I'm trying that! I got eggshells.
We were touring Ecuador and had a meal at a hacienda where we spent a few nights. Normally, they pour coffee into your mug, then they come around with a pitcher of heated milk to add, if you want such. This time, I held out my mug for coffee and out of their pot drools this thick black tar. I mean, mollasis has nothing on this stuff for thickness. My brother and I are left sitting there staring into our mugs thinking, "Am I suppose to drink this or does one eat it with a spoon?" Finally, they come around with another carafe and I'm thinking, "a little hot milk will definitely help."
My brother and I hold out our mugs and they pour hot water into the mug. AhHH! Now it looks like coffee. Add milk and sugar and it was one of the best tasting coffees we'd both had.
Later at home, I tried to findout what method of coffee making that was. I joined an online coffee forum and asked. No one knew, but the moderator said he'd research it for me. In the mean time, I tried to reproduce it by making 2 pots of French roast as strong as I could. Next I put it in a pan on the stove and cooked it down on medium heat until I got about 3/4 of a mug of black liquid. Still not sludge but I stopped there. To make coffee, I'd heat up milk and add about a Tbls of my concentrate with sugar.
It was rich, almost chocolatey. And I was so full of energy for the whole day. It lasted almost a week, one mug a day.
Does anyone here know why you don't give chocolate to dogs? It's because chocolate has an ingredient in it that affects dogs the way caffeine affects people only more so. Too much chocolate will race their hearts until it kills them. I thought this stuff was the BOMB!
The coffee guy got back to me and we decided it was a South American brand of instant coffee. I guess I'm not the coffee snob I thought I was.
-Will (Dragonfly)