{"id":2302,"date":"2007-06-19T01:20:45","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T01:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/06\/an-intelligent-coffee.html"},"modified":"2007-06-19T01:20:45","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T01:20:45","slug":"an-intelligent-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/06\/an-intelligent-coffee.html","title":{"rendered":"An Intelligent Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Intelligentsia<\/a>. Just in case you haven’t heard, Chicago has a coffee that many are now saying ranks up there as one of the finest coffees in the world. Very happily, Laura and Mark bought me a bag of espresso ground Intelligentsia coffee for Father’s Day. Monday morning, by 6:30am, I had one cup down … by 10:30am a second … and then, after lunch in order to make sure I had a good firm grip on the taste, I had yet a third cup.
\nWonderful crema; a pleasant and pleasurable aroma; great smooth taste. Nothing bitter like that stuff from youknowwhere. Ah, the taste of a good coffee on a screen porch to enliven a morning. The blend? Black Cat Espresso Blend<\/a>.
\nI challenge you to a better coffee: I’ve had Chestnut Hill Coffee Company, Pete’s,
\nBoyd’s, Hawaiian Isles Kona Coffee Co (Kona Classic), and I think Caribou Daybreak is a fine coffee. But, I’m having reconsider the order of my coffee top five list.
\nWho’s had it? Who has an evaluation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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