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Living Alaska,
Coffee
I drink a lot of coffee. Yesterday I worked a 20-hour shift. I consumed at least 7 cups of coffee to stay awake until I got off work at 4am. Coffee in Alaska is not different. There is a Starbucks in my town. One, Starbucks’ not one on every corner like in San Francisco or other major metropolitan cities. Everyone drinks coffee. It is more expensive to buy in Alaska. It is roughly twice as expensive here as it is in San Francisco.
There are a few cafés in my town. A cup of coffee there is about the same as it is anywhere in the USA. We import our coffee, same as everyone else in the country. Sumatra, or French Roast is the same but costs twice as much. When it is 10 degrees outside and you work in the snow, you wont care how much it costs, only that it is warm.
Let’s face it coffee is the same all over the planet. Some people make it different than others and claim this is the way it should be made. I do not care how it is made. I care how it tastes and if it helps me focus on work. Sometimes I use a Keurig, other times an expresso machine. Usually, I just heat up some water in the microwave and drop the filter full of coffee into the water. It comes out extremely strong because I like it that way.
You won’t find a hundred coffee shops in Alaska, but you will always find hot coffee. For some reason the colder the climate the better coffee tastes. Maybe that is just me. Afterall, I did not come to Alaska to drink coffee, I came to Alaska because I love an adventure.
From the Gulf of Alaska with love.
