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Originally Posted by Ron Wood
I keep looking for one that has an IV hook-up.  |
A man after my own heart! Near the end of the last century, I was able to go to Negril, Jamaica for teo weeks. Anywhere in Jamaica, you can discover Blue Mountain coffee--estate grown beans from above a certain altitude only, to be certified. One can buy it there at the grocery store, in standard bagged format. There, it's not particularly more expensive than other coffee.
Upon my return, however, I found that,at the time, it was the most expensive in the world at around $40/lb.! Amazingly, it is still available at this price from a source I know. Nonetheless, I drink a blend, which is less than 1/4 the cost--for obvious reasons.
Blue Mountain coffee was beaten out as the most expensive several years ago, by the brew made from beans that had passed through the digestive system of the civet, which would eat them. The beans are gathered from the forest floor and turned into a mountain of cash! (I recall $800/lb.!) That coffee, in turn, was beaten in the "pricey" category by current offerings of coffee which undergoes a similar "conditioning"--but through an elephant--for $70/
cup! You'd think it might be cheaper, in that the latter process can probably accommodate a greater number of beans pre "charge", and the results should be easier to find, collected within huge lumps v. onesy-twosies from the civet, but it's not.