You say Geisha I say Gesha. Don't call this one off!

So as some of you may know from being good little blog readers, the Cafe Grumpy blog tells a story of two young men by the names of Joseph Brodsky and Steven Holt paying a visit to our shop. These events are described on said blog. This will cover the events following. We all went to a rock and roll performance that included fellow barista, Felice on drums. It was his band, Vesper's cd release party in the Lower East Side. Joe and Steve met up with us at Arlene's for drinks and coffee talk. Awesome! (from what I remember). The next day I was invited to join the two at their hotel to mill coffee samples from Panama. I was not aware of what that entailed but I really didn't care. It sounded like a great way for a bouncing baby coffee geek to spend his Sunday. Holy Crap! I didn't realize that we would be milling a naturally processed Geisha from Panama with our feet ($100/lb green). As my hangover subsided, I began to feel the gravity and importance of this coffee. No one has really produced a coffee like this yet and I was grinding it into a screen with my boot (don't worry it is cooked at over 400 degrees after that) on the hotel room floor. Joe took the seeds to Dallis Coffee to roast them. He sent us a sample. I will most definitely blog about the cupping results. Anyway, we made tea out of the dried cherries and parchment. It was interesting and tangy. There were only wine glasses in the hotel but hey, it made us feel a little more elegant drinking Geisha tea out of them. We also milled some washed Geisha from Esmeralda and a couple other farms in Panama. I think I can speak for many coffee geeks out there in saying that we all desire to get as close as we can to the plant or the farm from which our delicious, brown elixir came. One step closer. Thanks guys!