Grub Street Diet: Beer Elite Edition

[Sharon Bowman]

For anyone who likes a good yarn about 24/7 over-the-top eating and drinking, this is a good read:

Brooklyn Brewery’s Garrett Oliver Has Mutton Coursing Through His Veins

Also, FoWD Justin Chearno makes a good show therein.

 

[Kay Bixler]

Appreciate and agree with his thoughts on coffee.

Thanks for the link, Sharon.

 

[mark e]

originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Appreciate and agree with his thoughts on coffee.

Thanks for the link, Sharon.

Peet's, really? Every coffee is burnt to a nasty, over-roasted crisp.

 

[Kay Bixler]

No, just dark roast in general.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

I drink dark roasts but Peet's is pretty ugly.

For anyone who cares about "Major" Dickason: click

 

[georg lauer]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
I drink dark roasts but Peet's is pretty ugly.

For anyone who cares about "Major" Dickason: click

Is it me, or did they drastically change their coffee? When I arrived in the US almost 20 years ago I liked it quite a bit, now cannot drink it.

 

[mark e]

originally posted by georg lauer:

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
I drink dark roasts but Peet's is pretty ugly.

For anyone who cares about "Major" Dickason: click

Is it me, or did they drastically change their coffee? When I arrived in the US almost 20 years ago I liked it quite a bit, now cannot drink it.

Yes, I believe that was mentioned before on a recent thread discussing coffee roasting and home brewing. In the 70s Peet's had a wide range of roasting options. In fact, one of the most interesting coffees I've ever had was a Sulawesi (then called Celebes) from them roasted to a very pale tan (way less than a City Roast). It is all burned now.

 

[Ben Hunting]

Such a good Grub Street Diet.

 

[MLipton]

As several of you know, I was present at the opening of the Walnut Square Peet's because my father had been buying coffee beans from him for a couple of years by then. When Mr. Peet sold the business to Sal Bonavita he stayed on as a consultant, but by the mid-'80s he was gone and the style shifted to darker roasts a la Charbucks. When former disciple and Starbucks founder Gordon Bowker bought Peet's the style may have further darkened.

Mark Lipton

 

[Kay Bixler]

Thanks for the history, Mark.

And as much as I like dark roast Starbucks is too much. And too much caffeine as well.