bitter cup

Robertson’s clenched guitar vies for space with Manuel’s pained lead vocal, creating a dense tapestry of sound sometimes punctured by a stray lyrical phrase — “she drinks from a bitter cup,” “a viper in shock” — that only adds to the song’s spell.

The rise of specialty coffee and its affiliation with "rarified connoisseurship" arguably began in Berkeley in the 1960s, when Alfred Peet opened his first cafe using high-quality beans and manually calibrated roasting to brew a sweeter, less bitter cup.

Add in rising costs for virtually everything and you have a bitter cup brewing for coffee drinkers.

Add in rising costs for virtually everything and you have a bitter cup brewing for coffee drinkers.

“People feel that I’m inside their homes, sitting at their kitchen table stirring a bitter cup of coffee.”