Eternal Hygge
As I type out this blog, the 1990's version of a podcast (everyone had one, or almost everyone) I am finishing up on this coffee from La Cabra from Copenhagen. I asked a Copenhagen/Danish guy who was staying at my buddy's AirBnB last night around a fire-we were practicing Hygge-why Denmark has 3/5 of the best coffee companies in the world. His answer? Danes love great coffee. There you go. I was just wondering how and why Denmark, a small country, had that 3/5 going. If you love something, you will value it. And if you don't value it, you don't love it. It has a very unusual taste profile that is both sweet and sour. Not just bitter but sour. There are processing related reasons for this that I won't delve into but trust me, this is sour like a lime. It has taken me almost the whole bag for my palate to acclimate to it and now it is no more as I sip my porcelain mug to empty. Yet, it is sweet. I miss the taste. Sourness feels like sorrow to me. A lingeri...