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(Shock! Horror! You don't say!? Why
doesn't anyone tell you this!)
However, there are also a lot of entertaining things to do for pretty cheap. I've given myself about 5 pounds a
week to do something entertaining/cultural.
This week's activity was a coffee
tasting at Milk in Balham.
Despite coming late to the coffee
drinking game (I managed university without it, but regular work was
my downfall), I actually know a bit about coffee due to my father's
coffee obsession. A few years ago my father decided that grinding his
own coffee wasn't enough and moved to roasting his own coffee so I've
witnessed a fair bit of the process. So when I was a brunch last
weekend and saw a coffee tasting organized I figured hey why not.
How a Coffee Tasting Works (based on my
limited experience)
- Coffee grounds are put in glass cups for you to smell
- Hot water is poured over the grounds and you smell it again
- At a very precisely timed moment the staff skim off the coffee
- You slurp a spoonful of coffee, swish it around in you mouth and (no joke) spit it out into a paper cup
- Repeat slurping at various intervals as the coffee cools
In conclusion, coffee tasting,
interesting thing but perhaps requires an interpreter for the less
coffee knowledge. What I have taken away from this experience is:
- I know very very very little about coffee growing, processing and buying
- Coffee for tasting is not remotely brewed like you would for drinking which I find confusing
- Picked the 'most unusual' coffee as my favourite, but not the 'best one'... meaning I better at finding unique than quality? (a bit hipster of me?)
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