Monday, July 18, 2011

Starting Over

In a way, I'm starting over. No more consumer electronics, no more apple, not a lot of tech.
Its all about coffee.
I'm making one man's(teen's?) journey through coffee Like this guy, this blog is inspired by him and his is awesome, check it out.


Backround Info, copied from my post on Home Barista


I use to be amazed by dads coffee and process when I was younger, even though it was drip. 
I use to start making mochas with instant mocha mix, and before long I was going to SBUX at least once or twice a week buying mochas. That was around 10, and at around 13 I got my first "espresso machine". It was a Mr. Coffee, cheap steam $40 machine. Then the next year I upgraded to the Delonghi EC155, It was a weekend thing--on Saturday and Sunday mornings I would always make a sweet mocha or carmel mocha.

Then my parents remodeled my kitchen, and at the same time I started to go to local coffee shops and started to have flavored lattes. I gave away my Delonghi because my parents bought a Miele CVA 4066 for the entire family (dad, mom, bro-16, and myself, at the time 14). I was getting into the mood at that point being the connoisseur or snob for coffee in my family, and about 2 months ago, I wanted to go back to the manual machines and not the "push-button cappuccino". I got my Rancilio Silvia&Rocky and I started to make more cappaccinos and ordered them from my local coffee shops. I started to go to the coffee shops less and less and only attend my local ones about once every week. My drinks have been amazing to me and the coffee I have been buying has been fresher than ever.

I am 15 years old, and a very passionate young man about coffee. I want to go to college, major in business, minor in computer science, and then with a little background money from programming, start my own coffee shop. My dream. Everyone is surprised that a teen as young as me is as much into it as I am.