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Hello Reader - After ten+ years the Coffee Curmudgeon is going live and will try not to hide in as much obscurity. From now on I plan to mention the Coffee Curmudgeon at least once a month (if only to…

During a recent visit to Portland (20-23 April’23) for the 2023 SCA Expo, a barista, fifty or so years younger than me, asked what was the last thing that surprised me in the world of Specialty Coffee — that’s how…

“Coffee drinkers in the U.S. don’t know how much work it is to produce our coffee — how much more work it takes to grow a great coffee, if they did they’d want to pay more for our coffee, they’d…

Blockchain is a technology in search of work, or more work, and it will get it because it aids people in archiving and managing data. It does so while protecting that data and people seem to especially like that part.…

There has been an ongoing conversation regarding the U.S.A.’s pending candidacy for Failed State Status. I am sure that this goes back further than 2006, when Noam Chomsky wrote a 240 page indictment in the shape of a book, nominating…

After my last post the world seems to have reversed in its orbit.  This is what it’s like to live in a time when no one is in charge and everyone else is to blame (except the ones that are supposed…

It has been some time since I have posted anything here. I have "thought I should" many, many times. I am now moved to say something when, ironically, I feel my voice, un-voiced for so long, was being misappropriated. Some…

Has Coffee Ever Lived up to it's Promise? Has the taste of coffee ever lived up to the seducing aroma of its first whiff? For me it has not. From the time I was allowed coffee as a child, I…