I just got back from a week at "The Big Muddy" ranch in Eastern Oregon.  It
was made famous when the Bagwan took it over in 1980.  Now it is a cattle
ranch again with a wonderful conference center and they are gone!  However,
I made a big mistake!  My wife said, don't bring your coffee!  Life was a
zoo, and I didn't bring my coffee!  I went up to the coffee machine and it
said, "Fresh Brewed Coffee."  The two guys in front of me said that the
coffee was real good.  Well, I put the old cup under the machine, and I
"brewed" a cup.  It smelled more like dirty socks!  I then opened the front
of the machine to see how it made coffee.  (No there wasn't a little
Vietnamese man in there brewing coffee)  What I found didn't surprise me.
It was an instant coffee dispenser that dumped a premeasured amount into the
hot water as it went through the machine!  I am sure glad that they had some
very good tea selections, because I had to go 5 days without a good cup of
coffee!  However, everyone else thought the coffee was good!  Ignorance is
the battle not only for good coffee, but for the growers of the good stuff
as well.  If I go to this conference again, we are going to be roasting over
the fire!
Les
Roasting in S. Oregon.
P.S. My coffee and F.P. are going with me to Seattle.  I don't care how many
good coffee places there are up there!
I will be prepared!
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