Best Cheap Cup of Coffe

So I'm starting a new blog about making the best cheap cup of coffee ever.

I just read God in a Cup. Great book! For those of you out there that like to read books (I know we are a minority) and like coffee, this is a great book to read. It has challenged my coffee taste buds.

This book appeals to the elitist in me. It begins by talking about a coffee (La Esmeralda from Panama) that sells wholesale for $130 per pound! This book speaks of a world that is trying to push coffee into the status of vintage wine. For the socially conscious, the coffee dealers in the book also intend to have people buy coffee at premium prices then share those profits with the poor indigenous farmers in Central and South America and in Africa.

So in this blog I am going to carry out an experiment. I don't know if I have the palate to appreciate fine, vintage coffee. But I would like to see if I can upgrade my coffee standards without getting too outrageous with the price -- since we are now in the 21st century's Great Depression, it would be a little irresponsible to drink coffee at $150 per pound -- only a modern-day Marie Antoinette would say, "Let them drink Starbucks!"