Logical/Serendipity

Taste is a “logical” variable.

The factors that I can adjust to determine the taste of coffee are

the grind, the temperature of the hot water, the pouring method, the steeping time, etc.

There are a multitude of factors that I can adjust.

I also need to determine the variety of beans and roasting method when I

purchase the coffee.

My wife told me that this was the best coffee she had ever tasted.

No acidity, no aftertaste, no bitterness,

mellow and caffeine-free.

I’m a very demanding customer, but

I’m a science guy, and “logical” coffee is adjustable.

But today

happened to unintentionally brew the coffee at

my preferred grind.

However, I thought that today’s coffee was the best.

I may have been spoiled by the best coffee of the past and neglected to make further adjustments

.

Just as in mathematics, when you reduce three dimensions to two,

it is easy to see how the taste of the coffee has changed

by reducing it to a single variable.

Unintentionally and accidentally, it was a different grind,

today’s coffee.

What should have been a failure in my opinion

turned out to be a classy finish.

Serendipity, indeed.

Logical thinking and a lot of trial and error are

the allies of good coincidences.

Coincidence does not smile on the unprepared.

Louis Pasteur