Welcome, children, to a very special Halloween episode of the Trimethyldioxypurist. We have an update, an experiment, and a couple reviews of some coffee beans.

When we think "candy," we obviously first think "chocolate," so thanks to Shabana for leaving the comment that . . .

Charles Chocolates' webstore is now up! You buy them online at www.charleschocolates.com

. . . in reference to an interview we did last month with local chocolatier Chuck Siegel. (P.S. -- slowly making our way through the catalogue; we tried the almonds yesterday. Awesome.)

Halloween Treat, Trimeth Style

We have a glut of whole beans lying around. After our last, rather somber entry, someone took it upon himself to send us a 3/4-pound of 100% pure Kona beans from the Carribean Coffee Company out of Santa Barbara, Calif. They were generous enough to throw in another 3/4-pound of coffee--known as "Hair Raiser" for review. Add this to the half-pound or so of Kona we got from Mrs. Trimeth's aunt in Hawaii, who got it from a friend in the biz, there was way too much for personal consumption.