The Grind: No. 324

Welcome to our curation compilation of sensational stories!

Community members around the globe contributed some fantastic original tales this week, centred around the one true elixir of life- coffee! We enjoyed the passion in these posts, and as all good coffee pals do, we wanted to share a cup of them with you!

Cinnamon Cup Coffee is centred around creating a virtual coffeehouse environment, which energises its occupants with the digital ambience of coffee creativity. We hope you will adore these posts as much as we did.

If you find inspiration in them too, why not amplify the love? Sharing our joy through chatting with other authors is the next best thing to buying them a cup of coffee. What a perfect way to thank them for a great read!

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Moca with marshmallows - Family Mornings

✨"Each one told anecdotes and stories, we debated about Christmas decorations and that bitter chocolate is better than milk chocolate hahahahaha. I swear that between the laughter I could barely take pictures of the preparation and our tired faces from laughing and singing in the wee hours of the morning. The cold of the night caused allergies in more than one of us, so the hot drink helped enormously, both for the cold and for our tired throats." @amatorrs

Warm up a snowy day with a cup of hot coffee

✨"The snowfall throughout Saturday night and early Sunday morning melted today, which caused some flooding throughout the village and the local town. As a result, the buses were cancelled, so a lot of bus goers couldn't get out of the village. However, the village cafés, found themselves with more customers for a Monday morning for people who were stuck in the village, so there was a silver lining after all." @ellenripley

Dreamers Coffee: A Luxury Taste at an Affordable Price!☕

✨"After nearly an hour of standing inside the bus due to all seats being occupied while I was travelling back to the city from home, I decided to take a moment to sip to regain my energy, haha. Who else will agree with me that coffee is an energizer? Every sip of coffee feels like heaven for me, but always remember to sip in moderation." @marfeatures

Don't leave for tomorrow, the coffee you can drink today

✨"We accompanied the coffee with bread and cookies while chatting about our lives, family, friends and remembering so many pleasant moments shared over the years. It was also amazing to realize how life has moved on so fast, it has been 20 years since we went our separate ways. I changed jobs, she retired as well as other friends who did not attend that day and the other three remain in the same institution." @alborhada

Alvarigua Coffee Review

✨"When pouring the coffee the color looked very intense. My wife decided to soften hers with a little hot water, but mine was left as it came out of the pot.

I tasted both, first mine, without sugar, as always when I do these tests. I liked the result very much, I could appreciate a very delicate and balanced flavour. And although it was quite strong, it did not feel bitter at all. Then I tasted my wife's coffee, milder and with a little sugar, and I thought it was very good. We conclude that the coffee is very yielding." @irvinc

A coffee for my favorite person

✨"I gave a delicious coffee to my favourite person, the best mom in the world, the most beautiful thing I have.

She loves to drink coffee, if you only knew, she can miss everything, except her coffee, if there is none in the house, run to buy it, if you don't want to see her in a bad mood hahaha, just kidding, but she likes to drink her coffee every morning, and another one in the afternoon." @ikigaidesign

Enjoying a nice cup of coffee at work

✨"Latte art: Albany, my friend, is very good at this aspect although her forte is the taste of the coffee, she pays attention to detail and her filtering is excellent. After the whole process, it was time to enjoy the coffee" @bethyjade

Let's get a hot drink late at night. ☕️☕️ | U Roast Coffee Shop Torino, Italy.

✨"My hot chocolate is very strong. When I tasted it, I liked it because it was not too sweet. I like to dip the croissant in the hot chocolate. It is very delicious and goes well together. The other snacks are also delicious but I don't like them that much. After waiting for three minutes, the tea that was soaked was ready to drink." @miingjazz

LAIV CAFE WITH ZAZA

✨"Laiv is a cafe with a contemporary interior design concept and is divided into three rooms: an air-conditioned inside room, a non-Ac inside room reserved for smokers, and an outside room. I opted for the air-conditioned indoor room and chose to sit by the window. I sipped my coffee, while occasionally looking at the street in front of the café that seemed to be getting busier by the evening." @titisnariyah

How to order coffee in Venezuela?

✨"Coffee with milk. It is more milk than coffee, so you can still find the soft bitterness of coffee. Within our customs, it is customary to ask for it to accompany breakfast.

Teapot. This one loses its coffee essence. If the coffee with milk has about twenty per cent of coffee, the teapot will have about ten per cent or less, the truth is that it has never provoked me to try it, I have a sister who drinks it this way and says it is very tasty, as they say, between tastes and colours..." @damarysvibra