Tasting notes
Up there, on my list of highly anticipatory experiences is the prospect of cracking open a new bag of beans: to smell the aroma that wafts out from the just opened bag, the fragrance of the fresh grinds, the scent of the rising steam upon application of the brewing water and finally, the first sip of the — hopefully — flavorful result.
In and amongst the links and videos and such on Daniel of Arabica are a group of posts who’s sole purpose is to highlight my experiences in brewing coffee. They’re a collection of impressions and evaluations of coffees that have passed through, what I like to hyperbolically call “The Lab”.
if a Yirgacheffe and a Kenyan coffee had a love-child, well this – Verve’s Burundi Bwayi – is what it would taste like.
12 January 2010 ∞ | Tasting notes | View Comments
Patience is a virtue
Patience. It will be rewarded. What, at first blush, is a simple cup will come alive and that trademark Ecco elegance and refinement will finally make itself known.
25 December 2009 ∞ | Tasting notes | View Comments
Barefoot Roaster's Guatemala Vista Hermosa
“[...] so freakin’ complex it will make you swoon”, the package said. Indeed. This single-origin Guatemala — Barefoot Roaster’s Guatemala Vista Hermosa “Hermosa Reserva” — could have easily passed for a blend in a blind tasting.
13 October 2009 ∞ | Tasting notes | View Comments
I try my hand at some quick, off-the-cuff poetics using my raw, lightly edited tasting notes of Flying Goat’s Dolok Sanggul as procured from Berkeley’s Local 123.
5 October 2009 ∞ | Tasting notes | View Comments
Dipping into an old bag of Ritual Roaster’s Finca Matalapa La Cidra, El Salvador
I’ve had a bag of Ritual Roaster’s Finca Matalapa La Cidra, El Salvador sitting in my cupboard, nearly empty, for almost a month now. And no notes. Nothing. Search as I might, I can’t find a single tasting note I’ve made on this coffee. The roast date on this bag is September 10th. Man! Falling down on [...]
1 October 2009 ∞ | Tasting notes | View Comments
No, I’m not sad. Not at all. How could I be with a coffee like this in my pot every morning? It’s Ritual Roasters’ Daterra Sweet Blue.
The fragrance of the freshly ground coffee? Peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches (yeah, I said PB&J).
I brewed the Daterra two ways: press-pot and Chemex.
In the Chemex, as always the [...]
30 September 2009 ∞ | Tasting notes | View Comments
Ritual’s Ndumberi Peaberry in “The Lab”
14 August 2009 ∞ | Tasting notes | View Comments
Flying Goat’s organic, pulp natural, Boa Sorte Peaberry from Brasil makes a mighty fine cup of coffee. Just keep it out of the fridge.
31 July 2009 ∞ | Tasting notes | View Comments
A specialty coffee roaster in my hometown? It’s true. San Jose’s Barefoot Coffee Roasters and the Daniel of Arabica tasting note of their Brazil Daterra Santa Colombia.
20 July 2009 ∞ | Tasting notes | View Comments
De La Paz’s Sumatra “gayo land”
17 July 2009 ∞ | Tasting notes | View Comments
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