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Upton Tea is a very good online retailer with a nice selection of Assam. They also offer a nice infuser basket that works infinitely better than those ball and chain things. Agreed, I have two of those at home and one at work. They are the absolute best for loose (real) tea. I'll never use a tea ba...

Craig is right on target. i had noticed this as well when you first posted, but wasn't sure how to express it; he has masterfully written out what I had been thinking as well.

... Gary , no I haven't seen a doctor about it. I could do that, but how sympathetic will a doctor be to this particular situation? ... Mike , it could very well be something I eat combined with alcohol results in a headache. If that's the case, I hope to find out what it is. Off the top of my head...

Love my Morse and Lewis, and Dr Who. Keeping Up Appearances has kept me in stitches. Foyle's War and Abbey are in the Q. Watch much old Marple and Poirot. Campion's ok. Really, I just like BBC tv in general. Spooks in the queue after a recommend as well (MI-5 in US). Really I just had to comment as ...

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GA Russell wrote:What the hell are you people talking about?

Does it go on grits?

I'm not sure anything goes well on grits. ...

In New Mexico when I was growing up, we'd sometimes have grits with roasted green chiles mixed in and melted cheddar cheese on top. Darn good.

Currently reading: "Voltaire's Calligrapher" by Pablo de Santis. Pretty cool little story, eloquent language. "Extreme Tech Weather Toys: Building and Hacking your own 1-Wire weather station" by Tim Bitson. "The Black Dudley Murder" by Margery Allingham -- a Albert Camp...

It was definitely the best adaptation yet. Suchet does a much better job of giving Poirot humanity.

It would be wonderful to travel on the Express.

nolawis wrote:Did any of us even have one correct final four pick? Gents, our basketball handicapping sucks.


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I'm still in with West Va. If they beat Duke, I'll win my office bracket pool. Go West Va!

..... I was growing my own hops a couple of years back and talking to a homebrewing friend about the prospect of malting my own barley, and he reminded me of something Carl Sagan once said: "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." ... Have you s...

DavidB wrote:Today's martini: Junipero gin, a tiny bit of Noilly Prat vermouth. Junipero is absolutely fantastic!

Pricey, though. For an affordable martini, it's hard to beat Gordon's.

Dave

I agree wholeheartedly with both sentiments. It's about time I splurged on Junipero again.

DavidB wrote:Today's martini: Junipero gin, a tiny bit of Noilly Prat vermouth. Junipero is absolutely fantastic!

Pricey, though. For an affordable martini, it's hard to beat Gordon's.

Dave

I agree wholeheartedly with both sentiments. It's about time I splurged on Junipero again.

DavidB wrote:Today's martini: Junipero gin, a tiny bit of Noilly Prat vermouth. Junipero is absolutely fantastic!

Pricey, though. For an affordable martini, it's hard to beat Gordon's.

Dave

I agree wholeheartedly with both sentiments. It's about time I splurged on Junipero again.

. . . BTW - on the road with that great injector again this week. I had a plastic razor travel holder that is a PERFECT fit for it. Gene, I'm not a pro by any means, but much prefer Maker's Mark to JD. As for coffee, any bean in a storm for me. And I never even thought about getting a case for the ...

OK Ron, I'll give it a try soon. Let's see...wasn't there a thread about booze last week? Some folks really liked some Bourbon even better than Jack? . To be fair, Jack is really really close to a bourbon. For a whiskey to qualify as bourbon, the law--by international agreement--stipulates that it ...

Please gents, begging on my hands and knees with cherries.....a name of a half decent grinder. I use a drip machine (a bunn to be exact) thanks so much clive I like my Nuova Simonelli MCF, but you'd have to want to plunk down over $330-$400 US depending on source for one of those. The cheapest one ...

Back to maskaggs query... There are a bunch of roasters in Louisville (don't know how convenient it is - some do mail order) -- there is a thread on coffeegeek.com about them here: http://coffeegeek.com/forums/worldregional/useast/258970 I don't know if they are any good, but in southern IN there is...

... They are seldom more than three days off the roast. You can tell freshly-roasted coffee from the amount of foam that wells up as soon as the hot water mixes with it.... I love that my fresh espressos come out around half crema - sometimes more. And the beautiful bloom as hot water meets the gro...

Great cartoon, John. The characters are appropriately bug-eyed from all that caffeine. Who is your roaster? I remember Peaberry Coffee in Denver, but it's a chain of coffee shops, I think. I think Peaberry is out of business now, but I never went there anyway. Another local chain that surpassed Pea...

Fresh and local are everything, as 95% said. I buy bean from an awesome local roaster, 2-3 days after roasting. I've plunked too much money into my setup ( a Nuova Simonelli MCF grinder and a Rancilio Silvia -- and french press and such ). But I drink really _good_ coffee. So good, that the free cof...

I for one am just happy more have discovered the great value of Gordons. Which reminds me, I'm out! I'll have to pick up some more. Been drinking Evan Williams Black Label bourbon with soda water the last couple weeks. In my opinion, it is another awesome value for the quality of the bourbon. I rece...