Pentargon Coffee
dedicated to Martina
From its earliest
on board development
I have always considered
Pentargon's coffee special.
It evolved from my fondness
for real coffee beans
from the best estates,
ground just before use
and percolated
by super-heated water
We had a percolator
and percolation was
part of my life in the 50s
Ireland drank tea in the 50s
and so did we mostly.
Rarely did we drink coffee
at home,
but we did know
how to prepare it
Grand Uncle Tom,
whose entire adult life
was spent in America
lived his final days with us.
"Ground coffee goes off
unless stored properly
Beans are better by far"
but ...
you could not buy a grinder
in the 50s.
They were found only
in Coffee Houses
Bewleys would grind beans
but we lived a long way
from the city.
On our occasional visits
we got our beans ground
and then we drank coffee
at home. And relished it.
Later, as a student in that city
I held court in Coffee Houses
and discussed the merits
of the Fibonacci series
and high grown coffee
and developed tastes that
would be entertained
in my own galley
decades later
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on board development
I have always considered
Pentargon's coffee special.
It evolved from my fondness
for real coffee beans
from the best estates,
ground just before use
and percolated
by super-heated water
We had a percolator
and percolation was
part of my life in the 50s
Ireland drank tea in the 50s
and so did we mostly.
Rarely did we drink coffee
at home,
but we did know
how to prepare it
Grand Uncle Tom,
whose entire adult life
was spent in America
lived his final days with us.
"Ground coffee goes off
unless stored properly
Beans are better by far"
but ...
you could not buy a grinder
in the 50s.
They were found only
in Coffee Houses
Bewleys would grind beans
but we lived a long way
from the city.
On our occasional visits
we got our beans ground
and then we drank coffee
at home. And relished it.
Later, as a student in that city
I held court in Coffee Houses
and discussed the merits
of the Fibonacci series
and high grown coffee
and developed tastes that
would be entertained
in my own galley
decades later
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