Strong Cup of Joe

Read this from Square One Coffee's post:

We recommend using 2 tablespoons of freshly ground coffee (by weight: 10 grams) for each 6 fluid ounces of clean water.

If you don’t like the taste of perfection (AKA: If you trust us, brew it, taste it brewed to that strength and you feel it’s a bit too strong for you) try adding a little hot water directly to your cup of coffee instead of skimping on the beans. Trust us; using less coffee will over-extract the coffee, resulting in a bitter taste. We’ll talk more about why that is in the upcoming blog about coffee to water proportions.

Almost nothing frustrates me more in the general "Really not that important but still important category" than a weak cup of coffee...unless if it is bad-tasting, then the weaker the better. I pass on bad coffee. I would rather not drink any if it is going to be poor-tasting. Spew it out of my mouth type-of-thing. I like my coffee straight, black, and strong.

I am also quite concerned, and this is in the "Really Important" category of life, that New Evangelicals--the Neo-Calvinists, Post-Mods, Emergent-types--even though they generally like strong good coffee, seem to have a penchant for using less beans of hard truths like Hell, Salvation, and Judgment, in order to make the Gospel supposedly more palatable and pleasing.

All it will lead to is bitterness, and eternal at that. While the world yawns.

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