Yucky coffee

[bhskittykatt]

So, CW opened up a new case of coffee today, and people started complaining it smelled and tasted off. So she made herself a cup, and agreed it was off.

She held a bag of grinds up to my nose and it smelled...not like something I would want to consume. I think the coffee there is crap anyway, but this smelled foul. As far as we can tell, it's just one batch, as a case with a different batch number appears to be fine.

Personally, I think that if we still had Coffee Guy (http://www.customerssuck.com/board/s...ad.php?t=85398), he could've used his magical coffee powers to prevent this.

Fortunately, Boss Man ordered a ton of coffee last order, so we should be okay until next order even if it takes a while to get replacement cases.

[Food Lady]

I wouldn't have made a cup and drunk it, 'cause who knows what was wrong with it? ew

[bhskittykatt]

I wouldn't have made a cup and drunk it, 'cause who knows what was wrong with it? ew

I had that thought. Even with my allergies, I could smell it. Why CW didn't notice it smelled that bad before she made a pot confounds me. I know CW, one of the housekeepers, and Boss Man all tried some, so if they are dead in the morning we know where to point the blame.

[dalesys]

Maybe it's that goom-whah coffee: Kopi Luwak.

[Food Lady]

That's what I was thinking.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Maybe it's that goom-whah coffee: Kopi Luwak.

They probably call it that because if they called it poopacino, nobody would ever buy it.

[Pixilated]

I dunno, that actually sounds pretty funny ... "I'd like a short poopacino, please!"

The article says it's aromatic, which doesn't sound like the description offered in the initial post -- unless we have very different definitions of "aromatic."

[Dreamstalker]

Kopi luwak is too expensive to be used as an institutional brew. (I've had it, and apart from already knowing the origin there's no way to guess it's not 'normal' coffee)

[Tama]

You're shitting me.

Nope. Cats beat me to it.

[wolfie]

One sign I'd like to see in a breakroom/on a coffee truck/somewhere that serves cheap institutional coffee:

Kopi Luwak is the world's rarest, most expensive, and most highly prized coffee. At the peak of ripeness, the coffee berries are harvested and eaten by civet cats, and the beans are recovered from their droppings. If you say our coffee tastes like shit, we'll take it as a compliment.

One story I read a few months ago was about producing kopi luwak somewhat cheaper - instead of letting the civets roam the plantation and picking up the droppings wherever they land, they'd be kept in cages and fed pre-harvested berries. Of course, that would eliminate the selection factor (eating the fully-ripe berries, avoiding the unripe and started-to-go-off ones), which probably contributes to the quality. The picture accompanying the story showed a bunch of berries ranging from light green to dark red.

[MoonCat]

And I thought Folgers was icky.

[Geek King]

I had that thought. Even with my allergies, I could smell it. Why CW didn't notice it smelled that bad before she made a pot confounds me.

Obviously, she wasn't awake enough to smell it. She hadn't had her coffee yet, after all.

[bhskittykatt]

Obviously, she wasn't awake enough to smell it. She hadn't had her coffee yet, after all.

Sometimes, you need coffee before you can wake up enough to make the coffee.

[Rapscallion]

Makes me wonder just how desperate someone was for a drink of coffee that they washed such beans off...

Rapscallion

[Mr Hero]

This coffee tastes like shit.
It IS shit.
Good. Then it's not just me.