Author Topic: Alembicholic anonymous group. (Read 326 times)

glocke · « **Reply #15 on:** September 17, 2009, 01:02:03 PM »

Whats wrong with starbucks coffee? Their coffee is one of the few I can drink without gagging...

The only other coffee Ive had that doesnt cause a gag reflex is coffee from a small roaster I used to frequent in my college days..

cozmik_cowboy · « **Reply #16 on:** September 17, 2009, 07:57:07 PM »

Whats wrong with starbucks coffee?

1) They roast the beans too fast - makes it way too bitter.
2) Cardboard cups.
3) Obscene prices.
4) Silly coffee beverages. Gimme a cup of coffe, dammit!

But #1 is the most egregious - it tastes like crap (yeah, yeah, OK, to my mouth - but mine is the only one that matters to me ).
If it makes you feel better, I don't like any of the other chain coffee places much better. You want coffee? Go to a diner or a truckstop. Or a Walker Brothers Original Pancake House. Or Jamaica (Blue Mountain - now that's what I'm talkin' about!)

Peter

David Houck · « **Reply #17 on:** September 17, 2009, 08:29:49 PM »

Ok Peter; there's something a little strange going on when someone equates Blue Mountain with truck stop coffee.

sonicus · « **Reply #18 on:** September 17, 2009, 10:13:35 PM »

I proudly stand up and say I am an Alembicholic and I refuse to receive therapy to break me of the habit because I LIKE IT ! LOL !!!!!!!! It's just going to get WORSE !!!!!!!

(Are we having fun yet ? )

cozmik_cowboy · « **Reply #19 on:** September 18, 2009, 07:14:09 AM »

Not equating, Dave, just enumerating choices preferable to Starbucks. I never found a truck stop that that served Blue Mountain (curse it all), but I found very few that served bad coffee. I see it sort of like Blue Mountain is the Alembic of coffes, truckstops are the other high-end builders, & Starbucks is my old $75 (W/amp)Winston P-bass copy.
Though I must take a moment here to give props to a joint we used to call the fancy eatin' place. It's in Chicago, on Irving Park Road at Ashland Ave, and the sign just says diner. It's a 24-hr place that has these 2 big silver urns like the ones in Hopper's Nighthawks, and I don't think they've been turned off since about 1939. Yeah, it's an acquired taste - got kind of an edge to it - but man, 1 large to-go cup in the AM can keep you cranking from Chi to any town in the midwest & right on through the gig!

Peter

ps - and to unhighjack the thread, allow me to paraphrase Big Twist & the Mellow Fellows:
I know I'm an Alembiholic
Sometimes I regret it
Especially when the music store won't
Give me no credit

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terryc · « **Reply #20 on:** September 18, 2009, 07:19:54 AM »

Okay I am an Alembicholic but since I only own one I guess it's a one bass addiction unlike some of you who have many basses to choose from.
Coffee..Stabucks..overpriced and no taste, taking over the UK too.
I have roasted my own beans..do it very very slow over a few hours in a low heat oven..the aroma is divine.
Grind in a pestle & mortar if you feel strong and energetic and if you want a great taste use the purest bottled water and don't put the water on the grounds when it has boiled..let it cool just slightly and for the sweet tooths..unrefined cane sugar.
Takes some effort but it is worth it.

sonicus · « **Reply #21 on:** September 18, 2009, 07:50:40 AM »

I tried to roast my own beans once. Yes the aroma is quite lingering!

dlbydgtl · « **Reply #22 on:** September 18, 2009, 08:40:54 AM »

Hi, my name is John i am an Alembicholic. I spend countless hours printing out basses on the custom quote generator. I spend lots of time looking at featured customs over an over. I open the cases to say goodnight to my Alembic basses. I visit the Alembic site more than facebook. I need help. John. www.gobena.org for coffee..actually a Starbucks venti iced regular coffee is good when playing in the summer as the ice melts it smoothes out the taste and still a good caffeine buzz.

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dlbydgtl · « **Reply #23 on:** September 18, 2009, 08:45:32 AM »

Actually it is www.gobena.org. sorry.Dave can you edit above post.Thanks, john

David Houck · « **Reply #24 on:** September 18, 2009, 11:09:23 AM »

John; for a limited period of time, I think it's 48 hours, posts can be edited by their authors by clicking on the little pad and pencil icon in the top right corner of the post.

slawie · « **Reply #25 on:** September 18, 2009, 03:05:33 PM »

Kopi Luwak from Indonesia is the most expensive coffee in the world.
It is made from coffee beans eaten, partly digested and then excreted
by the common palm civet, a weasel-like animal.

I'll just drink my Nescafe' Espresso and play my bass.

slawie

toma_hawk01 · « **Reply #26 on:** September 18, 2009, 05:36:25 PM »

A burger, with a Styrofoam cup of coffee, on a raining day, will help you find the meaning of life, like nothing else can.

It was the day I joined the club. I took one hit, and got hooked, and for the first time I launch my dream shape bass, from what? -- Styrofoam.

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jerryme · « **Reply #27 on:** September 19, 2009, 05:51:01 AM »

I don't own an Alembic yet, though I am truly an addict. When the kit guitar disapeared from the Alembic store I almost cried. I hope they will make another one. Obsessions of this kind seem to be the only ones that are healthy!

dannobasso · « **Reply #28 on:** September 19, 2009, 07:48:08 AM »

I try to quit I really do. This past year I sold 5 of my non custom models, but then I ordered a new one, the most custom for me to date. That will bring me up to an even dozen. If I hit the big time, the series 2 6 will be ordered! I shudder to think about that phone call to Santa Rosa!

basicvoo · « **Reply #29 on:** September 19, 2009, 08:18:59 AM »

I tryed roasting a bass once, but my name inn't Hendrix, so nobody really cared. Some girls think that me being a bass player is really cool. When I tell them I sleep with my bass, they think I'm a very funny guy. When they find out I'm not kidding they say that I'm crazy but I'm not.