Coffee shops offer devotees a chance to pay $15 a cup

THis is fine gourmet coffee...

clipped from www.canada.com Starting this morning, coffee drinkers in Vancouver will be able to sip some seriously expensive brew. At a staggering $15 per eight-ounce cup ($135 per half pound in bean form), the Panama-grown, 100-per-cent geisha varietal bean is the most expensive coffee ever to hit this coffee-crazy city. Caffe Artigiano's five locations start brewing it today and despite the price, Hastings store manager Joaquin Quian is confident it will sell. The chain has 36 kilograms of the black gold on hand. I'm not saying this coffee is for everybody," Quian said. [ But]"anybody in the industry would want to taste this." Quian said the beans are costly because they are grown in small quantities and were recently judged at a coffee competition as among the best on Earth. The coffee boasts delicate hints of orange blossom and jasmine and a sweet acidity that covers the drinker's entire palate, Quian said.