There is a debate going on at the moment on a couple of other coffee forums as to which makes the better espresso, SO or Blends.
Ive often wondered about the average espresso consumers attitude to the subject, in my experience once the pleasantries have been disposed of I.e. nice cuppa, great coffee as usual etc, try to introduce bean types or extraction methods into the conversation and watch the eyes rapidly glaze, the statement that the beans being used are Monsooned Malabar or a blend of A, B, and C will be met with about the same amount of interest as if you had announced that Borat has a pretty good chance of taking out the Kazakhstan farnarkling title.
So, what Im saying is, that we snobs get that caught up in our own little micro world of Cafes and Websites that we tend to lose track of the fact that its only a very small minority of the coffee drinking public whos reaction is any more than (nice cup of coffee) and thats about as far as the interest level goes.
Now Im sure that there are those (espresso evangelists) among us who can claim multiple conversions but the overall strike rate is pretty low.
For most coffee is an almost unnoticed habit, regardless of whether its Nescafe or an exotic SO or Blend, it kinda just blends with the rest of life.
I suspect its we Snobs who are out of step with the coffee drinking world at large, we tend to see things as we would like them to be, not as they really are. :-/
Ive often wondered about the average espresso consumers attitude to the subject, in my experience once the pleasantries have been disposed of I.e. nice cuppa, great coffee as usual etc, try to introduce bean types or extraction methods into the conversation and watch the eyes rapidly glaze, the statement that the beans being used are Monsooned Malabar or a blend of A, B, and C will be met with about the same amount of interest as if you had announced that Borat has a pretty good chance of taking out the Kazakhstan farnarkling title.
So, what Im saying is, that we snobs get that caught up in our own little micro world of Cafes and Websites that we tend to lose track of the fact that its only a very small minority of the coffee drinking public whos reaction is any more than (nice cup of coffee) and thats about as far as the interest level goes.
Now Im sure that there are those (espresso evangelists) among us who can claim multiple conversions but the overall strike rate is pretty low.
For most coffee is an almost unnoticed habit, regardless of whether its Nescafe or an exotic SO or Blend, it kinda just blends with the rest of life.
I suspect its we Snobs who are out of step with the coffee drinking world at large, we tend to see things as we would like them to be, not as they really are. :-/
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