Hello world!

New blog has appeared in the blogosphere. This might be one blog that is not realized by many, but I intended this to be a rant about my coffee culture in Thailand.

Thailand’s coffee culture started with “Boran Coffee” meaning “antique coffee”. We accustomed to cheap robusta roasted with grains, added sugar and butter at the end of the roast. The brew is in a filter cloth and the grounds is kept on brewing for many times. The cup is both bitter and sour, so we have to cover it with lots of sweeten condense milk.

Then Nestlé’s Red Cup is famous, along with other “high quality” instant coffee. Coffee drinking ritual at home is degraded down to a boring cup of aromaless brown drink. Thai people used to quick and easy cup of coffee just to satiate daily caffeine need.

Then came the Starbucks and espresso machines. Everybody wants to own one. Even the entrepreneurs who want to open a coffee kiosk would buy a cheap “15bar vibe pump” plastic home machine and wish for the best that it will make proper coffee. I am no doubt some of those kiosks make the owners good profit. Starbucks’s propaganda spreads even further. Coffee connoiseurs crave for dark roast, all arabica coffee.

I have nothing against all these happenings. I love it because it makes people aware of another beverage called coffee. I am here for the alternative caffeine intake methods. Drinking coffee is a culture. I will focus on three methods for the beginning: Cafetiere, Chemex, and Syphon coffee.