Comments on: Care For A Cup Of Coffee?

By: SD Transplant

SD Transplant — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 03:08:28 +0000

There’s a lot of things that my wife and I will go without during these tough times, but GOOD coffee is not one of them! Sad to say that we have become quite the snobs as well. We use good quality whole bean locally roasted coffee with a burr grinder (for an even grind) and use a French Press at home. Takes a little extra time but it has become so routine that I don’t even notice how long it takes. Worth every last drop!!

By: Stan

Stan — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 04:42:00 +0000

I remember the stuff we used to brew back in college during finals week. The infamous “Bunker Brew”. It consisted of an equal parts mixture of the three darkest beans that Rainbow Foods had (dark, black, and “it’s sucking the light out of the room”). Grind to the consistency of talk. Five heaped table spoons and brew as normal. That’s step one! Now replace the grounds with fresh, pour the just brewed brew back into the coffee maker and cycle. Repeat once again. You ended up with only about a ¾ pot (we always suspected more from ablation than evaporation) and the last round of grounds would completely dissolve into the 600 octane solution in the pot. A teaspoon of sugar to help the medicine go down (cream is for pansies) and away you go. Just be forewarned any who might try it. Drink a cup and you’re up all night. Finish a pot by yourself; you won’t blink again for a week! To this day can’t help but laugh at people who get jittery after one store bought espresso!

By: Larry Elverud

Larry Elverud — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:22:01 +0000

All you coffee lovers check out yahoo.com. I just read 5 good reasons not to give up coffee! This is from a dietition so it must be true.

By: Erin J.

Erin J. — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:38:17 +0000

Doug, I distinctly remember you standing by the coffeemaker in the KELO breakroom. (I think there were a few choice words at times.) I quickly learned not to get hot water for my tea while you were brewing coffee. I now drink both coffee and tea at while at work, but the brew is better than KELO’s was. Everytime I get hot water from the spigot, I think of that pesky KELO coffeemaker and how you needed your morning joe.

By: Sweeps

Sweeps — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:24:50 +0000

Oh phooey! I just switched brands myself to the whole beans next to a grinder in Walmart, Columbian Decaf (sorry–plays heck with the heartburn if I don’t), and now I can’t remember the brand. I’m much happier with it than with my ol’ faithful Folgers. I just buy a pound at a time and freeze most of it. I’m also toying with the idea of grinding it to the Espresso setting. I think you’re right, Doug, about the Columbian blend.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:47:08 +0000

During the week I’m ‘forced’ to drink the office sludge, but on weekends treat myself to the good stuff. My current favorite is Highlander Grogg, and it’s from a South Dakota company called Dark Canyon Coffee Company (they’re out in Rapid City but lucky for me some coffee shops on the east side of the state sell it . Their website says it includes Butterscotch, French Vanilla and Irish Creme flavors so not only is it delicious, but coming home hours later after having brewed a pot the house still smells wonderful!!!

By: LeAnn

LeAnn — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:27:28 +0000

My Spousal Equevelant goes to a coffee shop everyday, I went with him a few times but I shook so bad afterwards that it wasn’t worth it, plus it’s expensive too. I figured out once what it cost him per year, I can’t remember how much it was and just as well if I don’t refigure.
I have to agree with the egg coffee, I can still smell the aroma of that in the church basements and the Masonic Temple when I was a kid. I’ve tried to make it but I didn’t know you had to put the egg mixture in when it starts to boil. Thankls for that tip

By: Stuart Surma

Stuart Surma — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:18:14 +0000

Doug, I too like John Mogen got my first real cup of coffee at Blue Dog Lake by Waubay. As kids we didn’t get to drink coffee with the adults, but shore fishing for Walleyes on the shores of Blue Dog Lake with my dad- Stan Surma , and Earl Thiel we would eat lunchmeat sandwiches and have a cup of steaming coffee placed on the dash steaming up the windshield- waiting for a bite! Coffee never tasted so good to me! John Mogen mentioned Jimmy Peterson from Waubay- the two of us rode back from Viet Nam on the same plane load of 120 soldiers- 1968. Two young men from the same small town of 880- What were the odds! Stu Surma

By: LANA

LANA — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:44:54 +0000

Our daughter surprised us at Christmas with Egg Coffee. She had fun making it ! She said when she was mixing it up it reminded her of potting soil. Boy, did that bring back memories of all the Gorder”s Christmas in Tornoto SD Hall. That Smell (good smell) will live on for ever…….Thanks for all the stories”Doug”

By: John Bjerke

John Bjerke — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 03:15:46 +0000

I am certainly no expert on coffee but I know what I like. The best cup of coffee I have ever had was at Town and Country in Sioux Falls. My wife and I would go there on Sundays after church. I would always give George Kirk a bad time wondering why his place could not brew a good cup of coffee.(George and I sang together in the Elk’ chorus, so it was always in jest.) When I left Sioux Falls in 1978 I asked the folks at Town and Country what the secret to their coffee was and they told me it was the temperature at which it was brewed.