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A Christmas Letter from Your Coffee Specialists

SCAA & Valorie King, Owner & Coffee Maven
Dec 26, 2015
2 min read

Coffee Maven Note: True to our personal and company core value of we are a family first, we spent our time and enegies focused on our family on Christmas Day. We do appreciate our Lamppost Coffee Roasters Customers. We think you are the best! Hopefully you spent your day enjoying family and friends too!

Dear Lamppost Coffee Drinker, The purpose of this letter is to affirm that Valorie & Jeff King are Specialty Coffee Professionals affiliated with our organization, the Specialty Coffee Association of America. Specialty Coffee Professionals face a unique set of challenges in the holiday season, and we’d like to help you avoid some common pitfalls that come up often during this festive time.

You might be tempted to ask the Specialty Coffee Professionals named above to make coffee for everyone after dinner. It is true that these people demonstrate special skills in coffee-making, as it is an important part of their job. Please remember, however, that everyone deserves a day off, and coffee pros often like to have someone else make the coffee for a change.
Be assured, the coffee professionals named above will not criticize your coffee. You may experience some anxiety serving coffee to someone who tastes coffee for a living. Don’t worry: a part of our professional code is to refrain from nitpicking family members’ coffee selections, preferences, or brewing skills. Furthermore, there is no need to apologize for putting milk, sugar, or sweetener in your coffee. We get it, the heart wants what it wants. It’s ok.
If the coffee professionals named above bring you a gift of coffee, it is likely to be very good. You might be tempted to put it in the freezer and ‘save it for a special occasion’. This should be avoided under all circumstances. The ‘special occasion’ is now, and the coffee should be consumed completely within the next couple of weeks. If you want more, don’t worry, the Specialty Coffee Professionals named above would be happy to help you find some.
If the Specialty Coffee Professionals are spending the night at your house, they might bring their own equipment to brew coffee with in the morning. This is not meant as an insult, it’s just that we get kind of particular about these kinds of things. Alternatively, the coffee pros might choose to ‘go out’ for coffee in the morning rather than drinking what you always have in the house. Again, it’s nothing personal, it’s just that morning coffee is especially important to these people. If you’d like some coffee coaching, the Specialty Coffee Professionals can give you some good references.

Thank you for inviting the Specialty Coffee Professionals named above to your holiday gathering. Observing these simple tips will ensure a delightful, enjoyable holiday season. Sincerely, The Specialty Coffee Association of America Hopefully you let out a laugh or two, we did too! From our family to yours:

Merry Christmas!