Why not to use teak: http://www.wooddesign.bc.ca/rainfor.htm Anyone caring about these sorts of issues probably wants to make sure to get coffee grown by a collective - to pick it up from the store on foot - to boil the water with - well, anyone who cares knows all this anyway and should probably just not drink coffee and use the money for something better. On the subject of coffee and literature, I highly recommend James Blaylock's books The Elfin Ship and The Disappearing Dwarf. The latter has a hilarious scene about the hallucinogenic properties of coffee; both books are relentlessly delightful without becoming cloying. I remember the issue of Asimov's SF Magazine back in maybe 1982 when _TES_, Moorcock's _The Warhound and The World's Pain_, and _The Shadow of The Torturer_ were reviewed by someone who quickly ran out of superlatives. - Philip On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Gomi no Sensei wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Chris Turkel wrote: > > > > > > Has anybody else tried to make klava? I suspect that certain types of > > > wood with certain types of coffee beans would be very appealing... > > > > > > -Jason > > > > A friend of mine did using red oak and teak. The red oak came out, huh, > > okay. The teak was surprisingly good but teak is not good for the > > Amazon so he wont make anymore. > > Teak isn't actually from the Amazon. > > It's mostly from Burma, Java, and Thailand. So klava away. > > paul e. > > >