First Annual Coffee Crawl: Bean Not Beam

The premise for Bean Not Beam was designed when Jess' fellow education majors were taking a bar crawl. Due to our lack of appreciation of most liquids found in bars, we then engineered the novel idea to go on a coffee crawl. In this coffee crawl, we proposed to visit as many coffee type places in Morgantown and imbibe in beverages of choice or eat fun pasteries that we would not normally indulge in.

The first step was to create a t-shirt. This process, on first thought, may look to have been simple. However, it turned into quite a dendrite enhancing activity which through trail and error, has now turned us into official t-shirt making masters. Kayla and I both made slight errors, resulting in the necessity to scrape off the mistake and reapply. We finally discovered that friends should not let friends use the iron without checking their item to be ironed on.

The finished products were not too shabby.

The first step on our tour was the Zenclay Cafe. At this delightful establishment we had a light dinner and our first beverage of the evening. We made several friends who wondered if we were taking our crawl to the entire east coast and why we were the only ones who showed up for the crawl. We give Zenclay the award for Best Mugs of the Bean Not Beam tour. They also gave us the fine recommendation to add the Bubble @ Sikaku to our tour.

At the Bubble @Sikaku Tea House, fun and drinking cool bubble tea went hand in hand as do peanut butter and jelly. Interesting art work, a plethora of post it notes from customers, and a Wii were all found at this tea house. As well as the most novel beverage of the evening. Bubble tea can be obtained in both milk teas and fruit-flavored teas. I chose blueberry, Jess star fruit, and Kayla mint. Bubbles of tapioca are put in the drink and are slurped through a wide straw.

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Our next stop at the Blue Moose provided more interesting conversation as well as more refreshment. The best quote of the evening was given here as a Blue Moose patron indicated, "I like Bean and Beam." The Blue Moose had some excellent cookies. I tried the Phenomenal Pumkin Spice, which had no Trans Fat for all of you who find that to be very important.

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The annual coffee crawl will be expanded and certainly continued as an annual event. Will you be there next year?