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Not Warrior Enough For This Coffee
I am not warrior enough for this coffee and must return to wussier, medium-bodied blends. This is a truly powerful coffee. Its might is better conveyed through skaldic verse. However, my Old Norse is rusty, so I offer the following review in English instead:
If Odin strode 'long the hard sands of Nastrond,
The bleak shore near the Goddess of Death's hall...
If the High One scraped that black grit from
His worn boots into a vast cauldron
Filled with waters from the shrieking spring
That howls and boils...
Then this coffee would be formed.
Mere mortal, do not drink this coffee.
It will pierce your heart as a spear.
It will bleed away your life's blood.
Mere mortal, do not drink this coffee.
It will rend your soul into a thousand
lost and screaming fragments.
This beverage may only rightly be served, steaming,
From the gray and polished skulls of the doomed.
No creamer can soften its rage.
No sugar can make it light on your tongue.
Odin and Loki may sit on high seats far,
Quaffing the brew and smiling
Over follies of humans and Gods...
But you, mere mortal, you...
Do not drink this coffee.
January 2014 · Grocery and Gourmet Food