I know. Chain coffee is the devil. Etc. I’ll cop to visiting chains regularly, but I do hit the local joints when I can — which, with the amount of coffee I drink, is often. But I got birthday gifts in the form of giftcards, and well, hell, I love pumpkin spice. So there it is. I did decide to only use my giftcards for pumpkin spice stuff though. Those buggers are expensive.
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Everyone’s allowed a guilty pleasure or two…
This one is big in the pleasure department! :)
Check out coffee roasted by cloistered Carmelite Monks based in Wyoming. I initially thought it was some sort of a gimmick, but, they are real monks who roast coffee.
http://www.mysticmonkcoffee.com/