Bosnian Brew

I intend to reverse engineer coffee... but I get ahead of myself... I sit next to this guy at work... lets call him "Dan."  I often think that Joseph Conrad must have sat next to someone like Dan.  Only by regular exposure to someone who tells adventurous tales from exotic places could Conrad have gained such a thorough grasp of the literary device called "Framing."

I sit next to Dan, and one day we were talking about coffee.  He mentioned that when he was in Iraq, he knew some guys from Bosnia with a rather interesting... some may say utilitarian... way of making coffee.  He said that they would take a Styrofoam cup, put in 2 teaspoons of espresso ground coffee and 2 cubes of sugar... add hot water and stir. 

"What about the grounds?" I asked.

"They would eventually sink," replied Dan.

I had to try it...

So... I don't have Styrofoam cups, so I used a mug...  I put in 2 teaspoons of coffee and 2 sugar cubes.  I also didn't have any beans to grind, so I used Community filter ground coffee with chicory.  It ain't a freakin souffle.. right???

After that... I added boiling watter and stirred.

...and I waited...

...and I waited...

The grounds never seemed to sink.

Well, I had given it about 10 minutes or so and took a sip.. my mouth was filled with coffee grounds... I was instantly reminded why I never really took to dipping SKOAL...  I hate a mouth full of sand... Needles to say, the feeling was pretty nasty, but the flavor was AMAZING!!!  I had to find a way to drink this coffee... so I grabbed a filter and... and thought twice... wait... I'm a Bosnia partisan in the Iraqi mountains far from civilization, caring not for whom the bell tolled... I don't have any coffee filters... I get a handkerchief and strain the coffee grinds....

 
Afterwards... I was treated to one of the best cups of coffee I've ever had.  It was smooth, hardly bitter, rich and had a very full body to it along with a major caffeine kick.  ...And if you're not drinking your coffee like this, your a damned girlie man!!!!