Bad AA coffee
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Bad AA coffee
How did this tradition get started? I see nothing in the literature about drinking cheap rocket fuel as being a requirement for sobriety. Yet every home group strives to make the most disgusting brew they can. The worst is made in those big aluminum percolators. Only a massive amount of the cheapest coffee available is used. No real dairy products such as milk or half & half are provided either. Only that nasty powdered imitation crap can be used. It is essential to never wash the percolator as well. A healthy amount of mildew needs to be present to give that AA Java that added kick that we all know and love. All a person needs is one Styrofoam cup worth and they will be vibrating for hours. If your bladder doesn't feel like it is going to explode half way through the meeting than the coffee wasn't strong enough. I often wonder why it is necessary to serve such coffee in a musty, sweltering, church basement on a humid summer evening? Has anyone ever considered making kool aid during the summer months?
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Come up to my home group in Upper Manhattan any Saturday at 11 AM thru the end of the year. I make the best damn coffee in AA. You heard it right here 
It's funny, when I was drinking I went right to the cheap stuff. I didn't care. The less it cost the more there was to drink. But sober, don't even think about giving me a bad cup of coffee. Life's too short for that.
-allan
It's funny, when I was drinking I went right to the cheap stuff. I didn't care. The less it cost the more there was to drink. But sober, don't even think about giving me a bad cup of coffee. Life's too short for that.
-allan
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Not all of it sucks. Small meetings usually have good coffee made in a coffee maker as well as real milk and cream. They usually have various backed goods as well. It is the bigger meetings that make the nasty mud described in my OP. There was a meeting in the town where I got sober that had real rocket fuel. One cup of it at 8pm would keep me awake until 2am. I was told it was made that way because the coffee maker was from Baltimore and strong coffee is popular there. All I know is that the stuff got people zooted.
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Theres a group in my area that actually has good coffe they have there own bunn coffe machines the church let them hook em up. They make like 27 pots the meetings called early birds 70-100 people mon-sat all year they must spend over 15000$ on coffe a year.
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Originally Posted by desypete 
i hope you tip the coffee makers : )
again i see how lucky i am to be in the uk as its tea over here mostly. maybe you guys could try tea instead : )
again i see how lucky i am to be in the uk as its tea over here mostly. maybe you guys could try tea instead : )
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Originally Posted by UncleMeat69
I nominate you for coffee maker.
and this is why I never complain about the quality of the coffee at the meetings I attend. There is always an old timer or two waiting in ambush, ready to pounce and stick whomever is naive enough to complain with that commitment... a bit like in the army I guess 
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Originally Posted by Carlotta
and this is why I never complain about the quality of the coffee at the meetings I attend. There is always an old timer or two waiting in ambush, ready to pounce and stick whomever is naive enough to complain with that commitment... a bit like in the army I guess :camper:
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the coffee maker,the most important job in AA I was told
I`m a trucker and truck stop coffee is pretty bad,and sometimes it`s good to hit up a AA meeting and get some good old AA coffee.
yep,those old alumiun coffee pots that are crusty black inside.
We have quite a few old retired ones in our closet for parts and a brand new stainless steel one in the AA kitchen now
I`m a trucker and truck stop coffee is pretty bad,and sometimes it`s good to hit up a AA meeting and get some good old AA coffee.
yep,those old alumiun coffee pots that are crusty black inside.
We have quite a few old retired ones in our closet for parts and a brand new stainless steel one in the AA kitchen now
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Originally Posted by 4thdimension86
I bet a group of alcoholics could mess up something as simple as a cup of tea. Actually some meetings in the US do offer tea. The one I am going to tonight does.
when people share there experience strength and hope in the uk meetings we also share our wind over the table : )
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Originally Posted by 4thdimension86
How did this tradition get started? I see nothing in the literature about drinking cheap rocket fuel as being a requirement for sobriety. Yet every home group strives to make the most disgusting brew they can.
I always bring my own.
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maybe check out the history of AA, many books available.......
come to my home group, we make very good coffee and also offer (way too many) fabulous teas.....fresh cream and goodies at most of our meetings, too.....
come to my home group, we make very good coffee and also offer (way too many) fabulous teas.....fresh cream and goodies at most of our meetings, too.....
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