I know what are you thinking. I know what would your reaction be after reading this paragraph. I know you must be thinking where has she learnt about brewing. I’m going to talk about a fairly simple kind of brewing in this post – the coffee brewing. Not exactly how coffee beans (Arabica, Robusta and many others) are dried and powdered or converted into other form, instead I’m going to talk about these special coffee brewing machines. The vending machines – yes. The stimulants that help us come out of our Monday morning blues/hangovers/dizziness and boredom at times.
We have a coffee brewing machine here in the US office. There are a dozen of flavoured coffees placed alongside, my first time I saw these many varieties. I took a little more than 2 minutes to decipher the names and picking up one took another few seconds. There were varieties like the French roasts, French Vanilla roasts, Breakfast blend, Sumatran blends, some decaffeinated and others not. The machine required me to press on the ‘Open’ button foremost. After I pressed it, a thing opened up on which we could place the coffee pod I had picked up. After experimenting for nearly 2 weeks, I figured out that the basic one suits me the best, of course I’m talking about ‘Breakfast blend’. So, you open a coffee pouch to pick up the pod and place it on the opened up ‘container’ thingy of the machine. I then was required to press one out of the three available options – Mild, Medium or Bold. As an average human being, who tries testing the mediocre things, I pressed on the ‘Medium’ button, thinking I would move to ‘Mild’ or ‘Bold’ depending on the strength of the one I’m trying. The sign on the machine now changed to ‘Brewing’ and drops of brown colored liquid started pouring into the cup I had placed inside the machine. I stared at the machine till my cup was full and the machine said ‘Ready’.
I have tried different kinds of coffee in India too (This post is when I’m working from the NYC office). There are options of choosing your own spices. I like the South Indian filter coffee the most, with milk and little sugar, the smell of that coffee attracts me from a distance and what an amazing combination is a Butter Dosa with strong filter coffee. Here it goes,
