top of page

The Rare Gesha Coffee bean

I was talking to Daniel Brown, who runs Gilly Brewing Company in Stone Mountain Village (Georgia). He was lamenting that so many people see coffee as a commodity. Today he served me a simple pour over but here are all the areas of excellence he puts into it, that people with a commodity mindset for coffee would not appreciate.


He told me about how the farmers of this specific blend from the Gesha part of Ethiopia pick only the ripest cherries on the coffee tree, even though they have to pick around the unripe cherries on the same limb. And to think that something like 300 cherries were specifically picked for this little cup of coffee I'm gulping down. Then he goes through the careful, measured, calculated weighing out of beans, wetting the filter, shaking the coffee grounds and slowly pouring the certain temperature water over the grounds. Then he lets it slowly dissolve the flavor as it fills the flask. Then he serves it with simple syrup that is not so simple. He decanted some sort of special mixture syrup down and then put something like maple-vanilla extract he made into it. And he has consciously sourced oat milk. And he serves it all on a wooden tray: the flask of poured-over coffee, the small ramekin of not-so-simple syrup, another ramekin of oat milk, and a cup which has an individually-tied a bandana around it. Oh and the decanter also has a bandana individually tied around it as well.


This man has a passion to pour excellence into his craft. And people like me see it as a "commodity."


And I look outside at the cars rushing by the big eucalyptus tree standing by this second-floor window. I see the layers of cloud and the painted sunrise. And I think about all the excellence placed ALL AROUND us and we, well at least I, tend to see most of it as a commodity. A common backdrop (like a painted wall in a play) or functional objects to help me accomplish my goals or appease my impulses.


Raw Spoon

1-27-2020



 
 
 

Recent Posts

See All
POEM: These Tombstones Cry Out

Hobbling toward your cross, among shouts, You said 'If they do not praise me, these stones will cry out." I question, "But honestly,...

 
 
 
STORY: The Better Bodies

Steven Sommers, was called "Thirty" endearingly by his few friends. That's because, without his electric wheel chair, he was only about...

 
 
 

Comments


These BLOGS are usually inspired by messages I (or friends) feel we have heard from God. This is the nature of our God. Listen for how he may be speaking to you.

corners-01_edited_edited_edited.png
corners-01.png
IMG_3337.jpg

Check out the Creature Habits App for blogs and art accompanying daily Bible readings.

corners-01_edited.png
corners-01_edited_edited.png
Raw Spoon divider

Ross.Boone@RawSpoon.com 
(303) 359-4232

Instagram Ross Boone Raw Spoon
YouTube Raw Spoon
facebook icon

"I can't tell you how moved I was with what you did. Your demeanor, skill, the videos, everything from the slight movements, and the cadence. It was so amazing."

         -Jeff Vanderlaan, board of the Association of College Ministries

---

"Ross's work helped resolve some of my biggest questions of faith."
-Paul W., Wichita, Kansas

bottom of page