I know I do,
but how much are you prepared to pay for a cup of coffee in a coffee shop, served in the cup and saucer above? photograph Kanji Tanaka/Yelp, but first a bit about the coffee, The Münch, a small coffee house in Osaka, Japan, is probably
the only place in the world where you can enjoy a cup of freshly brewed
22-year-old coffee, the story started decades ago, totally by mistake, Kanji
Tanaka, the owner and sole employee of The Münch, used to a type of ice coffee
in the refrigerator so he could serve it to customers right away, only one time
he forgot a batch of it in the fridge for over half a year, He couldn’t
possibly serve it to paying customers anymore, but before throwing it out he
decided to take a sip and see how it tasted, to his surprise, the coffee was
still good and had acquired a special flavor, around the time he discovered
that his months-old coffee was still drinkable, small wooden barrels were all
the rage in Japan, they were advertised as a great way to make cheap alcohol
taste better, and Tanaka wondered what they could do for his brew,
He put the batch of coffee he had forgotten in the refrigerator in these wooden barrels and let it age for 10 years, when he tasted it a decade later, it had become sweet, almost like a syrup, so Tanaka started using raw coffee beans aged for 20 years, roasting them himself, grinding them and finally brewing his now famous vintage coffee using a Nel Drip system similar to a pour over dripper or a Chemex, basically, he puts the coffee grounds into a filter and pours hot water over it, only he has his own way of doing things, so how much I hear you ask? A cup is a mere $914.00, and you do not get to keep the cup and saucer!
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