Sometimes You Eat the Bar and Other Times the Bar Eats You

What does it take to make a great cup of coffee?  It is not just about following a set of directions.  You have to be willing to play with and have fun with the process.  Don’t let failures get you down.  Failures lead to knowledge about what not to do.  I have been seriously playing with the process of making coffee for multiple years now.  I read about coffee, try various machines, educate people about coffee, explore pragmatic answers to their questions, and I continue to have both failures and successes.  Despite all of this learning there are still days when I brew bad cups of coffee.  This is life!  Sometimes you have a great cup of Joe, and other times you have @?#!  As Sam Elliot says in the movie The Big Lebowski, “Sometime you eat the bar (bear), and sometimes the bar eats you.”