Coffee

Ah, coffee. As a Melbournian by choice, conviction, and happenstance, coffee is a special topic that leads to strong opinions. And rightly so. Like wine, coffee can be anywhere on the range from divine to atrocious. And that is only the coffee. How you accessorize your coffee then becomes an almost religious debate, especially amongst Melbournians.

Black coffee… early memories tell horrendous stories of something called Jakob’s Krönung - Jacob’s crowning. Filter coffee, highly acidic and burned, completely unbalanced, and usually - by people from a certain generation - enjoyed in a weak form that Brazilians would call cha-fé (how ever you write this). Cha is tea of course, and I’ll leave the rest up to your imagination.