I've been drinking coffee for 15+ years and spent endless hours in diners as a teen drinking pot after pot. It was always with cream and sugar though.
Not until a few months ago did I realize that the sugar was needed to compensate for the stale coffee.
While driving through Kutztown, PA a few months back (about 20 miles from me) I saw a coffee shop that had a sign in the window, Roasting Daily. Interested, I stopped in and talked for a minute with the owner, Jeff. The shop is Global Libations (no website, although I bug him about it often). He had several old school candy jars filled with different coffees and after he told me a bit about each other, and slightly influenced by a friends recent trip to Costa Rica and him ranting about how good the coffee was there, I bought a pound of La Amistad that he told me was roasted about 3 days earlier.
Eager to try it out, I set off to go home and put it through my french press. WOW. seriously WOW. It has a very subtle berry start then very sweet and chocolaty. I tried it black as well - this is the first dang coffee I can drink black!
This was one of the turning points in when I realized that coffee has so many different flavors to it and how rad it is.
I've since found it from a roaster in Cali as well - tried it, but I like how Jeff from K-town roasts it a bit more.
Just wanted to share one of my more favorite drinking coffees, makes a really good single origin espresso too.
