I recently enjoyed a cup of coffee. It may not seem like it, but this is a big deal.

In general, I find it hard to “recreationally” drink coffee as a professional. This is an awful, shameful thing to write and if this blog were more widely read, I’d expect a slew of irate comments:

Much too often I find myself making or pouring five to eight oz. of coffee, then actually drinking perhaps half that amount. As I typically only drink coffee at work, a lot of the time the problem is simply that I’ll get distracted and forget about it until it’s far too cold and I go swap it for another.

What has me worried are the other times. When I actually sit down to enjoy a cup and it’s impossible to keep from evaluating what I’m drinking. Could it have been brewed or roasted differently/better? Is the roast too fresh? Are the greens starting to peak or even fall off?

Even with great coffees coffees that I love on the table, if I pick up any problems in the cup (even if this is just the thought that a certain facet could be even better) I’ll lose interest in finishing the damn thing, and when I do have it all I’ve lost focus on why I wanted to drink a cup to begin with. I have lots of opportunity to critically evaluate coffee. What I really need is a way to go back to just sitting down and remembering what drew me into coffee in the first place.