{"id":17060,"date":"2017-05-04T18:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T22:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=17060"},"modified":"2017-05-04T18:00:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T22:00:28","slug":"a-cup-of-mustard-charlie-mustard-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/a-cup-of-mustard-charlie-mustard-91\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cup of Mustard: Charlie Mustard \u201991"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFree cups of coffee were all Charlie Mustard wanted when he volunteered to roast coffee at Jittery Joe\u2019s in Athens, Georgia. At the time, he was working on his graduate thesis at the University of Georgia in nutrition and chugging cups of coffee as he wrote. Twenty-two years later he\u2019s still at Jittery Joe\u2019s, but now as their head coffee roaster.
\n\u201cThat was awesome they let me do that because I didn\u2019t know anything about roasting coffee,\u201d said Mustard with a laugh. But he found the answers at the UGA library. \u201cThere was a whole shelf dedicated to coffee and coffee production.\u201d With a background in biological sciences from Clemson, and having focused on sciences most of his life, Mustard said, \u201cOh yeah, I can do this.\u201d
\nNow he\u2019s roasting batches from all over the world and has mastered how to get each bean to open the flavors indicative of their area. \u201cIf I am roasting a coffee from Tanzania for example, I am thinking about temperature, humidity, air pressure, size and density of the bean and how the bean was processed on the farm \u2014 to name a few of the variables\u201d he said.
\nJittery Joe\u2019s is now sold all over the Southeast, throughout the country and around the globe, including being the brand packaged for the Ritz-Carlton in Atlanta. Roasting has even taken him as far as Japan to teach, as well as learn techniques.
\n\u201cI actually do reflect from time to time about how much coffee we roast and how many cups are consumed every day \u2014 you can make 35 to 40 cups of coffee per pound. It blows your mind when you think about how many cups we\u2019ve shared with this community,\u201d he said. \u201cThis community is such a neat, creative place to be. There are so many who are being creative, whether that\u2019s in a band, painting, acting or writing poetry. What I really like is that we get to help fuel that creativity.\u201d
\nMustard\u2019s love of his job even filtered into his 20- and 21-year-old children\u2019s lives. Mustard said when they were little he caught one son on the playground saying, \u201cMy daddy doesn\u2019t work, he just drinks coffee all day.\u201d
\n\u201cJust for me personally, I see success in that I\u2019m doing something that I truly like doing. What
\nexcites you that you say, \u2018I can do this for the rest of my life\u2019? My children have never heard me saying, \u2018Work sucks.\u2019\u201d
\n\u2014 Julia Sellers
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