Forgettable coffee-making

Coffee-making wares

Back home we pay over 1USD for Starbucks coffee that the company claims mostly comes from Arabica beans and fair trade Africa.  Here in

Dried beans

Uganda, a coffee-producing town is Sipi whose mountainous elevation is home to Arabica.  It is ironical because most people

Pounding the beans

here and in most of Uganda are not coffee-drinkers; they prefer tea with sugar, and you probably

Re-husking

know the colonial bonds.  The common way of serving their premium coffee

Roasting sans ventilation

(called local coffee) is instant and without cream and sugar.  It tasted awful and the coffee is not soluble;  the powder is either floating or sedimentary.   Well, coffee to them is meant to be

Grinding machine

exported as beans to be enjoyed by the western world  that has equipped themselves with a grinding machine, press, drip, brewer, an espresso/cappuccino

Ready for instant coffee

maker, to extract the wonderful taste and aroma.  Absent those gadgets, I have to contend with Nescafe or those Ugandan beans exported to and processed in neighboring African countries and  imported by Uganda.  They are expensive and limp.

The awful coffee experience

I still prefer the brewed Batangas coffee at home.  Good to sip or pour over rice with corned beef and dried fish.  Back home.