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    The best coffee may have been coffee that I never tasted, but it was delicious in my imagination. When I was a kid and my parents entertained at home, my mother always made a pot of coffee in the old electric percolator. As it gurgled and sighed, it emitted the most intoxicating aroma which wafted up the stairs along with the murmurs and laughter of the guests. I sat quietly in my pajamas at the top step, drinking it all in.

    No coffee since has ever smelled as good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rex_Tremende View Post
    The best coffee may have been coffee that I never tasted, but it was delicious in my imagination. When I was a kid and my parents entertained at home, my mother always made a pot of coffee in the old electric percolator. As it gurgled and sighed, it emitted the most intoxicating aroma which wafted up the stairs along with the murmurs and laughter of the guests. I sat quietly in my pajamas at the top step, drinking it all in.

    No coffee since has ever smelled as good.

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    I had a friend some years back who didn't drink coffee, she said it just didn't taste as good as it smells.

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    Rex!

    I know exactly what you are talking about. Mine was my grandmother making coffee at the Jersey shore. My grandfather always snuck us a bit! To wake up to that and the smell of pork roll...omg

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    Grind your own?

    Okay, not to hijack this thread *but* with all this talk about coffee: when brewing your own at home do you all buy pre-ground or whole bean?

    For more than 20 years now I buy whole bean (usually French roast) & grind my own. Sometimes I break out the ol' hand grinder I used when reenacting the American Civil War /War Between the States & grind up a batch

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    Quote Originally Posted by BoldHighlander View Post
    Okay, not to hijack this thread *but* with all this talk about coffee: when brewing your own at home do you all buy pre-ground or whole bean?
    Whole bean! Been grinding my own for at least 30 years.

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    Been grinding mine for as long as I can remember. Only buy what I use in a week.

    Been using a French Press for four or five years now, totally hooked. Even thought about getting one of those vaccum extractors, and one of those little pots to make Greek/Turkish coffee.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smayniac View Post
    I had a friend some years back who didn't drink coffee, she said it just didn't taste as good as it smells.

    Bob
    My wife is exactly that way! We can be out for breakfast, or I'll be brewing some up at home, and she'll say "oh that smells so good" , "lemme smell your coffee" etc.. But she won't taste it! "No, that's OK, it tastes bitter!" In 20 years of trying, I've never been able to get her to try a taste of coffee.
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    Used to brew my own at home, now I just go on a Timmies run. Never ground my own but then I used to drink so much it's like cigarettes in it's just another routine. Where I to drink an occasional cup of coffee then I might be persuaded to go through the connoisseur rigmarole.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rex_Tremende View Post
    The best coffee may have been coffee that I never tasted, but it was delicious in my imagination. When I was a kid and my parents entertained at home, my mother always made a pot of coffee in the old electric percolator. As it gurgled and sighed, it emitted the most intoxicating aroma which wafted up the stairs along with the murmurs and laughter of the guests. I sat quietly in my pajamas at the top step, drinking it all in.

    No coffee since has ever smelled as good.

    Regards,
    Rex.
    Unfortunately, that is widespread. No coffee EVER tastes as good as some of it smells. (Some of it doesn't smell good, either, but that is best left alone.)

    And I also have memories of how good it 'used' to smell. Hope that doesn't fall under the category of, "It doesn't smell as good as it used to, and it never did"

    Slainte, anyway,
    Dan

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