{"id":1730,"date":"2014-12-29T11:21:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T17:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2016-09-07T17:52:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T14:52:28","slug":"mexican-coffee-strike-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/mexican-coffee-strike-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Coffee, Strike One"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not a real coffee snob in that if I find a supermarket brand that is acceptable, that’s fine by me. I do prefer to get fresh grounds and grind them myself, but with my mix of itinerant and deep rural lifestyle, that’s just not realistic anymore. It’s not a problem in Canada where Nabob Full City Metropolis or Co-Op dark roast coffee never fail to brew up a satisfying cup.<\/p>\n

I haven’t had as much luck in the US finding a good and ubiquitous grocery store brand. I usually get Starbucks, which, frankly, isn’t that great, but at least is reliable. I am now on the dregs of the back of Starbucks coffee I brought from the States.<\/p>\n

Before going to a coffee house here to get pricey whole beans, I decided to try out supermarket coffee offerings. Ley pretty much only had instant coffee. The only ground coffee was mixed with sugar. Dale says it’s great and has been chugging it down, but I don’t like sugar in my coffee.<\/p>\n

So at Soriana yesterday, I checked out what they had for ground coffee. It was all pretty much the same, Mexican Arabica beans in a medium roast, no dark roast or even espresso available. A 250g bag of \u00a1Vive caf\u00e9! Santa Fe<\/a> coffee was the cheapest option at 45 pesos. I don’t buy into the myth that the cheapest coffee is the worst or the most expensive is the best, so I decided to try that.<\/p>\n

I opened it up this morning to check it out even though I had some Starbucks left. I figured that if the Santa Fe wasn’t good, I could at least mix it with the Starbucks to get something relatively palatable until I get something else.<\/p>\n

Even though the bag said the coffee is good till January of 2016 (a full year from now), it smelled stale at opening, very woody. It turned the water brown and that’s it. It already had the strike of being a medium roast against it, but I’ve had drinkable medium roasts before and this sure wasn’t one! I’ll have Dale try it and see if it passes her test. She puts so much cream and sugar in hers that she herself admits that she doesn’t taste much coffee anyway.<\/p>\n

I’m going to give one more grocery store brand a try only if I find a dark roast. Otherwise, off to the roasting house I go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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