, etc. There's so many factors that impact on the beans. Did your Counter Culture dude talk about the specifics of the beans they use? You can also treat coffee plants within the same farm differently, with a definite impact on the flavor (foliar spraying, molybdenum). I have a burr grinder for my pour over (Hario v60) but cheat a bit for my espresso using a bean-to-cup machine. Most of the people I work with use the instant stuff like your friend. It is not for me! My parents were a Mr Coffee with Maxwell House kind of household. I didn't really start drinking it until college. As usual I've enjoyed reading your words!

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