Of course you know to make it truly valid you'll have to systematically vary the delivery method (coffee maker vs french press vs cone filter) as well as the bean and the grind. So you'll have to do a 3 by 2 by 2 within subjects experimental design.
Each subject will end up drinking around 12 cups of coffee, and I won't be responsible for wired taste testers. back to work stuff here. (I despise deadlines!) >So here are the results? > > > >Made two identical cups and had The Lovely And Talented Lisa hand them to me >while I was blindfolded. > > > >I could tell the French pressed Jamaican Blue Mountain right away. I also >took into consideration how I might be prejudiced toward my familiar Maxwell >House and tried to be as objective as possible in judging. > > > >The Maxwell House was decidedly one-dimensional in flavor on all counts. >Flat and simple, but pleasantly mild. > > > >The Jamaican Blue Mountain was complex in flavor with notes that hit my >palate strongly but not offensively. It wasn?t as mild as the Maxwell >House, but I also realized that perhaps my idea of great coffee might be as >naïve and undeveloped as someone liking Boones Farm Strawberry over Chateau >Latour. > > > >So yes, the difference is hit-you-in-the-face-with-a-baseball-bat obvious, >but when it comes right down to it, the Jamaican Blue Mountain wasn?t to me >worth almost $34.00 per pound. The cost-per-yum factor was still in favor >of the Maxwell House, but that could also be because I?m not yet >sophisticated enough to appreciate it. > > > >So Larry Lyons, while not completely owning me with a full transfer of deed >and title, certainly has a long-term lease on me at a great rate and option >for a $1 buyout at the end of term. > > > >Respectfully, > > > >Adam Phillip Churvis > >President > >Productivity Enhancement ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:254984 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
