Cafe Kubal Roast House, Syacuse, NY

I've known this kid since he was like ... 10 ... and I was his youth group leader! Now he's all grown up and is a micro-roaster and a youth group leader himself. Matt Godard is roasting some of the finest coffee in Central New York and shipping all over the world. On Friday he served up some Indian Monsoon Malabar Cafe Kubal is not just a local Syracuse business. Just like other well known coffee business he has a program for you to sign up for automatic shipments or you can just buy it as needed. Matt has a number of unique coffee beans that he can roast however you would like and he'll ship them to your home or business. Stop serving your friends stale brown water and buy some good coffee from Matt. Coffee is really about science. You need the right beans, harvested at the right time in the right way, roasted properly, ground properly added to quality water that must be the right temperature with the end result -- coffee -- being served and consumed in a timely fashion. On top of all that you have to have the right equipment and it must be clean! If you are a coffee snob like me, then you take this process very seriously. That's why I like hanging out with Matt Godard -- he's a world class expert in this stuff. Matt and his beautiful wife, Rachel, attend Grace Covenant Church in Clay, NY, where he volunteers on the youth ministry leadership team. I was the guest speaker for his church's youth retreat this weekend and had the privlige of hanging out with him and some fantastic teens. I was a little nervous, but the kids were very receptive to our Lectio Divina exercises. Matt's parents, Don and Linda, are some of the finest Christian people I know. They have been mentors for Alyx and I and we still hold them up in our minds as the ideals of what a Christian couple should look like. Bookmark this link to Cafe Kubal and buy coffee from Matt. It's good.