Good suggestion. I received 15 samples fresh roast today. No coffee aromas escaping those heat-sealed bags

yakster wrote:Mylar bags work really well to mask the smell of the contents, especially if you heat seal them.

How's this for crazy:

A couple days ago I was driving back to CO from a race in NV, and we stopped for breakfast at a small town just inside the Wyo border along I80.
I picked the spot, a diner with high reviews on Google Maps.

We get there and the sign on the building advertises "Fine Coffee"... hell yeah, I think to myself. I brought an old superauto on the trip just to have something while we were there but couldn't really run it easily on the road.

We walk in and put our name on the list, and there's a girl steaming milk at an Astra 1300 Pro... awesome, though her technique is nonexistent.

The girl next to her asks if I need anything and I ask for a coffee while we wait the projected 15 min to be seated. She says yes and I clarify "Maybe a latte or something"

She says "Oh we can't do that here we only have normal coffee"

At this point I've been up for about 2 days straight including around 15hrs of racing through the desert, and don't have the brain power to be tactful. So I point to the girl at the Astra and say "Yes you can, you have that steamer right there"

She tells me "It doesn't steam milk it just heats it up, we just use it for hot chocolate"

I straight up tell her "Okay well you're doing it wrong, but the machine can definitely do it"

Girl just gives me a blank stare for a second and I tell her to forget it and go back outside to wait our turn. I certainly could've been more polite, and normally would have been under more normal circumstances, but man it blew my mind that they advertise "fine coffee" prominently on their storefront and have a $2000 milk steamer but are convinced they can't make a damn latte.

I forgot to make coffee yesterday morning. I was busy with something but still that was a weird thing to suddenly realize several hours later. Anyway, feeling like I could use a little pickup I stopped at local shop, a Philz. I wasn't expecting much. I just wanted a small cup of coffee so that's what I asked for. And the woman taking my order said, "Is it okay if it's hot?"

Capuchin Monk wrote:At the opposite end of coffee spectrum, I've seen a news coverage years ago when a reporter went to Seattle, the coffee mecca of US, and ordered a black coffee. The server asked what part of the country the reporter is from because they haven't served black coffee in years. Then went on to explain what latte and bunch of other drinks are plus what kind of cups they are served in. Yes, coffees are different depending on where you go.

Oh I'm not objecting to the idea that most people consider plain drip coffee to be the norm. Moreso that their business spent $2k on a dedicated milk steamer and put "fine coffee" on their sign and then don't make milk drinks (or espresso)