Strong coffee

19 Jul 2007

I like strong coffee. While I will occasionally succumb to the allure of a layer of froth, I mostly take coffee black, without sugar, and most certainly not instant.

I've drunk ristretto overlooking the Jet d'Eau in Geneva. I've drunk kopi luwak, the coffee made with the... er... 'assistance' of civets. But the coffee I've made just now is different. It's not merely strong, it's exerting a discernible gravitational pull. The mug containing it looks slightly odd, almost as if it had...

This isn't just coffee. It's Event Horizon coffee.

Posted by Jonathan on Thursday, July 19, 2007 at 4:37 PM | 0 TrackBacks

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Lapsed: physicist and television producer. Now: media consultant/freelance film-maker, trying to reignite public-service children's media, particularly around science and engineering.

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