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Embrace Ephemera
I think a lot about coffee. Maybe too much. But after years in the coffee industry, and more years afterward having coffee as a hobby and source of personal pleasure, it's hard not to. Anyone who's been lured into this magical brown bean juice knows that it's hard to wax too poetic about the delights that it offers. You may say I'm just being pretentious. And you're probably right.
The Mathematical Magic of Morning Coffee
There's something magical in the morning's first sip of coffee. You can taste the variables: blueberry from the volatile aromatics of a natural process Ethiopia, the rich chocolate of a washed Nicaragua, the sweet fullness of an even extraction clearing 20% TDS. I often wonder how I would express this mathematically. Is my cup of Joe a simple function of brew method and the bean used?