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| Coffee science at its best |
The Chasing Mailboxes Coffeeneuring Challenge is a relaxed weekend cycling endeavor for cyclists everywhere. If you like riding a bike and enjoy drinking coffee or tea (or even hot chocolate), you should consider giving the challenge a go. (See the website for the full set of "rules")
Um, OK, I like relaxed weekend endeavors, coffee, bikes, yeah... This is great!
So today I did my first Coffeeneuring ride, and as you might have seen in the rules, I am claiming this one as the ride to the "Coffee Shop Without Walls". Four miles roundtrip to the farmers market where I got some delicious, fresh roasted, pour-over brewed coffee from The Coffee Registry.
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| The Coffee Registry's Custom Coffee Cargo Bike |
The Coffee Registry is a regular stop for me at the Saturday morning farmers market. Operated by coffee evangelist and bike aficionado David Sutton, the Registry is a portable, open air coffee shop mounted on a custom cargo bike. WHAT?! This is, well, my dream, so it's awesome to see my dream come true even though it's not me doing it.
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| David of The Coffee Registry on a chilly (but chill) Fort Collins morning. |
So David and I chatted a bit while my coffee brewed. I told him about the Coffeeneuring Challenge, and he is agreed that Fort Collins is a perfect place for coffee and bikes. I remarked that, in my opinion, FoCo has some of the best coffee I've ever had, and a thriving culture of coffee, coffee shops and bikes. Yes, as David said, "We're Platinum!", referring to the recent elevation of Fort Collins to a Platinum Level Bicycling Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists. I would also submit that if there were a similar community rating for coffee and coffee shops, Fort Collins would be on the list.
Fun fact #1 - coffee brews best at temperatures between 195 and 205 degrees Fahrenheit.
Fun fact #2 - in Fort Collins (average elevation about 5,000 ft) water boils at 203 degrees F. Perfect!!
(Thanks to David for this info)
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| My dream bike! |
It is my contention that because of the perfect boiling temperature of our pure mountain water, along with the affinity of the coffee beans for high altitude, the coffee here in Fort Collins is amongst the best I know. I admit, in deference to our Coffeneuring Challenge hosts' home city, that I have had some damn good coffee in D.C., but I invite all you Coffeeneurs to come up to Fort Collins and take a bicycle tour of the finest coffee shops and richest coffee you will ever have the pleasure to enjoy.
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| Bringing home the coffee :-) |
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