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The Siberian Coffee Pipeline Project is a work of performance art initiated in 1989 at the Eastern Market in Washington, D.C. A pamphlet was distributed at the market describing a coffee pipeline to be constructed under the auspices of NDEW (formerly, National Dance Employment Weekly) and the Russian Government.

Political changes in the former Soviet Union delayed deployment of the project, which would link the major cities of the world with central coffee brewing facilities in Siberia. As the effects of the reorganization of the Soviet empire began to settle out, the project was resurrected in 1993 in Tokyo, Japan, with issuance of prestock certificates entitling contributors to shares in the Siberian Coffee Pipeline Company upon the company’s incorporation.

The Project’s operations moved to New York in the summer of 1993. To solidify the position of the Project, T-Shirts bearing the Company logo and other coffee pipeline themes were issued later that year and early in 1994. In February of 1994, the Company was officially registered as a business.

While contributions to the Project were slow in coming, sales of the Company’s products increased. By the later part of 1994, the Company selected what would become its only coffee product—green (unroasted) coffee. Coffee beans are actually the seeds of a berry-like fruit of the coffee plant. When the fruit is squished, the beans pop out. The raw beans, usually a light shade of green in color, are dried, bagged, and shipped to coffee consuming countries. The beans are then roasted, usually by professional coffee roasters, after which they assume the form found in most retail outlets.

GREEN (UNROASTED) COFFEE
Since the quality of freshly-brewed coffee distributed by the pipeline will be unusually high due to future advances in pipeline transport technology, consultants to the project advised the Company to upgrade the caliber of coffee consumed by its customer base, lest the shock caused by the excellence of the pipeline brew create a public health hazard. The Company was advised to supply its customers with green (unroasted) coffee which they may roast at home. Coffee brewed from such freshly roasted beans approximates "pipeline quality."

The Company sold its first 5 lb. bag of green, unroasted coffee in Charlotte, North Carolina in late 1994 after the product was successfully tested in a local shopping Mall.

In April of 1995, the Company introduced a new product, the Millennial Flexi-Planner (MFP). The MFP is a flexible planning system designed to integrate long-term and short-term planning in a consistent and compatible format. It enables the user to easily schedule and unschedule events with a minimum of rewriting, and extends planning capacity to the last decade of the next millennium (2990) in the space of a few pages. Although the Company is frequently asked what possible need anyone could have for such long-range plans, banks have since issued debt with terms of repayment extending 1,000 years, the most famous example being the proposed bond refinancing of the English Channel Tunnel.

In 1996, what is said by many to have been the first book about home coffee roasting, Home Coffee Roasting; Romance and Revival, by Kenneth Davids, was published by St. Martin’s Griffin. The Siberian Coffee Pipeline Company is presently expanding its own work on the subject, which was issued with its literature in 1994-1995.

In 1996, the Company was invited to participate in a joint venture which would have given it space on Marshall Sreet near the University of Syracuse. However, the joint venture partners failed to uphold agreements ensuring the Company’s independence, and the company was forced to withdraw from the venture.

Last year, the Company reached an agreement with a major gourmet coffee distributor to facilitate a large portion of the Company’s coffee distribution. By separating the administrative and food service functions of the Company with a "Chinese wall," customers can be assured of receiving quality coffee that complies with all Federal and interstate health regulations, regardless of the sanitary condition of the administrative arm (employees in the Company’s headquarters often report to work unbathed, unwashed and unshaved).

In early 1998, the Company invested in a new computer system, enabling it to access the intertnet. It also engaged the services of Jim Coburn of Astoria, New York, to whom it is indebted for the present web site design.

COFFEE SPILLS

The Company has championed the introduction of coffee spill insurance, which would go a long way toward protecting the consumer from damage to self, clothing and equipment resulting from the millions of coffee spill events occurring annually throughout the world. In line with this goal, the Company has paid particular attention to the design of coffee cups.

Most coffee spill incidents are the result of cup failure. In the case of a paper or styrofoam cup, the cause of spills can often be traced to an inadequately fastened lid, a permanent opening in the lid, or cup designs that provide too narrow a base for the height of the cup.

Spills of hot coffee have caused unnecessary pain and hardship, including real personal injury, and damage to critical equipment. Damage of this kind can be avoided by using properly designed cups, which are readily available on the market.

The Siberian Coffee Pipeline Company intends to establish a rating system for the cups of major coffee retailers, and the Company’s research arm is currently studying the design of cups to set up parameters for cup safety.

Coffee spills may also provide a means of divination that rivals tea-leave reading, palmistry and astrology.

COFFEE ETIQUETTE

Coffee etiquette is related to cup safety. The Company intends to champion the cause of coffee drinking etiquette by introducing such rules as "Guidelines for Consuming Coffee Beverages on Public Transport, " or "Guidelines for Consuming Coffee Beverages While Operating Expensive Equipment."

ABOUT THE COMPANY’S PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER

Peter Duveen, president and founder of the Siberian Coffee Pipeline Company, is a freelance financial journalist and fiction writer.

TO OUR CUSTOMERS

We hope that you will decide to participate in the Siberian Coffee Pipeline Project, by purchasing the Company’s products, or by contributing assets to the Company in return for which the Company offers a certificate entitling you to shares in the Company upon its incorporation.

Please address all inquiries to:Siberian Coffee Pipeline Company; 23 Tiplady Road, Salem; New York, NY 12865. E-mail to:pduveen@yahoo.com Telephone inquiries to: (518) 854-7867.