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When you accidentally make Decafe, in your coffee cup. 
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Coffee: It’s déjà brew…
"By the time Americans headed West, coffee was readily available and integral to the long journey. It was an effective stimulant that energized the horseback riders, walkers, and wagon-riders along the trail to get moving. It was also “a small pleasure in the midst of a very hard life” according to one author. It was easy to carry, and a little bit went a long way. "
“At first, if you wanted coffee in the Wild West, you had to work at it,” according the website, coffee.org. “That’s because the coffee often had to be roasted first. Green coffee beans would be roasted on an open skillet and then put into a bag and crushed, often using the handle of an axe or a wagon jack. Then the ground beans were put in a coffee pot and placed on the fire.” Later, coffee could be purchased “pre-roasted,” making it even more convenient to carry West."
Bobby Burns, the mess cook, puts coffee grounds in the coffee pot, held over the fire by the Pitchfork Ranch branding iron. Apparently, Burns, a Scotchman, was a clown for the Ringling Brothers Circus prior to working on the Pitchfork Ranch (southeast of Cody, Wyoming), 1920s. MS3 Charles Belden Collection. PN.67.97b
"By the time Americans headed West, coffee was readily available and integral to the long journey. It was an effective stimulant that energized the horseback riders, walkers, and wagon-riders along the trail to get moving. It was also “a small pleasure in the midst of a very hard life” according to one author. It was easy to carry, and a little bit went a long way. "
“At first, if you wanted coffee in the Wild West, you had to work at it,” according the website, coffee.org. “That’s because the coffee often had to be roasted first. Green coffee beans would be roasted on an open skillet and then put into a bag and crushed, often using the handle of an axe or a wagon jack. Then the ground beans were put in a coffee pot and placed on the fire.” Later, coffee could be purchased “pre-roasted,” making it even more convenient to carry West."
Bobby Burns, the mess cook, puts coffee grounds in the coffee pot, held over the fire by the Pitchfork Ranch branding iron. Apparently, Burns, a Scotchman, was a clown for the Ringling Brothers Circus prior to working on the Pitchfork Ranch (southeast of Cody, Wyoming), 1920s. MS3 Charles Belden Collection. PN.67.97b
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