Kimberly Steele

Something I've noticed with coffee as someone who's lived in the tropics and the temperate zone is that the beans have a lot of subtle plane influences, and really don't like areas it can't grow. It's got a very gentle, subtle, cleansing effect in areas where it grows, but it gets toxic on the inner planes in areas where it can't grow. The best way I can think of to describe it is that it's trying to remake what it touches to match its home. The further it is from home, the more destructive and imbalanced the process gets. Given how different Illinois is from the kind of environments coffee grows in, that would probably be quite destructive there.