What a surprise the Colombia Tolima turned out to be. My previous encounter with Colombian coffee didn’t turn out to be something I was impressed with for espresso. I don’t think I’ve come across a more comforting coffee so far.
It’s always hard to come back from an amazing coffee. Most of the time I feel slightly disappointed by the following coffee, which really makes those few you hit that bring back your passion to full throttle all the more amazing. I’m really glad the Brazil Yellow Bourbon followed the Costa Rica Bourbon.
What a great way to come back from the Robusta experiment. The Sweet Blue gives an amazingly clean and dry espresso shot as well as a pleasant bitter americano.
Not my usual coffee shot to accompany a short review of my current coffee trials, but I figured I’d break it up a bit. The Ecuador Zumba Microlot Especial marks the end of our light roasting experiment.
I’m a litte bummed I wasn’t able to get a picture of our latest coffee. This was my first time trying a “Cup of Excellence” (CoE). In fact, I’m still learning exactly what that is. From what little I have read, it is basically a region’s farmers/co-ops/etc pitting their crops against one another to see [...]
I’m pretty new to coffee roasting and tend to stay within a very tight area of Full City+ to Light Vienna. Being an espresso drinker, these tend to be my favorite roasts. Today was my very first French Roast!
With the amount of coffee I drink you’d think I’d get sick or bored of it pretty quick. Most of the time I can definitely say no, but every once in awhile I do feel a little ho-hum about my coffee. And it never is the quality of shots I pull, the roast, or even [...]