"Have you Kaplowitz'd to-day?"
Wandering Goat Coffee Co.
268 Madison St
268 Madison St
Eugene, OR 97402
A Sunday.
Brunch O'clock.
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Purely to be anticipated digs. Unfinished concrete floors. Cool warehouse vibe. Industrial & artsy but also there's a goat head mounted behind the counter. A conversation:
ME: What animal is that? (Pointing.)
MY +1: Where are we, again? (Sighing)
ME: Oh, a goat. (Antelope was my first guess.)
Loud chatter and slightly less loud indy folk music. We sat at a heavy wood laminated slab by a window on tall chairs. Other seats were small wood rigs occupied by predominately single customers. The chatter came from a table in the back corner. Quintessential local-looking artwork hung around the more dimly than one might expect environs.
The outdoor seating was picnic tables. Including a harmonica player who seemed quite precious in the warm-ish rain; situated next to railroad tracks. He smelled rather badly even there in the great outdoors. Or maybe he just looked like an odor. I digress.
The double shot was a seemingly quite short pull, but on the bright side, the barista dismissed my doubts prior to allowing me to fully voice them. Abruptly-so, see? Curt, dismissive. An eye-roll so hard as to be loud. Big ding in customer service, there/that. Something was amiss, tho --
The outdoor seating was picnic tables. Including a harmonica player who seemed quite precious in the warm-ish rain; situated next to railroad tracks. He smelled rather badly even there in the great outdoors. Or maybe he just looked like an odor. I digress.
The double shot was a seemingly quite short pull, but on the bright side, the barista dismissed my doubts prior to allowing me to fully voice them. Abruptly-so, see? Curt, dismissive. An eye-roll so hard as to be loud. Big ding in customer service, there/that. Something was amiss, tho --
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& perhaps if she wasn't above my silly questioning... Heavily acidic espresso. Heavily. Bitingly so. Battery acidic. A dash or three of salt gets added and then it just lays there on the back of your tongue for some time. 'Some' to be read as 'an oddly long amount of.' Lemony, medicinally. Abrasive. Wholly yucky.
Bitterness lags behind acidity but in such a way as to not offer more than a thin wisp of maybe baking chocolate. No pepper nor spice to speak of and very scant if any gettable sweetness. No nuts, no woods. Nada. Notes of Listerine, tho. Ultimately, this Wandering Goat short double shot went unfinished.
Bitterness lags behind acidity but in such a way as to not offer more than a thin wisp of maybe baking chocolate. No pepper nor spice to speak of and very scant if any gettable sweetness. No nuts, no woods. Nada. Notes of Listerine, tho. Ultimately, this Wandering Goat short double shot went unfinished.
Maybe just maybe, the barista knew it wouldn't matter exactly how much was pulled & offered. I now tip my hat to her utterly amazing clairvoyant skills, just in case.
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59
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