Desert Island Coffees
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:03 pmBlueValentine mentioned 'Desert Island Coffees' in the 'How often do you get coffees you don't like?' thread and it seemed a great idea for a thread of its own.
Actually, choosing favourites could be touger than it sounds, but a lot of fun too.
So, the criteria. You are to be dropped on a deserted island and will stay alone for one year in the small guest/garden house of an absentee multi-millionaire. You are not in danger and have plenty of food supplies. However, you can take only ten green coffees (3kg of each, yielding just under half a kilo of roasted a week in the worst roasting moisture loss case scenario). This means that every coffee will need to be put to full use over the year, you will not be expecting any great quantity left over at the end. Because your host shares a love of coffee, the accommodation boasts a digital Hottop roaster, commercial espresso machine and grinder.
You may also take one other coffee production item from the following: high end drip filter, French press, vac-pot, some form of pour over gold filter system, Aerobie Aeropress, percolator, moka pot, briki or a 2kg jar/tub of instant
. You will be given a second, smaller, grinder to match the item you choose, thus avoiding big adjustments on the espresso grinder. There is no clover and you can't take one! 
You have a cow and an instruction manual, so fresh milk is not an issue 
The ten coffees do not have to be those available to you this year. They may be any that you have tried in the past or have just heard about. The only proviso is that they must still be in existence, but remember, although you can take anything, the quantity is not endless and if you chance that coffee you always wanted to try but could never afford, you risk being left short of beans at the end of the year if you end up not liking it.
So there it is ladies and gents. Ten coffees and a non-espresso prodiction method of your choosing
Actually, choosing favourites could be touger than it sounds, but a lot of fun too.
So, the criteria. You are to be dropped on a deserted island and will stay alone for one year in the small guest/garden house of an absentee multi-millionaire. You are not in danger and have plenty of food supplies. However, you can take only ten green coffees (3kg of each, yielding just under half a kilo of roasted a week in the worst roasting moisture loss case scenario). This means that every coffee will need to be put to full use over the year, you will not be expecting any great quantity left over at the end. Because your host shares a love of coffee, the accommodation boasts a digital Hottop roaster, commercial espresso machine and grinder.
You may also take one other coffee production item from the following: high end drip filter, French press, vac-pot, some form of pour over gold filter system, Aerobie Aeropress, percolator, moka pot, briki or a 2kg jar/tub of instant
. You will be given a second, smaller, grinder to match the item you choose, thus avoiding big adjustments on the espresso grinder. There is no clover and you can't take one!
You have a cow and an instruction manual
, so fresh milk is not an issue
The ten coffees do not have to be those available to you this year. They may be any that you have tried in the past or have just heard about. The only proviso is that they must still be in existence, but remember, although you can take anything, the quantity is not endless and if you chance that coffee you always wanted to try but could never afford, you risk being left short of beans at the end of the year if you end up not liking it.
So there it is ladies and gents. Ten coffees and a non-espresso prodiction method of your choosing
BTW, where's YOUR listing? 
), Sulawesi Sulotco Bolokan Estate, S/D Cachoeira. Erhmm am I allowed to double up on any of the SO's if I don't pick 10 different ones?
But will end up all looking commercial.