Pegritz and Joe Drink Coffee

So, who are we? A pair of itinerant coffee experts traveling the world to sample only the finest of high-end coffees in the company of Russian oligarchs and Hollywood celebutantes? Or just some schlubs who guzzle pots of Folger’s and consider Starbucks’ espresso the standard by which all espressos must be judged?

Neither. We’re just a pair of dudes from southwestern Pennsylvania who like coffee.

Now, we’re not exactly the “everyman” type of coffee drinkers, but neither are we experts. Between the two of us we have several decades of experience in drinking all manner of coffees, so our palates have been refined enough for us to be able to speak cogently about the stuff we drink, but we are by no means “coffee snobs.” We could probably be called coffee connosieurs, but we aren’t above drinking McDonald’s coffee (which is actually quite good).

We write our reviews from an educated-but-not-effete perspective so we can offer readers from all levels of coffee-drinking experience a reasonable perspective on the products we highlight. We focus primarily on small, privately owned coffee roasters because there are just so many of them producing some of the best coffees we’ve ever had, so we want to help them find new customers and you find superb new beans to fuel your lives!

Oh, one note: we NEVER review decaffeinated coffee. Decaffeinated coffee is an abomination—a “liquid paradox” in the words of our late friend Davin Anderson: when you drink it, it tastes like you should be getting a buzz, but then you don’t. Decaffeinated coffee is the epitome of cognitive dissonance, and we’re too damn old and crabby for cognitive dissonance.