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Have you tasted their coffee?
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I'm still waiting for an American monastic beer!
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I tried their coffee. Not bad, but not Starbucks, IMHO. But then the stuff they sent me was a medium roast and I'm used to bold roasts.
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Have you tasted their coffee?
Terry My headline reads for you coffee drinkers. I'm not one of them.  Tea is my poison. Black to wake up; and green to lower my cholesterol, blood sugar, and to cut fat which I take at 9:00 am when there is a lull in patient flow.
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My wife and I are trying to get off of diet soda and move to tea. But we cannot give up our morning Starbucks brewed at home! Gordo Before Coffee: [ Linked Image] After Coffee: [ Linked Image]
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Are you related to Don King? 
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Starbucks is Baba water! Try this one: http://www.drinkbuzzcoffee.com/Alexandr
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Have never cared for coffee. I'm addicted to adult hot chocolate!
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WOOOW! That looks dangerous! I suppose in your chosen profession, however, coffee is as essential as comfortable shoes! I started drinking coffee when I did labor relations with unions. Nothing like a Level 2 or 3 grievance to get you longing for an IV! Gordo
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Have never cared for coffee. I'm addicted to adult hot chocolate!
Fr. Serge Hot chocolate is wonderful. However, I wouldn't trade my Eight O'Clock Columbian for anything Starbucks offers. I think Starbucks exists to separate folks from as much money as possible. They're not getting any of mine.
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Haven't tried anything from the Carmelites in Wyo. but I did get some tea from some Orthodox monks in Washington state. Hoping to sample their coffee. Here's a link: http://vashonmonks.com/coffee.htmI used to be an avid tea drinker coming from a Polish/Slavic family [When I visited Poland in '92 tea was much more popular than coffee], but since I have been in religious life I can't get by w/o coffee. It makes getting up for the Divine Office a bit easier. I tried to fast from it one Lent - couldn't do it..  I have a funny story from my monastery about coffee and it's role in current monastic life. Early one morning prior to vigils/matins I came down to our common room to see several confreres whispering amongst themselves. Thinking that there was some serious reason to break the grand silence, I asked them if perchance one of the elderly monks had passed away in the night. No they responded, we were out of coffee. Relieved I said that I was thankful there was no emergency. "What do you mean no emergency?" they countered "perhaps you didn't understand - we are OUT OF COFFEE!"
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I have a funny story from my monastery about coffee and it's role in current monastic life. Early one morning prior to vigils/matins I came down to our common room to see several confreres whispering amongst themselves. Thinking that there was some serious reason to break the grand silence, I asked them if perchance one of the elderly monks had passed away in the night. No they responded, we were out of coffee. Relieved I said that I was thankful there was no emergency. "What do you mean no emergency?" they countered "perhaps you didn't understand - we are OUT OF COFFEE!" LOL !!!  Thank you for that ! -- John
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