The cooler the water gets, the more you can taste the flavor of the bean. That's why some coffees are best hot n sometimes it's best not to be able to taste them.

We're into the quality of beans. Farmers that are being paid a set price for their coffee aren't going to try any harder to grow excellent coffee. We still trade fairly n we're paying more than the fair trade regulations.

We don't serve blends. What you drink here will come from the best beans.

It wasn't often that I had difficulty tasting something. Flavor was the way people like me made sense of the world.
We knew that there was a flavor that explained you-even to yourself. A flavor whose truth you recognized when you tasted it. A flavor that answered the question you didn't know you had.
Perhaps it was a voluptuous vanilla that your sharp-edged self could sink into like a pillow. Or a homesick pomegranate, each seed like a ruby slipper that would take you back to the place where you were loved and where people had missed you.

I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...

It was as though he had secrets, and he wanted you to know he would keep them for the pleasure of depriving you of their taste.